Lillie devereux blake biography of abraham lincoln
Lillie devereux blake biography of abraham lincoln
Biography of john f. kennedy.
Blake, Lillie Devereux
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Printer-friendly pageby Beth Crabtree, 1979; Revised by SLNC Government & Heritage Library, June 2023
12 Aug. 1835–30 Dec. 1913
Lillie Devereux Blake, author and suffragist, the daughter of George Pollock and Sarah Elizabeth Johnson Devereux, was born in Raleigh, a descendant of two famous churchmen of New England.
Although she was named Sarah Johnson for her mother, her father called her Lily (Lillie) because of her unusual fairness, and she continued through life as Lillie. Her father, a descendant of colonial Governor Thomas Pollock, inherited Runiroi Plantation in Bertie County and lived there from 18