The Yorkville Enquirer reported on June 18, 1885 – “The Supt of the YC Poor House, A.J. Devinney died last Monday. The county commissioners elected Mr. Robert L. Devinney for Supt., to serve until the end of the year.”
York County Directories and History: Built by S. H. J. Hope about 1850, Robert L. DeVinney purchased this house on DeVinney Road about 1895 from the Clerk of Common Pleas. The house has a hipped roof with interior chimneys and weatherboard siding. The originally detached hipped roof kitchen has been connected to the main house by a breeze-way. Some of the decorative elements include a balustrade and turned balusters on the porch, granite piers and rough hewn sills. A number of dependencies on the grounds include a small brick structure, a two-story barn and shed. [Historical Properties of York County, SC – 1995]
The Hope – DeVinney house was intended to be a simplified Italianate style home built on what was then and remained popular for one hundred years, the four square plan. The roof-line and the front porch posts, missing some of their original ornamentation, most likely would have been of the Italianate style.
*** The Walker map of 1910 does not show the DeVinney House or the road that now runs through the area. The deaths of Rachael DeVinney and Robert Love DeVinney were reported in the York papers:
Devinny, Rachel: Near this town, on the 29th ult., Mrs. Rachel Devinny, in the 41st year of her age. A few hours before she died, her infant was baptised. …(Issue of August 7, 1862)
Devinny, Robert Love: Robert Love Devinny was born in York Dist., S. C., 5 May 1845, and was killed 20 May 1864, in the battle of Clay’s Farm… died in Hospital, 10th June.…(Issue of June 29, 1864)(18th Infantry Co. H)
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