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 trine and polity, to the exclusion of Prelacy and Popery." They were sworn enemies of Catholicism. Their conflicts with the Catholics sometimes resulted in death.

During the year 1772 a great calamity happened to the Stephenson family in Ireland. The Stephensons now living in South Carolina have a tradition that Robert Stephenson, 1st, the Scotchman, had a younger brother, named James, living near him. James' daughter, Margaret, married a Mr. Beck. It is supposed Mr. Beck got into trouble with some Catholics. Robert, 1st, and James, in order to raise money to help Mr. Beck, mortgaged their land and thereby lost it. The families were thus financially broken up.

Prior to this financial misfortune, William, oldest son of Robert Stephenson, 1st, had married Miss R. Green Beattie; James was married, and Elizabeth had married Alexander Brady. During the year 1772 the Rev. William Martin, the pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Ballymoney, raised a company of colonists to go to North America. Mr. Martin was a Covenanter. William and James Stephenson, their families, and Alexander Brady and his wife, Elizabeth, joined the colony. About the time they were to sail Nancy, their sister, married William Anderson, and they, too, joined the emigrants. They sailed for North America in 1772. They settled on Rocky Creek, near the falls of the Catawba River, in Chester County, South Carolina. Mr. Anderson seems to have been a man of some means; the Stephensons were not then possessed of means.


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The children of Robert Stephenson, 1st, William, James, Elizabeth and Nancy, will be, hereafter, referred to as the Four who came to America, and their brother Robert as Robert, 2nd. Robert Stephenson, 1st, was living in Ireland during the year 1772. Robert Stephenson, 2nd, who was afterwards known as "Old Robert" of Wylam, and his father, Robert, 1st, went to Northumberland County, England. This Robert Stephenson, 2nd, became the father of George Stephenson, the celebrated engineer of railroad fame. Robert Stephenson, 2nd, was first found by historians in 1774 working in a coal mine at Wylam, eight miles west of Newcastle-on-the-Tyne. History says his father was a Scotchman, and that he came across the border in the capacity of a hireling to a gentleman. But history tells very little about him. It does not even give his name. Nor does history tell the nativity of Robert Stephenson, 2nd, the father of George, who afterwards became famous. It is assumed by some that Robert, 1st, son of Henry Stephenson, the shepherd, near Jedburgh, Scotland, went direct from Scotland to England, and became the father of George Stephenson, the railroad promoter. This assumption is erroneous. As has been previously stated, Robert Stephenson, 2nd, was born of Scotch parents in Antrim County, Ireland, about the year 1752. A close observance of his history

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 will show that he could not have been Robert Stephenson, 1st, the oldest son of Henry Stephenson, the shepherd. We learn from history that when Robert Stephenson, 2nd, went to England, he was a young man. He went to Wylam about the year 1773. He married Miss Mabel Carr in the early part of 1778. He and his wife were young people when they married. They seemed to have been about the same age. He and his wife reared a family of six children. James, the oldest, was born March, 1779, and George, the engineer, in June, 1781. The assumption that Robert, 1st, the oldest son of Henry Stephenson, the shepherd, was the father of George, the engineer, would make him (Robert, 1st) between forty-four and forty-five years of age at the time of Miss Carr's marriage, in 1778. The assumption is not reasonable. Again history relates that the father of Robert, 2nd, was a Scotchman and came into England in the employ of a gentleman. Henry Stephenson, the shepherd, at the time the father of Robert Stephenson went across the border into England as an employe to a gentleman, would have been not less than seventy-five years old.

It could not, in reason, have been Henry, the shepherd, who crossed the border at his then advanced age. Nor is it supposable that he would have left his other children in Scotland, and have followed Robert, the eldest, to England. The father of Robert, 2nd, who crossed the border was Robert Stephenson, 1st, the son of Henry, the shepherd, when he was fifty years old. The story as told by the Stephensons in South Carolina, in regard to their ancestors losing their property in Ballymoney corroborates the story as told by the niece of George Stephenson in England, in giving the reason why her great-grandfather, Robert Stephen-


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 son, 1st, in making his journey to England in search of work. The two stories told by parties of the same name and religion, who never even heard of each other, tend to establish the theory that the families who went from Ballymoney to South Carolina, and to England are one and the same family, centering in one common parent, Henry Stephenson, the shepherd, of Scotland. The history as related by Miss Stephenson, the daughter of John Stephenson, who was the fourth son of Robert Stephenson, 2nd, is found on page 104 of Samuel Smiles' History of George Stephenson, and his son, Robert, two engineers. It is as follows: "A tradition exists in the family that Robert Stephenson's father came across the border on the loss of considerable property. Miss Stephenson, the daughter of Robert’s third son, John, has stated that suit was commenced for the recovery of the property, but was dropped for want of the requisite means to prosecute it." The foregoing data have been obtained after much research.

There are some disconnected links in the chain of history here given. But it is believed to be correct as given. Should any one be able to suggest an error, I will gladly make the correction. My grandfather, Hugh W. Stephenson, was eight years old when the family sailed for America. He died in Alabama, 1841, when I was eighteen years old. We have no further account of Robert Stephenson, 1st.

Robert Stephenson, 2d, married to Miss Mabel Carr in the early part of 1778, at Wylam. They reared four sons and two daughters. James, the oldest, was born in March, 1779; the second, George, the engineer, was born in June, 1781; Ellen, Robert, John and Ann, born in 1792, were the other children. They all mar-


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 ried. George was married three times, but reared only one child to maturity; Robert, who was as fine an engineer as his father. He was a well educated man, a member of Parliament, and a man of much wealth. He married, but died in 1859, childless. There is not a single descendant of George Stephenson now living. The only living grandchild of Robert, 2d, is George Robert Stephenson, of Cheltenham, England. He is a son of Robert, the third son of old Robert, 2d, of Wylam. Ann, the youngest child, married John Nixon and reared a family in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Her descendants are numerous.

The reason that historians were thrown off the trail of the ancestors of George Stephenson is due to the fact that they followed the clew, that Robert Stephenson, the father of the railroad promoter, went direct from Scotland to England, which was not the fact. Robert Stephenson, 2d, was born in North Ireland, in 1752. My first information as to the time of his birth was that he was born in 1748. But from information recently obtained, I find it was his sister, Elizabeth, who was born in 1748, and Robert was born in 1752. He was born of Scottish parents. George Robert Stephenson, of Cheltenham, England, now (1905) over 86 years old, is very conservative and cautious. In a letter to me, dated February, 1905, referring to my statement of the early history of the Stephensons, as above given, he says, "Your own version of the story, namely, that Robert had brothers and sisters, who emigrated to South Carolina, is quite feasible. Our own account is that Robert had brothers and, perhaps, sisters; and it is certainly odd that nothing should be known about them; but if all, or most, of them went to the States, such disappearance is easily


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 accounted for." If historians had known that the brothers and sisters of Robert Stephenson, 2d, had gone to North America, they might casily have obtained all the data they desired.

Now (1905), of the Four who came to America, there are only a very few grandchildren living. Those living are Mrs. Hephzibah, the relict of Dr. William J. Stephenson, Rossville, South Carolina. She is the daughter of James Furgeson and his wife, Mary Stephenson. She is a very amiable Christian lady, living on her farm in contentment with her son, William Stephenson. Mrs. Ruth B. Cowan, of Rock Hill, South Carolina, is the relict of William Cowan. She is the daughter of John Brady, and the granddaughter of Alex Brady and his wife, Elizabeth Stephenson, one of the Four. Mrs. Jane Agnes Campbell, Richburg, South Carolina, is the widow of James Campbell, and daughter of John Westbrook and his wife, Catharine Stephenson, and granddaughter of William Stephenson, called "Stinson," one of the Four. She lives happily on a farm with her daughter and son-in, law, Mary Frances and W. C. Garrison. Burdette Furgeson, son of John Furgeson and his wife, Nancy Stephenson, and grandson of William Stephenson, one of the Four, lives with Stephen Furgeson on a farm near Richburg, South Carolina.

William Stephenson was commonly called "Stinson," the Scottish vernacular for Stephenson. He was my great-grandfather; that is, he was the father of my grandfather, Hugh W. Stephenson. He was the oldest son of Robert Stephenson, 1st, a Scotchman, who reared a family in County Antrim, Ireland. He was born in 1744; was twice married. He first married Miss R. Green Beattie, in 1764. Of this union there


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 were born seven children, five sons and two daughters: Hugh W. Stephenson, born January 25, 1765, in Ireland, was the oldest. Then John, Robert, James, William, Elizabeth and Nancy were born. Elizabeth and Nancy were twins, born in 1787, in South Carolina. His wife died the day the twins were born.

In 1789 he, William Stephenson, married Miss Elizabeth Wylie. Of this union there were born four children, two sons and two daughters. Samuel, who was born in 1790, was the oldest of the children of the second marriage. Then were born Mary, in 1792; Daniel Green, in 1794, and Catharine, in 1796.

William Stephenson, commonly called "Stinson," was a man of strong convictions and great decision of character. He joined the army as a whig soldier in the Revolutionary War and made a brave and gallant warrior. His life was a very tempestuous one. Before he left Ireland he had trouble with the Catholics. The Presbyterians and Catholics were deadly enemies; so much so that their conflicts were sometimes attended by death. He came to America, where he hoped to enjoy religious liberty. But he had only fairly entered into its enjoyment when the tocsin of the war of the Revolution was sounded. Previous to this time he had moved from Chester County to York, and settled in the vicinity of King's Mountain.


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Anyone who understands the meaning of Presbyterianism would know where to find such a man. He joined Captain Barber's company. Whenever there was a fight to be made with the British and Tories, he was ready. He and Ben Rowan, a daring and gallant soldier, would, by permission of their officers, take a squad of resolute men and raid into the Whig-deserted country on Rocky Creek, in Chester County, South Carolina, and inquire of the widows and wives of Whig soldiers for the names of any Tories who had been depredating among them. When they had learned the names of such Tories, they would say, "We will send them up to a higher court for trial," meaning they would hang them. Many soldiers on both sides were hung in Chester and York counties. I saw during the past summer, a few miles south of Richburg, the spot where a brave young man, Joseph Stroud, son of William Stroud, was hung for fighting for liberty. The British pinned a card to his clothing warning the country that if anyone took down the corpse the same would suffer a like penalty. At night a young lady of the neighborhood took with her a negro man and took down young Stroud's body and decently buried it. Honor to the memory of that brave, noble young lady. I felt like I was on sacred ground when contemplating the situation. The Strouds, descendants of this young


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 man's family, are living in that neighborhood to this day.

