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The Stevens arms here reproduced is recorded in the Jlsitations of Gloucester- shire, 1623, (/;/(/ has been continuously in use by English and American members of the family. Original drazuings of this coat of arms may be seen in the British Museum. It is shozvn in carvings at Chaz'oiagh House, and on family tombs. 'The several mottoes adopted by different branches of the family have been but varia- tions of the one here presented: "/ live in hope." Table of Contents. I' ART I. SfC7'ciis Families of Puritan Ancestry. SIXTION. PAGE. Introduction i6 I William Stevens, of ( iloucester, Mass 21 II. Ebenezer Steevens, of Killingworth, Conn 24 III. The Cushnian-Stevens I^amilies. of New England 39 IV. The Hapgood-Stevens Families, of Marlboro. Mas.s 43 V. Henry Stevens, of Stonington, Conn 45 VI. Thomas Stevens, of Boston, Mass 49 VII. Thomas Stevens, of East Haven, Conn 50 \'III. The Pierce-Stevens Familv, of Gloucester. Mass 633, "Cotton, Hooker and Stone with great difficulty elu(k'(l the vigilance of the ])ursuivants, and escaped from the countrw'' In 1635, Ricli;ii'd Mather "was obliged to keep close till the vessel was fairly at sea: and ddiomas Shepard embarked imder the assumed name of his elcler l)rother. John, a hu.sbaudman." In .\])ril, i'')37, a proclamation was issued, "to restrain the disor- derly transporting- of his Alajesty's subjects to the colonies without leave." It commanded that, "no license should be given them, without a certificate that the\- had taken the oaths of supremacy and allegiance, and had conformed to the discipline of the Church of England." In May, 1638, a fresh proclamation was made, "commanding owners and masters of vessels, that they do not fit out with passengers antl pro- visions to New England, without license from the commissioners of })lantations."* These restrictions gave rise to various de\ices for misleading the ot^cials of the crown, and, "many English peo])le took ad\-antage of passports," held by others, "to leave the realm in the character of their servants ; but this subterfuge being discovered, recourse was generally obliged to be had to strategems of a more sul)tle kind." Thus it caiue about that only those men and women who were in deadly earnest for the cause of truth, had the temeritv to come. They were picked men and women, morally and intellectually, the salt of the earth. I'ndaunted by persecution, having the courage of their con- victions in the face of every opposition, garnered from all England, they were a sttu'dy, self-reliant, (Jod-fearing race. Well might a parallel be drawn between the Puritans and the Pioneers. * N. E. H. & G. Reg. Vol. V, p. 1.51. THE STEVENS GENEALOGY. PART T. Stevens Families oF Puritan Ancestry. SECTION I. WILLIAM STEVENS, of Gloucester, Mass. WILUAM STEX'EXS, a ship carpenter, was one of the first settlers of Salem, and is entitled to honorable mention for his mechan- ical skill, his inflexible honesty and his services in varions pnblic offices. He came to Xew Eno-hmd before 1632, and probabl}- had his resi- dence in I'oston, Mass., or its vicinity. Erom his ability as a mechanic it might be inferred that he was the l\Ir. Stevens who. in March, 1634, was to receive by order of the general court, ten pounds, for seeing to •the erection of a movable port to be built at Jioston. He was at Salem, in 1636. where, one note says, he joined the church in December, 1639, and where his children, Lsaac and Alary. were baptized on January 26. 1640. and his daughter, Ruth, on March 7. 1641. He w^as admitted a freeman in 1640; and, in 1642, he ap- pears in Gloucester as one of the commissioners appointed l)y the gen- eral court for ordering town affairs, and he was a representative in 1644. His standing among the earlv settlers, and the importance of his aid in promoting the prosperitv of the town, are sufficiently indicated by the extraordinary grant of land he received (500 acres) lying be- tween Chebacco and Anisquam rivers. He also had a grant of six acres of land on the Meeting House Neck; but his residence was at the cut, near the beach, where he had eight acres of land. He was a selectman several vears, commissioner for ending small ■causes, town clerk, and, for four years, a representative. Proof of his mechanical skill and honest}' is preserved in the fol- lowing extract from a letter written by Emanuel Downing, in January, T633, ^^'' Hon. Sir John Coke, one of the ^lassachusetts compan\- and an off.cer of the En^'Hsh i>T)vernment : 22 THE STEVENS GENEALOGY "Being- last night at the Exchange, I inquired what ship-carpenter Mr. Winthrop, the governor, had with him in New England. I was informed by Mr. Alders, Escj., the Lord Keeper's brother-in-law, and Mr. Cradock, that the governor had with him one William Stevens, a shipwright, so able a man, as they believe there is hardly such another to be found in this kingdom. "There be two or three others, but for want of their names, I could not be satisfied of them. This Stevens, hath built here many ships of great burthen, he made the Royal Merchant, of 600 tons ; this man, as they inform me, had more regard to his substantial performance than the wages he was to receive, and so grew to prosperity ; whereupon, he was preparing to go to Sprague, where he knew he should have wages deservable to his paynes, had not some friends persuaded him to New England, where he now lives with great content. Had the state of Sprague obtained him, he should have been as a precious jewel to them." William Stevens also had a new England fame, being undoubtedly "the very efficient builder" mentioned by Johnson, one of our early his- torians. Nothing is known pertaining to the vessels he built here, ex- cept in two instances. A ship was built in the town of Gloucester, as early as 1643, ^^Y \\'illiam Stevens and other ship carpenters, for one Mr. Griffin. Un- happily for the credit of some of the workmen, a letter has been ]:)reserved which shows that they were guilty of such misdemeanor as required the interference of the colonial government, and called for an order to proceed against them with force. Johnson, in his W ondcr-W orkin g Providence, writing of this period takes notice of the good shipping timber to be found in Gloucester, and of several vessels that had been built in that town, and mentions a "veiy efficient builder," in illusion, without doubt, to William Stevens, who, in 1642-44, and again in 1649, was one of the principal town officers. After a lapse of twenty years, the noted shipwright of ( lloucester, William Stevens, reappears as the builder of a ship in the tow'n. He may have built several during the period, liut not till 1661, can any particulars be given. He agreed to build a ship in June of that year, of sixty-eight feet in length by twenty-three feet in width, for which he was to be paid three hundred and fifty pounds for every ton of the ship's burden. This worthy citizen was no less distinguished for his action in rela- tion to political affairs, than for his mechanicail abilities. He was a mem- ber of the general court in 1665, when the colonial government made STEVENS FAMILIES OF PURITAN ANCESTRY 23 a noble resistance to the proceedings of the commissioners sent over by the king to interfere in the legislation of the colony in a manner which was jnstly esteemed to be an infringement of colonial rights and privi- leges. It was a grave offence in those days to speak evil of rulers, and discretion would have counseled silence, but the honest indignation of i\Ir. Stevens, spurning all restraints, found utterance in unmeasured terms of dislike. Four of his neighbors testified in a quarterly court in Salem in 1667, to his declaring "that he would bear no office in this jurisdiction, nor anywhere else, where Charles Stuart had anything to do-, and that he cared no more for Charles Stuart, as King, than for any other man, and that he abhorred the name of Charles Stuart, as King." For this bold and rash statement of his hatred for the King, the offender was sentenced to a month's imprisonment, to pay a fine of twenty pounds and costs, and to be deprived of his privilege as a free- man. Soon after this, his wife, in a petition to the general court for re- lief, represents him as deranged and herself as aged and having a family. He soon sank into poverty, evidently, for he mortgaged a part of his property in 1667, to Francis \\'illoughby, of Charlestown, from whom it never returned to him. This property was the grant of 500 acres of land spoken of previously, "and the dwelling house on it, with barns and outhouses," and his "estate at the Cut, with said Gutt, or passage, for boats running through as a pass and repass between Cape Ann har- bor and Anisquam." Another portion of his estate, probably consisting of the previously mentioned six acres of land on the ]Meeting House Neck on which was a new house, was put into the hands of his sons, James and Isaac, in trust for their mother, Phillippa. There is no record of his death or of a settlement of his estate. A further item in the life of William Stevens is found in the history of New London, by Calkins, where mention is made of the fact that on the first ordering and disposing of the aft'airs of Gloucester, by Mr. Endicott and Mr. Downing, eight men were chosen to manage its prudential concerns, antl that A\'illiam Stevens was one of the num- ber. From the foregoing account, we glean that AMlliam Stevens mar- ried Phillippa, who died August 31, 1681, and had children as follows: 24 THE STEVENS GEXEALOGY T. Isaac Stevens. II. Marv Stevens, who were both baptized on JaniKirv 2('k i64(X HI. Ruth Stevens, who was baptized on ?\Iarch 7. 1041. 1\ . James Stevens, who was a deacon in the church at Gloucester, Mass.. and wlio married Susan l^.veleth. \'. ^\'i^ian^ Stevens, wlio Avas born March 10, 1658. \ I. John Stevens, wlio was liorn ]anuar\- 23. 1661, and who (bed January 30, ]G()\. \ II. Samuel Stevtns, who was born December 5, i6()5, and who, in 1693, married Mar\- Elery. SECTION II. ^ EBENEZER STEEVENS, of Killingworth, Conn. n_\- the courtes}" of Mar\- hLlizalieth Steevens, of the Thompson Home, Detroit, Mich., who has, in the main, so far completed this inter- esting^" line of genealooy. the followins:^' information is obtained, chietly from an old letter written b\- Mar\- Steevens A\'alton, dauqliter of Adine Steevens. EBENEZER STEE\"ENS was l)orn in luigland al^out 1600, an.I came to America in 1640, where he married and died in Kenil worth, afterwards called Killing'wortb, and now, Clinton, Conn. A desire for adventure led him and a cousin, who settled in New ^'ork w here he died, to the new world. He had one son : Ebenezer Steevens, Jr.. born in Killiui^worth, who married a hand- some lady. Miss Lil}- (iriswold, \H-T05(r~f«niily, tradition has it, "came -ov-er. in—the Ma^-flowLO'- lie is described as a tall, line lookinj^' man, ^vhile she was small in stature and of delicate, intellectual features. They removed from Killini^worth to Salisbury, Litchfield county. Conn., and were the seventh famil_\' to settle in that town. She writes of this migration that they "settled in the wilds of Aiuerica, where were no carriage roads," she "came on horseback, and the goods in carts." They purchased some land near the oil works, and "lived in constant fear of the Indians." They "worshi])ed in a fort, which was stuTounded Ijv a guard, a mile or two distant" from their dwelling. The\- were the par- ents of four sons and ten daughters, as follows : MARY ELIZABETH STEEVENS. (At 66 Years of age.) < STEN'ENS FAMILIES OF PURITAN ANCESTRY 27 I. Ebenezer Stecvens, 3d., who fell at the storming of Quebec. He was a lieutenant. II. Frederick Steevens, who was a second lieutenant, and who was taken prisoner and died at IMontreal. III. Elizabeth Steevens, who married Col. James Coon. He was engaged at the battle of Quebec, and his two sons achieved military honors in the war of 181 2. a .'IX^,-^ ,7* } IV. Deborah Steevens, who married Zera Beach, of Balstron Springs, where they kept a fashionable boarding house. They had several children, but only two are named, as follows : 1. Miles Beach, who was a merchant and who married a Miss Warner, of Troy, N. Y. 2. A. S. Beach, who was a judge and an eminent member of the New York bar. One daughter married Dudley Farlin, a member of Congress. \'. Zadie Steevens, who married Dr. Joseph Hamilton, an eminent physician, of Hudson, N. Y. Their children settled in the South. VL Lucy Steevens, who married a Mr. Allen, a surgeon. VII. Abigail Steevens, who married a Mr. Smith, and settled in Vermont. \TII. Thankful Steevens, who married a J\Ir. Canfield, a wealthy farmer, and removed to western New York. IX. Mindwell Steevens, who married Mr. Calkins, a wealthy farmer. X. Asenath Steevens, who married Capt. Jared Harrison, of Litchfield county. Conn. They had children, as follows : I. Olive Harrison, who married Mr. Spencer, of Utica, N. Y. and had children as follows : i. Ambrose Spencer, who married Miss Clinton, a niece of Gov. D. H. Clinton, ii. }\Iorton Spencer, who was a graduate of Harvard. iii. Ahis Spencer, who married Judge Strong. 28 THE STEXENS GEXEAI.OGV 2. really Harrison. 3. l-"rederick Harrison, \\ho married and left one son. 4. jired Steevens Harrison, who married Hannah Lee, daughter of Jonathan Lee, of Pittsfield. She died June 10, 1824, at SaHsbury. He died April 28, 1864. They had children, as follows : i. Caroline ['.iilkle\- Harrison, who was born August 19, 1809, and who married on July 20, 1835^ Samuel Haii^ht Adee. They had children, as follows : j ( I ). Hannah Lee Adee, who was born April 21, 1836. (2). Henrv Clay Adee, who was born July 28, 1846. ' " ■ J I ii. ^\"illiam Henry Harrison, who was born June 6, 1 812, and died March 20, 1835, ^^ Salisbury, Conn. iii. Ann Cornelia Harrison, who was born February 4, 1814. She married Ceorge Darrow, born May 20, 181 2, of Berkman, X. Y. a cabinet maker, and had children, as follows : ( i) William Darrow who was born October 31, 1837, '11 Amenia, X. Y., and died in 1838. (2) William Darrow, who was born December 31, 1838. (3) George H. Darrow, who was born July 4, 1843, at Salisbury. (4) Alice Darrow, who was born ]\Iay 3, 1847, and died in i85[. ( 5) Jared Darrow who was born October 3, 1856, and died at Jamestown, Cal., October 3, 1856. iv. Alexander S. Harrison, who was born October 14, 1816, and married on Se])tember 28, 1842, Marian E. Bissell, daughter of William l^issell and Annie Eliza Loveland. She \vas born April 15, 1823. Thev had children, as follows: MARY STEBVBNS WALTON. (At 89 Years of age.) STEVENS FAMILIES OF PURITAN ANCESTRY 3^ (i) Carrie Harrison, who was born July 3, 1845, and died in March, 1848, at SaHsbury. (2) IMaria B. Harrison, who was born February 26, 1847, .and died April i. 1864, at New Britain, Conn. (3) Ellen M. Harrison, who was born November 8, 1848. (4) Harriet E. Harrison, who was born Septem- ber 23, 185 1. (5) Edward F. Harrison, who was born January 13- 1854. (6) William B. Harrison, who was born Septem- ber 2, 1864, and died October 13, 1865, at Amenia, N. Y. V. Mary H. Harrison, who was born September 20, 1818, and married William F. Ingersoll, of Ame- nia, a mail contractor. She died October 31, 1866. They had children, as follows : (i) Mary Ingersoll, who was born April 5, 1840. (2) Charles Ingersoll, who was born May 10, 1844, in Amenia, and died July i, 1863. at Harper's Ferry. (3) William H. Ingersoll, who was born Febru- ary 20, 1847, and died August 26, 1870. (4) Harriet Lee Ingersoll, who was born Febru- ary 6, 1850. (5) Frank Ingersoll, who was born August 20, 1853- (6) Kate Ingersoll, who was born April i, 1857, in Amenia, where she died September i, 1868. vi. Hannah Lee Harrison, who was born March 6, 182T, and died October 16, 1869. She married on June 5, 1846, James Orr, who was born Novem- ber 21. 1823, son of James Orr, a lawyer, and Jea- nette Sharp, both of Scotland. They had children as follows : 32 THE STEXEXS GENEALOGY (i) Ella M. ( )rr. wIkj was born June 17, 1847, and died February 28, 1848. (2) Jared H. ( )rr, wlio was born November 15, 1848, and who practiced law in Michigan City. (3) ^largaret C. Orr, who was born [March 2, 1852. {4) Alice Lee Orr, who was born ^lay 12, 1854. XI. Lydia Stecvens. XII. Joel Steevens, who was a farmer of Killingworth, Conn., married Lydia Hurd. They lived near Rochester, X. Y. XIII. Adine Steevens, who was born in Salisbury, Litchfield county. Conn., and who married on ^larch 25th, 1792, Abi- gail Bradley. She was born in Detroit, ]\lich., where he died while on a visit to his son Frederick, in 1839, and where he was buried in Elmwood cemetery. They had five children, but we have record of onl}- three, as follows: I. ]\lary Steevens, who was born January 23, 1793, and who married Frederick Augustus \\'alton, on January 2T,, 1816. He was born ]\Iarch 18, 1794, at Salisbury, Conn., son of Dr. \\"illiam \A'alton and Pollw his wife, and died November 26, 1861. She died at the residence of her grandson, William F. ^^'alton, in Salisbury, on Januar}- 19, 1884, lacking only five da\s of being ninety- one years of age. and was buried l\v the side of her hus- band. They had one son : i. I'rederick Augustus Walton, Jr., who was born March 19, 1817, and who married on November 12, 1844, Caroline iiarmnu, who was born May 8, 1822, and was still living in 1895. He was a farm- er and a member of the Legislature from Salisbury, and died ( )ctobcr 5, i8f)i. Idiey had two sons, as follows : (i) \\'illiam h^cderick Walton, who was born November 18, 1845, ^"<^1 ^^'^'"^ married, Decem- ber 5, 1865, Susan P. Avery. They had one son, I'rederick A\erv Walton, who was born Jul}- 29, 1866, and who married on January 3, 1894, Loretta F. .Mauley. ^KBmSSs^^^^^^^/^^^^f '1^1 ^__jay.n jr^^S^^^^^^^H^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H ^^^^^^^K^^^r..'>:>^'^J^^^^^^^^^^^H WILLIAM FREDERICK WALTON. STEVENS FAMILIES OF PURITAN ANCESTRY 35 (2) George Alilo Walton, who was born August II, 1847, 3"*^^ ^^''''o married on October 27, 1871. Caroline Barnuni Bunnell, who wa*^ born July 13, 1851, at Pine Plains, N. Y., daughter of Henry Bunnell and Alma Good- rich, of \\'illiston, N. Y. Mr. Walton was a member of the State Legislature in 1877, and has served as Selectman for the Town of Sharon, Conn., for three years. They have four children , as follows : a. Charles Goodrich Walton, who was born July 2-]. 1873. b. Jennie Bell Walton, who was born March 29, 1875. c. Alma Caroline Walton, who was born on Jaiuiary 20, 1878. d. \\'illiam Frederick Walton, who was born November 18, 1884, none of whom were married in 1896. Frederick Harrison Steevens, who married on April 11, 1819, Alba Eliza Sears, of Hudson, N. Y. He was a man of note in his day, serving as president of the Michigan State Bank, as President of the Michigan State Board, and as Judge of Oakland county, J\Iich. He was sent by President Polk to Mackinaw as Indian Agent. He was an ardent Freemason from 1815 till the day of his death in July, 1850, and was buried with Masonic honors in Elmwood cemetery, Detroit. He had two children^ as follows : i. Sears Steevens, who was born July 8, 1823, in Julesburg, Conn., and educated at St. Paul's Col- lege, Long Island, and who married on November 4, 1869, Emma Bealy, and died x\pril 13, 1888, leaving a widow and six children, as follows : (i) Frederick B. Steevens, who was born Janu- ary 22. 1872. 56 THE STEVENS GENEALOGY (2) Sears Steevens, Jr., who was born February I, 1874. (3) Abba E. Steevens, who was born March 12, 1876. (4) ^\'illiam W. Steevens, who was born Marcii 22, 1878. (5) Henry AI. Steevens, who was born October 14, 1881. (6) Grace M. Steevens, who was born July 4, 1886. ii. jMary Ehzabeth Steevens, w'ho was born October 10, 1825, at Hudson, N. Y. Since 1874, when she fell and broke her leg", she has used a crutch, and says, in her correspondence: '"Since 1887 I hav'2 been very comfortably situated in the Thompson Home, of Detroit, IMichig-an, where, with many other old ladies, I am provided with comforts and friends." 3. Julia Ann Steevens, who was lx)rn in 1804, at Salisbury, Conn., and who married John Jewit, and died in 1834. They had two children as follows : i. Mary A\'. Jewit, who married John Sears, of Illinois, ii. Julia A. Jewit, who married Nathan Sears, of New Jersey. XI\'. Beulah Steevens, who married a ]Mr. Gold. There are, as will be noted, several vigorous branches of this gen- ealogical tree whose lines the author is unable to trace for w-ant of def- inite information. SUSAN P. A\'ERY WALTON. i STEN'ENS FAMILIES OF PURITAN ANCESTRY .S9 SECTION III. THE CUSHMAN. STEVENS FAMILIES, of New England. ROBERT CUSHMAN. who is reputed to be the ancestor of all the Cushnians in the I'nited States, was probably born in Enoland be- tween 1580 and 1585. Me had one son: Thomas Cushman, who was b:)rn in Februar\-, 1606. He was probably in the May I^dower in 1620. He had one son : Thomas C. Cushman. who was born September 16, 1632. He first married Ruth Howland. a daughter of John Howland, "one of the (I'd comers," on November 17, 1664. She was living when her father's will was made on May 24, 1672. He married, second, on October 16, 1679, Abigail Feeler, of Rhehoboth. He died August 23, 1726. He had one son : Robert Cushman, of Kingsto i. who was born on October 4, 1664. He first married Persia, who d'ed at Kingston on January 14, : 743-4, at the age of eighty. He married, second, in February, 1744-5, i^rudence Sherman, of Marshfield, "a maiden turned seventy." He died at Kingston on September 7, 1757 at the age of 92 years, 11 months and 3 days. Robert had two sons : L Thomas Cushman, who was born February 14, 1706. He died June 13, 1768. He had one son: John Ctishman, who w-as 1x)rn January 15, 1759 and died m April, 1799. He first married Deborah Barrows. He married, second, in 1798, Betsv Pierce. He was a farmer residing in North Yarmouth and died at New (iloucester. Me. Fie had one son : Nathaniel Pierce Cushman, who was born on April 6, 1792. He married Selina Sibley on July 4, 182T, and they resided in Portland, ]Me. He had one daughter : Silvina Pierce Cushman, who was born on May 14. 