John E. Devine ^{1 2}

   FamilySearch ID: LV46-P7G.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. He has conflicting birth information of 1886 and Emmett Twp., Pottawatomie, KS. ³ The cemetery record birth year of 1886 may be an estimate using death date and age 76.

2. Census in 1900 in Emmett Twp., Pottawatomie, KS. ¹ Patrick Devine, farmer, 64, born Mar 1836, was married for 30 years to Mary, 50, Jul 1849. She had birthed 5 children by 1900 and all were alive that year. Living with them: Thomas E., 22, Jan 1878; Martin, 18, Feb 1882; Lenord? W., 14, May 1886; John, 12, Dec 1887; and Leo J., 4, June 1895. All children were born in Kansas. Mary was born in Wisconsin, and her parents, Patrick, and his parents in Ireland. Patrick immigrated in 1854 and had lived for 46 years in America.

John married Rose Mary Smet, daughter of Phillip Smet and Virginia. (Rose Mary Smet was born on 16 Apr 1897 in , , KS,² died on 8 Aug 1967 in Kansas City, Wyandotte, KS ² and was buried in Kansas City, Wyandotte, KS.)