On these raids, William Stephenson would visit his sister, Nancy, near where Rossville now stands. She was the widow of William Anderson, a brave and generous soldier, who fell in defense of liberty. He was fond of telling the thrilling incidents of the war to his grandchildren. He was particularly fond of relating the daring and reckless deeds of the men during the Battle of King's Mountain. William Stephenson was a very resourceful man, full of energy and perseverance. Some years after the close of the war he removed from York County to the Rocky Creek country, in Chester County. He was a farmer, owned land and negroes, and did a general merchandising business. He hauled his goods in wagons from Charleston, one hundred and seventy-five miles. Country merchants could make more money merchandising before railroads were built than now. I was, in July, 1905, on his old plantation. The land is known as the "Stinson" land to-day. He died in 1809. His last wife died in 1811. He is buried between his two wives. Rude granite headstones mark their resting place near the great falls of the Catawba River, in the Old Burnt Church Cemetery, where William Anderson, his brother-in-law, a brave and talented soldier, who was killed by the Tories, is buried, as well as other relatives. This cemetery has been the burying-ground for the relatives for the last six generations. This is a most appropriate place for the remains of so high spirited, reckless and brave a trooper to rest—a beautiful country cemetery, enclosed with granite walls, which is due to the generosity and magnanimity of another brother-in-law, Daniel Green.


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 The rushing, foaming, mighty waters of the Catawba, as they pass over the falls, resemble the roar of the thunder and the noise of battle raging between contending hosts. When the air is in proper condition the mist and spray generated by great waves lashing themselves into foaming fury, like the smoke of battle ascend in curling columns heavenward.

"To this grandeur and solemn scene is not wanting a dirge of nature's own music, the ceaseless roar of the great falls of the Catawba."

The wildness of the deep and noes cliffs, the grandeur of the falls, and the picturesque scenery around combine to render the spot a place of reverential awe and of splendid beauty. Yea, this is surely a peculiarly fit "place for the rest of those whose spirits were tried amid the fierce conflicts of political opinion and human passion, wilder than the strife of the boiling waters."

I will now speak of each child of William Stephenson, one of the Four, and the descendants of these children, respectively. Hugh W. Stephenson, who was born in Ireland, January 25, 1765, was the oldest. He came to America with his parents when he was seven years old. He was a farmer, five feet, nine inches high; his weight was 155 pounds; his eyes were blue; his hair was light or whitish; his beard was sandy; his complexion was florid; his skin was thin; he had even tempered, mild disposition; he was very domestic and industrious; he was kind and gentle in his manners, and he was a very affectionate and thoughtful husband. He was a consistent member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, at Rock Spring Church, Lawrence County, Alabama.


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 There is no difference now between the Cumberland Presbyterian Church and the Presbyterian Church, U. S. A. But when the Cumberland Presbyterian Church was organized, many Presbyterians believed that a certain part of the human family was foreordained to eternal damnation, regardless of their life and character. Those who dissented from that hard doctrine, and preached the doctrine that "whosoever will" may be saved, came, in course of time, to be called Cumberland Presbyterians. The Cumberland Presbyterian Church was organized by those holding the broader doctrine, in Dickson County, Tennessee, February 4, 1810. The Presbyterians, U. S. A., have changed their Confession of Faith so as to meet the objections of the Cumberland Presbyterians, who are now going to unite with the mother church.

Hugh W. Stephenson married his cousin, Margaret, daughter of Capt. James Stephenson, one of the Four. She, Margaret, was born in Ireland, November 28, 1770, and married in York County, South Carolina, October 16, 1787.

The following are the children of Hugh W. and Margaret Stephenson:

Ann, born July 13, 1788, in South Carolina.

William Watson, born October 28, 1790, in South Carolina.

Elizabeth, born August 13, 1792, in South Carolina.

Mary M., born February 9, 1795, in Tennessee.

John Campbell, born August 28, 1797, in Tennessee.

Pleasant Wright, born June 9, 1800, in Tennessee.

Hodge Lawson, born June 30, 1802, in Tennessee.

Sally R., born August 12, 1807, in Tennessee.

Finis Ewing, born November 2, 1811, in Tennessee.


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 In 1794 Hugh W. Stephenson moved from York County, South Carolina, to Smith County, Tennessee; thence in 1806 to Maury County, Tennessee; and in 1819 all the family, married and single, moved to Lawrence County, Alabama. They bought land and settled near where the town of Mount Hope now is, about thirty miles south of the foot of the Muscle Shoals, on Tennessee River. The Stephensons reared large and respectable families in the Mount Hope country. About the year 1840 there were more voters of the Stephenson family about Mount Hope than of any two family names in the country. But now, 1905, there are very few, there being only six. These Stephensons, like their ancestors, are a pioneering people, energetic, industrious, sober, church-going. As the country began to show age, they went in search of new and richer lands. Some went to Mississippi; some to West Tennessee; some to Louisiana; some to Arkansas; some to Texas, and some to California. When the war between North and South came on, they all went in the Confederate army. There never was a deserter nor a coward of the name.

Ann, oldest daughter of Hugh W. Stephenson, was twice married. She first married William Campbell, in 1810. Of this union there were born three daughters, Eliza, Margaret (Pug) and Mary Ann. Mr. Campbell died and Ann, the widow, married Noble Osborn, in 1826, in Alabama. Of this union a son, Nelson, was born, in 1827. Mr. Osborn moved to Mississippi in 1840. Eliza, the oldest daughter of Ann, married Joseph Caruth. They reared a family at Memphis, Tennessee. Their descendants are living in Memphis now. The second daughter, Margaret, commonly called "Pug," married Stephen Threilkill. They reared a


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 family in Pontotoc County, Mississippi. The third daughter, Mary Ann, called "Polly Ann," married Mr. Weatherall. They reared a family of much respectability, on a farm eight miles below Memphis, Tennessee. Some of their descendants are living on the farm at this time. Albert Stephenson, son of P. W. Stephenson, married one of the daughters and reared a nice family south of Memphis.

The second child of Hugh W. Stephenson was William Watson Stephenson, my father. He was named in honor of William Watson, whose name is carved on the marble monument on King's Mountain, as one who fell on that great and notable day. My great-grandfather was in that battle. His home and family were within three miles of the battle ground. His fifteen-year-old son, Hugh W., did not belong to the army, but when he heard the raging of the battle he ran away from his mother and took an active part in the fight. One of his neighbors, William Watson, was killed. It so impressed Hugh W. that he named his first son in honor of Mr. Watson.


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William Watson Stephenson married Melinda Johnston in Tennessee, November 1, 1810. She was born January 13, 1791. Of this union were born six children (my father was married three times). The names and dates of birth are as follows:

Anderson Lee, born November 11, 1811, in Tennessee.

Felix Claiborne, born April 18, 1814, in Tennessee.

Mary Ann, born March 15, 1816, in Tennessee.

William Donnell, born October 19, 1818, in Tennessee.

Hugh Stewart, born June 10, 1821, in Alabama.

John Calvin, born August 12, 1823, in Alabama.

My mother died in 1824. My father then married his cousin, Margaret Presley Stephenson. Of this, William W. Stephenson's second marriage, were born six children, as follows:

Malinda Johnston, born December 26, 1825, in Alabama.

Christopher Columbus, born September 28, 1828, in Alabama.

Margaret Elizabeth, born June 9, 1831, in Alabama.

Leonidas Ewing, born February 10, 1834, in Alabama.

Robert Bruce, born June 25, 1838, in Alabama.

Henry Clay, born May 10, 1842, in Alabama.


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 My stepmother, Margaret Presley, died. Then my father married a third time, Miss Sarah Weems. Of this marriage there was one child born, Sarah Rebecca, born April 26, 1846. I will briefly refer to each of these children.

Anderson Lee married Ann Eliza Campbell, in Tennessee. Her mother, Rebecca, was the youngest daughter of Capt. James Stephenson, one of the Four. He was commonly called "Stinson" in South Carolina. One child, Rebecca Jane, was born. Ann Eliza died, after which Anderson Lee married a widow, Mrs. Ann Wilson, nee Cowan. Ann, in her first marriage, had one son, John Bell Wilson. The family moved from Alabama to West Tennessee, thence to Arkansas. Rebecca Jane married Mr. Wiley. She and all her children are dead. She left no descendants. Anderson Lee Stephenson reared to maturity only one child of his second marriage, Mary Caroline. She married Mr. McNeel. She had two daughters, Josie and Mary. Mary married James Jason Bryant. She now lives near Fisherville, in Shelby County, Tennessee. Josie married and went to Mississippi. John Bell Wilson reared a large family of daughters in Arkansas, northwest from Memphis.

Felix Claiborne, son of W. W. Stephenson and his wife, Melinda Johnston, married his cousin, Miss Mary, commonly called "Polly," McGaughey, in north Alabama. She was the second daughter of Col. Washington McGaughey, who was our grandmother Johnston's brother. After two children had been born, the family moved to Mississippi, thence, in 1844, to Marengo County, South Alabama. He reared a nice family in South Alabama. The children were well educated. During the war F. C. Stephenson moved to Lee County,


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 Mississippi, thence, in 1869, to Paris, Texas. He died October 17, 1872. He was a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He was a scientific farmer and a man much devoted to the welfare and education of his children. He lived to see the most of them educated.

The group picture before you consists of the four living children of F. C. Stephenson and his wife, Polly McGaughey, and myself. When facing the group I am on the left; Mary Melinda, the eldest daughter, is seated on my left; her brother, W. H. Stephenson, on her left; Ann S. is standing back of and between her brother, W. H., and her sister, Mary M.; Ida A stands back of and between her sister, Mary M., and myself.

Mary Melinda, Stephenson, the oldest daughter of F. C. Stephenson and his wife, was born October 5, 1835. She was a sprightly girl; she was very fair, had a clear, white complexion, sky-blue eyes and as pretty red hair as I ever saw. She walked like a queen. She was educated at Dayton, Alabama. She, after her father moved to Mississippi, during the war, married her cousin, Dekalb McGaughey. They have one child, a son, Jefferson McGaughey, and one grandson. They live in Collinsville, Texas. Mr. McGaughey is a merchant. They have a beautiful home, well arranged and well kept. Mary is a good woman and a nice housekeeper.