1824. She married on January 13, 1845. Benjamin Stevens, Jr.. of Portland, r\le. II. Joshua Cushman, who was born on October 14, 1708. He died at Marshfield on March 25, 1764. He married, first, on Januarv 2. 1733. Mary Soule, daughter of Josiah Soule. 40 THE STEVENS GENEALOGY 1 of Duxbur}-. She was born on December 6. 1706. He married, second, on March 8, 1752, Deborah Ford, of Marsh - field, who was born in 17 18 and who died on July r, 1789. He came from Lebanon, Conn., and settled in Duxbury. Joshna had one son : Paul Cushman, who was born in 1741. He married Ann Parke, and he died at the home of his daughter, luu'ebia, at Bath, N. H., in February, 1808. She died at Dalton, N. H., in 1822. He removed to Charleston, X. H., l>efore the Revo- lution and was the first blacksmith in that town. He came from Canada during some of the Indian wars with an expe- dition to bring back some captives. He resided in Little- ton, N. H., and in Barnett, \'t., until 1796, and afterwards, at Bath, X\ H. He had one son : Clark Cushman, who was l)i)rn on ( )ctober 8, 1769, at Charleston, X. H. He first married Catharine Groute. Feb- ruary 3, 1794. She died at Barnett, \'t., on March 8, 1837. He married, second, Sarah liadley. of Barnett, Yt. He died September 20, 1851. The Orleans County Gazette, pub- lished in Irasbury, \'t., says: "The body of ]\Ir. Clark Cushman was found last Sabbath morning in a field near his house at Parsum]M"ie N'illage. He had of late been living some three miles or more distant from the village and on the previous Friday had gone to the village to attend busi- ' ness about his premises there. He was seen alwut the place oil that day, but not afterwards until his body was discovered. On Friday he had complained of ill health and it is supposed that while attending to some business in the field he must have suddenly died. He was advanced in years." He had one daughter : Sail}- Cushman. who was born on Xovember 14, 1794. On December 3, 1816, she married Solomon Stevens and they had twelve children, as follows : 1. Catherine Stevens, who was born October 17, i;^, 18. She was married to Timothy R. Fairbanks, of Waterford. \'t.. on .September 22, 1840, and they resided at St. johnsburv, \'t. 2. Phebe Woodard Stevens, who was born on August r, 1819. SEARS STEEVENS. (Taken when 45 years old.) I •^1 i STEVENS FAMILIES OF PURITAN ANCESTRY 43 3. Phineas Ste\'ens, who was born on August 10, 182 1. Pie married Caroline Brook, of Barnett, Vt. 4. Solomon Stevens, who was born January 9, 1823. He married Ann Eliza Evans, of Danville on May 26, 1850, and resided at Hardwick, \'t. 5. Sarah Gill Stevens, who was born June 28, 1827. She married Jonathan D. Abbott on November 25, 1852 and they resided at Barnett, Vt. 6. Louisa Stevens, who was born on June 12, 1827. She married John W. Batch of Littleton, N. H., on July 22,. 1849. 7. John Baxter Stevens, who was born on September 25, 1829. She married Jonathan H. Clements, of Ti- tusville, Pa., on July 23, 1849, ^"d resided there. 8. Xerxes Cushman Stevens, who was born March 25, 1852. He resided at Barnett, \'t., and was an enter- prising" farmer. 9. Lucius Kimball Stevens, who was born on June 29, 1834, and who died on April 29, 1835. 10. Charles Stevens, who was born on March 19, 1836, and died March 29, 1836. 11. Mary Sophia Stevens, who was born on August 28, 1838. She died October 9, 1847. 12. Richard Hubbard Stevens, who was born on April 30. 1841. SECTION IV. THE HAPGOOD^STEVENS FAMILIES, of M^bora Mass. SHADRACH Hx\PGOOD was the common ancestor of all the New England Hapgoods. He had one son : Thomas Hapgood, who was born on February i, 1669-70 and died on October 4. 1763. He hadiftne- son : John Hapgood, who was born February 9, 1706-7 and who died in 1762. He married Abigail Morse. The}- had two sons: I. John Hapgood, who was born October 8, 1752. He settled in Malboro, Mass. He married, first, Lois Stevens. She died on April 10, 1776. He married, second, Lucy Rowe (alias ]\Ionroe). Lois Stevens had one child: 44 THE STEX'ENS GENEALOGY John Hapgood, who was born February 9, 1776. He married October 29, 1799, Elizabeth Temple. John Hapgood and his wife Lucy Rowe had seven children : Benjamin Hapgood, Lois Hapgood, Henry Hapgood, Hannah Hapgood, Mar}- Hapgood, Elizaljeth Hapgood, Sarah Hapgood. H. Jonathan Hapgood, who was born on May 16, 1759. He mar- ried Jerusha Gibbs. They had -©h* child : David Hapgood, who was born June i, 1783. He died on October 13, 1830. He married, first, Abigail Russel. He married, second, Lydia Stevens, who had : 1. Moses Hapgood, who was born on December 12, 1807, and who married Sally Wetherbee. 2. Joseph Hapgood, who was born in 1809. He died young. 3. Wm. Hapgood, who was lx)rn in 1810. 4. Rufus Hapgood, who was born on i\Iay 31, 1813. He married Maria Barnes, of Charlestowm, Mass. 5. Reuben Hapgood, who was torn on May 31, 18 [3. He married Ruth C. Moars. Thev had four children : i. Henry Hapgood, ii. Mary Hapgood, iii. Jane Hapgood, iv. Elvira Hapgoo 1. 6. Mary Hapgood, who married Daniel Frarence. They J had : i. William Frarence, ii. Mary L^rarence, iii. Arabella Frarence. 7. Nathaniel Plapgood, who married Malinda Muzzy. They had : STEVENS FAMILIES OF PURITAN ANCESTRY 45 i. Charl es Hapgood, ii. Luallen Hapgotxl. 8. Abigail Hapgood, wIk^ married John T. Taylor and had : i. Mary E. Taylor, ii. Charles H. Taylor, iii. George W. Taylor, iv. Nathaniel Taylor, V. Ada T. Taylor vi. John T. Taylor. 9. George Hapgood, who married Angeline Warren and had four children : i. Nella Hapgood, ii. Harriet Hapgood, iii. Lucy Hapgood, iv. George Hapgood. 10. Luther Hapgood, who was born June 24, 1824. He married Harriet Deane. 11. Ella Hapgood, who married Asa A. Deane. They had three children : i. Harriet Deane, . ii. Abigail Deane, iii. Manda Deane. SECTION V. HENRY STEVENS, of Stonington, Conn. All decendants of Henry Stevens say that "Nicholas Stevens of England was wealthy, owning three shires in Wales, and after his death one of his heirs went over from Xew England, and prosecuted for and obtained a decree for his share of the property, but in signing the receipt he wrote his name 'Stevens', when the attorney for the crown declared him an imposter, as the English records were spelled 'Steph- ens', so the Judge ruled him out." He came home and so reported. One account says, "Nichol is Stevens for his cussing at Windsor be- 46 THE STEVENS GENEALOGY ^ fore the train band last Monday, is to pay to the public treasury lo shillings." According" to history, Henry Stevens, whose, father, Nich- olas, was an officer in Oliver Cromwell's army, after the death of the "Great Protector," emigrated to America and first settled in Stonington, Conn., in the year 1660 with his brothers, Thomas Stevens and Rich- ard Stevens. Again, it is a family tradition that Henry Stevens, the oldest son of Nicholas Stevens, an officer in ( )liver Cromwell's armv, fled from England to escape the persecutions of the Royalists, after the death of Cromwell; but that record rests only on a letter from one member of the family to another of that generation. This letter is 'still extant, and in the possession of ^^frs. L'pdyke, of New York City, a descendant. In 1668 a census was taken of Stonington, Conn., and of the forty-three inhabitants, Henry Stevens and wife were two. He was admitted an inhabitant in 1670. They became members of the Congregational Church, organized there on June 3, 1674. It is a question whether he removed to Stonington, Conn., from Newport, R. I., or from Swansev, Mass. He married Hannah Lake Gallop. According to the Rhode Island Colonial Record, there was a Henry Stevens in Newport, R. I., in 1648 who wr.s a blacksmith and who had a wife, Elizabeth Gallop. On ]\Iay 13, 1667. Henry Stevens, with others, was selected because of iiis skill to repair all arms on the order of the Ca])tain or Lieutenant of the train band, of Newport. John Winthro]), first Governor of the Massachusetts ]^)av Colonv, landed at Salem with a company of cjoo on June 12, 1630 and among the number was Ca])t. John Gallop, who settled in IJoston, and there became the father of a famih- consisting of several children. John Gallop, Jr., married a relative of Gov. Winthro]) and afterwards became a Captain and removed to Pecpiot, Conn., where he raised a familv of four boys and five girls. Capt. Gallop was killed on December 25, 1675, in the swamp fight in northern Rhode Island, by the Narragansett Indians under King I'hilip. HENRY .STEXT^NS was an iiihal)itant of .Stonington, Conn., on Eebruary 18, 1694. as he then had four children liaptized there. Thomas, Richard, Henr}- and l^lizabeth, and on April 22. 1O94, Lucy, another daughter, was baptized. His son, Thomas Stevens (l)rother of Richard .Stevens) was born on December 14, 1678. He married, first, on .May 26. 1698, ^lary Hall and thev had six chiklren : / STEVENS FA]V[ILIES OF PURITAN ANCESTRY 47 I. Thomas Stevens, II. Phineas Stevens. III. Uria Stevens, who married his cousin, Sarah Stevens, born January 21, 1708, the daughter of Richard. He had a Cap- tain's commission in the I*"rench war and was a member of the Susquehannah Company, and one of the Commissioners to purchase the Connecticut claim from the Indians. He died in ( )ctol)er. \/('>4. It is supposed that he died in Can- ada. He had one son : Uria Steven's, Jr., who was born on August 27, 1730 and resided in Litchtield, Conn. He married IMartha Rathburn who was born in the year 1731. She died June 14, 1825. He died August 14, 1800, at Caanan, where a colony of eighty-four persons, of whom nine were of the Stevens family, was formed and settled at Stillwater, N. Y. Uria Stephens was of this party. He was also of the Susque- hannah Company and moved to Wilkesbarre, in 1773, and was also selected a town officer at the first election of that place, then called Westmoreland. The Connecticut Settlers were all driven from that valley, along' the Susquehannah and Uria settled for a while at Canisteo, N. Y. He had nine children : 1. Sarah Stevens. 2. Benjamin Stevens, 3^. Polly Stevens, 4. Uria Stevens, who was born on January 26, 1761, and married on January 13, 1785, Elizabeth Jones, in \\^voming'. Pa. She was born in Steuben county, N. Y., and died on ^ larch 30, 1849. He was a farmer and resided in Canisteo, Steuben county, N. Y. He was in the Armv of 1812 and died August 2, 1849, ^^ Can- isteo. They had one daughter : Mary Stevens, who was born on b\'bruary 27, 1792, in Canisteo, Steuben county, N. Y. She married there in 1807, Silas Coray, who was born on March 18, 1788 in Providence, Luzern county. Pa. He w^as the son of John Coray and Phebe Howe. He died January 22, 1 84 1, at Perry, Pike county. Ills. She died at Luzern, Pa. He was a captain in the war of 1812. They had eleven children : 48 THE STEVENS GENEALOGY i. Anrilla Coray, who was born January 22, 1809. ii. Sarah Ann Coray, who was born on March 16, 1811. iii. John Coray, who was born on Marcii 27. 1813. He died in June, 1828, at Providence, Logan county, Pa. iv. Phebe Coray, who was born on Mav 21, 181 5. V. Howard Coray. who was born on ]\Iay 6, 1817 in Steul>en county, X. Y. He married ]\[artha Jane ! Knowlton who was born on June 3, 1822, in Boon^ county, Kentucky and who died DecemlDcr 14, '. 1881 at Provo City, Utah. Their children were: (i) Howard Knowlton Cora}-, ^\•ho was born on April 10, 1842 at Augusta, A'an Buren county, Iowa. (2) Martha Jane Cora}-, who was born on Feb- ruary 19, 1844, at Nauvoo, 111 = ., and who mar- ried Theodore B. Lewis. (3) Harriet K. Coray, who was born on August 9, 1846. (4) Mary K. Coray, who was born on April 22, 1848, in Missouri, while her parents were traveling to Utah. (5) Sarepa E. Coray, who was born on Feb- ruary 4, 1850, in Nebraska. (6) Helena K. Coray, who was born on Febru- ary I, 1852, at Salt Lake City, LTtah. (7) ^Villiam Henry Coray, who was born on Xoveniber 3, 1853, at Salt Lake City, Utah. (8) Sidney Algernon Coray, who was born on July 9, 1855, at E. T. City, Tooele Co., Utah. (9) George Quincy Coray, who was born 011 November 26, 1857, at Provo, I'tah. (10) Francis Delevan Coray, who was born on January 17, i860, at Provo, Lftah. (it) Louis Lavill Coray, who was Ijorn on .March 9, 1862, at Provo, Utah. (12) Don Rathburn Coray, who was born on Septenil)er 20. 1 864, at Provo, L'tah. S1I':\'KNS FAA[ILIES OF PURITAN ANCESTRY vi. George Coray, who was born on ^lay 4, 1819. vii. Betsey Coray who was l)orn in September 1821 and who died in infancx . viii. WilHam Coray, who was born in 1823 and (Jied on March 7, 1849, ^t Salt Lake City, Utah. ix. jNIary Ettie Coray, who was born on Jannar}- 31, 1827. X. Uriah Coray, who was born in November 1830 and died in May, 1853, in Cahfornia. xi. EHzabeth Coray, who was lx)rn in February, 1834. 5. Martha Stevens, 6. John Stevens, who was born on April 10, 1765. 7. Phineas Stevens, 1 8. Elijah Stevens, 1 9. Elias Stevens. Jiyi, Andrew Stevens, V. Benjamin Stevens, \'I. Zebulon Stevens. These were all born at Plainfield, Conn. \'II. Jesse Stevens, who died in infancy was the son of Thomas Stevens and his second wife. SECTION \'l. THOMAS STEVENS, of Boston, Mass Thomas Stevens, who had a brother, Edward Stevens, was bom about 1627 and was an early inhabitant of Boston. His wife, whose name was Sarah, was a member of the North Church. They ha^'. n'niu children : I. John Stevens, who was born on May 15, 1648. , II. Thomas Stevens, Jr., who was born December 28,1651. He died very young. III. Jonas Stevens, who w^as born October 27, 1653. IV. Aaron Stevens, who was born October 2"/, 1655. V. Sarah B. Stevens, who was born on August 31, 1657. She (lied very yotmg. \'I. Thomas Stevens, the second son of that name, was born on May 20, T658. \TI. Moses Stevens, who was born on April 22, 1659. \TII. Joseph Stevens, who was born on April 17, i66t. IX. Sarah Stevens, the sec(^n(l daughter of that name, was l)orn ; on December 8, 1663. THE STEViiNS GENEALOGY SECTION vn. THOMAS STEVENS, of East Haven, Conn. AJartiii Luther Stevens, a correspondent, writes: "Emily Stevens Talniag-e was from a line of ancestr\- who came from i^ngland to Massa- chusetts in 1632-3, and had nearly completed her record hack to that time. She traced her descent from Thomas Stevens, of London, an armorer hy trade, who came to ])Oston with the earl\- i'uritan settlers." The history of Xew Haven colony savs : "In the spring of i^;!) a I'uritan colony from Boston settled in New Haven", and Mrs. Tal- mage wrote. "Thomas Stevens was one of the first settlers of Wesr Ha\'en, and In ])uttiiig the record of West and East Haven together, you will be able Xo show the descent from Thomas .Stevens of Boston, thus joining the great Stevens families of America". She further says: "Our stock is genuine ])ilgrim l)lood. ( )ur great ancestor lived to lie JOG years old and his wife was 102 years old at the time of her death." Thomas .Ste\-ens had five sons, as follows: J . .Samuel .Stevens ] I . Joseph Stevens II I. John Stevens 1 \ . James Stevens A'. Thomas .^teven>. This man. Deacnu Thomas .Sle\'ens, had onl\- one son and one daughter, as toUows : I. Thomas Stevens, who was Ijorn in the year 1708. He married Desire Smith. Mrs. hjuily Stevens Talmage wrote: "The son is our great grandsire."" Desire Smitii was born al)out 1713 and died in the year 1799 atthc age of 80 years. He died in the year 1747 at the age of 39 vears. He had (Mie son. Jesse Stevens, who was born in 1741 and who died on December 4. 1823. at ihe age of 82. He married h'lizalieth Sherman, wlio was born in 1740 and who died on December i. i8i(;. They had one son: Xewton .Stevens, who was ]M>rn on Dec. (j. 1784. He died at West Haven on August 10. i8()9 and was bur- ied there. Jn early life he was a shoemaker and later a farmer. He married on .\ugust 10, 1809, at West Haven, Lollv Reynolds, who was born March 22, 1780 and who died March <). i8r)3 at the age of 74 years. i ifintii: I I I I'll; «i(iif«< I • ^ ^ ^ *' NAUVOO TEMPLE As it stood when finished in 1846, at Nauvoo, Hancock Co., 111. STEVENS FAMILIES OF PURITAN ANCESTRY ^-^ She was the daujL^ditcr of Mary Kinibcrly and Janie> lilakcslce IvcyiKilds. of West Ilavcii. 'llicy had twelve chil(h-en : i. JnHa Ann Stevens, who was born on Jan. 14, 1810 On jnne 19. 1833, she married James Tolles who was born on July 16, 1810. He came from West Haven and was the son of Capt. Dan Tolles and Ann Smith. They had three children : ( 1 ) Aralxdla Tolles, who was born on Nov. 29, 1834 and who died August 24, 1857. She married |()se])h Ridley. They had no child- rui. (2) Jesse .\l. Tolles. who was born on May 14, 1844 and who died in .September 1845. (3) James Tolles, who was born in July 1848. He married Ida Louisa Pardee. ii. Edwin Stevens, who was born on April 4, 181 1, at West Haven. Conn. He died on April 4, 1853 at Steuben, Crawford Co., Ta. He was buried at Townsville, Pa. He married on December 5, 1840 at Steuben, Pheluria IJeardsley, who was born on November 13, 1822. She was the daugh- ter of Seth IJeardsley and Amanda Marvin Car- penter. 'They had four children : ( I ) James JM-anklin .Stevens, who was born on October 10, 1841. He married Sarah E. Ward at Townsville, I 'a. (2) Newton Edward Stevens, who was born i'.i December 1844. He married yVnn Walker, who was born in Manchester, England. (3) Lucius Minar Stevens, who was born on September k;. 1848. He married Henrietta L. .Smith, of Townsville J'a. (4) Sherman Marvin Stevens, who was born on .Se])teml)er 25, 1851. 'Three sons of Edwin re- sided in Meadville, Pa. iii. Tjiiilv Stevens, who was born June 19. 1813 an'! who died on januarv 12, i8()i. She married [une 54 THE STEVENS GENEALOGY 7. 1830. William Henry Talnia.^c, of West Haven, Conn. He was liorn July 28, iSri. He was a real estate aiient of l^ast and West Plaven, Conn. He was the son of Joseph Taliiiage and Isabella h^verston. Joseph Talmai^e was born on April 20. i/Oij and died on Ju!\ 3. 1813. Isa- bella Rverston, of luist Haven, died Mav 22. 1812. She was the dauiihter of William l''verston and Isabella Holbrook. who were married November 14. 1755 at East Haven, now South Haven. lN)r thirty years William [ [enry 'Palmare was a deacon in the C'onjL^rei^ational church in W'est Ha\-en. He was hale at the a.^e of se\ent\-five and able to attend to daily business, filling;' with integ^rity, offices of trust. Kmily Stevens Talmaj^e was noted for her j^enealo^'ical research, bein^' often called upon by those far and near for facts res])ectin;L;' their ances- try. Her writings have also been used in this sketch.. She was a ])ra\int.;' C hristian and lo\ed to refer t'> her ])ious ancestry of Puritan ])rinciples and de- scent. .\one were what the world called g'reat, but they were eniinentK ,l;(ioi1 Christians, fearing ( iod and doini;' ri^hteousK'. and their children feel that the\- are reaping- the benefits of their prayers to this day. When a ^irl. she was successful in school as assistant tutor with .Miss .May Kexnolds and was President of the W . C. T. C. in West Haven. hjnily Stevens Talmage had five child- ren, as follows : ( I ) I'juily Talmat^e, who was born on .\la)' 25, 1837. at New Haven. ( )n .\ut;ust 31. 1858 she married Isaac .\. I'ronson. at West Haven. He was l)orn on June 10. 1820 at W^inchester, Litchfield Co.. I'onn. He was tlie son of Isaac iJronson and bdi/.abeth Hills, of Win- chester, C'onn. TIkw had six children: a. lames Talmas^e [Jronson. \\ho was Ijorn on Septeml)er 11. i85(). at Winchester. He I!! '^ mmmwmnmmw NAUVOO TEMPLE As it stood in Ruins in 1857. STE\'ENS FAMILIES OF PURITAN ANCESTRY 0/ engaged in ranching in Montana. b. A daughter (name not given) who was born June ii, 1862-63. She died on July 15. 1868. c. Gertrude EHzabethBronson,who was born on August 5, 1864. She pursued a course of studies at Mt. Holvoke. d. Henry Isaac Bronson, who was born on February 22, 1867. He engaged in busi- ness with his brother James. e. Sherman Stevens Bronson, who was born September 30, 1871. f. Steward Reynolds Bronson, who was born October 3, 1875. • (2) Elizabeth Sherman Talmage, who was born January i, 1839 at New Haven, Conn.. She married on September 28, 1864, at West Ha- ven, Rev. James Dewey Tucker, who was born on March 5, 1837, at East Hamilton, New York. He was the son of Samuel Tuck- er and Almira Harmonia Hopkins of Brook- lyn, N. Y. He was a graduate of Wil- liam's College, Mass. in 1861, and also of the Theological Seminary, of Hamilton, N. Y. They resided at McGranville, N. Y., Vernon N. Y., Troy, N. Y., Fort Edward, N. Y., and Perry, N. Y. They had six children, as fol- lows : a. Emily Almena Tucker, who was born on October 26, 1865 at McGranville, N. Y. She died on September 30, 1867 at Troy, N. Y. b. William Samuel Tucker, who was born on November 6, 1867 at Troy, N. Y. c. Jesse Tucker, who was born on Jan. 27, 1869. d. George Everett Tucker, who was born on April II, 1872 at Fort Edward, N. Y. 58 THE STEVEN'S GENEALOGY c. Mallei I-",lizal)t'lh lujkcr. who was l)or!i oa DL'CfnilKT iS, 1S75 at Iluiula, X. Y. f. .Mice Ionise Tucker. wIkj was born. 