Julien Sidney Devereux (1805–1856) was an American planter and politician from

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Early life

Julien Sidney Devereux was born on July 23, 1805, in Montpelier,

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University of Texas at Austin: Dolph Briscoe Center for American History His father, John William Devereux, was a farmer.C. Allan Jones, ''Texas Roots: Agriculture and Rural Life Before the Civil War'', College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press, 2005, p. 15

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Career

He served as a Justice of the Peace in

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, in 1835. He founded the Terrebonne Plantation in

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, along the San Jacinto River in 1841. By 1846, he established the Monte Verdi Plantation in Rusk County, Texas.Dorman H. Winfrey, ''Julien Sidney Devereux and His Monte Verdi Plantation'' (Waco: Texian Press, 1962) He served in the Sixth Texas Legislature from 1855 to 1856.

Personal life

His first marriage, to Adaline Rebecca Bradley, lasted from 1823 to their divorce in 1843. Later that year, he married Sarah Ann Landrum. They had four sons.

Death

He died on May 1, 1856. He was buried in Rusk County, Texas. The Julien Sidney Devereux Family Papers are kept at the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History on the campus of the

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References

1805 births 1856 deaths People from Hancock County, Georgia People from Macon County, Alabama People from Montgomery County, Texas People from Rusk County, Texas 19th-century American planters American slave owners People from the Republic of Texas {{Texas-politician-stub