Ann Eliza, second daughter of F. C. Stephenson and his wife, Polly McGaughey, was born March 4, 1838, in Lawrence County, Alabama. Her parents moved to Mississippi, thence to Marengo County, South Alabama, in 1844. Ann was educated in the best schools of the country. She was an intelligent and attractive young lady. She married Dr. W. W. Graves


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 April 1, 1863. Dr. Graves was born in Virginia, in 1828. He came to Alabama in 1859. He joined the Confederate army, the Fourth Alabama Regiment, in 1861. He was surgeon of his regiment, and promoted to surgeon in the Confederate States Navy. At the close of the war he returned to his home in Mississippi. He moved to Grayson County, Texas, in 1869. Dr. Graves was an eminent physician. He lived and practiced medicine at Whitesboro, Texas, the remainder of his life, except four years. He was, by the appointment of President Cleveland, the surgeon and physician for the Indians. During these four years he was stationed at South McAlester, Indian Territory. He served as representative from Grayson County in the State Legislature of Texas. Dr. Graves was a man of extraordinary talents, a scholarly gentleman, a good and affectionate husband and father. He died at home June 23, 1894.

When Ann Eliza Stephenson was married to Dr. Graves, she dropped the name Eliza, and substituted for it, "Stephenson." Since her marriage she has written her name Ann S. Graves. Ann is a devoted member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. She took great care in raising and training her four sons to good, industrious habits. The virtue in that Scripture that says "Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it," is abundantly demonstrated in the habits and conduct of those four young men. Ann owns a home in Whitesboro, but she lives with her son Henry in Ladonia, Texas. She is a patient, even-tempered woman, always content with what falls to her lot, and thankful that it is no worse.


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 There were born to Dr. Graves and his wife, Ann, six children, four sons and two daughters. The daughters died young. The sons are,—

William Claiborne Graves, born in Lee County, Mississippi, November 24, 1867. He has a wife and children, and is a practicing physician at South McAlester, Indian Territory.

George Walker Graves, second son of Dr and Mrs. Graves, was born March 12, 1870, in Lamar County, Texas. He is not married. He is an official of the railroad at Hillsboro, Texas.

Henry Lee, the third son, born July 23, 1872, married Miss Mamie Nunn. They have one child. Henry is a merchant in Ladonia, Texas.

Robert I. Graves, born June 4, 1881, is married. He is assistant cashier of the First National Bank, Celeste, Texas. These four sons of Dr. W. W. Graves and his wife, Ann Stephenson, are all intelligent, educated, good men. The promise for their progress as valuable citizens and successful men is very flattering.

William Henry Stephenson, a direct lineal descendant of Henry Stephenson, of Scotland, down through Robert Stephenson, a Scotchman, who reared a family in County Antrim, Ireland; William Stephenson,


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 a Revolutionary soldier of Chester County, South Carolina; Hugh W. Stephenson, of Maury County, Tennessee; William Watson Stephenson, of Lawrence County, Alabama, and Felix Claiborne Stephenson, of Marengo County, Alabama, but recently of Texas, was born October 6, 1840, in Itawamba County, Mississippi. He was the first son of F. C. Stephenson and his wife, Polly McGaughey. Polly McGaughey was the second daughter of Col. Washington McGaughey, formerly of Lawrence County, Alabama. William Henry learned the drug business in Linden, Alabama. He has followed that business the most of his life. He went into the Confederate army in 1861. He went with the Eleventh Alabama Regiment direct to Virginia in 1861. He was in General Lee's army during the four years of the war. He participated in all the battles and marches to which that noted Virginia army was sub jected. He never left the army from the time he went into it till the close of the war. He was at the surrender at Appomattox, April 9, 1865. He, at the close of the war, like other young Confederate soldiers, penniless, returned to his home in Mississippi. Henry farmed for four years. October 24, 1869, he married Miss Emma J. Stovall, daughter of George W. Stovall, of Lee County, Mississippi. At the close of the year 1869, he moved to Paris, Texas. There he entered the drug business as clerk. In 1877, he moved to Whitesboro, Texas, and still acted as clerk in a drug store. In 1885 he went to Collinsville, Texas, and commenced business on his own account, where he is now a successful merchant. To him and his wife have been born eleven children, six sons and five daughters. Three of the sons died in infancy. The other three sons having received a good business education, are actively


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 employed in business. The daughters are well educated.

William Henry Stephenson and his entire family are active, useful members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. His son, Felix W., married Miss Hattie Thompson, in 1904. Felix is a Past Master of the Collinsville Masonic Lodge. He is a dry goods merchant, and lives at Collinsville, Texas. Nim L. Stephenson, son of Henry, married Miss Grace Hudspeth, in 1901. They have a son, Laverque, two years old. Nim is a member of the Masonic Lodge. He is a grocery merchant at Collinsville. Dick Lee Stephenson, the third living son of Henry and his wife, Emma, married Miss Jessie Mullins, in 1899. They have one child, a daughter, Jewel; she is five years old. Dick is a clerk in his father's drug store. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias. The five daughters are: Bettie Stovall, Nettie Bell, Mary Catharine, Ann Graves and Fannie Edna. As these girls finish the course in the Collinsville High School they go to the State Normal School, located at Denton, in an adjoining county, and are graduated there. They are well prepared for life. Of these young ladies Nettie Bell and Mary Catharine, having been well qualified, are disposed to turn their attention to the profession of teaching. Bettie Stovall is of a domestic turn of mind, and prefers home life.

William Henry Stephenson makes as good a citizen as he did a soldier. He is highly esteemed in business, in the church, in the daily walks of life, and especially at home, where he and his wife are surrounded by a happy family.

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 W. J. Provine. They reared six children, three sons and three daughters. They have a nice home in Whitesboro, Texas. They are surrounded by all the comforts that home could desire. Mr. Provine is a lumberman and has been successful in the business.

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Mary Ann, called "Polly Ann," the eldest daughter of W. W. Stephenson, married her cousin, Ashley Elliott Stephenson, a grandson of Capt. James Stephenson, one of the Four. They reared a family at La Grange, Alabama. Mary Ann was my only full sister. She was an extraordinary woman, a noble, Christian lady, one of the most provident mothers I ever knew. She was a model as a housekeeper, and had the talent of making a little, either in dry goods or in provisions, go a long way. She kept her children neat and presentable and was quite economical withal. Josephine, their daughter, married Robert D. McGaughey, of Pine Bluff, Arkansas. One daughter, Alma, was born. Josephine died. Her daughter, Alma, married John Hohmann, of Pine Bluff, Arkansas.

Hugh Johnston, son of A. E. Stephenson and his wife, Mary Ann, married Miss Mary Eliza Smith, near Concord, Lawrence County, Alabama. She was a noble, good woman, an industrious, Christian lady. They reared a respectable, nice, intelligent family of girls and boys; eight fine girls and three boys. Margaret May married John Conklin. They live in Louisiana. Eva Josephine married Frank N. Julian, the editor of the North Alabamian, Tuscumbia, Alabama. They have two children. Who would not say they are the nicest, their father being an editor? Ella Thomas


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 married Henry Lee Halsey. Mr. Halsey is a merchant at Tuscumbia, Alabama. They have a sprightly little boy. Donald Reagan married Miss Hattie Orman, of Russellville, Alabama. They live in Louisiana. Hugh William is not married. He lives at Tuscumbia.

Mary Susan married James Curtis Fennel, a farmer near Leighton, Alabama. Two children, Annie Christian and Ned Stephenson, are at home with their mother. Hugh J. Stephenson died in Russellville. He was merchandising. The widow, Mrs. Mary E. Stephenson, is spending her life in caring for and educating her children. Annie, daughter of A. E. and Polly Ann Stephenson, married Mr. Reagan. One child, George, was born. Annie died. Her son, George Reagan, lives in Arkansas.

Mary Elliott, last child of A. E. and Mary Ann Stephenson, married her sister's widower, Robert D. McGaughey. She died in the winter of 1904, leaving four children in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. A. E. and Mary Ann had other daughters, but they died without posterity.

William Newton Stephenson, son of A. E. and Mary Ann Stephenson, older than the two sisters last mentioned, married Miss Jennie Robinson, a very intelligent lady. They unfortunately have no children, but the little pet dogs and cats fare the better by it. They live at Leighton, Alabama, and own a farm near by.

William Donnell Stephenson, the third son of W. W. Stephenson and his wife, Malinda Johnston, graduated at LaGrange College, Alabama, in 1847. He married Miss Mary Rand, near Leighton, Alabama. He became a practicing physician. His wife and two children died in Alabama. He went to Jefferson, Texas, in 1852. He was a successful physician. December, 1853, he married Miss Martha Jane Mason, in Marshall,


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 Texas. A daughter, Tweatie, was born. He died in 1855. Tweatie grew up highly educated. She married Bryan Ardis, of Shreveport, Louisiana. A daughter was born, Tweatie. The mother died. Tweatie Ardis, the child, grew up and was well educated. She was splendidly accomplished. She married Mr. Frame, a wealthy young gentleman of Waukesha, Wisconsin.

Hugh Stewart Stephenson, the fourth son of William Watson Stephenson, married Miss Jane Morrow, near Leighton, Alabama. They went to Arkansas County, Arkansas. He practiced medicine a few years in a very rich malarial country. After three children, Mary Frances, Hugh Watson and William Claiborne, had been born, he and his wife died. Mary Frances is the wife of Mr. Carlile, in Western Texas. Mr. Carlile is following the railroad business on the Texas Pacific.