'U ( )ct(.l)ei- S, iSSo. at I lunda. N. Y. (3) Theresa ( lertrude Taliras^e. who was b.irn April 26, 184s. She married [ohn H. Fitcli who was horn in 1S44. lie died on .Ma\' jr, 1882 at the ai^e of thirt}--eight years. ( 4 ) \A'illiani Henry Talma.^'e. who was horn .'[ay 12, 1849 '^'tI •1''-*1 i'l i-^.^d- (5) Edward Wright Talniai^e. who was hor:' in Xovemher 1853. and who died .Seplemher .2. i\'. Lucius Ste\-ens. who was horn on .Sei)t. _'8. I-Si5, at West Haven, (onn. lie married hllizal^^th Kimherly. who died on Xo\-eml)er 13, 1843, at the a.Lie of 2(j, at West llaven. They had: I 1 ) Lucius hranklin ."^texens. who was born ;.■>,;!- uar\- 12. 1840. lie died at Xew York, in [882. (2) Edward .M. Stevens, who was liorn on July 15. 1842. y. Sarah Reynolds Ste\enN, who was horn on Uct' i^'cr 2^. 1817. She married lonathan Foote, on Jan- uary 4. 1841. at West llaven. lie was the son of Jonathan I'oote and .Martha l-'rishie. of ^)radI'^^d, Conn. rhe\' had : , ( I ) .Sherman h'rishie h'oote. who was born .\jv. 2j. 1841. at Xew Haven. He married Mary Rice, who was born on December 4, 184O; at .Xew hL'iven. .She was the daui^hter of ( leori^e Rice. They had : a. I'dsworth l-Oote. who was born on Ja:-. 3, 1874. b. Hem-y L\-man I'oote who was l)orn Mr.roK II. 1 88 1 . :iE.^.-^ STEVENS FAMILIES OF PURITAN ANCESTRY 61 (2) Elsworth Frisbie Foote, who was born ia July, 1843. vi. Sherman Stevens, who was born April 14, 1819 at West Haven. He married on March 14, 1878, at Montgomery, Alabama, Kate Lee Lewis, who was born on May 6, 1838 at Montgomery. She was the daughter of Henry P. Lee and Bessie Nich- olson. He served in the War of the Rebellion. vii. Francis Newton Stevens, who was born January 2 1822. He married Delia Mansfield. They re- sided in Montana. viii. Jessie Minar Stevens, who wasborn June 11. 1825 and who died on May 10, 1844. ix. Samuel Andrews Stevens, who was born June 11, 1826, at New Haven. He married on Septem- ber I, 1859, Ellen Maria Ives, who was born on July 8, 1833, at Hamden, Conn. She died on June 30, 1880, at New Haven, and was buried at West Haven. She was the daughter of Henry, and Eliza Ives. They resided first at Hamden, Conn, and then at New Haven. They had : (i) Lizzie Ives Stevens, who was born on May 6 1 86 1 and who died on September 8, 1861. (2) Nellie Stevens, who was born on Sept. 20, 1862 and who died on September 28, 1862. (3) Mabel Ives Stevens, who was born Novem- ber 25, 1873. X. ]\Iary Elizabeth Stevens, who was born September 22, 1828, at West Haven and who died on August 28, 1883 and was buried there. She married on December 22, 1847, Frederick Sherman Ward, who was born on December 27, 181 2, at West Ha- ven, Conn., where he died on July 27, 1865. He was the son of Jacob Ward and Henrietta Kimber- ly. Jacob Ward and his son Frederick, were both masters of sailing vessels in the West India trade. They had: "C'i TIIH STEVENS GEXEALOGY ( 1 ) Frederick Ward, who was born on April lo, | 1849. and who died on April 12, 1849. {2) I'Vederick Sherman Ward, who was born on January 14, 1851. He married Jenny Lind Smith. (3) Samuel Ramus Ward, who was horn on April 15. 1853 and who died on August 31, 1854. ( 4) \\'allace Ward, who was born September 25. 1855 and who died on August 2. 1861. He was born deaf and dumb. ( 5 ) l^lliot \\'ard, who was born on December 27. 1857. (()) Harry Kinil)erly \\'ard, who was born Aug. 17, i860. He was l>orn deaf and dumb. {/} Josephine Ward, who was born on Nov. 20. 1862, (8) .Mary Fredericka Ward, who was born Aug. 31, 1865. The foregoing information was fur- nished on January 28. 1887, ^^Y Frederick S. Ward, of New Haven, Conn. xi. Harriet Augusta Stevens, who was born on ]May 2. 1832, at West Ha\en. She married at West Haven on Januar\ 15, 1857, Stephen Goodyear Hotchkiss who was l)orn on Januar}' 25, 1830, at New Haven. 1 Ic was the son of Stephen Hotch- kiss and Ann .Maria (loixlyear, who resided at New Haven. 1 larriei Augusta Stevens with her husband resided at llotchkiss. .Montana. They had : < I) Amelia ( loodyear llotchkiss. who was bom in 1858. (2) Stephen ."elevens llotchkiss, who was born on January 23. 1 SOo. (3) .Vrthur Xcwion llotchkiss, who was born on February kj, 1804. (4) Maria Foui>e llotchkiss. who was born on A I arch o. 18^)7. JAMES REYNOLDS STEVENS of West Haven, Conn. STEVENS FA^[IL[ES OF PURITAN ANCESTRY 65 (5) Samuel Andrews Hotchkiss, who was born on January 19, 1871. xii. James Reynolds Stevens, who was born on July 4, 1835, at West Haven. He married there on Dec. 2, 1859, Cornelia I. Bishop, who was born oti August 13, 1839, at New Haven. She was the daughter of James Bishop and Mary A. Fairchild. James Reynolds Stevens was a Lieutenant in Bat- tery D. and also a member of the Hartford City Guard, during the war, and afterwards, with his Company, was stationed at the State arsenal but did not go to the front. The homestead is over 200 years old. They had : (i) Eugene William Stevens who was lx)rn De- cember 31, 1867 a"<^ who died on June 6, 1870 (2) Nellie C. Stevens, who was born on Feb. 12 1870. (3) Paul Els worth Stevens, who was born Octo- ber 5, 1873. 2. Esther Stevens, who was the sister of Deacon Thomas Stevens, was born about 17 14. She married Ebenezer Thompson who removed from West Haven in 1742 to Scituate, Mass. She died in 181 3 at the age of 99 years. The following is an extract from a letter written in Jan. 1849, by Esther Lois Thompson Caswell, forwarded by James Reynolds Stevens : "Ebenezer and Esther Stevens Thompson, our great grand parents, preserved with care a little book contain- ingthe family record, but owing to some accident it was lost. He was both Minister and Pastor of the Episco- pal Church in Scituate, Mass. He was greatly beloved and died soon after the Revolutionary War. His widow was almost heart broken. "A house and a few acres of land comprised their all, but with six daughters unprovided for except by their own industry thev always had something for those that '^G THE STEVENS GENEALOGY had less than tlK'iiisclvcs. She retained her mental ])(i\\ers until the last. She was honored for her e' >r- reet walk throui^h life, and lovecl for her unmeasurel kindness and henevolenee. She made lace in her ninety-third year. I ler rt'main> lie >ide hy side with her hushand's in the l'^])isco])al hnryin^- ^rourids at West Scittiate, .Mass.; and. also, the remains of their descen- dants to the fourth generation are huried. there. Her t^'rave is under the l''])i>c< i])al Church" 'rhe\- had: i. h'.sther 'rhoni])Si m. who \\a> twent\-lhree \ears of ai^'e in i/f^, as recorded on her ^rax'eslone. ii. John 'rhoni])son. who was horn ahout 1743 in I'.il- hoa. S])ain. ij iii. l^henezer Thom])son,who was born ahout 1745. He married L\(lia Kinnicutt.wdio was born about 1747. She was the daughter of l-^dward Kinnicutt and his wife Marw of Providence. .^lie had tiu'ee children bv hdjcnezer Thompson as follows: ^ ( 1 ) Sarah ddiom])son, ^vho was l)orn aliout t7^»5. (2) h'dward 'rhom])son, whowasl)orn about 1707 and who was the father of I'.slher Lois rhomi)son Caswell. ; . , i (3) .\lar\- 'Jdiompson, who was boni about 17^)9^ Ebenezer 'rhomi)--on next married the second daug"hterof l'',dward and.\!ary Kinnicutt. They had six children, as follows: (1) I'd>enezer Thompson, who wa> horn abou'. 1772. (2) John rhom]),sou. who was born alK)Ut 1774. ( 3 ) Thomas Th' nnpsi >n. w ho waslx^rn about 1776. (4) |oseph Thompson, who was boni about I 771S. (5) Lx'dia I hom])son, who was born about 1783 and who died in .March 184S. at the a^e of si\ty-eii;ht. ( C) ) .Ste])hen Thouii)Son. who washoni about 1 7(S2 iv. .\m\' 'rhom])son, who was bcu'u about 1747. .^he C i-r] STEVENS FAMILIES OF PURITAN ANCESTRY fJ9 married Benjamin Palmer of Scituate. A [ass. He (lied in 1813 at the age of seventy. V. .\niiie Thompson, who was born about 174*-) and who died at the age of seventy-two. vi. Lucy Thompson, who was born about 1751 and who died at the age af 'J2-},. She never married. vii. Lois Thompson, who was born about 1753, and died at the age of 74. in 1827. She never marreid. viii. Mary Thompson, who was born about 1757. She married Lemuel Ransom of Micldleborough, Mass. After his death she returned to her mother's house in Scituate carrying with her the property be- queathed to her by her husband, which added much to the comfort of her mother and sisters. She died after a protracted illness at the age of eigthy- four years. She had no chiklren. ix. Jane Thompson, who was born about 1759 and died in 1822 at the age of 63 years. She married Rev. William Wheeler. They had no children. Some of these women were endowed with more than common intellect and their society was much sousi'ht after. SECTION \']II. THE PIERCE^STEVENS FAMILY, of Gloucester, Mass. David Pierce was born on October 5, 17 13 and died about 1750. He was the son of Samuel Pierce, who married on January 18, 1703 Sarah Sanders of Duxbury. Samuel Pierce was the son of Abraham Pierce, who was born in 1638, in Plymouth. He died in 1718, in Dux- bury. Abraham Pierce was the son of Abraham Pierce, who was in Plymouth as early as i623._ Samuel Pierce removed from Duxbury. in 1713, and went to Gloucester, Mass., where he carried on the business of shipbuilding. David Pierce married, on January 20, 1736, Susan Stevens, who was the daughter of Samuel Stevens. Samuel Stevens was the .-^-jn of James, who was the son of William Stevens, supposed to have l)een the great shipwright of Gloucester, Mass. Susan Stevens was Ix.rn 70 THE STEVEXS GEXEALOG'*' ' I on March 2^. 1717, at ( lloucestcr. She died in 1753 at the ai^e of \ thirty-six. David Pierce was tlie l)rother of Jonathan ami Jo>epii , Pierce, of Gloucester. Mass. He. by liis wife Susan, liad chihh'en, as foHows: I. Da\i(l I'ierce, Jr., who particularly distinguished himself dur- inij' the Revolutionary War. He eml)arked upon the sea in his bovhood well fur- nished by nature with the (pialities which usually command success. He was enter])risino", industrious, temperate and | frugal and consequently in early manhood accumulated sufficient means to Ijecome the owner of two vessels engag'ed in the Labrador , fishing' trade, of one of which he himself was master. Continued success soon enabled him to increase his enterprise and he engaged in another branch of business, t(^ attain finally to wealth and an extent of trade of tlie fir>t rank among the merchants of Gloucester. He shared with other the losses which resulted to our fishery and com- merce from the disputes with the mother C()untr\- ; and the commence- ment of the l\e\-olutionary war found him consideral)l\' reduced in jjro].ert\-. but he still had sufficient with the help of partners to buibl and fit out a large ship for privateering: which business he jjursued to the end of the struggle and he was so enriched by it as to be able t<:> engage again extensi\-eh- in his own maritime a(h'entures of com- merce and the fisheries. I'pon the eslal)lishment of |)eace the countr\- entered u])on a career of great commercial ])rosperit\' in which .\lr. Pierce was a large par- ticii)anl. l)nnng a ])eriod of twent\' \ears his enterprise was crowned with such eminent success as to entitle him to a ])lace among th-.' wealthiest merchants of his time. The amount of Mr. Pierce's prop- erty was once estimated by himself at $300,000 but his brother, the late Gol. William Pierce, considered him worth more than that amount. If even that was its \alue. it nurst have been the largest estate ever accumulated in ( iloucester. .Mr. David Pierce owned several ships, some of whieli were built expressl}' for his use. and one of these was ol a burden lluii unusual; and this was em])lo\ed in the whale fishery while the rest were kept in the luu'o])ean and Indian trade. -Mr. Pierce was the ])rinci])al owner of the brig "(Iloucester", fit- ted out as a ])rivat(.'er. in 1777. The "■(iloucester" mounted eighteen carriages and guns, and had a crew of one hundred and thirt\- men, including officers. Competent expectations were entertained of a sue- JONATHAN CROSBY Brother-in-Law of the Author. STEVENS FAMILIES OF PURITAN ANCESTRY 73. cessful cruise, but it was the unfortunate destiny of the vessel to go dou'n at sea with nearly the whole company embarked in her. The "Gloucester" before being lost had been quite successful in ca^pturing the "Two Friends", a valuable prize with a cargo of wine and salt Upon the banks of Newfoundland she took a fishing brig called the "Sparks", with fish and salt. The loss of the "Gloucester" made sixty widows among the wives of the town of Gloucester alone, an, I the calamity overwhelmed the town with sorrow and gloom. To the mourners, the following winter was one of unutterable grief that w^s somewhat exaggerated by the tales which superstition bore to their dismal firesides, that the fate of their husbands and friends liad been indicated by signs from the invisible world. Nothing daunted by the loss of the "Gloucester," Mr. Pierce the next year (1778) went again patiently to work and with a little assis- tance from the people of Ipswich, fitted out a new ship of four hundred tons burden, mounting eighteen guns and had a crew of one hundred and thirty-five men and boys. So reduced in circumstance^ had Mr. Pierce become from the losses sustained before the war, and the loss of the ship "Gloucester," that it required nearly all of his remaining capital to complete the new ship named by him "General .Stark." which, however, soon captured a schooner loaded with salt and a ship called the "Providence." On the 5th of April, 1779, the "General Stark" sailed on her third cruise, the most important enterprise of the kind, consider- ing the size of the ship, the number of men enlisted and the general preparations for the cruise, which was undertaken in Gloucester during the war. On the tenth day out, she encountered a gale on the Grand Bank, during which one of the crew was lost ; cruising to the eastward, she fell in with a brig from Limerick loaded with beef, pork and butter. This vessel and cargo the "General Stark" took and sent to (jloucester where she arrived safe and gave great joy to the people who were in want of provisions at the time. The "General Stark" continued her cruise without seeing any of the enemy's vessels until she reached Westward Islands where she made out a ship and a brig to windward. The ship displayed an English ensign and bore down for the "General Stark", the brig following. Tho "General Stark", outsailing the enemy, took in her sails as soon as the British vessels came within her gun shot. The ship was found to be a vessel mounting twenty-eight guns and the brig fourteen guns. Both vessels opened fire upon the "General Stark" which returned it witii broadside and long shot. A running fight was kept up tor some time ^i THE STEVENS GENEALOGY ^\•l^en the commander of the "■( leneral Stark"" justly concluded that it \\-ould only he wastin;^- ammunition and exposing- his men to continue the action against such su|)erior force I the eneni\- having fort\-t\vo gun,- to !iis eighteen, or more than dou])le his numl)er ) hauled off. The brig- now rounded to rake the "(leneral Stark"", hut her shot fell short; the ship threw one shot into the ■■Stark"s"" mizzenmast, five through the l)()at on the booms, and one in her (piarter. The "l ieneral Stark"" suc- ceeded in getting' away, and then cruised to the eastward and sighted a sail which proved to be the liritish ship " ('orcu])ine"', of fourteen giuis. She struck and sin"rendered to the "(ieneral Stark" without firing a gun. Taking the guns and light sails of the "Porcupine,"" the commander of the "Stark"' gave the captain of the " rorcu])ine"" some prov'i.sions and returned to him his x'essel. The "(leneral Stark"" next fell in with an hLnglish brig from Bris- tol, with an assorted cargo, which she captured: and. a few davs later, took a shi]) bound to ( )])orto which >he di\-ested of sails, cable and anch.ors and then sunk', .\fter cruising a while off C"a|)e h'inisterre and down the Hay of liiscay, the "(leneral Stark"" ])ut into Ihlboa to refit. She was taken ashore and stri])])ed, and her armament wa.s taken ashore. .\ sickness was brought on board bv the liristol Ijrig, which the surgeons ])ronounced to l)e yellow fever. This disease spread among the crew of the "(leneral Stark"", causing the death oi several, and tiiirty at a time were confined in the hos])ital. As soon as the "(leneral Stark"" was read\- for sea, the authorities at llilljoa offered the conunander $i,ooo if he would go out in th.e bay and take a warlike ve>sel. sup])osed to be an enemy"s cruiser. He accordingl}- sailed, and in a few da\s sighted a brig and a lugger, the latter of whom kept to the windward out of his waw but on si)eaking the brig, he ascertained that the lugger was a (luernse}- privateer and succeeded in decoying her to him b\- hoisting an {{nglish ensign. She immediatel}' bore awa\' and ran down under lee of the "(^icneral Stark", and on l)eing hailed, ga\e the name of an hjiglish shi]) from W hite- haven. 'Idle crew of the "(leneral Stark"" were then mustered to their f|uarters, the bjiglish ensign lowered and the -\merican flag run uo and the i^nglish vessel ordered to strike her colors : l)Ut instearepared for action, but after a brave resistance for two hours surrendered, having first sunk the mail she was carrying from Jamaica to England. Her topmast was all shot away by the "Stark", six men were killed and nine wounded. The "General Stark" had one boy killed and five wounded. The next prize taken was a brig loaded with fish and bound from Newfoundland to Lisbon, of fourteen guns. Ten of the guns were found to be Quaker or wooden guns. The "Stark" next took two brigs loaded with fish, but was prevented from making more prizes as she had twenty of her crew on the sick list, and was encumbered with eighty-four prisoners aboard. The next two cruises of the "General Stark" were not successful. She encountered a severe gale and was compelled to throw overboard all her guns, save five, with which she encountered an English ship of superior force, and was obliged to haul off and escape. Her next cruise was to the mouth of the St. Lawrence and it was successful for she captured three English ships, the "Detroit", the "Polly" and the "Beaver". On her next cruise, when out only one week, she was cap- tured by the "Chatham" and carried to Halifax and converted into an English packet, called the "Antelope". She was finally wrecked at the Pelew Islands. The other privateers owned by Mr. David Pierce, were the "Wilkes" which was captured and carried to Newfoundland, retaken and brought back, and when near the West India islands, captured the second time. The "Success", like the "Wilkes", was built by Mr. Pierce. He sent her to the W'est Indies, wdien she was captured on Jier way home and carried to Halifax. The ship "Gloucester Packet", taken by the "General Stark", went to Cadiz, capturing a brig called the "Major" with a cargo of flour. On the night of March 31, 1782, the ship "Harriet", owned by Mr. David Pierce and lying in the har- bor of Gloucester, loaded for Curacoa. l)ut having only two men on board was cut out by some men from an English fourteen gun brig. Mr. Pierce on rising from his bed on the morning of April i. missed his lO THE STEXENS GENEALOGY shii) and discovered licr i nitride the harlx)!' running' off in an easterly^ direction witli a stroni^'. fair wind. There was no time to l)e lo>t and he ])roceeded ininiechately to the meetini^" house ancl ran^" the heU. Ili> slii]) "lletsev"" was then l\in.L,' across the dock at tlie head of his wharf, without i^oods or hallast on board, entireh- (hsmantleth liax'iuL;" her topmast and rii^^in^' .all down, having oidy her lower mast standing', and the tide was now at the lowest el)b. He determined to i)tit this shi]) in order and start in ])ur- suit of the ca])tured vessel as soon as the tide would serve. \ Olun- teers in ^reat nnml)ers attended to the necessar\- ])reparations and a crew of one hundred men was (|uickl\' enlisted for the enterprise. As soon as there was sufficient water, the ship moved Ironi the. dock, men at work all the while on the ris^'^'ins^- and l)endinL;' sails. The wind beinq- li^q-ht. she was assisted in Q'etting" out of the harbor hy tow-boats. .Mr. I'ierce beint^" on board. < ireat was the joy of tho^c on board at da\lij4'ht the next niornini;- when the_\" discovered the ■■Jlarriet"" in chari^'e of the l-ji.L;lish briL;" and a Ijlack looking- boai ai)i)arentl\' a fishing- \'es$cl. The ■"lletsy" had been pierced for twent} _Qims and her armament wa> coui])lete and as soon as the "Ihirriet was overtaken she was ^ix'en up with no effort on the part of tlu' enem\- to retain her. The ■'llarriet" wa> then ])ut in charL^'c of Mr. Pierce's brother. Tol. William I'ierce. and both vessels arrived in (llou- cester the next afternoon to the .