Pierce Hall Devinney, son of Percifer D. Devinney and Rachel, was born in 1855 at New Brighton, Beaver County, Pennsylvania. He married Sarah Weaver on 14 May 1874 at Beaver Falls, Beaver County, Pennsylvania.
Pierce and Sarah had three children:
- Annie Elizabeth Devenny (1874-1945)
- George T. Devenny (1877-c1903)
- Frederick Percifer Devenny (1891-1970)
Pierce died on 19 Jan 1896. He was buried at Grove Cemetery, New Brighton, Beaver County, Pennsylvania.
There is a Pennsylvania Veterans Burial Card stating that Pierce (i.e., Percifer) served in the Mexican-American War. The cards are used to support the planting of a medallion at the tombstone of veterans. This appears to be a bureaucratic error, as Pierce was born seven years after the Mexican-American War ended. I’m currently looking for data to support the idea that his father served in the war. Mexican-American War service record data for enlisted ranks are not available online. Happily, the data may exist, since Pennsylvania organized many of these records in the late 1800s.