Hugh Watson, the second child, and first son, of Dr. Hugh Stewart Stephenson, was born near St. Charles, Arkansas, in 1854. His father and mother both died when he was five years old. His grandfather Stephenson, near Mt. Hope, Alabama, reared him. He was educated in the common schools of Mount Hope country. He and Russell M. Cunningham are about the same age. In boyhood they were close neighbors, attended school together, under my tutorage, for several years. They both studied medicine, married cous-


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 ins and settled in the same section of country; the former at Oakman, Walker County, the latter in the city of Birmingham, Alabama. They were both successful in the practice of their chosen profession. They are both honorable gentlemen, worthy the calling of their profession, and they are mutual friends to-day. Dr. Stephenson married Miss Sallie Masterson, near Ora, Alabama. They have reared a family of six interesting children, three sons and three daughters. Much care is given by the parents to the education and moral training of the children. Irene, the oldest daughter, was educated at Meridian, Mississippi. Claudius Owen, the oldest son, is now in the junior class in college. He is an intelligent young man and very athletic—a fine baseball player. Sallie, the Doctor's wife, is a noble, good little woman, devoting her time and talents to the comfort and happiness of her husband and children. They have one of the nicest and most commodious dwellings in that town, and Sallie is a fine housekeeper. Her two beautiful daughters are educated and interesting, just the age to be most attractive. The family lives at Oakman, Walker County, Alabama. Hugh Watson, named in honor of his father and grandfather, is a busy man, practicing medicine day and night. He has an extensive and lucrative practice. Oakman is in the midst of a rich coal producing country.

William Claiborne, the second son of Dr. Hugh Stewart Stephenson and his wife, Jane Morrow, married Miss Eva Clark, of Rockwall, Texas. They have six children. The oldest is sixteen. Clay is a farmer near Rockwall, Texas.


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John Calvin Stephenson was the fifth son of William Watson Stephenson and his wife, Melinda Johnston. At the time his picture was taken he was over eighty-two years of age. He is six feet high, weighs 165 pounds, wears Number 7⅛ hat, Number 16 collar, Number 10 shoes, Number 40 coat; pants, waist 40, legs 34. His complexion is fair and ruddy, hair dark when young, beard auburn, eyes blue, temperament mild. The first twenty-five years of his life were spent at hard work on a farm; the next twenty at school and teaching, in common schools, academies and colleges; the next twenty were passed while merchandising in Waco, Texas; the next eighteen years "in diversifying," as the farmer calls it. He was graduated from La Grange College, in 1850. He married Miss Mary Ann Curtis Napier, daughter of Dr. John S. Napier, of Alabama, in the year 1855. She was born January 20, 1835. She was in many respects an extraordinary woman. She was five feet seven inches tall, weighed 122 pounds. She had fair complexion dark hair, grayish blue eyes. She was symmetrical in form, and graceful in carriage. She was polite but reserved, was very modest and retiring, too prudent, if any one can be. She was graduated from Athens, Alabama, Female College. She was extraordinarily intelligent, but too modest to use her gifts. She was


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 very industrious and domestic in her habits, a great servant to her family. Her last years were spent in an invalid's bed, probably brought on by excessive hard labor during the war. She was intensely Southern. She was a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Alice was our first child. She died when two-and-a-half years old. She is buried at LaGrange, Alabama. Mrs. Stephenson died at home, Waco, Texas, in 1903, and is buried in Oakwood Cemetery.

Our three children: now living are Edwin Napier, born July 3, 1860, in Alabama; Mary Johnie, born September 5, 1863, in Alabama; William Myatt, born August 14, 1865, in Alabama.

We went to Waco, Texas, in 1870.

Edwin N. married Miss Mattie Jones Baker, of Plantersville, Texas. They have now living four very nice, intelligent children, two sous and two daughters, Guy and Napier and Edna and Jean. They are living in Chicago, Illinois.

Mary Johnie married Judge Seth McKinny Walker, of Georgia, but now of Chattanooga, Tennessee. He is now Judge of the County Court of Hamilton County, Tennessee. He has been in the office ten years, and his present term will not expire until 1910. They


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 have six very promising children: four daughters, Adelaide Mamie, Johnie Curtis, Frances Spurlock, and Edna Stephenson; and two sons, Seth McKinny, Jr., and Charles Evans. The children are all in school, except the four-year-old daughter, Edna. The older girls are well advanced in school. Judge Walker and family live on McCallie Avenue, Chattanooga, Tennessee.

William Myatt, youngest son of J. C. Stephenson, married Miss Lumpie Townsend, of Columbus, Texas. They live in Waco, Texas, and have three children—two sons, William Donald and Light Townsend, and one daughter, Alice; all good, intelligent children, very well advanced in school for their age.

I have thirteen grandchildren now living, seven girls and six boys. They are all sprightly, intelligent children, well equipped mentally and physically, for the contest set before them, for which I am thankful to our Heavenly Father. I have been for twenty years of my life a professional teacher in schools, academies and colleges, and passed out the same number of years in Waco, Texas, merchandising, and have passed a like number of years since, like the negro, "jes' waitin'." One hot summer day a passer-by saw a negro boy lying in the shade, over in a field, the weeds and grass about to take the crop, the sun shining very hot. "Hello," says the passer-by, "are you resting?" "No," said the negro, "I ain't restin'; I's jes' waitin' fur de sun to go down so I kin quit work."

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 I will here give my wife's paternal ancestry. James Turner, Maryland, married in 1710 Kerenhappuch Norman, Maryland. Sarah Turner, daughter of James Turner and his wife, Kerenhappuch Norman, married James Smith, of England. Sarah Smith, daughter of James Smith and Sarah Turner, married John Champion Napier, of Virginia. Dr. John Smith Napier, son of John Champion. Napier and Sarah Smith, married Miss Mary Curtis Myatt, of Alabama. They were the parents of Mrs. Stephenson. Mary Ann Curtis Stephenson's great-grandmother's sister, Elizabeth Turner, married Joseph Morehead, and became the ancestor of Governor Morehead, of North Carolina; also of Governor Morehead, of Kentucky; also of Capt. Richmond Pearson Hobson, of Alabama. There is a monument at Greensboro, North Carolina, erected to the memory of Kerenhappuch Turner on account of patriotism shown by her at the battle of Guilford Courthouse, 1780. This is said to be the only monument erected to the memory of any woman of the American Revolution.

My wife's maternal ancestry is as follows: John Curtis, of Ireland, was born in 1740, married Ann Harris in 1759. Ann was born in 1740, in North Carolina. John Curtis, Jr., son of John Curtis, Sr., and his wife, Ann Harris, was born in 1760 in North Carolina. He married Mary Shaw, of North Carolina, and Mary Shaw was born in 1765, in North Carolina, and died in 1794. Ann Curtis, daughter of John Curtis, Jr., and his wife, Mary Shaw, was born in 1788, in North Carolina; she married Aldridge Myatt, of North Carolina. Mary Curtis Myatt, daughter of Aldridge Myatt, was born August 12, 1817, in North Carolina. She married Dr, John Smith Napier, and


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 was the mother of Mary Ann Curtis Napier, my wife. Mrs. Napier and her husband are buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Waco, Texas.

My mother's maiden name was Johnston. She was a daughter of William Johnston and his wife, Elizabeth McGaughey. They came from Tennessee to Lawrence County, Alabama, in 1819. They were Cumberland Presbyterians. My grandmother Johnston, nee McGaughey, had several brothers. Maj. Samuel McGaughey, a Revolutionist, was, in his old age, proud of the sword he carried when he was a Major. James and Washington McGaughey, the other two brothers, settled in Alabama. One of these three brothers, Major Samuel, left a married son in Greeneville, East Tennessee, when he moved to Alabama. This son was John McGaughey. He reared a large and respectable family in Greeneville. Their descendants are quite numerous. One of his granddaughters, Mrs. Mary A. Hall, lives in comfort and ease in Waco, Texas. She is a noble Christian lady, and a devoted mother.


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Harvey McGaughey Richey, son of Benjamin Richey and his wife, Mary A. McGaughey, was born in Waco, Texas, June 30, 1882. Harvey is a lineal descendant of Major Samuel McGaughey of Revolutionary fame, through John McGaughey, late of East Tennessee (a colleague of ex-President Andrew Johnson's in the Tennessee Legislature, both from Greene County), David McGaughey, and Miss Mary A. McGaughey, who married B. F. Richey.

B. F. Richey was of strong mind, temperate and determined in his intercourse with men. His education was of a business character. He was a leading member of the Methodist Church. He went from Cornersville, Tennessee, to Waco, Texas, before the Civil War. He filled many public offices in McLennan County, with credit to the county and honor to himself. During the troublesome times that followed reconstruction, he was for several years treasurer for


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 the wealthy county of McLennan. When he retired from that office millions of public money had passed through his hands. Not a cent was missing from the State and county treasury. It was said that Frank Richey could wade through gold waist deep but not a dollar would get fastened to his clothes.

Miss Mary A. McGaughey, daughter of David R. McGaughey and his wife, Miss Jane K. Wilson, was born in Indiana, in 1841. She was one of five sisters; no brothers. They were all reared in Greene County, East Tennessee. They were an attractive lot of beauty and intelligence. They were well educated and had wholesome domestic training. They were among the most popular young ladies in the country. Miss Mary A. McGaughey has had rather an unusual life. In some respects she has been very fortunate, in others she has been unfortunate. She has been three times married. Her husbands all were of the best men of the country, but did not live long after marriage. She first married Rev. Mr. Kennedy, a Presbyterian minister, as kind and good a husband as could be desired. He died leaving no children. She then married B. F. Richey, Esq., of Waco, Texas, in the year 1878. Of this union there were two sons born, Benjamin Franklin and Harvey McGaughey. The former died in childhood; the latter is the subject of the foregoing notice. Mr. Richey died in 1882. Mrs. Richey married Col. J. W. Hall. He died a few years after their marriage, leaving no children.

David R. McGaughey, son of Hon. John McGaughey and his wife, was born in Greene County, East Tennessee, in 1812. He married Miss Jane K. Wilson, in Greene County, Tennessee. After five children were born Mr. McGaughey died, in 1845. His wife, Miss


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 Jane K. Wilson, was born in 1815, and died in 1850. Maj. Samuel McGaughey and my maternal grandmother, Elizabeth Johnston, nee McGaughey, were brother and sister.

Harvey McGaughey Richey, whose portrait appears above, is physically and mentally all that his fond mother could desire. She is a widow, all children gone but only one, her hope of a future name on earth; that is in the manly form of her noble son. Harvey McG. Richey has always been an obedient boy; his moral and domestic training has been of the best. He was graduated from the public High School of Waco when he was sixteen. Then he attended Washington College, in East Tennessee, one year. Then he entered Baylor University, Waco, Texas, and was graduated from that university with distinction. He then worked in a cotton buying office in Waco for two years. He is now taking a three years' course in law, in the State University in Austin, Texas. He will be graduated from there in 1907. It is hoped and believed by others besides his widowed mother, that Harvey McGaughey Richey will make a moral, capable and honest lawyer. His intellect is good, his ambition is commendable, his opportunities could not have been better.