^reat jo}' of the iniiabitants. T!ie (lloucester artiller\- com])any. organized soon after the c1o>j of the Rev(i]utionary War, recei\-ed from .Mr. I)a\-id Pierce, the ])re>- ent of a verv elei^ant stand of colors. The flaj^" was presented at .Mr. Pierce's house, where the company, at his in\'itation. jiartook of amjik' and o-cnerous refreshments. \\dien he was of the age of three score and ten. however, as it to demonstrate the instal)ility of all worldly success, a series of mis- fortunes reduced .Mr. I'ierce at once from affluence to bankruptcy. His most serious losses resulted from disasters to his . one ol which, his last and best, with xalualile freight, was lost on the ])a<- sage home from India and the insurance on this shi]) was to him so ruinous as to close his commercial career. I he great and sudde'i change in his circumstances might well be ex])ected. considering the un- usual weakness of age, to ca-l a shadow o\er his future ])eace and haj)- piness. but it is said that he bore the trials with resignation and did not allow the loss of ])ropert\ lo darken the ex'ening of his life with the hues of sadness and discontent. FRANCES WILLARD A distant relative and close friend of the Author. STEVENS FAMILIES OF PURITAN ANCESTRY 8l Those wlio remembered him in the days of his prosperity, speak of him as a man honest in all his dealings. The venerable merchant passed from his high position to a state of dependence in which he lived about ten years. He died in March, 1818. IL Joseph Pierce, who was born in Gloucester, Mass. He re- moved to New Gloucester, Me., where he died, in 1837. HL \\'illiam Pierce, who was lx)rn in 1751. He was left an orphan at an early age, and was provided for in the family of a maternal uncle with whom he remained. He received only such advantages of education as were common at that time, till he was old enough to commence a seafaring life. Good traits were early discovered in him and such were his habits of enterprise, sagacity and prudence that when quite young he was employed by David Pierce, his brother, in the management of his extensive lousiness operations. At the age of twenty-one he was placed in command of a vessel iti the West Indies, which calling he pursued with such success as in a few years to acquire sufficient property to be aljlc to establish himself as a merchant. During the Revolutionary War he participated in the risks and profits of privateering. He was the l)uilder and owner of a privateer called the "Friendship", a brig that captured near the West Indies a vessel of one hundred and thirty tons with a cargo of rum. The brig also captured the "Schooner" and the "Speedwell." W'hen peace came he engaged in extensive commercial pursuits which largely increased his property and elevated him in the principal business of the world, to rank with the most eminent merchants of New England. "His generosity was proverbial and as one of his many liberal acts may be cited the gift of Fifteen Hundred Dollars towards the erection of a meeting house in Gloucester, in 1805. At the organization of the militia of the State, soon after the close of the Revolutionary War he was honored with the commission of colo- nel of the third Envoy Regiment and, on November 3, 1788. brought out his command for exercise and service. He was twice married and had several children among whom were : 1. William Pierce, who was born in 1778. He spent a few years in a seafaring life and was then admitted a partner in his father's business until the time of his appointment to the office of collector of customs for i?2 THE STEVENS GENEALOGY the port of Gloucester. He was representative in the General Court in 1806 and 1807, and died on De- cember 14, 1 8 14. He was in the office of the Glouces- ter Bank, at the time of his death. 2. George W. Pierce, who was born in 1779. held the of- fice of collector iov the port of (Gloucester and repre- sented the town in the ( General Gourt, in 1841. He married a daughter of William W. Par- ratt, of Portsmouth, N. H., who removed to Glouces- ter and became a partner in the mercantile firm. He was for many years a leading citizen of the towai. He was also the town's single representative in the General Court for several years and afterwards he became a State Senator. s/ .«."^ IB I^^^^L' mHHHH LEON Mcdonald Adopted son of the Author. THE STEVENS GENEALOGY. PART II. Stevens Families of New England. SECTION I. SAMUEL STEVENS, of Woodstock, Me. SAMUEL STEVENS, the brother of Ezra Stevens, was born on Sept. i6, 1754. He first married Desire Harlow. They removed from Plymouth to Paris, Me., and then to Woodstock. He was in the war of 181 2. He served two terms in the state legislature from 1822-31 and was very much respected. He owned the first mill in Woodstock. He married, second, Emma Swan, who was born on March 29, 1767. She was the daughter of William Swan, of Sherwood, Me. Samuel Stevens died at the age of one-hundred and two years, on October 25, 1856. He had : I. Samuel Stevens, Jr., who was born on January 6, 1789, in Plymouth, Mass. He married Betsy Doten. He was killed while working at Rock Mills. They had: I. Samuel Stevens, who was born on December i, 1823. He married on December 31, 1855. Jane Lockhart, who was born on September 6, 1824. She was the daugh- ter of John Lockhart of Nova Scotia. They had: i. Lizzie Jane Stevens, who was born on Septemljer 9, 1857 and died on March 31, 1882. ii. George Lockhart Stevens, who was born on Jan. 5, i860, and who died on September 6, 1883. He was a printer. ^0 THE STENEXS GENEALOGY j 2. Josepli Doten Stevens, who married and resided in Kansas. He had four children. i II. Eleaser Stevens, who was born on January 13, 1792. He married Nancy Stevens, of Sumner. They had : 1. Charles W. Stevens, who was born on January 31, 1817. He married Evelyn Dean, of Paris, Me. They had: i. Charles E. Stevens, who was born on Eebruary 22, 1844. ii. William E. Stevens, who died very young, iii. William O. Stevens, who was born on August 12, T850. iv. Emma E. Stevens, who was born on T^iiuar\- 10, 1855- ■ ■ j 2. Nancy Stevens, who married Solon Chase. 3. Sylvia Stevens, who married Hubbard Rowe. 4. Oates Stevens 5. Eliza Stevens, who married Walson Upody. III. Desire Stevens, who was born on January 3, 1798. She died in Portland, Me., on April 10, 1869. She married Artemas h'elt. of Rumford, Me. He was born on October 15, 1800. Artemas Eelt was the son of Joshua Felt and Lucy Spaulding Shafford, who removed to Rumford. Me., previous to 1800. and to Woodstock, Me., in 1809. He died in 1862. He was the son of Peter and Lucy Andrews Eelt, of Lynn, Mass., afterwards of Temple, N. H. They, had : T. Jesse Felt. He was a jeweler and lived in Portland, Me. 2. Samuel I'elt, who married Martha Clark. He was a mason and resided at Locker Mills, Me. They had: i. Estella Felt ' ii. Nellie Felt, who married Thomas Daniels and re- EUGENE TROUSLOT Brother-in-Law of the Author. STEVENS FAMILIES OF NEW ENGLAND 8c> sided in Portland, Me. Thev had : (i) Lester Daniels (2) Alai-}' Daniels. iii. George Felt iv. Lizzie Felt V. Alice l'\'lt. 3. Artenias Felt 4. Desire Felt 5. Lucy Felt, who married Abner C. Libby and resided at Locker Mills. They had : i. Jessie F. Libby, who married Ena Young, ii. Dora Libby, who married F. B. Swan. 6. Lizzie D. Felt, who married O. R. Yates, M. D., and resided at West Paris, Me. They had : i. Alton D. Vch Yates, who died young, ii. Llewellyn Felt Yates, iii. Myrtle Felt Yates. 7. Eliza R. Felt, who married Van Buren Stephens. They had : i. Velina C. Stephens, who was born on November i, 1857. She married Charles R. Dunham who was born on November 11, 1848. They had: ( i) Frank R. Dunham, who was born on Decem- ber 9, 1880. ii. Frank Stephens, who married Georgia Stone. M. D. She was a graduate of Brunswick and re- sided at Lynn, Mass. IV. Jesse Stevens, who was born on December 12, 1802. He narried Abigail Serney. They had : ii Somna Stevens, 2.1 Lizzie Stevens, who married George D. Robertson. 3. ! Daniel Stevens, who was born on November 5, 1841, 90 • THE STEVENS GENEALOGY married Elizabeth Melber, in Lewiston. V. Emma Stevens, who was born on December 30, 1804. She inarried Richard Serney. They had : 1. Delaina Serney 2. Samuel Serney 3. Emma Serney 4. Richard Serney. VI. Benjamin Stevens, who was iDorn on March 28, 1807. He married Julia Daniels, of Woodstock, Me. She died on April 3. 1887. They had: 1. Sarah Stevens, who died young. 2. Emma Stevens, who was born on May 31, 1833. 3. Oren Stevens, who was a physician at Oxford, Me He graduated at Brunswick. He first married Ellei Davis, and, second, Sarah Libby. They had : i. George E. Stevens, who married Ida M. Dow, on November 16, i88r. They had: ( I ) Ward J. Stevens, who was born on Novem- ber 4, about 1884. (2) P)ertha A. Stevens, who was born on May 28. 1 1 4. Eliza Stevens, who died young. 5. Ester Ellen Stevens, who married John Hali and ; e- sided in Boston. 6. Julia M. Stevens 7. Jemiy Stevens, who died young. VII. ( )ren Stevens, who was born on March 6, 1809. He died \oung. VIII. Jane Stevens, who was born on April 29. 1812. She married Joseph Davis. They had : I. Lovina Davis, who was born on October i, 1835. She married Orasmus Mute. She died on December 27, EVELINE FARLEY Who lived with the Author for three years. L STEVENS FAMILIES OF NEW ENGLAND y^J 1880. They had : i. Henry O. Mute, who was born on March 14, 1862. ii. Joseph Edson Mute, who was born on September 3. 1863. iii. Edith R. Mute, who was born on April 8, 1865. iv. Ernest Mute, who was born on September 5, 1867. He died on March 4, 1868. v. hVankie E. Mute, who was born on January 29, 1869. He died on January 5, 1870. vi. Mabel Louise Mute, who was born on March 26, 1871. 2. Joseph Henry Davis, who married Julia Irish. 3. Antoinette Davis, who married Charles Chase. 4. Jennie Davis, who married Alfred Bryant. IX. Mary Stevens, who was born on April 19, 1815. SECTION II. EZRA STEVENS, of Buckfidd, Me. EZRA STE\'ENS, was born on Feb. 27, i> - at T.uckfield, Me. He married L}(lia Robinson, who was born on (Xcober ifi, 1789, and who died on January 6. 1827. He was killed by a horse on January 26, 1820. They had : Benjamin S. Stevens, who was born on September 29, 1808 at Simmer, Me. He married, first, Abigail Sampson, who was born on May 30, 181 2 at Middleboro, Mass. She was the daughter of Nathan Sampson and Miss Holland. She died on July 30, i860. They re- sided at Peru, then at Paris, Me., and afterwards Hartford, Me., in 1830. He married the second time. Olive Rich, in Oxford. She resided in Lawrence, Mass. He died on May 8, 1874, at Paris Me. He was a Universalist and a farmer. By his second wife he had no children, but his first wife had : I. Ezra Stevens, who was born on January 9, 1831, at Sumner, Me. On Januarv 23, i860, he married Laura Butter- field Andrews, at Biddiford, Me. She was the great 94 THE STEVENS GENEALOGY grandchild of John Holland, who came in the Mayflower in 1620. Ezra Stevens commenced life as a peddler at th',^ age of sixteen. In 1857 they settled in Barnett. In 1868 they moved to Briant Pond, Me., and there he opened a general store with a stock of clocks, watches and jewelr}-. In 1865 he went into the show and Museum business, and traveled through the West with the Australian Circus. Ho had a copy of the Stevens Bible printed in London. They had: 1. Cora Ella Stevens. She married and had: Joseph- ine, who was born in Paris, Me., on December 11. 1859. She married Colby Allen in Norway. Me. He was a clothier. They moved to Boston in 1883, and then to Minneapolis, ]\linn. . where he went into the real estate business. She died on February 9, 1884, and was bur- ied at Briant Pond, Me. She was a member of the V. O. G. C, at Norway. Me. They had : i. Guy Glendon Allen, who was born on February 9, 1876 and who died on March 15. 1883. ii. E. Lenwoodman Allen, who was born on February 22, 1879 and who died on September 18. 1879. 2. John Ezra Stevens, who was born on March I, 18O1. He married Corie Swane in Rumford. Me., on C)ctober 6, 1883. He was a jeweler and also a member of the Masonic Lodge at Briant Pond, Me. They had : i. Glendon Webster Swane Stevens, who was l)orn on May 27, 1885. ii. Elizabeth Laura Swane Stevens, who was born on February 19. 1887. 3. Annie Laura Stevens, who was born in 1861. She married Eugene Cole on September 29, 1883. They had: i. Clarence Eugene Cole, who was lx>rn on May 8. 1884. 1^ I ROLLIN B. TROUSLOT and BARNARD FIELD STEVENS Nephews of the Author. STEVIiXS FAMILIES OF XFW EXGLAAD 97 4. I'liebe M. Cole Stevens, who was l)orn on Aut;u3t 2~, 1862. She married Clarence ( ). Smith at Law- rence, on May 3, 1882. They had: i. Laura Mabel Smith, who was Ijorn on [March 31, 1884. 5. I.ydia L. Stevens, who was born on Febmary 25, 1864. ^lie married Clarke B. Rankin, W. D.. at r.riant Pond, on Oct. 18, 1887. 6. Alargelia Stevens, who was born on January 2'}^, \'^()(\ and who died on September 9. 1870. 7. Infant. 8. (ieorge Lewis Stevens, who was born on January 26, 1870. Lie was a member of the Chautauqua school, of Plainfield, X. Y., class 91, C. L. S. C. He re- sided at Briant Point, Me. 9. Birdena May Stevens, who was born on May 13, 1874. 10. Harry Iruen Stevens, who was born on August 12, 1875 and who died on August 8. 1886. II. Sarah J. Stevens, who was born in September, 1833. She married John Garry. They had : 1. Ella J. Garry, who was born on April 13, 1857, at Paris, Me. She died on March 31, 1854. 2. Joseph Garry, who was born on September 18, 1852. He married twice. He lost one child when he resid- ed in Lynn, Mass. 3. Abby J. Garry, who was born on November 17, 1853, at Paris, Me. She married Justin Millet in 1873, at Norway, Me. They had : i. Annie L. ^Millet, who was born on November 30, 1875. ii. Alton Millet, who was born on December 30, 1877. iii. Mabel (i. Millet, who was born on July 16, t88i. iv. lerome 1". Millet, who was born on October 13, US83. 'jS 'Jill-: siiLViiNs gi':ni-:.\i,(){;v V. Ethel Millet, who was bom on August i6, 1886 111. Adolphus M. Stevens, who was horn on May 18, 1835, '■'• Peru, IMe. He died on January 9, 1836. IV'. Lewis H . H. Stevens, who was born on July 17, 1837. 1 Ic was in the Civil War. in 1861. He died at Woodstock, Me. \'. Lydia L. A. Stevens, who was l)orn on December 10, 1840, at Paris, ]\Ie.. and died on March i, 1858, at Oxford. Me. \'I. Vlargelia J. Stevens, who was born on August 22. 1843, died on June 24, 186 1. SECTIOX Hf. ANDREW STEVENS, o^ Montpelier, Vt. AXDRIA\' STlAd^.XS. who came from Wales in the 17th century was bor.nd ou.t to his imcle when a hoy. The boy was used so badly that he ran away and sailed for America. When near the shore he was shipwrecked but managed to swim ashore, and when near the land found some one hanging on to him. This proved to be a lady whose life he had sa\ed and who afterwards became his wife. When lji> old uncle died his estate descended to the nephew but he never went back to claim it, and it is supposed that it is still awaiting a claimant. He had a son. Timothv Stevens, who had children, ;is fol- lows : I. Prince Stevens, who died at East Montpelier, Vt. II. Reliance Stevens, who married and had children, as fol- lows : 1. Clarlv .Stevens, who was born on ( )ctober 15, 1764 at Rochester. Mass. He removed to Montpelier, V'ei • mont from .Massachusetts in 1790 and after that year his father, mother, sisters and brothers also removed to Montpelier. He married on Deceml^er 30, 1792. Hulda h'oster. in Rochester, wdio was born there oi August 28, 1776. She died on July 18, 1845, '^ East Montpelier. He died on November 20, 1853. DEACON HORACE BARNES and WIFE STEVEN'S FAxMILIES OF NEW EXGLAXD lor He took part in the Revolutionary \\'ar. He was a farmer and a whaler. They had: i. Seneca Stevens, who was bom about 1793. 11. PauHna Stevens, who was born about 1795. iii. Mary Stevens, who was born about 1797. IV. Stephen F. Stevens, who was lx)rn on March 24, 1799, and who married, on July 8, 1829, at Fer- resburg, Rachael F. Byrd, who was born on Feb- ruary 6. 1804, at Vergennes, Vt. He was a rep- resentative in the State Legislature and sergeant at arms of the State House. He was also a farmer. He died on April 30. 1857. at East Montpelier, Vt. She died on September 14 1868. They had: (i) Mary Stevens, who was born about 1830. (2) Thomas B. Stevens, who was born on No- vember 28, 1833. married on December 3, 1862, at Cabot, \'t.. Jane L. Bliss, of Calais, who was born an July 19, 1841. He was a farmer. They had : a. Leonora R.' Stevens, who was born on ^Nlarch 29. 1869. i" East Montpelier. (3) Timothy Stevens, who was 1x)rn about 1835- (4) William B. Stevens, who was born about 1837. (5) Annie Stevens, who was born about 1839. (6) James Stevens, who was born about 1840. (7) Charles F. Stevens, who was born in 1842. V. Clark Stevens. Jr.. who was born about 1801. vi. Timothy Stevens, who was born about 1803. vii. James Stevens, who was born about 1804. viii. Huldah Stevens, who was born about 1806. Smith Stevens, who was born about 1766. Mary Stevens, who was born about 1768. I02 THE STEVENS GENEALOGY 4. Betsey Stevens, who was born about 1770. 5. Hinkley Stevens, who was born about 1772. 6. Prince Stevens, who was liorn about 1774, at Mont- ])eHer and who was buried there. 7. Rehance Stevens, who was born about 1776. 8. Charles Stevens, who was born about 1778. III. John Stevens IV. Lemuel Stevens. SECTION IV. THOMAS STEVENS, of Worcester, Mass. THOMAS STE\'ENS, who was the brother of Dr. Cyprian Stev- ens and Simon Stevens, was born about 1756 or 60. He married Sail'/ Stowell of Worcester, ]\Iass. He died on June 19, 1815. They had children, as follows: I. Daniel Stevens, who was born about 1782 at Worcester, Mass., and who married Almina Stevens, his cousin, the (laughter of Dr. C\prian Stevens. II. Sally Stevens, who was born on September 24, 1784 at Paris, Me., married Jared AT. Ruck, of Norway, i\le. III. Benjamin Stevens, who was born in October 1786, at Paris, Me., married Mary Briggs, of Glover Vt. He died on May 15, 1861, and she died on September 9, 1848. They had : I. (ieorge W. Stevens, who was born on November 4, 1817. married Summit Shurtleff. They had: i. George F. Stevens, who was born on August 21, 1849, niarned Eugenia ^^^hitman. They had : (i) Eugenia A. Stevens, who was born on No- vember 25, 1876. (2) W^illie A. Stevens, who was 1)orn on Feb- SOLON BOOMER and LOIS BARNES BOOMER STKNKXS FAMILIKS OF NKW l<:\(iLAND IO5 ruarv 19, 1878 and who died on April 19, 1879. (3) Albert V. Stevens, who was born on Julv 8, 1881. (4) Dora May Stevens, who was born on No- vember 3, 1882. (5) Mallard A. Stevens, wlio was l)orn on June 29, 1885. He was a twin. (6) Martha A. Stevens, twin, who was born on June 29, 1885, married William Willis at West Paris, Me. 2. Lewis Stevens, who was born on May 27, 1819, died on August 2;^, 1819. 3. Hartwell Stevens, who was born on September 10, 1820. 4. Susie Ann Stevens, who was l)orn on Marcli 28, 1822, married Abram lUick of Norway, Me. 5. Elutra Stevens, who was born on January 23. 1824, died on August 25, 1849. IV. John Stevens, who was born about 1788. He studied med- icine at Paris, Me. V. Clara Stevens, who was born al)Out 1790 at Paris, Me. VI. Thomas Stevens, jr., who was born about [792, and who married .AFahala lUirtlett. He died on November 26, 1865 at Paris, iMe. They had: 1. Francis ^Marian Stevens, who was born in February 1832. 2. Augustus Chase Stevens, who was born on October 5, 1833- 3. Louisa Woodiuan Stevens, who was born on Octobei 19. T835. 4. Daniel I'.artlett Stevens, who was born on January 24, 1837. 'I'hey had : i. John Stevens, who married Sarah Buck. They had: i06 THE STEVENS GENEALOGY (i) Lizzie Stevens, who was born on March 25. 1869 and who died on July 3, 1876. 5. Dana P>oar(hnan Stevens, who was born about 1839. VII. -Martha Stevens, who wj^s born alxnit 1793, married Johri I'arker Wartford. at Paris, Me. VIII. Ehza Stevens, who was born on November 23, 1795. She married at Paris, Me. SECTIOX V. SIMON STEVENS, of N. H. SIMON STEVENS, who (bed on I'cb. 12, 1842, married Nancy French. She died on August 8, 1834. The}- had: I. Rufus Stevens, who was lx:)rn on October 21, 182 1, married Sarah More. II. Alemare Stevens, who was born on July 28. 1823, married Jane Flendres of Boston, Mass. III. Levi H. Stevens, who was born on July 3, 1825 married Sarah A. Bartle, of P.ath, N. H. IV. Cyrus F. Stevens, who was liorn on March 28, 1827, mar- ried Miss Laughlin. V. Jane R. Stevens, who was born on April 29, 1829. VI. Sarah Stevens, who was born on July 29, 183 r, married S. M. Black. VII. Abigail F. Stevens, who was born on October 9, 1833 died on February 2, 1882. Slie married for the .second time, in 1856, Wedon Massy P. Felton. VIIT. Jeruis C. Stevens, who was born on March 6, T838 and who died on March 8, 1867. IX. .Mary A. Stevens, who was born on January 31, 1841. died j in l\Iay 1877. ORTON BARNES and SISTERS Children of Deacon Barnes. STEVENS FAMILIES OF NEW ENGLAND IO9 SECTION VI. DR. CYPRIAN STEVENS, of Maine. DR. CYPRIAN STEVENS, who was born about 1759 married Sally Robinson. He died on July 3, 1807. They had : I. Almina Stevens, who was born on June 7. 