The beloved older child of super-couple Jack Harcourt Deveraux and Jennifer Rose Horton Deveraux, Abby has recently returned to Salem after spending time studying in England and Spain. Always the darling of her parents, the fresh-faced co-ed is still getting her bearings back home.

As a baby, Abby was named after Alice Horton's mother Abigail and Jack's mother Josephine. She was afflicted at a very early age with aplastic anemia, caused by her exposure to polluted well water. Her father Jack was so wracked with guilt at harming his daughter that he left town.