The three McGaughey brothers, Samuel, James and Washington, left in East Tennessee two other brothers, whose posterity is quite numerous. The McGaugheys in Alabama were good and prosperous farmers. They were of the best citizens. Their descendants went West and are legion.

My grandmother Johnston's maiden name was McGaughey. One of her sisters, Margaret McGaughey, married Eli McCain. John McCain, son of Eli McCain and Margaret McGaughey, married Miss Lou Hunter,


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 near LaGrange, Alabama. Miss Anna McCain, daughter of John McCain and his wife, Miss Lou Hunter, married J. W. Jourdan, of Iuka, Mississippi.

J. W. Jourdan was born near Bay Springs, Tishomingo County, Mississippi, January 3, 1858. He was educated in the public schools of the county and at the High School taught by Professor Carmack, at Jacinto, Mississippi. Mr. Jourdan spent three years under the tutorage of Prof. Edward W. Carmack. After leaving school he taught for three years, two in the public schools in the county, and one year as assistant teacher with Prof. Reid in the Iuka High School. He was elected Superintendent of the Public Schools of the county, which position he held successfully for four years. He went to the Southern Business College, Louisville, Kentucky, where he took a thorough course and was graduated with distinction in 1881. After returning from college he entered the mercantile business in luka, where he has been a success ever since. He married Miss Anna McCain, in 1882. The Loan and Insurance Business Company secured the services of Mr. Jourdan as their agent in 1890. In the year 1897 he resigned that position to accept the agency of the Tishomingo Savings Institution, Iuka, Mississippi. Mr.


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 Jourdan has managed the bank at Iuka successfully ever since. Under his management the institution has grown and prospered beyond the most sanguine expectations of its stockholders. During the time he has been conducting the business of the bank, he has traded largely in real estate, both in the country and in Iuka. He has been very successful in accumulating a nice fortune. He is now said to be the largest individual real estate owner, and the largest taxpayer in the county. Some syndicates North, being aware of the ability and judgment of Mr. Jourdan, engaged him as their agent to conduct their business in different parts of the Union. Mr. Jourdan has made considerable money in these agencies. He is an extensive merchant and banker at Iuka, Mississippi. He is a benevolent, useful citizen. There were born unto him and his wife, Anna McCain, four children. Three of them died in infancy. Miss Annie Elma, only daughter of J. W. Jourdan and his wife, Anna McCain, is a beautiful young lady just come to womanhood. Miss Annie has had fine opportunities. She is an intelligent and attractive young lady. She is a recent graduate of Randolph Macon College for Women, of Virginia. She is justly styled the "Belle of Iuka."

Newton McCain, son of John McCain and his wife, Miss Lou Hunter, married Miss Coffee, a daughter of the late John Coffee. Newton is a farmer and lives in Lauderdale County, Alabama. He and his wife have a family of several children. They live near the old Coffee home on Shoal Creek, not far from the canal.

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 died childless. Christopher Columbus settled in Arkansas and married Miss Tennessee Hewitt. Of this union three sons were born, namely, William Watson, Thomas Floyd and Hugh Albert Stephenson. Their father, C. C. Stephenson, went to the war and died in Newnan, Georgia, in the Confederate hospital, in 1863. His sons are living at Lois, Arkansas County, Arkansas, engaged in farming. All three have families. Margaret Elizabeth died in Arkansas; she was never married. Leonidas Ewing died in Alabama in 1860. He was not married. Robert Bruce was killed on the last day of the seven days' battle before Richmond, July 2, 1862, just at sunset. He was a brave and honorable soldier, a Christian gentleman. He was never married.

Henry Clay, the last son of William Watson Stephenson and Margaret Presley Stephenson, died when seven years old. My stepmother died in 1843.

W. W. Stephenson married Miss Sarah Weems. She was his third wife. This marriage was in 1845. Sarah Rebecca Stephenson, only daughter of William Watson Stephenson and his wife, Sarah Weems, was born in Lawrence County, Alabama, in 1846. She married Reuben N. Mitchell. Mr. Mitchell farmed in Alabama until about the year 1880. They went to Texas. After living several years at McGregor, McLennan County, they moved to Colorado, in Western Texas, where they are now living. Some of their children died young. They have four now living, namely, William Watson, Zula Arelia, Katie Hugh and Reuben Rush Mitchell. William Watson, the oldest son of Reuben N. Mitchell and his wife, Sarah Rebecca Stephenson, was born in Alabama. He married Mary Josephine Lacy, in Bosque County, Texas. There were


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 two sons born of this marriage, William Earl and John Arthur Mitchell. The mother died. The children are being raised by their Mitchell grandparents. Zula, the daughter of Reuben and Rebecca Mitchell, is a very industrious young lady, fond of domestic duties. She is not married. Katie Hugh, always called Hugh, mavrried Mr. Chittum; they have one daughter, Zula Josephine Chittum. Reuben Rush, called Rush, is not married. Reuben N. Mitchell is a machinist; was hurt at his work and lost a leg. He now is freighting over the prairies of Western Texas. He and his family are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

This closes the chapter as to my father's family.

My father, William Watson Stephenson, was a man of strong mind and body. He was firm and determined in purpose; he had a moderate, common school education. He was a soldier under General Jackson in the war of 1812. He was for many years a justice of the peace in Alabama. He was a practical surveyor. His neighbors had him often to locate certain lines and boundaries; he never charged them for the work. He could step over a piece of ground and tell the number of acres it contained about as accurately as if the chain had been used. While he did not pretend to be a doctor, he was well up with the treatment for the common diseases of the country. Such accommodations were wearisome, but were always extended without charge. He was six feet high, weight 165 pounds, eyes blue, complexion fair, hair dark, beard thin and auburn. He was a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He died in 1869 and is buried in the Rock Spring Cemetery; a marble headstone marks his last resting place.


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Elizabeth, the third child, and second daughter of Hugh W. Stephenson and his wife, Margaret Stephenson, was born in York County, South Carolina, August 18, 1792. She married William Simpson in Tennessee, moved to Lawrence County, Alabama, in 1819. William Simpson and his family were members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church at Rock Spring, where the parents were buried. There were born to them six daughters and three sons. Mr. Simpson was a worker in iron, an honest blacksmith. He was five feet and ten inches high, fair complexion, blue eyes, and weighed 225 pounds. He was a man of good address, pleasant in his manners, of a fine constitution, and uniformly good health. He died of a very severe attack of bilious fever in 1840. This disease was very prevalent at that time in the Mount Hope country.

Isaac Shelby, the youngest child of William Simpson and his wife, Elizabeth Stephenson, was named in honor of Governor Shelby, of Kentucky. Isaac was educated in the common schools of the Mount Hope country. He was an intelligent boy, fonder of his books than of the farm. He was a young man of fine appearance, was popular among the young people of the country in which he lived. He married Miss Kaie Wade, at Mount Hope, in 1851. Miss Wade was an educated lady of unusual ability. She taught school


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 to assist her husband in making a support for their children. It was said that she was the financier of the family. Mr. Simpson assisted his wife in school and at the same time studied law. He was a Confederate soldier. After the war he was a justice of the peace at Towncreek, Alabama. While he was not an office-seeker, he preferred office work to that of the farm. He lived in Towncreek, Alabama, for many years before his death, which occurred in November, 1903.

The children of Isaac S. Simpson and his wife, Kate Wade, were reared and educated at Towncreek. They married there. But now all the children are dead, except their son, Albert E. Simpson. Albert, after receiving his education, married Miss Hall, a young Tennessean whose father had recently settled in the rich and beautiful Tennessee Valley near Towncreek. He and his good wife live on a fine farm near Mount Stanley, a few miles northeast of Leighton, Alabama. Albert is a farmer and also a merchant. He is a prosperous, well-to-do young man. He has a beautiful home and everything needful to make a happy household. He is taking care of his mother in her declining years. It is to be hoped that prosperity and happiness will follow the happy couple all the days of their lives, and that their children will rise up and call them blessed after they have gone to try the realities of the next world.

Mary M., called "Polly," the fourth child and third daughter of Hugh W. and Margaret Stephenson, was twice married. She first married John Miller Johnston, of Alabama. After three sons were born, Alfred S., Albert and Elam Porter Miller Johnston, Mr. Johnston died. The widow married her cousin, Alfred Stephenson. Of this marriage two sons, William


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 Hodge and John Randolph Stephenson, were reared. Albert Johnston died while young. The other two boys changed the spelling of their name from Johnston to Johnson. They married sisters—Alfred married Frances, and Elam married Eliza Nicholson. These ladies were nieces of the late Dr. Felix Johnson, D. D. They studied medicine, went to Marshall, Texas, where they became eminent and useful practicing physicians. They reared large and respectable families. Dr. Elam and his wife, Eliza, had born unto them seventeen children. They were both active and very useful members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Dr. Alfred moved to Paris, Texas, several years before his death. His son, Thomas Wilson Johnson, reared a family in Paris. Col. E. A. Dehony married the Doctor's first daughter, Mary, and reared an intelligent, educated family at Paris. Dr. Elam's children and grandchildren are numerous at Marshall, Texas. Oscar, James and Albert, sons of Dr. Elam Johnson, are engaged in the railroad business. Their brother, Luther, is a telegrapher. They all have families. The two brothers, sons of Alfred Stephenson, and his wife, half brothers to the two Johnson boys, went to Mississippi, south from Columbus. William Hodge married Miss Maye, near Brickville, Alabama. They reared a nice family in Mississippi.

John Campbell Stephenson, the fifth child, and second son, of Hugh W. and Margaret Stephenson, married Agnes Simpson, a sister to William Simpson, who married Elizabeth Stephenson. They were married in Tennessee. They reared a large family of sons and daughters, near Mount Hope, Alabama. He was a Cumberland Presbyterian minister of the gospel; he was a man of great piety and usefulness. He was not


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 an educated man in the strict meaning of the term. But he was a man of fine native ability, and was an indefatigable Bible student. He was five feet and eleven inches high, and weighed 145 pounds, eyes blue, hair light, beard auburn, complexion florid, skin thin and fair; he was slender and rather too weakly to do the arduous labors of the ministry and domestic work. He was ever faithful, and died in the harness. While preaching at a camp meeting, on Sunday at 11 o'clock, at Mars Hill, Marion County, Alabama, in 1840, his lungs gave way, he fell, was carried to the tent, and died within a few hours. His oldest son, James Porter, married Miss Jones, and reared a family in Desha County, Arkansas.