1791, and who married Daniel Stevens. She died in China, Me. II. Harriet Stevens, who was born on November 6, 1793, mar- ried William Fobes, of Paris, Me. III. Cyprian Stevens, who was born on March 26, 1795, mar- ried Almina Thayer, on July 5, 1828. The family re- moved to Wankan in 1856. He died from the effects of a rattlesnake bite, on September 6, 1858. IV. Sally R. Stevens, who was born on February 5, 1797, mar- ried Rufus Stowell. V. Simon Spooner Stevens, who was born on July 6, 1807. He had : 1. Angelina Stevens, who was born on March 9, 1824, married John Nevers Andrews and died in Raise, Switzerland, on October 21, 1883. 2. Paulina R. Stevens, who was torn on November 12, 1825, married John Heligase. 3. Frances Stevens, who was born on February 28, 1828, died in Aug'ust 1829. 4. Harriet Stevens, who was born on October 21, 1830. She married Mr. Smith. 5. Frances J. Stevens, who was born on March 19, 1834, married John Farnsworth. 6. Oliver Stevens, who was born on May 9, 1836, mar- ried Susan Smith. 7. Charles F. Stevens, who was born on April 11, 1841, married Esther Kilfjore. J 10 THE STEVENS GENEALOGY SECTION VII. THOMAS STEVENS, of Thomaston, Me. THOMAS STE\'EXS, from the vicinity of Providence, went to Falmouth and thence with his wife removed to Tliomaston, in 1763. They had : I. Nehemiah Stevens, who married Nancy Bly, at Providence, on August 20. 178Q. They resided and died there. They had: 1. John Stevens, who was born about 1794. He mar- ried, first, Ehza Tobey, on November 13, 1818, and, second. Mary Pease, and, third, Elsay Cummings. 2. James Stevens, who was born about 1790. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. He first married Han- ^ nah Libby. on January 13, 1825, and, second, Cath- erine H. Ladd. at Providence, on May 17, 1844. 3. Dexter Stevens, who was lost at sea. 4. Harriet Stevens, who was born on October i, 1805, married Constant Hanking and resided at Rockland. H. Thomas Stevens, who was born about 1767 married Hannah Spear at Providence, on June 23, 1788, and resided at Thomaston. He died March 22, 1830. They had: I. George W. Stevens, who was born on July 26, 1793 married Rachel \'oose on July 20, 1820, and resided at Thomaston. He died on February 12. 1832. They had : i. Leonard Stevens, who was born on January 5, 1821. married, first. Alary Shaw, on December 15, 1844, and, second, Laura Cookson, on Octo- ber 3. 1858, and resided at Rockland. ii. lohn \'. Stevens, who was born on July ii, 182^ and who died in August 1842. iii. Marv \ . .Stevens, who was born on May 3, 1825, ARTHUR H. BARNES STEVENS FAMILIES OF NEW ENGLAND II3 ir.arried (Jcorge Campbell and resided at Rock- land. IV. George Stevens, who was born on November 22, 1829. 2. Samuel Stevens, who was born on July 5. 1795, "lar- ried, first, Clarissa Hersey. at Providence, on February 10. 1816. He married, second, Catherine Hyler, on December 16, 181 7. III. William Stevens, who was born about 1770. IV. Hannah Stevens, who was born about 1777 and who married Nathan hlackington. They resided at Rockland. \'. Ephraim Stevens, who was born about 1781 and who resid- ed at Rockland. VL Sarah Stevens, who married Eben Thompson, of Falmouth, the event being published on Afarch 11. 1809. VH. Lucy Lewis Stevens who was an adopted daughter. She married Samuel Kelloch. YHL Elizabeth Stevens, who married, first. Davitl Braley and second, Charles Wright and resided at Th.oniaston, where she died. SECTION VIII. C LEVI STEVENS, of New Englana, and others. Reported by Aiilo P.. Stevens, Case Building, Cleveland, Ohio. LEX I STEVENS, who lived and died somewhere in the New England States, had : I. Otho Stevens, who lived in \>rmont. He had : 1. Simeon Stevens, who was born about 1800 in Cale- j donia Co., AT., married Zeviah Bennett about 1822. She was born about 1802. He lived there until 1837 when he removed to Lake Co., Ohio. He was a farm- I er at Geneva, Ohio, from 1840 until 1857. He then moved to Spring A^'alley, Minn. He died in Fill- more Co. He had : 114 I'll-: sii'ix i:.\.s c.\:s\:.\i.{)c,y Mill) 15. Stevens. \, Iid was born on April 25, 1838, at Madison, Lake Co., ( iliio. He resided at Cal- edonia. ( )hio, and was an attorney. He en- gaged in collecting- claims against the United States ( iovernment. He served as a private soil (lier (luring the war of the rebellion in the I4tli ( )hio In(le])endent lUittery of Light Artillery, hollowing is the aimouncen:ent of his death, under date of i8(;f). "Milo B. St:vens. one of the best known pension attorneys in the L^nited States, died toda\' at Cleveland. Ohio at the age of fifty-eight." He had: (i) luigenie E. Stevens, who was born on March 15. 1866. She never married and died at Washington, 1). C. Alilo 1!. Stevens, further reports, as fol- lows: "As long ago as the fall of the year i8C)4, 1 had some correspondence with .An- drew J. Stevens, at that time American Consul at Windsor, Canada. Mr. Stevens was engaged in getting material for a gene- alogical history of the Stevens family. The project was abandoned, however, as lie in- formed me, after the collection of a largo amount of material. When last heard from in about 1868, ])ossibly later, he was sta- tioned at some ])oint on the Northern i'acific R. ]\., by which com])any he v, as at the time emi)lo\ed as land agent." _ Author's note : I 1 heard of Mr. Andrew J. Stevens, the compiler of the genealogical record of the, Stevens famil\-, as above referred to from' different sources. 1 have in my possession a formula of his filled out by James Stevens of h'.lknville. Lister, X. V.. and forwarded to me by Hermon Stevens, of Xapanoch, N. Y. The formula says, ".Vddress me iis above. .Andrew J. Stevens, L. S. Consul at \\ indsor, Cana'a. P. O. Address, i;>\- T044, HERAION STEVENS of Napanocli, N. Y. STEVENS 1-AMILIES OF NEW ENGLAND II7 Detroit, Mich." I hunted his whereabouts by letter till I was told that he was dead and there could be obtained no clue to his rec- ord. There is also a note from Washing- ton, D. C, on January 19, 1888 from Assist- ant Secretary G. H. Rives, as follows: "I have to inform you that it appears from pa- pers on file in this department that Andrew J. Stevens, Esq., formerly Consul of the United States at Windsor, Ontario, was in 1886, prior to his appointment, residing in Des Moines, Iowa. It has not been possible to determine from any source of information accessible to the department at what city Mr. Stevens took ui) his residence after having been relieved by his successor at Windsor in 1869, nor is it known whether he is still liv- ing at this time." SECTION IX. DANIEL STEVENS, JR., of Concord, N, H. DANIEL STEVENS, JR., connected with the Bent family, mar- lied on July 20, 1797, Eunice E. Robinson of Concord, N. H. He was a man remarkable for his size, weighing over three hundred pounds. He represented the town several years in the legislature and was jus- lice of the peace. She died on February 20. 1844 at the age of sixty- nine. They liad : I. Isaac T. Stevens, who was born on January 3, 1798, married on ( )ctober 17, 1817, Catherine Tilton and they had a fam- ily of thirteen children, seven sons and six daughters. Their oldest son. Daniel Waldo Stevens, graduated at Harvard college in 1846. He studied theology and set- tled in Mansfield. II. Ann Bent Stevens, who was born on September 16, 1799 married, on September 10, 1820, Issachar Dickerman and thev had eleven children. Their oldest daughter was : Il8 THK STE\EXS GENEAr.OGV I. Eunice C. Stevens, who was l)oni on June 24, 1821 and who died on j\iay 26, 1836 unmarried. SECTION X. THE JEWITT.PEASE^STEVENS FAMILIES, of Lyme, Conn. JOSHUA RAYMOND JEWITT, who was born on Aug". 14, 1771, at Lyme, Conn., was the third son of Capt. Joseph Jewitt and Lu- cretia Rogers, and great grandson of Ehzabeth Hvde. He married Sybil Pettibone. of ("iranby, where they settled and where she died on April 19, 1813. Tliey liad : I. George jewitt H. Harriet Jewitt. who was born on March 28. I7<)7, at Granby. She n:arried on Ma}' 2, 1814, (irover A. Pease, who was born on August 4, t78(). He was the son of Nathaniel Pease and Jerusha Hall. They settled at Granbv where she was living in 1858. They had four children: 1. All)ert Pease, who was born on January 26, iSui. He married Sarah Ann Stevens, of New Hampshire. 2. Edward Raymond Pease, who was born on April 30, 1819. He married Martha Curd, of Georgia. 3. Mary Ann Pease, who was born on December 3. 1829. She married John Carlton Welburn. 4. George Augustus Pease, who was born on April 28, 1839. He married and his wife died on March 4, 1857, leaving one child. SECTION XL FRANCIS STEVENS, of Worcester, Mass. FRANCIS STEVENS, of Parma. N. Y., formerly of Worcester, Mass., had : General Hector Stevens, who married on Sept. 6. 1829, Charlotte Sedgwick, who was born on March 31, 1812, at Clinton. He was a law^yer and commenced practice in Rochester, N. Y. He re- moved to Pontiac. Mich., in 1844, where he was elected a member of LUCRETIA SUSAN CONE BARNES Wife of Deacon Horace Barnes STEVENS FAMILIES OF NEW ENGLAND 121 ilie thirty-third Congress. The}' were Uving at Washington, D. C. in 1857. They had seven children, only two of whom are reported, as follows : I. Frank Stevens, who was horn on May. 24, 1830. at Roches- ter. N. Y. ir. Emily Stevens, who was horn on November 26, 1832, at Rochester. X. Y. She married on September 5, 1854, Oscar A. Stevens, who was the son of Rufns Stevens, of Flint. Mich. They had: 1. Hector F. Stevens, who was born on June 16, 1855, and who died on February 22, 1856. 2. Charles Stevens, who was born on June 25, 1856. SECTION XI F WILLIAM STEVENS, of Thomaston, Me. The family here traced is said to have descended from John Ste- vens, one of the first settlers of Andover. Mass. ; but in the absence of the record, we are unable to fill up the line of descent. WIFLIAM STE\"ENS, was born on 1766. His father was killed in the battle of Lexington. He removed from Concord, X"^. H. Wil- ham Stevens married Sally Stevens and thev resided at Thomaston, Me. He died on March 29. 1826 at the age of 60. He was a cooper by trade. They had : 1. Charles Stevens, who married Ilannah Tray, on December 30. 1810. They resided at (iouldboro. IF Xathaniel Stevens, who married Hathsheba Marten, on No- vember 20. 1818. They resided in Thomaston. He died in May 1828. They had: 1. Eliza Stevens, who married I'elix Aloran and resid- ed at Rockland, was born about i8iy. 2. John Stevens, who was born ali(^ut 1821. 122 THE STEVENS GENEALOGY III. William K. Stevens, who was jjorn about 1797. He mar- ried Ann F. Bennett on December 28, 1820. They resided at Thomaston. They adopted : 1. John M. Stevens, who was born about 1824. and who died on August t. 1842. 2. Henrietta Stevens, who was born al)out 1839. She married William I'. (ia\- and resided in Thomaston. IV. Mary Stevens, who married Henry Kcnnc-ton and resided in Thomaston. V. Hiram K. Stevens, who was born about i8o[. He married. first. Margaret Marten, of 1 Bristol, on December 11. 1823. He married, second, Eliza 1>. Martin, in .Monroe, on July II. 1846. They had : 1. Mary l". Stevens, who wa> born (in December 4, 1824 and who married John Reading and resided in IMass. 2. Ludwig Stevens, wht) was liorn on h^ebruary 3, 1827, and who married Mary .\. Ilrown on April 2^^. 1853 They resided in Rockland. He was a soldier in ihc I'. S. .Vrmy. They had : i. William P. Stevens, who was l)orn aljout 1854. ii. Frank L. Stevens, who was born about 1856. 3. Madison Stevens, who married Elizabeth Wagner in December 1850. They resided in Rockland. He was a corporal in 4th Me., and was killed on Sep- tember T, 1862, near Center, \'a. They had: i. Elsie M. Stevens, who was born about 1852. 4. Wallace Stevens, who married .^arah ( iil)M >n and resid- ed in Rockland. They had : i. George Stevens. 5. lliram Stevens, who married Ann C. Long' on July M. 1857 and resided in Rockland. They had: i. .Margaret .Stevens, who was Ij^rn in December •<\S9- ADDISON PRATT and LOUISA BARNES PRATT STEVENS FAMILIES OF NEW ENGLAND I25 \ I. James Stevens, who married, first, Betse\- Peters, in No- vember 1838, and, second, ]\lary Cooper Knig^ht, on Feb- ruary II, 1846. She (Hed on Ma\- 17. 1852 at the age ot 2,/. \W Alary he liad : I. Helen Stevens. \ 1 [. Madison Stevens, who was l)orn al^out 1805, married Han- nah Alarr, of Washington. Thev resided in fhomaston. She (hed on November 2. 1851. The\' had: 1. Wilham C. Stevens, who resided in Cahfornia. 2. Ann Stevens, who was ])orn on September 31, 1834 and who married Mr. .Marr. Tliey resided in Thomaston. 3. Charles Stevens, who was born on April 2, 1837 and married Sarah Sibentree Kenney, on julv 4, 1854. 4. Solomon Stevens, who was born on March 4, 1839 and who resided in Thc^maston. SECTION XHI. BENJAMIN STEVENS, of Newmarket, N. H. BENJAMIN STE\'ENS. lived at Newmarket. N. H. He had ihildren, as follows : I. Edward Stevens IT. P'anl Harris Stevens, who was born on May 21, 1780. Ho moved to Belfast, Me., in 1801. and to Lincolnville, in 1804. He was captain of militia, in 1812. and sheriff in 1808. He died about 1873, at Lincohnille, Me. He mar- ried Christianna Llmer. Thev had : I. Dolly Stevens, who was born on December 31, 1805. She married Issac Mariner. She died on Novembe" 22, 1887. They had: « i. Lucy Ann Mariner. \\ho was ]:)orn on August 5. 1:^6 rilE STEVFNS GENEALOGY iST)2. Slic married j()sei)li Miller in Alarcii ' 1854. ii. Mary Bennett Mariner, who was born on October I 13- 1839- She died on January 25. 1859. iii. Christianna Maria Mariner, who was born on , ( )ctober 17. 1846. She married ( ieorge Wards- w(jrth on December 24, 1867. 2. Mar}' Maria Stevens, who was born on ( )ctober 28, I 1807. She died on May 27, 1847. 3. lulia Ann Stevens, who was horn on januarx- 10, 1810. She married Martin Carlton. He died in Hope, Me. ^ They had : ( i. I'austina Carlton. She married, first. Mr. Tuttle and, second, Mr. Delham. j ii. Benjamin Carlton, who married and had six child- 1 ren. iii. ISelle Carlton, who married Mr. Wiley, in Hope, .Me. 4. I'hilii) Clmer Stevens, who was born on April 23, 1812 and who died about [888, in the n-.ountains of Nevada or California. He was a stage driver. He had one child : i. Sarah Stevens, who married Mr. Uoeing. Thev liad five children. 5. (Ieorge A. Stevens, who was born on ( )ctol)cr 12, 1814. He married Mar_\- Tyler. 'Jdiey had: i. Lucv Stevens, who married Simon A. ImsIi and. resided in Rockland, Me. They had three child- ren. ii. Katie Stevens, who married Will Sylvester, a*: r.rockton, Mass. They had two children. iii. Edgar Stevens, who married I'lorence I'.rown, al r.uffaio, X. v.. iv. (ieorge E. Stevens, who married Annie Curtis at FRANCES PRATT Second Daughter of Louisa Barnes Pratt STEVENS FAMILIES OF NEW ENGLAND ij<. , Brockton. Mass. They had one child. \'. Tennie A. Stevens. 6. ( )rlando Stevens, who was born on January 14, 1817. He married in 1856 and died on January 12, 1892, a: Lincohi. Me. He was a farmer. He had: I. Ehzabeth ]',. Stevens, who married Capt. I-rank i Alathews, who was born on June 3. 1858. They had one child. II. Charles Augustus Stevens, who was ])orn in Oci. 1859. at Lincolnville, Me. iii. Thomas Harris Stevens. M. D.. who was born on Aug-ust 2, 1861 at Tenant Harbor, Me. IV. Maria Stevens, who was born on May 11, 1863, at Brockton, Mass. She married George B. Pendleton. ^•. William Orlando Stevens, who was born at Lin- colnville, Me. vi. Gertrude Stevens V::. Mary Stevens, who was born on March 2, 1874, at Profile House, White mountains, N. H. 7. Iv.-astus Foote Stevens, who was born on August 15. 1819, at New Orleans, La. He had : L h^rastus Stevens, who died young-. 11. Annie Stevens, who was a teacher in New Or- leans. 8. Horatio Gates Stevens, who • rn December 4. 1821. He had: i. Annie Stevens n. (iracie Stevens, who married Joseph Thibadean. 111. Lue Stevens, who married William Carr at r.rockton. Mass. They had two children. n-. haustina Stevens, who was born on February 2-,. 1854 and died in 1860. 9. Paul Stevens, who was born on September t 1826 He had: '.O THE sii:\i:Ns gi:.m:ai.(k;v i. Horatio Stevens. ii. William Stevens. M. D.. wlv rcsi.lcl at Washing- ton, D. C. III. Benjamin Stevens, Jr., who liad : 1. Benjamin Stevens 2. Tames Stevens, and 3. A (laughter, who married Capt. Harris m Mahonc} . oi Belfast. Me. SECTION XI\'. jHE FELT^STEVENS FAMILIES, of Maine. This section gives additional information on the record of Sair,- ik1 Stevens, of Woodstock, Me. \RTEMAS FELT, who was born in Kumford. .Me., on ( )ci. 15. 1800 died in Woodstock on August 2, 1885. He married in Wood- slock. .\le.. in 1819, Desire Stevens, wdio was the daughter ot Capt. Samuel and Desire Harlow Stevens of Plymouth. .\la>^. She wa^ born in I'lvm-mlh. Mass.. on January 3, 17^)8 and .lied in I'ortland, Me <.n \pril 10, 1869. l\Ir. I'elt moved from \\o..d.stock a tew >ear. after his marriage to the adjoining town of Greenwood an«l kept a tavern and store on Felt's Hill. These were burnt an Woodstock, where he died. They had: I. Desire llarlow I'elt. who was ])orn in Woodstock, on August iS. iSjc. She resideil in ( Ireenwood. II. lesse Stevens I'elt, who was born on September 22, 1822. III. "l.ucv Spafford helt. who was born .May 1'., 182.'.. Mie married .Xbner C. 1 .ibby. 1\- l.-lbina Lowell Stevens I'-elt. who wa.s born in |-ebruary ,828. in (ireenuood. She died in Lowell. Ahis>.. < -n August , 2(^. 1847. She married in 1845 in Topsham. .Me., i'-d ward Welch. He died in 1 )urango. .\k>xico. on Septem ber 6. 18:^1. They had no children. ANN LOUFSA PRATT i STEVENS FAMILIES OF NEW ENGLAND I33 V. Samuel Stevens Felt, who was born on October 12, 1832. V'l. Artemas Elizur Felt, V'll. Lizzie Doton Felt, who was born on January 24. 1835. She married Octavus K. Yates. VIII. Eliza Roberts Felt, who was born on June 5, 1838. She married Martin \"an Buren Stevens, on September 9, 1853, in Greenwood. Mr. Stevens was the son of William Stevens, Jr., and Lydia Jackson Stevens, of Poland, Me. Martin Van Buren Stevens was born in Poland, Me., on August T.'j, 1832. A few years after their marriage they removed to Portland. Me., where Mr. Stevens was en- gaged for a time with his brother-in-law, Jesse S. Felt, in the jeweler's business. Mr. Stevens had carl\- learned the carpenter trade which he pursued after leaving tb jeweler's business. In 1857 he removed to Auburn, Me., and in 1861, to Gorham, N. H., and obtained a situation as roadmaster's assistant on the Grand Trunk railroad, remaining in the employ of the corporation until 1875. when he removed to Lynn, Mass. They had : 1. Velma Elizabeth Stevens, who was liom in Auburn, Me., on November i, 1858. She married Charles Rufus Dunham in Gorham, Me., on Novem- ber 2, 1878. He was the son of Rufus King Dun- ham and Abbie B. Estes Dunham, of l>ryant's Pond. Ale. He was born in Bryant's Pond, Me., on Decem- ber 13, 1857 and was a telegraph operator there. 2. I'^ank Dana Sweetser Stevens, who was liorn in Au- burn, Me., on May 30, i860. He married in Lynn Mass.. on December 17. 1885, Georgia Elfrida Stone who was the daughter of Isaiah H. Stone and Kath- erine Stone. She was born in Lynn. Mass., on Ai)ril 8, i860. Mr. Stone graduated from ['.owdoin Medi- ical College in 1881 and engaged in the practice of medicine and surgerv in Lvnn, ^lass. J34 'I'll'- STF-Vi:xs Gl•:.\K.\M»<,^ SECTION' X\'. PHINEAS STEVENS, of Suffield, Conn. ' ' I'HIXEAS S'IT':V]':XS. of Suffield, roiiii.. man-icd Mercy Root, \vhcoLt^ I. Richard Stevens, who was born on Februar} 23. 1670. II. Mary Stevens, who was born on July 8. 1672. III. Thomas Stevens, who was born on February 3. 1673. and who married, on September 28, 1699, Mary Castwell, of Taunton, Mass. I\ . Thomasin Stevens, who was born on July 3, 1677. \'. Nathaniel Stevens, w lio was born on Julv. 30. 1680. KATHERINE STEVENS, we learn from the Deane family rec- ord, was married on January 5, 1669 to Thomas Deane. They settled at J'aunton. His will was proved July 15, 1697. Her will was proved June 12, 1726-7. A book which belonged to Katherine Stevens is now in possession of one of her descendants. RICHARD STEVENS had : I. Richard Stevens, who was born on March 20, 1667-8. ]^^8 THE STEVENS GENEALOGY II. Nicholas Stevens, who was born on February 23. 1669. III. Mary Stevens, who was born on June 8, 1672. IV. Thomas Stevens, who was born on July 3°' ^^'^'^^ T.VMSEX STEVENS, of Taunton, married Edward Wilcox of Westerly, on May 5. 1698. He died intestate on November 5. 1715- They had : I. Sarah Wilcox, who was born on May 30, 1700. II. Thomas Wilcox, who was born on February 18, 1703. III. Hezekiah Wilcox, who was born on April i, 1704- IV. Elizabeth Wilcox, who was born on October 18, 1706. A'. Annie Wilcox, who was born on October t8, 1709. \'I. Susannah Wilcox, who was born on April 4. 1712. SECTION XVII. ^ LYMAN STEVENS, of Essex county. Mass. LYMAN STEVENS, married and had nine sons and three daugh- ters, only six of whom are named, as follows : I. John Stevens IT. Reuben Stevens, III. Ilvrum Smith Stevens IV. Edmund Jonathan Stevens. He had eioht sons and thrc. daughters. \'. Joseph Smith Stevens VI. Amos Henrv Stevens. He was one of the life guard of Ceneral George Washington, in 1776. The nine brothers on a special occasion, upon invitation, took dinner with the (k-ncral, who remarked at the vitality of the family. The nine brothers served during the Revolutionary War. .Xnids Henr> Stevens was a farmer at Fitchville, Huron Co.. Ohio. He was an officer in the war of 1812. Ho had : AMELIA STEVENS HOWELL r. STEVENS FAMILIES OF NEW ENGLAND i^j Jonathan Stevens, who had four wives, nine sons and three daughters. He married, first, OHve Hiett, who was the mother of all of his children. Those named in the record are as follows : I. Matilda Stevens, who was born on March 24, 1794 at Stanford. Conn., and who died on Feb- ruary 24. 