Lillie Devereux Blake

Lillie Devereux Blake was an American woman suffragist and reformer, born in Raleigh, North Carolina, and educated in New Haven, Connecticut.

She was born Elizabeth Johnson Devereux to George Pollock Devereux and Sarah Elizabeth Johnson in Raleigh, North Carolina. Elizabeth spent much of her early childhood in Roanoke, Virginia. It was George Devereux who called his daughter Lilly, giving her the name she would later adopt as her own. Her father, a plantation owner in North Carolina, died in 1837. At this point, Sarah Elizabeth Johnson took her two daughters and moved back to her family in Connecticut. Lillie grew up in New Haven, Connecticut where she studied at Miss Apthorps school for girls before receiving further education from Yale tutors.

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