Hugh S. Stephenson, second son of Rev. John Campbell Stephenson and his wife, Agnes Simpson, was born in Maury County, Tennessee, March 24, 1819. His father moved from Tennessee in 1820, to Township Seven, Range Nine, Lawrence County, Alabama. He bought land and opened a farm adjoining the land where the town of Mount Hope was afterwards built. The children of the family were trained up to industrious, moral habits. The family were a Sabbath-observing, church-going people. Hugh and his brothers worked regularly on the farm. When Hugh attained


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 his majority, having obtained such an education as could be had in a new country, he set out to make his own fortune. Being handy with tools, he learned the house carpenter's trade, during boyhood, when the farm was not demanding his services. He was fond of music, vocal and instrumental. When a boy, he was a fine violinist, and would play at night in public gatherings for the pleasure and amusement of his friends. He went to South Alabama and worked at the carpenter's trade with his older brother Porter. During the year 1840, he married Miss Anna, daughter of N. G. Whitley, formerly of North Carolina. He went to Sumter County, Alabama, and farmed for eight years. Then he moved to Pickens County. There he followed the tanning business for eight more years. In 1858 he moved to DeSoto County, Mississippi, where he lived and farmed till 1870. He went into the Confederate service at the beginning of the war, but was discharged in about a year on account of ill health. He was in detailed service during the war. During the year 1870 he moved to DesArcDes Arc [sic], Arkansas. Here he first worked at contracting and building, then at the livery business. In 1883, he went into the undertaking business, at which he continued till his death. In all these different occupations he was prudent and economical, and succeeded financially, especially in the undertaking business. He made a competency and left, at his death, a good estate and an excellent character which is better than great riches.


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There were born to Hugh S. Stephenson and his wife, Anna Whitley, eleven children. Two died in infancy. Of the nine who grew to maturity there were five daughters and four sons. 1. Their daughter, Lou, first married A. C. Weatherall, then Mr. Greer, of Little Rock. 2. Alice married W. G. Hazen, of Des Arc. 3. Lula married Henderson Ried, of Hazen, Ark. 4. Willie H. married D. J. Mytinger, of Little Rock. 5. Mariah, now dead, married J. B. Jamison.

Amos Jarmon, son of Hugh S. Stephenson and his wife, Anna Whitley, was born near Hernando, Mississippi, March 27, 1859. His father moved to Des Arc, Arkansas, when Amos was an infant. Amos was reared and educated in Des Arc. He has spent his life, up to the present time, in Des Arc, and is still living there. On December 11, 1890, he married Miss Mary C. Danner, of Farmer City, Illinois. Of this union were born five children, sons: Harry, aged now fourteen years; Freeman, twelve; Hugh, eight; Leonard, six; and Willie, who died in 1899. The four living sons are of the school age. Knowing the ancestors of Amos Stephenson to have been friends and promoters of education induces me to sanguinely hope these four dear boys will be well educated. Des Arc is a good town, now putting on city style, and is paying much attention to furnishing the necessary facilities for the education of its numerous, rising generations.


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 Amos J. Stephenson is engaged in the undertaking business, a business which, like the doctor's, requires the undertaker to move when ordered, rain or shine, by day or by night. It is a good business, but a hard and irregular one. I have tried it. I am not fond of the business. My olfactory organs are too sensitive to allow the work to be pleasant. Then, it is natural for a man to wish to do a rushing business; especially is this the case in a hustling city. An undertaker cannot do any business unless some of his neighbors furnish the corpse. The consequence is, he is always wishing for some one to die. A wag, passing my window one day, seeing me idle, said: "How much will you give me for killing somebody?"

The Stephensons and their relatives are scattered from North Alabama to Western Texas. I have been much among them, and am of the opinion that I can ride horseback from North Alabama 900 miles to Western Texas, and not be at any time more than thirty miles from the home of a kinsman. But, strange to say, I was never at Des Arc, and am a stranger to my Cousin Amos. But from the moral and religious training that I know his father had, and believing in the literal fulfillment of the Scriptures, I am persuaded to believe that he is training up his four sons in the way they should go.

Robert H., son of H. S. Stephenson, and his wife, Anna, was wounded in the battle of Shiloh, and died of his wounds. George W. died in 1884. Charles C. Stephenson is the youngest son of Hugh S. and his wife, Anna Stephenson.

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 a high Mason, having filled all the stations in the local Lodges; he was a member of the Grand Lodge, both in Alabama and Arkansas. He was justice of the peace for many years during his long and useful life. He was an alderman in his town council. He was an elder in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, to which he was devoted, and in which his father was an able, consecrated, and very useful minister. The following was written by his son, Dr. Charles C. Stephenson:

"To the memory of my father: As a short tribute to the memory of my father, Hugh S. Stephenson, I, his youngest son, desire to say that as a man he measured up to the full stature of all the requirements of Christian citizenship. He was kind, yet firm; he was determined, yet not arbitrary; he was affectionate, but not too lenient for his children's good. As a husband and as a father he was all that could be desired. As a voter he always aligned himself on the side of justice and right; and as a citizen he never fell short of the slightest duty which was imposed upon him. In fact, as a man rothing could be said of him more than to say he was loved and esteemed by his neighbors and fellow-countrymen to such a degree that no official position, no honor, no trust could be placed in his hands but what it was at his command. What more is necessary to say of any man, than that he lived, moved and had his being among a class of people who respected, honored, cherished and loved his memory after death?"

Dr. Charles C. Stephenson is a specialist, treating the eye, ear, nose and throat; his office is in the Elk Building, 114 West Second Street, Little Rock, Arkansas. The youngest son of Hugh S. Stephenson and


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 his wife, Anna Whitley, was born in DeSoto County, Mississippi, September 11, 1863. In the year 1870, when Charles was seven years old, his father moved to Des Arc, Prairie County, Arkansas. He was educated in the common schools of Des Arc. In 1881 he became a drug clerk. In 1884 he attended a course of lectures at Louisville, at the Kentucky School of Medicine. He returned to Arkansas and practiced medicine for a few months at Hazen. He then went to Des Arc and worked at the drug business. In 1886 he left Des Arc for Swan Lake, where he remained till 1889. He then took another course of lectures in the Kentucky School of Medicine at Louisville. He was graduated that year, taking the gold medal for the highest standing in his class, in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. He returned to Swan Lake, and, after a few months' practice, he settled at Stuttgart, remaining there till 1899, when he settled in Little Rock. He is now, 1905, actively engaged in the practice of his chosen profession.

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 ties. He is at the present time oculist for the Arkansas State School for the Blind; aurist for the Arkansas Deaf Mute Institute; and visiting oculist and aurist to the Logan H. Root Memorial City Hospital. He is also professor of diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat in the Little Rock Municipal Training School. He was at one time resident surgeon of the New Orleans Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital, but was compelled to resign that position on account of bad health. In 1897, Dr. Stephenson further prepared himself for his chosen specialties by taking a postgraduate course in New Orleans Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital; in 1898, he took a course in the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. He is a member of the American Medical Association and of the Arkansas Medical Society; he is ex-Secretary of the Pulaski County Medical Society, and at present Secretary for the Arkansas State Medical Society, and editor of the Monthly Bulletin of the Arkansas Medical Society.

For four years, during the administration of Gov. Dan W. Jones, Dr. Stephenson was assistant surgeongeneral for the Arkansas Reserve Militia. He is Medical Director for the Mutual Industrial Indemnity Company (incorporated), Little Rock, and Medical Examiner for the New York Life Insurance Company, of New York, and the Franklin Life Insurance Company, of Springfield, Illinois, and has been examiner for numerous other life insurance companies in his time. He was for ten years surgeon for the St. Louis Southwestern Railroad, at Stuttgart, Arkansas, which position he resigned when he removed to Little Rock.


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 On December 4, 1884, he married Miss Gracie D. Sleade, of St. Charles, Arkansas. She passed away in 1886. On January 18, 1888, he was married a second time, to his present wife, Miss Laura V. Halley, of DeWitt, Arkansas, daughter of John R. and Helm M. Halley. Her father was a large sugar planter in Louisiana. Two daughters, Effie B. and Clara C., have come to bless this marriage.

Dr. Stephenson is an active church and Sundayschool worker, a member of the First Methodist Church, South, of Little Rock. He holds membership in the Knights of Pythias, Odd Fellows, Ancient Order of United Workmen, Woodmen of the World. Knights of Honor, and is a thirty-second degree Mason. He is also a member of the Royal Arch and Council Masons, and a member of the Shrine, and an enthusiastic Shriner.

Dr. Stephenson has some inventive genius, which is shown by the fact that he has devised and placed upon the market a complete set of instruments for removing tonsils, consisting of scissors, forceps, and tongue depresser, which are manufactured now by three of the largest instrument makers in the world. He also devised a pair of scissors for operating on the nose, also scissors for removing growths from the throat, which is also on the market. As an evidence of the merit of these instruments, Dr. Stephenson has received inquiries concerning them from all parts of the United States. Indeed, an order came for a set from Budapest, Hungary.

As an evidence of the esteem in which Dr. Stephenson was held in his home town, Stuttgart, Arkansas, the local newspaper had the following to say relative to his departure for his new field of labor:


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 "This most estimable gentleman and skillful physician, who has spent nine years in Stuttgart, sold out his property and practice here last week, and moved with his family to Little Rock, where he will follow the practice of his profession. He will, however, confine himself to the treatment of diseases of the eye, ear and throat, for which he has studied as specialist in New Orleans and in New York. Dr. Stephenson graduated with high honors at the Kentucky School of Medicine, at Louisville, Kentucky, in the class of 1889, and carried away the first medal ever taken off by a citizen of Arkansas from that school, which has attained a national reputation for the thoroughness of its curriculum.