1879. She married in 1812, Zebulon Brundage. who was born in 1782. He died on April II, 1854. They resided at New London. He was a cooper and served in the war of 18 12. They had : (1) William Brundage, who was born in 1813. married Jane Hull, in [875. Their child ren were : a. May Brundage, who was born in 1876 b. Ray Brundage, who was born in 1877. (2) Lucinda Brundage, who was born in 1815 married Joseph Turliger and they had one child, a girl. (3) . Eliza Brundage, who was born in 18 18, mar- ried Elias Conley. She died in 1868. They had three girls and one boy. (4) Zebulon Brundage, who was born in 1820, married, first, in 1844, Sarah Hendry. She died in 1877. They had five boys and one girl. He married, second, Clara Stevens but the\- had no children. He was a cooper. His first son, Lafayette L. Brundage, was born in 1845. He married, first, Lena Stevens, who was the daughter of Robert Stevens, who was the son of Amos Stevens. He married, second, Lovey Clements. *By his first wife he had: a. l-rauklin Tra Stevens Brundage, who was born in 1872. 142 THE STEVENS GENEALOGY By his second wife, Lovey Clements, he had : b. Edward J. Brundage. who was l)orn in 1880. c. Mande Brundage, who was burn in iSS(). (5) Inlia l'.rundage, who was Ix.rn in 1822 and who died in 1857, married Rial M<>on. They had five, boys and two girls. (6) Lorin r.rnndage. who was b.-rn in i82(} and who died in 1870, married John McC^vd. They had two girls and two boys. (7) Olive Ann Brundage, who was l)<)rn in 1S3.' married Solomon Turligcr and they had. three girls and three boys. Uzzial Stevens, who was born about \ji)(K mar- ried Sophia Colman. They had no children. He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of 1 .alter-day Saints, in Kirtland. Ohi... and died on the road going to Missouri. lulia Stevens, wh^ married I'.enjamiu Hill m 1825 and who died in 187^,. They had : (T) Alvin Hill, wlio resided in (•airfield. Hiiron Co., Ohio. (2) Alfred 1 lill. who went to sea. lulia Stevens al>o had Iwo children who died, m infanc}'. L(.rain Stevens, wlio married a l.aller-.lay >aint bTder. ( )live Ann Stevens, wh<. married in 1S55, Charles Day. They resided in Clarksfield. Hunni Co. C)hio. The\- had : ( 1 ) Luella Day ( 2 ) b>hn Day ( 3 ) Julia l)a\- and 14) A child who died in infancy. BENNIE HOWELL and JESSE HOWELL ■4\ STEVENS FAMILIES OF NEW ENGLAND I45 vi. Josiah Stevens, who died in infancy. vii. Lyman Stevens, who was born on February 7, 18 1 2, in Tompkins Co., >{. Y. He married on January 21, 1836, at Kirtland, Ohio, Martha Durfee. He resided in Madison Co., N. Y. He was also a resident of Ferron, Emery Co., Utah, and (bed in Washington county. L'tah, on April 18, 1886. Follo\\ing' is liis obituary notice in the Deseret News: "Father Lyman Stevens, one of the earliest members of the Church passed from this life on the i8th of April 1886. He was the son of Jonathan ond C)livc Stevens and was born in Danby, Tompkins Co., New York., on l'\'bruary 7, 181 2. He embraced the Gos- pel during- the second year of the Church's exis- tence, being- baptized on Ma\ 2"], 1831. He was ordained an Elder on Ma_y, 9, 1836, and his certif- icate to that effect is still in existence bearing the signature of Joseph Smith, Jr., and F. G. Wil- liams. Another certificate in the possession of the family shows that he was ordained a High Priest on May 11, 1843. l^^ shared in the per- secutions of the saints from the time that he be- came connected with the Church, and after being driven out from Illinois served as a member of the Mormon Ilattalion. For some time he lived in Shonesburg, Kane Co., where his wife died in 1874. He was the father of nine sons and on? daughter and had sixty-one grandchildren and three great grandchildren, the nuniber of his pos- terity living being sixty-four. He was faithful unto the end and like a shock of grain fully ripe was gathered into the garner of the Lord." His son, (i) Hyrum Smith Stevens, who was born on December 12. 1840, at Nauvoo, Hancock Co., 111., married on August 24, 1862, at Shonesburg, Kane Co., Utah, Deborah Lem- on. She was born on April 2, 1845, "^^ Nau- voo, Hancock Co., 111. She was the daugh- i,if) Tin: sriiviiNs gkneaf-OGy ter of James Lemon ami Maria Louisa Pat- ten. They resided at Xorthup. Washing- ton Co., L'tah. She died on Fehritary 18, 1877, at I'ara.i^oona. L'on Co., I'tah. They had : a. Hyrum WilHam Stevens, who was born on February 25, \S()4, in ITah. Lie married (jHve Ehza Stnni,!:;- and resided in I'\M-r(»n. lunery Co.. Llah. in 188A. b. ALiria Louisa Stevens, who was born on October to, 1865, at Carmel, Kane Co., I'tah. She married I'retk'rick Wahe'." Cox. c. .\Lirtha Lerona Steven^, who was bora on November 5. i8f)7, at Ivockvdk'. Washington Co., Ctali. She married Thomas W. ALirker. d. lames Lyman Stevens, who was l)()rn on December 2(>. i86(), at Laragi^ona. h'on Co., L'tah. Me (bed on l"el)ruar\- -'4. 1870. c. I'diza Al)it Steven.s, who was l)orn on lanuarv 8. 1871 ;uid who (bed on April 1^. 1873, at i'aragdona. Cl:di. f. i/harles lie])er Steven.s, who was liorn ou September 24, 1873, at Laragoona. Cta'i g. I'ollv X'ilate Stevens, who was l)orn on Umuarv 22. 1876, at Laragotma, Llah viii. Altord Stevens ix. John Stevens. SIMON STEVENS Shelburne Falls, Mass. THE STEVENS GENEALOGY. PART IIT. Miscellaneous Stevens Families. SECTION I. JOSEPH STEVENS, of Painted Post, Steuben county, N. Y. The following- information is furnished by Mr. F. J. Stevens and Mr. Arthur Stevens, of Detroit, Mich. JOSEPH STEX'ENS, who married Naomi, had children as fol- lows : I. Joseph Stevens, Jr., who was born in December 1771. He removed to Painted Post, Steuben Co., New York and mar- ried on February 10, 1795, Abigail Knowlton of Sanger- field. He was an artist and died on December i, 1843 at J^ainted Post, on the old homestead and was buried there She was born on June 22, 1777, at Ipswich, N. H., and mar- ried at Utica, N. Y., in the first and onh- house that stood there at that time. On her eighty-fifth birthday on June* 22, 1862 at the home of her son Ralph M. Stevens, at Ply- mouth, Mich., there were present ten of her children, forty^- seven grandchildren and forty-five great grandchildren. She had twelve children. One died before he arrived a: manhood. She died on December 19, 1864. There were nine boys and two girls that married, as follows : I. Jared Stevens, who was born on September 10, 1795 and who married, first, on September 28, 18x9, Haniiali Haight. He married, second, Charlotte Bush, on March 11, 1882, and died on February 4, 1887. He was a farmer. He had by his first wife: i. Perrv Stevens, I5<> THE STENEXS GF.XEALOGV ii. Amos Stevens iii. Orin Stevens iv. Louisa Stevens V. Augustus Stevens, who was kUlvd in tlie ('i\il war Tared Stevens, liad hy his second wife: vi. l'"rederick Stevens, w hu died in childhood, vii. Hannah Stevens. viii. Harriet Stevens, ix. Jared Stevens, X. Newell Stevens, who was in the arm}-. 2. Pernielia Stevens, who was born on May lo, 1797. She married Aden I. Pratt on January 4, 1816. She (lied on August 2y, 1844. He was a farmer. 3. Nadassa Stevens, who was born on June i, 1799. mar- ried on Xovember 23, 1820, Daniel Horton. He wa^ a farmer and died on April 24, 1868. She died on August 14. 1872. They had: i. Charles Stevens, and others. 4. Amos Stevens, who was born on May 31, 180T died on Jan. 30, 1877 and was buried at Tpsilante. He was a farmer. He married Alary Boldman. on Oct. 14. 1825, and they had : i. Mar_\- Stevens ii. Philander Stevens. 5. Jonas Stevens, who was born on March 13, 1803. mar ried on September 28, 1826, Betsy Miller and resided at Campbell, N. Y. He was living in 1886. 6. Pienjamin Stevens, who was born May 12, 1805. mar- ried Eliza White, on February 9, 1826. 7. Joseph Stevens, who was born on Aug. 20, 1809, married on February 2, 1834, Frances E. Bush. He died on September 4, ^Syy. They had : i. Abigail Stevens, MARY E. STEVENS Wife of Simon Stevens. MISCELLAN'EOLTS STE\-|-:XS FAMILIES 1 53 ii. Cornelia Stevens, iii. Mary Stevens, iv. Melissa Stevens. 8. ] was a cabinet maker. The brothers were all farnier- except John and Marcus, and all died in 1886, excell- ing Jonas and Ralph. They held no political otfice> higher than justice of the peace, with the exception or" Amos, who was for one year in the Michigan legisla- ture. They were all quiet, unassuming men and thei- duty seemed, by their course of life to be. in one direc- tion, that of living only holy lives, though no one of Joseph Stevens' descendants have entered the minis- try. The church, how'ever, has been furnished witl; many an officer from their number. John Stevens had children as follows: i. P^rederick John Stevens, who was born in July, 1846 married, on September 16, 1868, Clara Belle Sack- et, the daughter of Dennis Sacket, who was born on April 14, 1848. She was born in Redford. Mich., and resided in Detroit. He was a book keeper and lived nearly' all his life in Detroit. They had : ( I ) Frank Russell Stevens, who was born on February 15, 1870. (2) George Baker Stevens, who was born o;i Januar\- 27. 1873. (3) Alan Hall Stevens, who was born on No- vember 6, 1876 . (4) Clara M. Stevens, who was born on Decem- ber 19, 1878. (5) Frederick John Stevens, Jr., who was born on October 4, 1880. ii. Edwin Holland Stevens, who was born on Decem- ber 12, 1847. ^I*-' ^^'^'^ 'i'l attorney, and died in June, 1886. He married and had: (i) Mark Watkin Stevens. BENJAMIN WILLARD STEVENS Shelbiirne Falls, Mass. MISCELLANEOUS STEVENS FAMILIES I57 iii. Mark Burnhani Stevens, who was born on Octo- ber 2^, 1849. He was a merchant. He mar- ried, but had no children. iv. Mary Emma Stevens, who was born on October 28, 1853, married J. C. Macy, who was a musical author and editor, in Boston, Mass. V. Ella Augusta Stevens, who was born on March 28,. 1857, married Dr. E. A. Parkinson, and resided in Traverse City, Mich. vi. \\ illiam Snow Stevens, who was born on May 20, i860. He was a student and never married. vii. (jeorge Hutchings Stevens, who was born on Jul/ 19, 1864. He was a bank clerk and never mar- ried. viii. Arthur Edwin Stevens, who was born on De- cember 19, 1866. He was a bank clerk and never married. n. John Stevens HI. Rhoda Stevens, who married Mr. Mute. IV. Lydia Stevens, who married Mr. Selew. V. Elias Stevens VI. Jesse Stevens VII. Noah Stevens A'lII. Isaac Steveni IX. Ann Stevens * X. Sarah Stevens ' XI. Xaonii Stevens XII. Syri Stevens, who married Mr. Cramer. SECTION II. WILLIAM STEVENS, of Edisto Island, S. C. DR. WILLIAM STEX^'ENS, who was born about 1700, was a surgeon in the Revolutionary War. He was imprisoned in the Tower of London for several months. He had: Dr. Joseph L. Stevens, who was his eldest son and who resided on 158 THE STEVENS GENEALOGY Johns Island, South (aroHna. He had: I. Daniel .\iiL;Tistus Stevens, wlm was l)i>rn on December 13. 1840, the younsj;est son of his parents. Thev died when , he was so young that he remembered very little of them. He resided on Edisto Island, S. C and was a planter. He attended the I'niversity of Xiri^inia, wlien the Civil War broke out and enlisted for the defense of his state. He was | made a lieutenant on October to. i86t. He married .\,G;nes Isabel W'ltes, who was born on januar\- \(). 1S44, at Lehu- listen, S. C She was the daug-hter of William 11. ^'ate ^ ^ and Jane \\ allace, of Columbia, S. C'. Daniel Augustus Stevens by his wife had: 1 1. Joseph Ste\-ens, ^\•ho was born on November i, 181)3, in Columbia, S. C. 2. Jennie Stevens, who was born on Se])teml)er 30, 186", in C harleston, S. C. [ 3. .Agues I'dizabeth Stevens, who was liorn on .\iav 30, |80() and who died on June 4, iS^xj, in .S. C. 4. William ^'ates Stex'ens. who was born on August 1, 1871 . at Johns Island. 5. Daniel Augustus Stevens. Jr., who was born on |an- uar\- lO, 1877. at l.ehulisten. S. C. II. A daughter, who married Dr. W'. .S. W'haley. of Athens. Gu. SECTION HI. THE RAWSON'STEVENS FAMILY, of Palmyra, N. Y. EDWWRl) KAW S( )N. had a son. William Kawson. who had a son. .Nathaniel l^awson. who had a son, Nathaniel Rawson. Jr., who had a son, .Silas Rawson, who married twice and by his first wife had eight children and mv his second wife, fourteen children. He died at Palmvra, N. V., at the age of eightv. His daughter, IDA STEVPJNS SULLIVAN Husband and Family. AKSCELLAXEOUS STEVENS FAMILIES l6l Anna Ravvson. was the daui^Iiter of ihe second wife, Rebecca Fellows Rawson. She was born on August i. 1782. She married, LE\'I STEVENS, and resided, first in Shykersville, N. Y.. and afterwards went t(^ Rome. Afichig'an. Thev had: I. Anna Ehza Stevens, who was born on June 20, 1806. II. CaroHne Stevens, who was born on June 26, 1808. III. W'ilham C. Stevens, who was born on June 25. 1812. I\'. Mabelha L. Stevens, who was l)orn on July 30, 1815. \'. Silas R. Stevens, who was born on February 15, 1818. A'l. Calel) W. Stevens, who was also born on Februarv 15. [818. \'II. Marietta Stevens, who was born on December 3. 1821. \T1I. Levi Stevens, who was born on April 7, 1823. SECT I OX 1\'. JOHN STEVENS, of Tiskilwa, III This record was reported by Mr. Ilradford Xewcomb Stevens, ■'^iskilwa. 111. "^ |()HX STEX'EXS, who married Summit Xewcomb. resided at Tiskilwa. 111. They had: Bradford Xewcomb Stevens, who was born on January 3. 1813. at Iloscawcn. X. H. He married on September 24. 1839. Lydia Pen- ning Alden. who was born on ( )ctober 22. 1819. at Lebanon, X. H. She was the daughter of Ziba Alden and Zibel Allen. He died on X(wember 10, 1885. They had children, as follows, all born at Tis- kilwa. 111. I. Alden W. Stevens, who was born on September 2=,, 1845. ^^'-^ married Cornelia Amelia C. Lyon. II. Charles M. Stevens, who was born on lA-bruary (). 1848. IL- married .Maria Rosalia l\. Stevens. III. iM-cniont Stevens, who was born on Se])tember 11. 1850. He died on August <;. 1852. at Tiskilwa. 111. ifrZ THt: STEVENS GENEALOGY SECTION V. JOSHUA C. STEPHENS, of Camsteo, N. Y TOSHUA C. STEPHENS, of Canisteo, N. Y,, purchased six imndred acres of timber land, some fifty acres of which he cleared jM-ior to his death. He was a man of little book knowledge but possessed much natural ability and upon settling- in the new country was soon recognized as a worthy citizen. \\hile Canisteo belonged to Ontario Co. in 1793-4, he represented his town as supervisor. In early hfe he was a member of the Congregational church. Aliout 1800 he became a member of the Methodist church and. from 1812 until his death, he was a local preacher of that denomination. 1 le had : L Abigail Stephens, who was hovu about 1779. H. Silas Stephens, who was l)orn al)OUt 1781. HI. Nathan Stephens, who was bon"s Mill. .SIk- was buried at I'.ethlehem. White ('o.. Tenn. H-.^ moved from llenton to (, harleslon, then to Lave. White Co.. Tenn.. and thence to Sim])son> Mill. lie encoinitered durini^" his life nian\" hardships and ])ri\-ation^. lie was of hnmhle parentage and limiteil education, a memlier of thc-Cliristia.i church, a farir.er and a car]).'nler. His children were : (1) Lilly Corillia C"ampl)el!. who was horn on Hctober 20. 187^:^. at .^im])son's .Mill. (2) Loutishia Corremia Camijhell, who was horn on .May 7. 187C). at .Mc.Minnvill. Warren C<:>.. Tenn. (3 ) .Minnie Corrissia Cami)l)ell. who was horn on .March 14. i87(j. at .^im])son"s .Mill. White C(».. Tenn. (4) Charles liem'\- Campbell, who was 1)orn on I )ecemher (). 1881. in White L'o. (5) .\nnie .Ma\ (_am])bell. who wa'- born on .Mav ifi. 1884, and who died on ( )clobcr ^^, 1884, at Sini]).son's .Mill. She was buried at i'.eth- lehem. W hite C(... Tenn. iii. Ixrifus .Vdoli)hus C"ami)bell. who was l)orn on .Vug"- ust 4. 1841;. at r.enton. I 'oik Co.. Tenn. He went west and was never heard of again. iv. i.uc\' .\nn Amanda t am])bell. who was born on'. .Se])tember 13, 1831 in I'olk (.0., Tenn. She marrieil on June Jj. 1872. I'hristy l\ose. They had: ( I ) William Richard I\oyron Lewis, who was I)orn on Aug. 2, 1881. (4) Howard Lafayette Lewis, who was l)orn on June 16, 1884. (5) Minnie Pearl Lewis, who was born on March 14. 1887. (C)) Iva May Lewis, who was born on Xovem • ber 6, 1890. (7) Lucillus Anderson Lewis, who was l:)()rn on November 6, 1891. 6. Perry Stevens 7. Dyre Stevens. These two sons were twins. 8. Morris Stevens 9. Polly Stevens 10. L-vine Stevens 1 1 . \\eathers Stevens^ 12. Al)salom Stevens. The last three named sons were living in 1887. \'ll. Jose])h Stevens, who was born aljout 1785. \'1IL Elisha Stevens, who was born about 1787. IX. Xancy Stevens, who was born about 1789. X. Stacey Stevens, who was born about 1791. XL Dicy Stevens, who was born about 1793. XIL Betsev Ste\-ens. who was born about 1795. SECTIOX VUL THE PHILBRICK'STEVENS FAMILY, oF Kingston, N. Y. JEDEDLAH PHILBRICK, who was the .son of Thomas, who was ihe son of James, who was the son of Thomas, of Kingston, was born in 1700 and died about 1754. His wife was Mary Taylor and they had: LAURA BARWISE TROUSLOT Wife of Rollin B. Trouslot. AllSCELLAXliOLS STliVI'lX^ i-AMlLlli.S I73 Jeremiah Phiil)rick, who was 1)i)rn on ['"el)ruary 2, 1722. He mar- ried on September 20, 1744. Alar\- Stevens and lra\'els. In i83(; he was sent to Central .\merica as a s])ecial am])a>sa(ror : and. again, in 1842, he visited Yucatan. I lis accounts of his tra\els in these countries contain nnicli original information in regard to American anticpiities. He was a director of the "Ocean .'^team Xavigation .M ISClCIJ.AXKOL'S STI-:\'I':XS I'.'v.MILIKS ■/O Companies", beint^ the ori.q'inator of the first American line trans-Atlantic steamships, and he was President of the Pan- ama railroad. VI. IJyan Kerby Stevens, who was born in New York on April 20, 1792 and who died at Astoria. L. 1., in h>bruary 1870. He married J'Vances Galatine the daughter of Albert Gala- tine, of Philadeljjhia, I'enn.. and, later of Xew ^^ork. \'ll. John Austin Stevens, who was born in Xew York, on Jan- uary 22, 1795 and who died about 1874. He was edu- cated at ^'ale and later went into business. Pie was one of the first members of the Xew York chamber of com- merce of which hiC was for manv \ears the secretary. He was ]iresident of the Pank of Commerce from 1839 to 1866, and the first president of the Merchants' Exchange which he hel])elacksmit]i trade. ( )n June 3, 1864 in compan\- with his 176 THi': SI i-:\ I'l.xs (;i-:ni"..\i.{)(;v ];ither, mother and Ijrotlicr. W. II. Stevens, he left liis native land in the sailiniL;- vessel ■"liudson," Ixmnd for Xew \'ork. The vovage was eoinpleled in six weeks and fonr da\-s. h'roin Xew \"ork the party journeyed to what was then ealled the frontiers, in Xebraska. There pre])arations were made for erossin^' the ])lains and, in August, they left, arriN'ini;- in Salt Lake C'it\ , Ttah. on Xovemher 3, 1864 with frozen feet. The following' spring', he eommeneed work at his trade in Salt Lake City, whieh he followed a number of \ears. Jn ]^()() he was a])|)ointe(l lieutenant in the Ltah militia. In |une iSf)", he was ealled to proteel settlers in .Sanpete valle\- from Indian depre- dations to whieh the\- were eonstantl}- subjeeted. The Indians were soon made friends by the wise and eareful mani))ulations of I5rij4"ham \ ount;', then ( lovernor of LTah. Mr. Stevens was relieved, in ( )cto- ber i86(). and returned to his home. lie married, on Deeember 2J. 1S71, at .Salt Lake C'it\-. Ltah. .Maria .Strinn'hani. who was born on l'"ebruar\- 23, 1S33. She was tlv dau.q'hter of Lriant .Strin<;ham and Harriet .Maria .\shb\. In |une 1878, in eonnection with two brothers, he establishecl the \\vn\ of Stevens llros. known as the "■( )<.;'den I-'oundry and .Maehine .Shops." One of the ereditable ])ro(luetions of this firm, is the iron fenee .-urroundini;' the COuntN' ("ourt House whieh weighs over eleven tons. Me was ])roffered and aeeepted the ])osilion of eollector of lieenses and assistant reeorder of Og'clen C'it\, Ltah, in whieh he officiated initil hebruary 1883. Lie was then elected citv recorder for two years. In .\ui;ust. 1883, he was elected sheriff of Weber countx', for one \ear. In I'ebruary 1885. re was aj.;ain elected recorder, and re-elected, a.^ain. in 1887. .Ml of the above named ])ositions he filled with entire satistaction to himself and to those he served. I le made such a perfect record that lie was called to fill a ])ositiou as father and counselor to the peo])l'' of the hifth ward of ( )^-deu t'ity, Ltah. ( )n .\Liy J(), 1887, he was ordained a I'.isho]) in the ( hnrch of jesus t'hrist of Latter-day .Saints. .i \-er\- tiwim;' position, to adnn'nister to the wants of the ])oor, to care ior the afflicted, the orphans and the widows and to settle di t licidtie:> l/\' arbitration and to ])resi(le o\-er and attend to ordinances in then' i'e.specti\'e wards in said Church. Thomas |. .Sit'veus. had children, as follows : 1. Jacob Stevens, who was born on ( )ctober (). 