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[12754 Noble.FTW]
Received from Mollie Noble Bull 1/2/98:
Victoria, Texas, where we live now, is less than 45 miles from the
tiny community of Hope, Texas where my great grandfather, Ezekiel Pickens
Noble, brought his wife and ten children after the civil war. The house was
a one-room log cabin--a far cryfrom the lush living of Ezekiel's childhood
at Oak Hill plantation in Abbeville and later at the governor's mansion in
Columbia, South Carolina. Ezekiel'sson, my grandfather -- Amisted Burt
Noble, died in nearby Hallettsville whenmy father, Sam Devall Noble, was
eleven years old. After he died, Amisted's widow, my grandmother, moved the
family to Kingsville, Texas where I was born.
I remember that when I was very young my grandmother's brother, A.T.
Devall,lived with her, and though he was actually my great uncle, I loved
Uncle A.T.very much. Uncle A.T. died when I was four years old. Yet I
remember him aswarm and loving. I also have a memory of a time when Uncle
A.T. hugged me andthen began to cry. And my mother said, "Uncle A.T. is
sad, Molly. Because he has grandchildren about your age, and he never gets
to see them."
My grandmother, Lucy Loring Devall (Noble,) died in 1947 when I was
eleven years old, and we traveled to Hallettsville for the funeral. There I
met two little girlswho were my distant cousins on the Devall side. Their
father, Sam Devall, hadthe same first name as my father, and I was told
that they were named for thesame Devall grandfather. I have a clear memory
of that day, playing jacks with the two little girls on the floor of their
home in Hallettsville after the funeral.
Through the years I heard bits and pieces of family history
regardingthe Devalls. I knew that my great grandparents, the Devalls, were
buried inHallettsville and that Papa said that the Devalls came from
Abbeville, South Carolina too, just like the Nobles.
At one time there was a settlement of French Huguenots near
Abbeville who had been kicked out of France for not joining the Catholic
church. The Bonneau's, Pickens, and Devall families were all French
Huguenots living near Abbeville and mostly Presbyterians.
I knew that my Aunt Lena (Cage) was named for Uncle A.T.'s wife,
Lena, and that A.T. and Lenawere divorced. I also knew that there must
have been hard feelings between A.T. Devall and his children because Papa
said that they never put a marker of any kind on Uncle A.T.'s grave in
Hallettsville.
After I moved to nearby Victoria, I called Information to see if I
could find any Devall relatives, and I finally located one of the two little
girls I played "jacks" with on the day mygrandmother was buried. Her name
is Mary Devall (Smith,) and she still livesin Hallettsville. We have
become friends.
She didn't even know her grandfather Devall's name because her late
father never mentioned him in their home.However, her mother had always
told her that her grandfather Devall was a niceman. Yesterday I visited
Hallettsville for the first time in years, and Maryand I put all the pieces
together. She'd found a picture her late mother hadalways kept hidden.
Mary's father's name along with the names of his brothersand
sisters and several other names were written on the back of an old-fashioned
looking photograph of a gentleman in a dark suit. According to the
information on the back of the photograph, Mary's father was the oldest
child of Archbald Todd Devall. The names of Archebald's parents, my great
grandparents,were also written on the back. Arhebald's father was Samuel
Todd Devall. Hismother was Sarah Louise Bennett (Devall.)
My great Uncle A.T. was Mary's grandfather. I confirmed that after
seeing the picture of the gentleman in the dark suit. And at sixty, Mary
Devall (Smith) learned for the first time that her grandfather had loved her
very much.
Late yesterday afternoon, we drove outto the cemetery in
Hallettsville, and Mary and
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