Dr. Stephenson first spent a year practicing in Hazen; then at Des Arc for one year, where he was also engaged in the drug business. From there he transferred himself to Swan Lake, and from thence to Stuttgart in 1890, where he has since resided, with the exception of a short time in 1892, spent in Little Rock, and 1897, spent in the Eye, Ear and Nose Hospital, at New Orleans, and last year attending clinics at the New York Polyclinic and New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. While here he was examiner for fifteen life insurance companies, surgeon for the Cotton Belt Railway for nine years, and secretary of the School Board for four years.

"He is a member of a number of secret societies, and takes high rank in all, and is also very prominent in the councils of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He also holds the rank of major and assistant surgeon of the First Brigade, Arkansas Reserve Militia, and as such examined the boys of Arkansas County who enlisted for the Spanish-American War. Dr.


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 Stephenson is a man of pleasing personality, and, aside from his professional ability, he is a gentleman whom to know is to esteem. Those who are best acquainted with him are his most ardent admirers. Stuttgart's loss is Little Rock's gain, and we predict for him wide opportunity in the treatment of the diseases of which he makes a specialty."—Stuttgart Free Press.


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William Normandy, the third son of Rev. John C. Stephenson and his wife, Agnes Simpson, married Miss Adaline Davidson. They reared a family in Lawrence County, Alabama. Normandy died during the war. His two sons, John and Scott, went to Texas, and, when I last heard from them, they were living near Rice, Texas.

Sallie, eldest daughter of Rev. J. C. S. and his wife, Agnes, married William Jefferson Jamison, of Alabama. After four children—two sons and two daughters—were born, Mr. Jamison died. The eldest son, Joseph, went to the war and died in camp. Jack, the second son, went to Arkansas. He married the daughter of Hugh S. Stephenson, Mariah.

Katie, the second daughter of Rev. J. C. Stephenson, married Wilson H. Martin, of Mount Hope. They reared a family near Mount Hope. Robert, a farmer, living three miles north of Mount Hope, is their son. He is mail contractor between Mount Hope and Leighton. He married Miss Bennett. They have a large and respectable family of interesting children. Some of his daughters are married. He is doing well.

Mrs. Joe Smith, of Mount Hope, is a daughter of W. H. Martin and his wife, Katie. Mr. Smith and his wife have reared and educated a family of very promising children. Joe and his sons are engaged in


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 farming and merchandising. There are no better people in the neighborhood than Joe Smith and his family.

Simpson Reed Stephen, son of Rev. J. C. Stephenson and Agnes, married. Two children were born; his wife died. He went to Ennis, Texas, remarried, and died at Ennis, leaving no children of his last marriage. Eugene Stephenson, of Ennis, Ellis County, Texas, and Mrs. T. A. Smith, of Shreveport, Louisiana, are his only children.

Thomas Hercanus, the fifth son of Rev. John Campbell Stephenson and his wife, Agnes Simpson, was born on a farm near Mount Hope, Lawrence County, Alabama, February 18, 1833. Thomas, like his brothers and sisters, had good parental discipline and moral training. He was reared to work on a farm. He was educated in the common schools of the country. Thomas was a young man of fine physique. He was industrious and had a good business education, and his integrity was undoubted; hence he had no trouble in finding good paying employment as manager of a large plantation and the negroes. The war found him raising cotton with negro slaves. He left the cotton field and went into the Confederate army. He served in the Fourth Alabama Cavalry till the surrender. His war record was good. Before the war he married Miss


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 Elizabeth A. Hamilton. Two children were born. His wife died. One child died in infancy; the other is Mrs. Cora, wife of D. E. Eason, of Garrett, Ellis County, Texas. Mr. Eason is a farmer. He and his wife have a family of small children.

In 1866 Thomas H. Stephenson married Miss Henrietta Bridges, near Mount Hope, Alabama. He moved to Texas, in 1876, and settled in the rich prairie country in Ellis County, a few miles east from Waxahachie. In a few years he bought land where he now lives, at Boyce, a railroad town. There were born unto Thomas H. Stephenson and his wife, Henrietta, five children, who are now living, namely, John B., Eliza, Joseph, James A. and Henry. These children have not only been well educated in the common acceptation of that term, but they have been taught self-reliance. They have had the best of moral training. They are intelligent and well prepared for the battle of life.

John B. Stephenson married Miss Nellie Fay Boyce, daughter of Capt. William A. Boyce, of Boyce, Texas. She is one of the seven beautiful daughters of her father. She is as amiable as she is beautiful. John B. Stephenson is manager of. The American Central Life Insurance Company for Texas.

Joseph is not married. He is telegraph operator for Houston & Texas Central Railroad at Waxahachie, Texas.

James Albert Stephenson, son of Thomas and Henrietta, married Miss Fannie Lee Boyce, a sister of his brother's wife. She is a most excellent lady, highly educated and accomplished. She and her husband are live members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church at Greenville. She is a beautiful and very attractive woman. As worthy and intelligent as James A. Ste-


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 phenson is, he has his superior for a companion. They live in Greenville, Hunt County, Texas. He is an insurance agent for the Provident Savings Life Assurance Society of New York. He is managing a large business successfully.

Henry, the youngest son of Thomas H. Stephenson and his wife, Henrietta Bridges, is not married. He lives at Dallas, Texas, and is a stenographer for Dallas. Security Company.

Eliza, the flower of the family, prefers to stay with her aged parents and see to their every want.

Thomas H. Stephenson resides on his little rich prairie farm within three hundred yards of the railroad depot at Boyce. He and his family are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He is a ruling elder in his church. He lives quietly on his farm and has a competency. More than that, he has the satisfaction of having reared and educated a family that morally, intellectually and socially stands among the best people of that splendid, rich country.

John Elam Stephenson, a younger brother of Thomas H., was a well educated young man, quite prepossessing in his manners. He married Miss Hancock, of Russellville, Alabama. One child was born. The parents both died. The daughter married Dick Martin, a young farmer near Mount Hope. After three children had been born the mother died. Mr. Martin married again.

The next son of J. C. Stephenson was Felix. He was an oddity. He never married. Died at the age of forty.

Martha Ann, the last child of Rev. John C. Stephenson and his wife, Agnes Simpson, married Joseph Tyler, a good, industrious farmer. They reared only one child, Minnie. She was as well educated as the


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 Mount Hope schools could then do. She married Fletcher Morrison, a very energetic, industrious farmer. Mr. Morrison owns a great deal of land and lives on the old Dill Bean place, near Mount Hope. Mr. Morrison has a good sized family, all girls except one, Tommie. One of their daughters married Prof. C. C. Kerby, the principal of the Mount Hope Wallace Institute. Another daughter married Mr. Ed. Plaxco, a farmer. Joseph Tyler died several years ago. Martha Ann lives happily with her daughter and has a good home and an abundance in her old age. No better woman lives anywhere than Martha Ann Tyler, nee Stephenson. As a token of my high appreciation of her virtues I have in part dedicated this family genealogical history in honor of her.

Pleasant Wright Stephenson, the third son and sixth child of Hugh W. and Margaret Stephenson, married Miss Margaret (Peggy) McGaughey, the daughter of a major in the Revolutionary War. After the children were nearly all grown the family settled east of Memphis, in Tennessee. There were two daughters and several sons. Jane, the oldest daughter of P. W. Stephenson and his wife, "Peggy," married in Tennessee. She is dead. There were no children.


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Franklin Clark, second son and third child of Pleasant Wright Stephenson and his wife, Margaret (Peggy) McGaughey, was born near Mount Hope, Lawrence County, Alabama, April 1, 1826. He was educated in the common schools of the country. His name in boyhood was familiarly known as "Dock" Stephenson. This came from the fact that he was named in honor of two doctors—Dr. Franklin, the philosopher of Philadelphia, and Dr. Robert Mason Clark, a practicing physician of Mount Hope, Alabama, "Dock" Stephenson was born. Everyone called him "Dock" except his parents. They called him Franklin. "Dock" did not have a good opportunity for acquiring a good education. The country was new, and his father was a farmer of limited means. But "Dock" had a strong mind and retentive memory. He


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 secured a fair business education. He was always a good, obedient boy, and was very popular among the young people as well as with the old. He was charitable and generous to a fault. He joined the Cumberland Presbyterian Church when a very young man and always lived in accordance with the vows then taken. After his marriage to a Methodist lady he joined her church. When he came to the average boy's desire, the age of twenty-one, characteristic of the Stephensons, he set out in the world to make his own fortune. He stopped near Germantown, twenty miles east of Memphis, Tennessee, in the employ of an extensive farmer. Being an intelligent, industrious man, and a practical farmer, it was not long until his services were in much demand by the large farmers of the surrounding country. Want of space will not admit of a history of his career. But it was eminently successful. He married Miss Emily Camilla Germany, of Tennessee, December 25, 1849. She was born in Newnan, Georgia, February 2, 1828. This proved to be a very happy union. She was a most excellent Christian woman. She was a woman of extraordinary intellect and an unusually retentive memory. She had but few equals and no superiors. As a housekeeper and in the culinary department she was an adept. Her life was a model for her children in their future intercourse with the world. She believed the doctrine of "training up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it." She did not only believe the doctrine, but she practiced it.

To Franklin Clark Stephenson and his wife, Emily Camilla Germany, were born ten children, seven sons and three daughters, as follows: Olivia Watson, born


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 November 9, 1850; William Franklin and Edwin were twins; Millard Alfred; Walter Clarence; Annie Germany; Margaret Cassander; John Henry; William Pleasant, and Robert Lee Stephenson, born October 31, 1870. Of these ten children, Edwin died in infancy. The rest were regularly christened in the Methodist Church, South. Four died before maturity, and five married. F. C. Stephenson died August 31, 1885. His widow survived him nineteen years. She died January 26, 1904, in Memphis, Tennessee.

Olivia Watson, oldest daughter of Franklin Clark Stephenson and his wife, Emily Camilla Germany, was born in Shelby County, Tennessee, November 9, 1850. She was educated in Memphis. She was a bright child, a dutiful daughter and an intelligent young lady. She was always precautious and is now the dependence of all the children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews, for advice and instruction. Olivia married Robert H. Weaver September 30, 1868. The union was a very fortunate one. Mr. Weaver was an accomplished business man. He had served during the war in the Confederate army. The hardships of the war injured his health. After the close of the war he hoped to regain his usual good health; but he never fully recovered. He died a middle-aged man. After Mr. Weaver's death, his widow managed the home successfully and educated the children. She was from her youth up a consistent member of the Methodist Church, South. She and Mr. Weaver were great friends to education. Their aid in that line was felt and appreciated by many of the young people around them. There were born to Robert H. Weaver and his wife, Olivia W. Stephenson, five children, three sons and two daughters. Of these five children, Kate


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 died when a child. Oliver Edwin died at the age of twenty-three. The other three are now (1905) living.