1872 at T'.vanston. W'vomin^'. and who died there on ( )ctober n, i87_>. H. T.riant Strini^ham Stevens, who \>'^s born on HecemlK'r 24. AilSCELLANEOUS STEVENS EAMILJES I// 1873, at Salt Lake City, Utah. He died in February 1887, at Ogden, and was buried there. III. Thomas Jordan Stevens, who was l)orn on FelM'uary 19, 1876. at Salt Lake City. Utah. He died in April 1882, cind was buried at (_)g'den. I\'. .Alaria An-.elia Stevens, who was born in bAd^ruary 1878, at Salt Lake City, Utah. A . Eva Louisa Stevens, who was bi_)rn on A])ril 2, 1880, at ( )g-(len, and who died in May 1882, at Salt Lake City, b'tah, in Sugar House AX'ard and who was buried at Ogden, Utah. \ I. Stanle}- Simons Stevens, who was born on March 10, 1882, at Ogden. \'1L Stringham Ashby Stevens, who was born on October 18, 1884^ AHH. Zella Stringham Stevens, who was born on October 3, 1886,, at Ogden, Utah. The death of Thomas J. Stevens occurred in 1900, at Ogden, Utah, and brought' forth from the Deseret Xews, of Salt Lake City, ihe following" tribute to his memory : "After eight months of a wastings illness and much suffering, Hon. Thomas J. Stevens, Bishop of the Fifth ward of Ogden, this morning surrendered the struggle for life, and passed into the great beyond. A complexit\" of troubles appeared during his sickness, but the imme- diate cause of his death, according to his physician, Dr. Rich, was cancer of the liver. 'TUshop Stevens was one of the best known and most highly res- pected citizens of ( )gtlen. He also had many friends and admirers in this cit}- and throughout the State. His residence in the June- lion citv has covered a long period of time, and his industry and ability caused him to be associated with the best interests and develop- ment of the resources of the community in which he lived. Li the ordinary course of events he might have lived for years to come, as he was still a young man, having only passed the fifty-second annual rnile stone in life's journe\'. Fie had held numerous positions 01 trust and in all of them act|uitted himself not only with credit, but usuallv with marked success. His demise will be mourned by many persons outside of his own immediate family and relatives ; for Bishop Stevens had many friends, having easily drawn them to him by his kindly, affable and even tempered nature. 11 Hi STEVENS GENEALOGV "Some months ago he made a protracted visit to San Francisco and Southern Cahfornia cities accompanied by his wife in the hope that beahh would come back to him. In this, however, he was doomed to serious disappointment, as instead of getting- better he apparently gradually grew worse until the end came. His funeral will be held from the Weber Stake tabernacle on Sunday at 2 p. m. It is expect- ed that a large number of Salt Lake friends will go up to Ogden K^ attend the services. "Thomas Jordan Stevens was a native of Bristol, England. He was born January 24th, 1848. and was the son of Jacob and Eliza Simons Stevens. He embraced the faith of the Latter-day Saints vv-hen but eight years of age and emigrated to I'tah in 1864, arriving in Salt Lake City, Nov. 2nd of that year, in Captain Warren Snow's lompany. His father and mother, lirother W. H., and Sister Elea- nor Stevens Xeslen, the latter the first born of the family, have all preceded him in death's flight. "Two years after his arrival in Utah. 1866. he joined the militia, organized for the purpose of defending the people against the pilfer- ings and aggressions of the Indians, and was sent to Sanpete and Se- vier counties to assist in quelling uprisings in those sections and to p.i-otect the settlers from the depredations then being made. "In 1872 he was sent on a mission to Arizona and remained there something like a year. He was for a long time one of the coun- selors of Bishop Edwin A. Stratford of the I-ourth u-ard of Ogden, ;.nd on the organization of the I'ifth ward of Ogden, he became its liishop and held the office continuously till the time of his death. He was city recorder of Ogden for six years, three con- secutive terms, beginning in 1885. For two years prior to the first mentioned date he had been sheriff of Weber county. He was for a long time director of the Weber Stake academy. He was also a director of the Utah Loan and Trust company's bank and cashier until compelled to resign on account of ill health. In politics he ■,vas a Republican and as such was elected to the first State Legis- lature of Utah. He possessed a well developed liking for military life, the inclination dating as far back as the sixties. This fact together with his w^ell known capability, caused Governor West to sefect him as a member of his personal staff. He was made com- missarv general with the rank of colonel. So creditably did he dis- charge the duties of his office that ( lovernor Wells on his succession to the executive chair re-appointed him to the position. His death will be a distinct loss to the XatuMial C.uard of Utah." ROLLIN CUNNABELL TROUSLOT Aaed Five Months and Four Weeks. MISCELLANKOUS STEXEXS FAMILIES l8l SECTION XI. THE STEVENS FAMILY, of France. THE STEVENS FAMILY of celebrated printers and publishers cauie originally from I'rovence, in France. Henry Stevens is found set- tled in Paris towards 1520. He is supposed to have been born about 1460 and he died in 1520. In Paris, Henry Stevens, carried on the business of printer and bookseller for upwards of twenty years, in 1826, Robert Stevens, second son of Henry, is found in posses- sion of the business. Robert Stevens was born in 1503. Everv }ear of his business life was marked b}' the issue from his printing press of several vol- umes, many of them masterpieces of art and all of them surpassing anything of the kind previously seen in Paris. He was at once printer,- publisher, commentator and auth(~)r. Though prosperous, he showed unmistakably that truth, or that which to him was truth. was of more value in his eyes than w'orldly gain. liaving secretly become a convert to the doctrines of the reformation, he endeavored ror some time to reconcile his convictions with the outward demeanor required by his position. Ikit the convictions were too strong or the nature of the man too truth-loving. His llible of 1545 and Greek testament of 1549 each drew down upon him a ])u])lic prosecu- tion ; and, though the prosecutions failed legally, they were disastrous to his private fortune. Having sent his family to Geneva he followed tlien^i there in 1549. Robert Stevens, Jr., his second son. shortly afterwards returned to Paris where he resumed his father's business returning to the Ro- man Catholic faith. In flying from Paris to Geneva, the Stevens family found that, they had but exciianged Roman Catholic persecution for Protestant persecution. Henry Stevens, the second, was born in Paris in 1538 and suc- ceeded his father, Robert Stevens, Jr., on his death, in 1559. Lie was repeatedlv called before the council, reprimanded and ordered to print cancels and was finallv excomnumicated. Though lk'nr\- ])ossessed the same literar}- industr_\- and ability as his father, he was unfortu- natelv deficient in his father's practical turn of mind. Devoted to his art and his calling, he seems to have been utterly wanting in 1 82 THE STEVENS GENEALOGY \'.-orklly pnuleiicc. In two years we find that he had revised and pubhshed more than 4000 pages of Greek text, whik' at the same time lie was writing his Apologia pro Herodoto, a work (^f formidable length and learning. He was rendered nervous and irritable by an over- worked brain and by pecuniary difficulties which were gathering fast around him. The petty surveillance and censorship of the pious pastors of Geneva Ijecame intolerable to him and traveling, originally undertaken from literary curiosity, grew into a necessity of life. In 1578 he visited Paris where for several years he became a hanger-on of the court of Henry III, who bestowed upon him a pension which the estate of the royal exchequer rendered merely a nominal one. Quitting Paris he wandered in poverty over Europe, his own family (jften ignorant of where he was to be found. He died at Lyons in 1598. Great as a commentator and publisher, Henry Stevens does not seem to have possessed much power as an original thinker. His mastery of Greek seems to have been almost complete and as a critic of the French lansfuaee he is still esteemed in France. SECTION XII. > JONATHAN STEVENS, of Canada. JONATHAN STE\^ENS, who was born in 1766 died in Canada. He is supposed to have moved into Canada about 1802 from the line between X'ermont and Massachusetts. He was a brother of William Stevens. Jonathan Stevens married Lucy Adams, who was born aliout 1768 and wdio died on March 25, 1845 ""i ^-^^ Co., Iowa. She was directly related to the Adams and Ouincy families so prominent in the earl\- history of the Ignited States. Jonathan Stevens and his wife Lucy had : I. Jonathan Stevens, who was born about 1794 and who married Nabbv Phelps. He was a farmer. II. ^^■arren Stevens, who was born about 1796 and who married Peggy Gilchrist. III. Oliver Stevens, who was born about 1798. He married Sally Britten of New York, where he afterwards resided. IV. Henry Stevens, who w^as born about 1800. He married }ilatilda Smith and removed to Nauvoo, 111., in 1845 and II MISCELLANEOUS STEVENS FAMILIES 183 then as far west as Farmington, Iowa, whence he wenr back east. V. Arnold Stevens, who was born on August 24, 1802. He married on November 5, 1828, Lois Coon. The older brothers of Arnold Stevens, were married before he was and had scattered in different directions, all having large families. He and his wife, Lois Coon, his mother, Lucy Adams Stevens, and others, left Canada in March 1837, having joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints in 1836. Arnold Stevens died on March 2"], 1847 'it Pueblo, Colo., from being thrown from a horse while serving in the Mexican War. He enlisted in the "Mormon Battalion" and accompanied them as far as Pueblo, Colo., where he died. He was a farmer and a mason. His wife, Lois Coon, was born on ^ larch 10, 181 1 in Upper Canada. She afterwards resided in ]■ air- view, Sanpete Co., Utah, where she died. They had: 1. Byron Stevens, who was born on February 29, 1830, in Copper Canada and who died the same day. 2. Sabra Elizabeth Stevens, wfho was born on December 25, 183 1, in Jefferson Co.^ N. Y. She died on De- cember 14, 1843 at Macedonia, 111. 3. Lois Ann Stevens, who was born on December 15, 1833, in Jefferson Co., N. Y. She married in Wes- ton, Piatt Co., Mo., Lycurgus Wilson, who was borii on February 27. 1828 in Richland Co., Ohio. He was the son of Guy Carlton Wilson and Elizabeth Hunter They had : i. Lycurgus Arnold Wilson, who was born on No- vember 7, 1856, at Salem, Utah Co., Utah. He married, first, Ellis Maria Tucker, who was born on September 6, 1858. She died at Provo, Utah, on Jan. 12, 1887. He married, second, on De- cember 23, 1888, Melissa Patten, at Logan, Utah, and, third, Zina Lyons, on January 5, 1890. ii. Lois Elizabeth Wilson, who was born in March 1859, at Salem, LTtah. She died on July 25, 1S65. iii. Ellen Adelia Wilson, who was born on October II, 1861, at Ogden, L'tah. She married Philip i84 THE STEVENS GENEALOGY Harrison Hurst, iv. Guv Carlton \\'ilson, ^vllo was l)orn on April lo, 1864, at Fairvicw. I'tah. He married Elvira Elizabeth Hartsberg. y. Justin Wilson, who was born on September 10, 1866, and who died on November 15, 1881. vi. Alary ]\Iehital)le Wilson, who was born on May 14, 1869. She married Philip Harrison Hurst. i vii. Viola Wilson, who was born on November 27, 1 87 1. She married Andrew Peterson, viii. Eucy Aral)ella Wilson, who was born on October \ 23, 1874 at Eairview. She n]arried Thomas Reese Anderson. 4. Rachel .Matilda Ste\ens, who was Ijorn on July 2=^. 1836, and who died on December 20. i8-i(j. at Weston, Piatt Co., Mo. 5. Arnold .Stevens, who was horn on Aui.;u>t jj. 1838. at Dulilin, Ind. He died on September 5, 1838. 6. Ransom Aljraham Stevens, who was born on Se])tem- ber 2/, i83<), at Sprini^-field, 111. ( )n lA'bruary ij, 1836, he married Trancjuilla .Vnn lirady, who was born on Januarv 22, 184(1 in Hancock Co., 111. ."^he was the daui^'hter of Lhidsey l'>rady and i^lizabcnh Ann Anderson. 'rhe\- had : i. Ransom .Marion .Sterens. who was born on .Ma_\' 1. 1864. He married Annie Dorothea Christensen. She was the daui^iUer of I'rederick Christensen and Christina .Sophia Rasmussen. They had: (1) Stella .Sophroiiia Stevens, who was born on Sei)teniber 11. 1888. She died on No- vember (;, 1888. (2) Rav Stevens, who was born on ( )ctol)er 9, l8gi and who died on ( )ctober 18. l8()T, at I'^ai^'alii. l'])ohi, ."^amoa. (3) .Marion ( 'hristeuM-Mi Stevens, who was born o]i |unc <;. i8tj_). and who died on June 29, iK(;4, at |-';'.ir\-ie\v. Ransom .Mari-)n Stevens, was a L^radnate of LOIS ANN STEVENS Wife of Lyciirgus Wilson ^[[.sci:llaneous stevens families 187 the Urighani Young University, at Provo, Utah, and went on a mission to the Southern States when only eighteen years old and again at the age of thirty he went to Samoa on a mission. He was president of the mission and died April 28, 1894, at Fagalii, Upolu, Samoa. The following ohituary appeared in the Deseret News : "Fagalii, Samoa, May 23, 1894. Since you last heard from this far-off land, the hand of death has taken from our midst, our honored and beloved president. Elder Ransom M. Stevens. He had been complaining of not feeling well for some time, and had been confined to his bed for ten days, when on the morning of Saturday, April 28th, 1894, his noble spirit was called hence, and we were left to mourn his loss, and try to comfort and console his grief-striken wife. "Brother Stevens had been president of the Samoan mission for some time previous to his demise, and as president and co-laborer he won the love and admiration of all with whom he was associated." ii. Arnold Stevens, who was born on March 2, 1866, at Fairview, Utah. He married Augusta Ander- son and they had : (i) Hans Arnold Stevens, who was born on February 24, 1886. (2) Ransom Abraham Stevens, who was born on June 30, 1889. (3) Delia Augusta Stevens, who was born on November 5, 1891. (4) Ernest Andrew Stevens, who was born on October 13, 1894. iii. Lindsey Absalom Stevens, who was born on April 4, 1868. He married Louisa M. Anderson. They had: 1 88 THE STEVENS GENEALOGY (i) liii'dic AlcU'L^arette Stevens, \\lia\' in .\ew l"".ngland ackuijwlec'ge') BARNARD STEVENS, Twin Brother of the Author THE ANCESTRAL LINE OF DR. ELVIRA STEXEXS UARNEY. I97 the important and perilous service rendered, by a grant of land ; it then granted to the survivors of the fight and the descendants of the others a township, which was called, in honor of tlie fight "Fall Town", which was incorporated with the name of Bernardston, March 6, 1762. Among the list of grantees appears the name of "Samuel Cunnibal, Boston, son of John Cunniball." The tract of land included the present towns of Bernardston and Leyden and a part of Colerain, all now in Franklin Co., Mass. A provision of the Grant required the land to go, when the father was deceased, to the eldest son living, and in case there was no son then to the oldest male descendant. John Cunnabell's share, therefore, went to his son Samuel, his eldest son John having died in 1705. In the diary of Jeremiah Bumstead, of Boston, "a staunch and active member of the Old South Church," he refers to the death of John Cunnabell under date of April 10, 1724, as follows: "On ye 10, in ye morning about 5, old Mr. Connabell, ye Joiner, dyed, & buryed on ye 13 day, aged 74 years 3 months 15 days." From this it would appear that Mr. Cunnabell was born on Jan. 25, 1649-1650, or as now written Jan. 25. 1650, and died April 10, 1724. Mr. Cunnabell was married three times ; the name of his first wife has not been found. His second wife was Sarah Clayes, Cloise or Cloyse, as written upon the ancient records, and his third wife was Martha Hely. All of his posterity bearing his surname are descend- ed from his second wife. Sarah Clayes, and are named as follows : L John Cunnabell, who was born in 1673. Pie married Lydia Beighton. II. Elizabeth Cunnabell, who was baptized February 16, 1689- 90 in the Old South Church. She married on January 28, 1 712, Thomas Wharton and died between March 25, 1724, and September 6, 1736. They had one child: I. Thomas Wharton, who was born on August 20, 1717. III. Susannah Cunnabell, who was baptized on February 16, 1689-90, in the Old South Church. There is no other rec- ord of her, therefore, she probably died young. IV. Robert Cunnabell, who was baptized May 25, 1690, in the Old South Church. He was drowned JMarch 19, 1699- 1700. Jndge Samuel Sewall wrote in his diary. Vol 2, page 9, under this date: "Three young men, viz: Robert 198 Till-: STliVEXS GI'LXEAr.OC.V. Cuniiabell, Win. Salter, Tho. Comer, went in a canoo a Gun- ing before day-light, and were drowned. Wind high and wether cold. ( )nly James Tileston was saved." v. .Martha C_'nnnal)ell, who was born about 1687. She married, first, .Mr. Ireland, probably son of John Ireland; he died and sItc married, second. May 11. i/OJ. Nathaniel I'.reck (written al>o llrick). She died in IJoston, Septeniber 2y. 1731. aged 44 years. She had two children by .\lr. Breck : 1. Sarah Ih'eck. who was born Xovemljer 23. 1710. 2. Nathaniel lireck, who was born on .May 9. 1713. and who died on November 22. 17 19. VI. Samuel Cunnabell. who was born on Januar\- 16. iC)89-90. He married, first, Abigail Treadway, and, second, Mrs .Mar_\' (Wilson) Diamond. VII. Abigail Cunnabell, who was l)a]:)tized on December 27, 1691. She married Daniel liell. \'I11. Deborah (."unnabell. who was Ijorn on Mav 5, 1695. and was baptized in the Old South Church the same day. .*^h.' probably died young as she was not named in her father's will. IX. Hannah Cunnabell. who was l)orn August 5, 1607. ."-^he first married William Bond, and, second, John B.enjamin. X. Cunnabell, son, was still-born March 18, 1701. XI. Mary Cunnabell, who was born January 22, 1703-4. .She married, first, William Booker, and, second, John Earl. S AMCFd. CCXNAI'.RLL, .son of John Cunnabell, was born in Boston, .Mass., Januar\- i^i, (689-90 : was published in Hoston, Ju;ie 17, 1710. with Aliigail Treadway. of Lliarlestown, third daughter of Josiah and Sarah ( Sweetman) 'i^-eadway. born September 24.1683 ; by her he had two children and both died young; she died .\pril 6, 1713. He was married the second time, in jioston by Rev. Cotton Mather, July 23, 1713, to Mrs. Mary (Wilson) Diamond, widow of John Diamond and daughter of William and .Mary ( Pierce) Wilson. She was mar- ried to her first hu>l)and, John Diamond, .Vugust 22, 1709. She was born in I'.oslon, .November 4, i6(jO, and was baptized in the Old South Cliurch when twelve days old. Her mother, ]^Iary, was daugh- ter of Jolm fierce, of lioston, a bricklayer, and wife Isabell. Her father. William Wilson, was the son of Deacon Edward Wilson, of MARY BOUTWELL, Wife of Barnai'd Stevens THE ANCESTRAL LINE OF DR. ELVIRA STEV'ENS BARNEY. 201 Charlestown, ]\[ass., whose wife ^lan-, was daughter of Deacon Robert Hale and Joanna Hale, early settlers of Charlestown. Deacon Rob- ert Hale was the ancestor of Capt. Nathaniel Hale, of the Connecticut Continentals, the patriot spy of the Revolution ; also of the well-known Rev. Edward E. Hale of the present day. By his second wife Mr. Cunnabell had ten children : I. John Cunnabell, who was born on March 24, 171 1. He was baptized on March 27, 171 1 and died December 20, 1713. H. Abigail Cunnabell, who was born on December 26, 1712. She was baptized on January 4, 171 2- 13. HI. Elizabeth Cunnabell, who was born on April 24, 17 14. She married John Lee. IV. William Cunnabell, who was born March 13, 1715-16. He was baptized March 18, following, and died September 20, , 1717- V. Samuel Cunnabell, twin with William, who was born March 13, 1715-16. He was baptized March 18, following, and was buried May 25, 17 16. VI. Samuel Cunnabell, who was baptized April 7, 1717. He married Mary English. VII. Sarah Cunnabell, who was born February 22, 1718-19. She married James Couch. VIII. Abigail Cunnabell, who was born September 22, 1722. She married, fi»-'^t, William Craft, and, second, Joseph Kneeland. IX. William Cunnabell, who was born on ]\Iarch i, 1723-4. He was baptized when one week old and died before 1746. He probably died in infancy. X. John Cunnabell, who was born on August 10, 1725. He married Sarah Craft. XL Preserved Cunnabell, who was born on October 29, 1727. He married twice; first, Hester Wisdom, and, second. Miss Crocker. XII. Hannah Cunnabell, who was born October 13, 1729. She married twice ; first, James Maxwell, and, second, Mr. Frizzle. SAMUEL CUNNABELL, son of Samuel Cunnabell, son of John Cunnabell, was born in Boston, Mass., probably but a few days prioi 202 Tin-: STEVENS GENEALOGY. to his baptism in the ( )hl Xorth or Second Church. April 7. 1717. He- was pubhshed in lloston, Mass., March 8, 1739, to Hannah Blanch- ard, of Hanover, but no record or tradition has been preserved of their marriage. He was married in New Haven, Conn., about 1740, to Mary Enghsh, daughter of IJenjaiuin and Rebecca (Brown) En- glish. She was born in New Haven, on December 29, 1715, and joined the church there on June 17, 1736. Pieces of her wedchng dress of very heavy changeable silk of light robin's-egg blue are still preserved among her descendants, the dress remaining nearly ninety years as she wore it. The tradition is that immediately after their marriage she accompanied her husband to their new home in Fall I'own, Hampshire county, now Bernardston, Franklin county, Mass.. riding behind him on the same horse and carrying her household goods. Mr. Cunnaljell was "of Boston" in June, 1739, in which month, as attorney for his father, he attended a meeting of the proprietors of Fall Town at Deerfield, when it was voted to build a meetinghouse in I'^all Town, fifty feet long, forty feet wide and twenty-three feet be- tween the joists: this house was built bv .