Mrs. Helen P. Poindexter DeVoe, the daughter of Archie Poindexter and Inez Houdeshell, was born in Indiana. She married Paul Volney DeVoe, and had two children; James Frederick DeVoe and Judith Ann DeVoe-Stafford. Mrs. DeVoe graduated from Ball State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree and completed some graduate work. She resided in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Memberships

• National Society of the Dames of the Court of Honor (Honorary President General)

• Colonial Dames of America (former President of Chapter XXV)

• Welcome Society of Pennsylvania

• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry (Three-term Councillor)

• National Huguenot Society

• National Society Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America (National Organizing Secretary)

• National Society Descendants of Early Quakers

• Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar 1565-1861

• Hereditary Order Descendants Loyalists & Patriots American Revolution (Associate Member)

• National Gavel Society

Mrs. DeVoe was the Patron for the Hereditary Society Blue Book in 1995.

• The Southwest Blue Book

Other Notes

Mrs. DeVoe was a member of the National Museum of Women in the Arts; the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (House of Burgesses); and the Descendants of Valentine Hollingsworth, Sr. Society. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church.