Robert Angelo Weaver, second child of Robert H. Weaver and Olivia Watson Weaver, Stephenson, was born in Shelby County, Tennessee, December 24, 1872. He was educated in the private schools of Memphis, and from June, 1900 to 1903, he was a student at Vanderbilt University in the academic department. He joined the Methodist Church when twelve years old, and has remained in that church ever since, being now a teacher and assistant superintendent in the First Methodist Church Sunday School, of Memphis. Since leaving college, he has been engaged in growing cotton near Memphis, and in the cotton factors' business in that city, being a member of the firm of W. A. Gage & Co.

On July 27, 1897, Robert Weaver was married to Miss Georgia May Allen, daughter of Hon. John M. Allen, of Tupelo, Mississippi. On June 22, 1898, a son was born unto them, who bears his father's name. On September 28, 1899, a daughter was born, who bears her mother's name. On July 5, 1901, God blessed them with yet another son, who was named for his grandfather, John Allen. On February 6, 1904, another daughter was given to them, who bears her mother's sister's name—Annie Belle. All the children are living.

Amelia O., daughter of Robert H. Weaver and his wife, Olivia Watson Stephenson, married Mr. Hildebrand, of Memphis. They have some children. Mrs. Hildebrand's health was failing in Memphis, so they went to Amarillo, Texas, where her health is much better.

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 Walter Clarence, son of F. C. and Emily C. Stephenson, was born April 27, 1857. He was a farmer below Memphis, married and reared a family. One of his sons is of age. His name is Frank E. Walter Clarence died June, 1882.

Annie Germany, daughter of F. C. and Emily C. Stephenson, was born in Shelby County, Tennessee, June 24, 1859. She was highly educated, was quite fond of the arts and sciences and had a taste for drawing and painting. She studied painting in Paris, France, and was successful in acquiring a fine knowledge of her profession. She married Dr. Ephraim Weston Morgan, of Memphis, Tennessee. Dr. Morgan is a practicing physician in South Memphis. He is descended from a distinguished Southern ancestry. The doctor and his wife have three sprightly children—two sons and one daughter.

His wife, Annie, since her marriage, has changed her name from Annie Germany Stephenson to Annie Stephenson Morgan, and signs her name Annie S. Morgan. She and her husband are giving much attention to the training and education of their children. Annie is a nice Christian woman, a good neighbor and a splendid lady. But she is not such a housekeeper and cook as her mother was.

Margaret Cassander, daughter of F. C. and Emily C. Stephenson, was born June 17, 1861, in Shelby County, Tennessee. She married D. B. Maynard. There were some children born to them. Cassander died. Her sister, Olivia W. Weaver, is taking care of the children.

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 1870. Robert was named in honor of the great Confederate chieftain. His father died when he was a small boy. He had good moral and domestic training by his mother. He was educated in Memphis. He was an intelligent, energetic youth. He grew up to habits of industry and economy. He is dignified and polite, well polished in his manners, and makes a splendid impression on those with whom he comes in contact. He is tall and portly, weighs one hundred and eighty pounds; his figure is symmetrical and his movements graceful. He went to San Francisco, California, and there, October 12, 1898, married Miss Alice Clay, daughter of Hammett Lyttleton Stephenson, formerly of Bells, Tenn. Miss Alice's mother's maiden name was Miss Hattie Anne Cherry. These Stephensons were not related to us so far as we know. Miss Alice was born, reared and educated in Bells, Tennessee. There have been born to Robert Lee and his wife, Alice Stephenson, a son and a daughter, Robert Lee, Jr., born March 31, 1901, and Cherry, born May 23, 1905. R. L. Stephenson is a life insurance man; office, 419 California Street, San Francisco, California. I understand his business is large and prosperous. He is the only son of his parents now living.


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 William Anderson Stephenson, son of P. W. Stephenson, married in Memphis. The family lives on Monroe Street, in Memphis. W. A. Stephenson is an elder in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. They have children and grandchildren.

Ann, the youngest daughter of P. W. Stephenson, married Mr. Owens, a respected farmer. They have one daughter and live on a good farm near Forest Hill, Shelby County, Tennessee.

Albert Stephenson, son of P. W. Stephenson, married Miss Weatherall, seven miles south of Memphis. Sons and daughters were born to them, who live in the same locality now. 'Squire McCain, whose office is in Memphis, married one of the daughters of Albert Stephenson. Albert and his wife are both dead.

Hodge Lawson Stephenson, the seventh child and fourth son of Hugh W. Stephenson and Margaret, his wife, married Miss Eliza P. Wasson, of Maury County, Tennessee. They reared a family of sons and daughters near Mount Hope, Alabama, where Hugh W. Stephenson, his sons and sons-in-law bought land and settled on new farms, in 1819. H. L. Stephenson had a fine intellect. He, being reared in a new country, and not wealthy, was not well educated. He was an elder in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, a justice of the peace for many years, and a representative in the lower house and Senate of the Alabama Legislature for seventeen years, between 1836 and 1860.


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Alfred Washington, eldest son of Hodge Lawson Stephenson and his wife, Eliza P. Wasson, was born in Mount Hope, Lawrence County, Alabama, November 16, 1826. He was educated in Union Academy, Leighton, Alabama. He studied medicine under the tutelage of Dr. A. S. Johnson; was graduated in medicine at Louisville, Kentucky, taking high rank in scholarship and proficiency. He commenced the practice of medicine in Mount Hope in 1850. He was successful in his practice. He married Miss Adaline Harvey, of Mount Hope, 1852. His wife was a most excellent woman. She was intelligent, energetic and very industrious. She was a model housekeeper and one among the best cooks I ever saw. Her equal was hard to find in domestic duties and work. From Mount Hope he moved to LaGrange, Alabama, having been elected surgeon for the college at that place. This


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 position he held until the college was closed on account of the war. In 1868 he went to Dyer, Gibson County, Tennessee, where he was an eminent and successful practicing physician till his death, which occurred December 26, 1896. There were born to him and his wife four children, three daughters and one son. Bell, the first born, died in childhood. Then Lena, Ella and Henry Harvey Stephenson were born.

Lena married Mr. Bobbitt. They have three children. She is a widow and keeps house for her brother, Henry, at the old homestead. Her oldest daughter, Minnie, married Professor Mount. They have a family and live at South McAlester, Indian Territory. Ben Bobbitt, her second son, is married. He is a conductor on a railroad and lives in Dyer, Tennessee. Guy, the youngest son, is in the army in the Philippine Islands. How they do scatter! I have but three children. They live nine hundred miles apart.

Ella, the third daughter of Dr. A. W. Stephenson and his wife, Adaline Harvey, married Mr. Berry. They have five children, three daughters and two boys. Sallie, the oldest daughter of Mr. Berry, and his wife, Ella Stephenson, live in the Indian Territory. Will Ella, the second daughter, is a trimmer and has a fine taste for the beautiful. She lives with her sister in the Territory. Lena, the third daughter, is in school in Jackson, Tennessee. Her two sons are at home with their mother. Henry Harvey, the only son of A. W. and Adaline Stephenson, is not married. He lives with his sister, Lena, in the old homestead.

Artemisia, oldest daughter of Hodge L. Stephenson and his wife, Eliza P. Wasson, was educated in the common schools. She was a very popular young lady. She joined the Cumberland Presbyterian Church when


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 a little girl. She married James D. Pickens, an industrious, well-to-do farmer in the Mount Hope neighborhood. They reared a large family of sons and daughters. Artemisia died before any of her children were married. Thomas Pickens, their oldest living son, lives on and owns the old farm. He has raised a respectable, nice family. The children are now mostly grown, some of them married and settled on farms in the old neighborhood.

America, the oldest daughter of James D. Pickens and his wife, Artemisia Stephenson, was for years under my tutelage. She was an interesting and an affectionate girl. She married Dick McClung. They reared a son and a daughter. The son is a Cumberland Presbyterian preacher; the daughter is an assistant teacher in the Mount Hope Wallace Institute. Some of the Pickens children went to Texas as they came to the years of maturity. They seem to have inherited that Stephenson characteristic of looking out for an independence. "The mere fact that a boy nearing the age of manhood desires to go away from a pleasant home and use his own resources is a good indication that he will get along. If he objects to being pampered, there is nothing to be gained by pampering him. To withhold from him the chance he craves might be a serious error. There is no disgrace in hard work, and there is no lasting hurt from hard knocks. The men who make the best record have not planned their career while resting on 'flowery beds of ease,' nor gone forth with the backing of a bank account piled up by somebody else. There is scant reason to fret about the boy who is eager to become a wageearner and selects arduous toil as his portion in the beginning."


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 Others of the Pickens children remained in the old neighborhood believing in the truth of the Georgia doggerel that

Rev. Rome Pickens, son of James D. Pickens and his wife, Artemisia Stephenson, married Miss Lillie Bean, a niece of Miss Kate Bean. Miss Kate was a noble young lady; she was the belle of the country. She married Mr. Cochrell and settled in Texas. Rome did not have the advantage of a classical education, but he is industrious and intellectual. He is a Cumberland Presbyterian minister. He has been the pastor of Rock Spring congregation for eighteen years. The church has prospered and grown under his care. He has a very large and interesting family. The oldest two daughters are intelligent, smart girls; they are almost grown. Bonner, the oldest son of Rev. Rome Pickens and his wife, Lillie Bean, is a very well trained vocalist.

One of the daughters of James D. Pickens and Artemisia Stephenson married Mr. John Roberson, a farmer of good means in the neighborhood. They have a nice family of children.

Jane, daughter of James D. Pickens and his wife, Artemisia Stephenson, was well educated. She married George W. Jackson. George was a son of James D. Jackson, a scientific and practical farmer near Mount Hope, Alabama. George attended my school for several years. He was a man of great firmness and determination. He had a strong mind and retentive memory. He was honorable and honest. He was a member of the Baptist Church. He was liberal and