Notes for William DELAVERGNE
Portrait and Biographical Album of DeKalb County, Illinois, Chapman Brothers Printers, 1883.
Page 309:
Nelson Delavergne, farmer, section 20, Franklin Township, is the son of William and Catherine (Overacker) Delavergne, and was born in Brownville Township, Jefferson Co., NY, Dec. 23, 1836. His parents were natives of Herkimer Co., NY and were respectively of French and German parentage. They belonged to the agricultural class in their native state and resumed that occupation after their removal to Illinois in 1868. They located in the town of Flora, in Boone County, where the father still resides, aged 88 years. The mother died on the homestead in 1869 when 63 years of age. Their family included four sons and four daughters, all yet surviving save two of the latter.
He was married March 4, 1869, to Hannah E. Losee. She was born in the township of Wilton, Niagara Co., NY and is the daughter of Morgan and Hannah M. Forbes Losee. Her mother died at her birth Dec 22, 1837 and the daughter was brought up by her grandparents until the second marriage of her father.
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