Thanks Ethel,
Do you have any information on the parents of Appa Lona Devers?
From information on a map of Fairfax County in 1876, a Devers family had a large farm in the area of Franconia. Interestingly, Maud E. Huntington Simms (daughter of my Emma A. (Devers) Huntington owned some of this very land as part of her family's farm from the 1920's until it was subdivided (probably in the 1960's). She built a new home on a portion of this subdivided land and lived there until her death.
Emma A. (Devers) Huntington had at least one sister named Ossie R. Devers. Also, there was supposed to have been a grandmother named "Hall". Do any of these names connect to your family?