\lr. (/unnabell and was the first framed building erected in the town. .Mr. Cunnabell's residence was the second dwelling-house erected in the town ; three others belong- ing to Lieut. Ebenezer Sheldon, Deacou Sheklon and Maj. John Burk, were built about the same time. Mr. Cunnabell built a bridge over Fall river in 1741 , the first in the town, and another in 1750; in 1760 he built a bridge across hall river at the saw mill ; was on a committee to build or repair bridges 1771, 1772, 1784 and at various otlK'r times; was chairman in 1770 of a committee granting him land and a road from his saw-mill to his house. In 1784 it was "N'otcd, that there shall be a bridge built by Mr. .Samuel Cunnabell's ( )ld ."^aw Mill.'' Mr. Cunnabell was chosen Deer reeve 1772, constable and collector 1762, 1763, 1764, 1766, 1773 and other years; surveyor of highways 1752, 1763, 1777. 177'^' 1786. December 15, 1772. a committee was chosen to get men to helj:) Mr. Cunnabell move the meetinghouse from "Ruckle Hill" down near the old cemetery, a distance of about a half-mile, and at the same meeting it was "\'oted that Mr. Samuel Cunnable shall have the whole ordering of the affair with Res])ect to drawing the meetinghouse." .\lr. C'uiniabell was reniarkal)le for his self-taught mechanical knowledge and ingenuity, for his skill in raising and drawing build- ings, constructing bridges, mills, residences, churches, etc. As speci- mens of his contrivinc', mechanical mind are the circumstances of his BARNARD FIELD STEVENS, Son of Barnard Stevens and Mary Boutwell. Stevens THE ANCESTRAL LIAE UE DR. ELN'IRA STENEXS UARXEV. 205 removing the meeting house one-half a mile with men alone, the rais- ing of his saw-mill (4he second one erected by him on what is known as "'Newcomb Brook"), assisted only by his son John, daughter ]\Iolly and the "old white mare," and that while engaged in making maple sugar he gathered the sap in a basket and boiled it in a tub. The saw mill referred to stood over a very deep, narrow gorge or glen in "New- comb Brook," one hundred and seventeen rods from Fall river. It appears from the rolls of the Revolutionary War at Pjoston that ^Ir. Cimnabell and his son John were in the military service. Mr. Cunnabell served as a private from April 20. to May i. 1775. in Capt. Agrippa Wells's company. Col. William's regiment of militia ; marched from Greenfield. He also served from July 10, to August 12. 1777. in Capt. Amasa Sheldon's company. Col. Elisha Porter's regiment of militia, in an expedition in the Northern Department : the Capt. was from Deerfield. In 1744 was commenced the French and Indian War, and so fre- quent were the incursions of the Indians and so great the danger, that the settlement in Fall Town was mostly abandoned, a few inhabitants only remaining and these living in stockades or fortified houses or forts. John Burk's fort, the largest of the three forts in Fall Town, was six rods square, constructed of timber, ten or twelve feet long, sharpen- ed to a point at the top and placed perpendicularly close together, firmly in the earth, and having at each corner an elevated stand for the sen- tinels. In case of an alarm from the approach of the Indians the fam- ilies that remained in this territory resorted to the forts for mutual protection and safety. The Indian "war whoop," accompanied by the tomahawk and scalping-knife, were the dread of the early settlers, for they well knew that if they were overpowered it was death at once, or, what was nearly as bad, a terrible captivity in Canada, from which they might never return. Mr. Cunnabell's daughter Elizabeth, who afterwards became the wife of William Newcomb, was born in Burk's fort in 1757, where her parents were driven by the Indians. At the time of the blockade of Boston by the British in the Revo- lutionary A\'ar, Mr. Cunnabell went to Boston and brought home his two widowed sisters, Mrs. Lee and Mrs. Maxwell and her four chil- dren. It was judged that he raised a double crop of grain that year, it was noticed by the people and believed that Providence had thus favored him as a reward for his kindness to his poor sisters. Mr. Cunnabell was admitted to the New Brick Church, Boston, November 6, 1737, and upon the organization of the first church in Fall Town, 2o6 THE STEX'EXS GENEALOGY. he and his wife became members and so continued nntil their decease. The}' were devoutly rchgious people ; she was a very superior woman and possessed one of the sweetest of dispositions. They had seven children : I. Samuel Cunnabell, who was Ixjrn November ii. 1743. He mar- ried Rebecca R}'thcr. II. ]\Iary Cunnabell. who was born about 1747. III. John Cunnabell. who was born about 1749. He married. first. Amy Edwards, second. Sarah ])ewe_\-, and. third, Airs. Abigail Congdon. IV. Sarah Cunnabell. who was born in Mav 1751. She mar- ried Hophni Ryther. A'. Rebecca Cunnabell. who was born aliout 1755. She married Ezra Shattuck. \'l. Elizabeth Cunnal)ell. who was l)orn about 1757. She mar- ried William Xewcomb. Vir. Phebc Cunnabell. who was born about 17O0. She died }OUni;. SAMUEL CCXXAIIELL, son of Sanuiel, son of Samuel, son of John, was born in Eall Town, now Bernardston. Mass.. November 11, 1743. He was a farmer. lie married November 13. 1770, Rebecc i Ryther. daughter of Lieut. David Ryther (or Rider as he wrote his name), born in the same town Ma\- 2t^. 1753. He settled upon the farm next north of his father's and upon the same (west) side of the road, his house l)eing one hundred and fort\'-niue rods distant. .\fter Mr. CunnabelTs death his >on. I'>,ra. became the owner of die farm and li\ed and died in the same house. The farm is miw owned by Myron Corbett. Mr. Cunnabell was ch )sen ha\\vard in 1770: surveyor of higways 1769, 1785; warden 1781, 1783^ '784: assessor 1787; surveyor of boards and shingles 1772. 1701: constable and collector 177O; op committee to settle with Kev. Amasa Cook and town treasurer 1783. and em])lo\ed b\- the town to build bridges I78(; and 1700. He died instantaneoush' while sitting u])on his plow in his field on Ajiril 29, 1794. Mr. Cunnal)ell died intestate: his widow became the adminis- tratrix of the estate and the guardian of her children, who were as follows : I. Anna Cunnabell, who was born on January 30, 1772. She i^ t > THE ANCESTRAL LINE OF DR. ELVIRA STEVENS BARNEV. 20g married Nehemiah \\'right. II. Eunice Ciinnabell. who was born on January 27, 1774. She married Dr. Simon Stevens. III. Jonathan Cunnabell, who was born on August 13, 1776. He married Asenath Wright. IV. Ezra Cunnabell, who was born on November 12, i/J^). He married, first, Abigail Stevens, second, Mary Dennison. and, third, Mrs. Sylvia P. Willard. V. Amelia Cunnabell, who was born on December 29. 178 1. She married Ebenezer Sereno Field. \'I. Caroline Cunnabell, who was born on June 24. 1784. She married Willaim Felton. \ II. Rebecca Cunnabell, who was born on Juh- 22. 1787. She died on August 17, 1800. from drinking milk after eating- choke cherries. EUNICE CUNNABELL, daughter of Samuel, who was the son of Samuel, who was the son of Sanuiel, who was the son of John, was born in Bernardston, Mass., on January 2j, 1774. She married on November 19, 1793, Dr. Simon Stevens, of Guilford, Vt., where she died November 30, 1797. Dr. Simon Stevens was the son of, JOSEPH STEVENS, who was born about 1728 in Petersham, Mass., and died about 1771. He married Dolly Sawyer, who was born about 1730. She died some years before her husband. They had: I. Lemuel Stevens, \a ho was born about 1750. He removed to Stukely, Canada, when his children w'ere young. He mar- ried on C'ctolxr 30, 1773. His children were: I. Arten.as Stevens, \\h ) was born on December 12. 1774 He married Nellie, and they had : i. Sim(jn Ste\'ens. who was born on Noveml;)er 17. 1808. ii. Nathaniel P. Stevens, who was born on July 2t,, 18 10. He resided ten miles from Knowlton Lower Canada. He married Sophia Richard- son, who was born on INIarch 24, 1813. iii. \\"ing Stevens, who was born on April 26, 181 2. 210 THE stk\i-:ns (iexf.ai.og.'. iv. Lemuel Stevens, who was l^urn on ( )ctol)cr 17, 1814. He married and had : (i) Roderic Stevens, who was born on March or May 4, 1834. (2) Isabella Stevens, who was born on July i, 1836. ) ( 3 ) Edwin Rutlivcn Stevens, who was born on July 24. 1838. (4) Lennicl llenton Stevens, wdio was l)orn on ( ;ctol)er 11, 1841. (5) Marietta Stevtns, who was born on June 8. 18^5. (6) Analia Stevens, who was Ixirn on August - • " 4/ • 17) An:anda Stevens, w lio was l)orn on August ^ 2i\ 1847 and who was a twin of Anieha. V. Annie Stevens, who was born on 'November 28, ■ 1816 at Stukely, Canada, vi. Polly Stevens, who was hoxw on Ang'ust 2;}^. 1818. vii. Gardner Stevens, who was l)orn (^n lA-bruary 2^, 182T. He was Mavor oS the flourishing" city of Waterloo, Sheffield, viii. Joseph Stevens, who was born in 1823. ix. Albert Stevens, who was born in 1825. 2. Gardner Stevens, who was born a1)out 177<'>. He re- sided at Minneapolis and is said to have built the first substantial house there. 3. Simon Stevens, who was born alxnit 1778. 4. Thomas Stevens, who was born about 1780. 5. Dolly Stevens, who was l~;orn about 1800. She mar- ried Mr. Sykes and had several children, amonu' them bcini;- : i. A daughter, ii. Dollv Sykes. who married I.yuian i!arnes. 6. Anna Stevens, who was born about 1802. She mar- ried but left no cliildren. oOcOqc^ BARNARD FIELD STEVENS AND SARAH CUSHMAN FIELD He was the Brother of Minerva Althea F'ield Stevens THE ANCESTRAL LINE OF DR. ELVIRA STEVENS BARNEY. 213 7. Polly Stevens, who was born about 1804, died young and was never married. II. Gardner Stevens, who was born about 1752. He married and had two sons, one of whom moved to \'ermont. III. Cyprian Stevens, who was born about 1753 went to the state of Maine and settled there. His wife was the eldest daughter of Daniel Greenlief, a former pupil of Dr. Simon Stevens. IV. John Stevens, who was born about 1755. V. Thomas Stevens, who was born about 1757, and who died while he was a \oung man. He ne¥er married. VI. Simon Stevens, who was born about 1759. He died in in- fancy. \TI. Dr. Simon Stevens, who was born about 17O0, was the second son of that name. He settled in (niilford, \'t., about 1780, and was the first physician there. He died there on August 15, 1824. He married three times, first, Lois W'illard, second. Eunice Cunnabell, and, third, Su- sannah Greenlief. By his first wife, Lois W'illard, iie had three children : I. Simon Stevens, who was born on h^e]n'uar\- 13, 1787, at Guilford, Windham Co., Vt. He married in Jan- uary tSii, Clarissa Hyde, who v/as born on May 20, 1787 at (hiilford. She died ou October i, 1852 and was buried at Moira, Franklin Co., N. Y. She was the daughter of Dana Hyde, M. D., one of the earliest town physicians, and Lucy Fitch of \ t. Si- mon Stevens died in July, l852, at Moira. He was a farmer and a teacher. They had : i. Dana Hyde Stevens, M. D., who was born on Oc- tober 7, t8ii, at Whittingham, \'t., and was a twin. He married IMary W. Safford. who was born on August 8, 1808, at Enosburg. She was the fifth of seven children of whom five were girls. She was the daughter of Chellis Safford of Enosburg", one of the pioneer settlers in that locality. Dana Hyde Stevens was a physician at Moira and graduated at Pittsfield, Mass., in i83r). He passed his early years at home on the 214 THE STEVENS GENEALOGY. paternal farm and in obtaininq- an education. At the age of nineteen he eonmienced the stndy of medicine with Dr. Mrown of Dr.nham, \\ ()., having" saved mone}' enough from such, small em- ployments as he could find to enable him to un- dertake his professional studies. lie remained with Dr. Urown for one year and then removed I to Guilford. Vt.. and pursued his studies with his uncle Dr. Ilenjamiu Stevens of that pbic. I'n- der his tuition he prepared himself for the lec- ture courses which he enjoyed at Woodstock and at the Berkshire Medical Colleg-e of Pittsfield Mass., at the latter of which institutions he fi- nally graduated with honor. Dr. Stevens at first commenced practice in connection with his uncle in (luilford. \'t. In May 1837 ^'^^ removed to th:- town of Moira, Franklin Co., N. Y., where he entered u])on the practice of his profession and where he became one of the most ])opular and successful ])hvsicians in the country. After a practice of thirteen years and while still in the midst of his usefulness he was taken suddenly ill and after a sickness of only three (la^s he died on ( jctober ii, 1850. His death was greatly lamented by the community- in which h? resided and of wdiich he had proven so useful and hon- ored a member. He was always foremost in good works, active, progressive, intelligent, upright and just. He took a great interest in public affairs and sympathized with any movement tend- ing to jiromote the temporal welfare of the peo- ])le of the section in which he lived. He was school commissioner of Moira for four years and justice of the peace for several years. He was largely influential iii getting the Og"densburg and Lake Champlain l\ailroad brought to the town and a few days l)efore he died took ])art in the <)])ening trip on the road. He assisted in the erec- tion of the Congregational Church and though not a member was a regular attendant upon its DR. BENJAMIN WILLARD STEVENS, Of Guilford, Vermont. THE AXCIiSTRAL LINE OF DR. 1:L\1KA STENENS BARNEY. 21"/ services. The last account we have of his wife, she was hving, at the age seventy-one. They had : (i) Henry Hobart Stevens, who was born on August 25, 1838, at Moira. He (bed on No- vember 29, 1863. (2) Charles Cell Stevens, ]\I. D., who was born at Moira. on April 29, 1840, and who died on October 31, 1871. He was a physician, lawyer and editor of the "Buffalo Reflex'' of Buffalo, Dallas Co., Mo. (3) brances A. Stevens, who was born on March 22. 1842, at ?\Ioira. She married Philip A, Pierce of Aurora. 111. (4) Mary Stevens, who was born on March 5. 1848, and who died on March 3, 1871. (5) Horace Mann Stevens, who was born on February 2. 1850. He was a merchant of the firm of "Stevens and Rozen." ii. Lucy b'itch Stevens, who was the twin sister of Dana Hyde Stevens. She was l)orn on October 7, 181 1 at Whittingham, \'t. She married, first. Proctor W. Pierce of Moira. He resided and died at Moira and was the son of Hyrum Pierce and Sarah Potter of that ])lace. He was a rail- road station manager and justice of the peace. Thev had : (i) Sarah C. Pierce, who was born on April 20, 1845, '^'i*^^ who married Austin L. Fassett. He was born on January 7, 1837. (2) Frank W. Pierce, who was born on Novem- ber 24, 1852, married on October 14, 1879, Nettie Hughes. He was a hardware mer- chant. They had : a. Cady Hughes Pierce, who was born on Sejitember 16. 1881. Lucy Fitch Stevens, married, second, in ^lay 1865, Samuel ManniuL!', a native of Connecticut. He 2l8 THE STEVENS GENEALOGY. came to New York in his early }outh ami was for many years a justice of the peace in Moira. She died on February 3, 1892. She had one daugh- ter by her husband Samuel Manning, as follows: / (3) Gertrude H. Manning, who was born about 1866. iii. Lois Willard Stevens, who was lx>rn on Januar\- 15, 1814, and who died in September. 1815. iv. George Henry Stevens, who was born on April 28, 18 16, at Whiting, A't. He married, first, Al- mira Wilson, who was lx)rn on May 24. 18 17, at Bangor. Franklin Co.. N. Y. She died on March 2t,, 1877, at Malone. Franklin Co.. X. Y., and was buried there. She was the daughter of Samuel Wilson and Miss LJarnum. He mar- ried, second, in 1879, Mrs. Mary Colton of Ma- lone. He was justice of the peace. He had: ( I ) Abbie Stevens, who was li(jrn on July 22, 1840, and who married Charles Adams in 1865. She died in 1866. (2) Clinton Stevens, who was born on August 12, 1850. and who married branny W'ilcox on November 2y. ^^77- (3) Florence Stevens, who was l:)orn on August 8. 1853. She married Lamartine F. iJen- nington. an editor, and deput\" superintendent of i)ublic instruction for the State of New ^'ork. He died at IJangor, N. ^'.. in 1885. He was born at Malone, N. Y. V. Simon Dwight Stevens, who was born on Septem- ber 14, 1818. He married first. Geannette Si- mons in 1842. She died in 1845. The}' had: ( i) (ieanuette Stevens. wIk) was l)orn on Se])tem- ber 13. 1845. She was a teacher of a high school in the Argentine Re])ul)lic of South America. .Simon Dwight Stevens, married, second. Susan AMELIA ALTHEA STEVENS, Sister of the Author. THE ANCESTRAL LINE OF DR. ELVIRA STEVENS BARNEY. 221 Berdick, in February, 1847. They had: (2) WilHani CuUen Stevens, who was born in August, 1849. He married Ella Webster. He was a merchant of Malone. (3) Ellen Stevens, who was born in 1850. She married Frank Simons, who was a merchant of Malone. (4) Halbert Stevens, who was born in 1862, and who married Minnie Miller. He graduated at Albany as a lawyer. (5) Clara Stevens, who was born in 1865. (6) A child, who died in infancy. vi. Lois Willard Stevens, who was born on March 15, 1822, at Dunham, P. Q., Canada. She mar- ried on December 25, 1851, at Moira, Darius Watts Lawrence, who was born on February 18, 1820, at Moira, Franklin Co., N. Y. He was the son of Oren Lawrence and Sally Barnum. He resided at Malone, Franklin Co., N. Y., where he was a bank president. He was also a merchant there at one time. He represented his district in the Assembly at Albany. They had : ( 1 ) Sarah Lawrence, who was born on January 14, 1853. In 1872 she married John L. Spann. (2) Jennie C. Lawrence, who was born on May 21, 1855. She married on September 5, 1876, William King. (3) Edward Watts Lawrence, who was born on June 7, 1857. and who married on October 14, 1880, Minnie Webster. (4) Oren Lawrence, who was born on April 26, i860. He married on C)ctober 21, 1880, Sadie Willard. vii. Louisa Stevens, who was born on September 14, 1824. She married in December, 1843, Charles Wesley Pierce, who was a cousin of Proctor Pierce. Charles Weslev Pierce was the son of 222 THE STEVENS GENEALOGY. Jason Pierce and Sally Tilden, formerlx- of Aloira. They had : (i) Lncy Pierce, who was born on Xovember 5, 1844. and who married Homer I'aye in i860. (2) Newton Pierce, who was Ijorn in iS4f). He died in 1865. (3) Harriet Pierce, who was born in 1S4S. (4) Clara Pierce, who was born in 1840. She died in 1865. ( 5 ) Dana Pierce, \vho was born in December, 1852, and who died in 1855. (6) Ida Pierce, who was born in 1854. (7) Nason Pierce, who was bc^rn in J850. and who died in 1865. (8) Jennie Pierce who was l)orn in 1862. She married Charles Hig's^s in 1885. viii. P)aker Stevens, who was l^orn on I-"e])ruary 2j, 1827. He married Laura Dickey of Constable, N. Y. He was a merchant at A 1 alone. ix'. Clinton Stevens, who w-as born on April 9, 1830, and who married Sabra Lawrence on De- cember 17, 1856 at iMoira. He was a twin. They had : (i) Carrie Stevens, who was born in 18O0. (2) Edward Stevens, who was born in 1867. (3) Robert Stevens, who was born in 1871. X. Clarissa Stevens, who was born on A])ril 9, 1830, in Dunham, Lower Canada and resided in Aioira. She married on September 12, 1848, Xason Cass Bowen. Clarissa Stevens and Clinton Stevens were twins. She died on May 15, 1858. They had : (i) Georo-e M. Bowen, who was burn on Xo- vember 30, 1849. He was a hardware merchant in Moira. He married Luella Sherman and resided in \\ ashington Terri- tory for five years. In i8<)3 they resided in ( )o(len, Utah. Thev had : THE AXCI-:STRAL LINE OF DR. ELNIRA STEVENS EARXEV. 223 a. George Sherman Bowen, b. Edith Bowen, c. Clara Jeanette Bowen. (2) Clara Louise Bowen, who was born on Oct. 13, 1853 at Moira. She married on July 31. 1873, I^Ielvin B. Sowles and resided at Salt Lake City, L'tah, where all but the first of their children were born. The}' had: a. Arthur X. Sowles, who was born on May I, 1874, at Kansas City. He died on June 15. 1879. b. ]\lira Sowles. who was born on January 15, 1878. She graduated in 1895, at the high school. c. Melvin H. Sowles, who was born on April 18, 1882, and who married and had two children. d. Lewis William Sowles, who was born on April 10, 1884. c. Clara Sowles, who was born on March 23, 1888. f. Ruth Lois Sowles, who was born on March 12, 1894. (3) Harriet Ann Bowen, who was born on Jan- uary 9, 1855. and who died on August 18, 1855- (4) Baker Stevens Bowen, who was born on M-arch 12, 1858. He was a twin. He resided at Salt Lake City, L^tah. (5) B>arney William Bowen, who was born on March 12, 1858, and who died when he was nine days old. He was a twin to Baker. Nason Cass Bowen, married, second, on May 10. 1859, Nancy S. Chandler. She died on February 3. 1884. They had: (6) Charles Oscar Bowen, who was born on December 16, 1864. Ble resided in Iowa and was a merchant. 224 Tin-: sTi-:\'ENS genealogy. (7) Minnie L. Bovven, who was born on Janu- ary 14, 1867, and who died on September \ 30, 1867. (8) Freddie C. Bowen, who was born on Octo- ber 21, 1868, and who died on September 6, 1869. (9) Jessie I. Bowen. who was born on August 31. 1870. (10) AHce L. Bowen. wiio was born on October 13. 1872. (11) Lewis Cass I^)Owen. who was 1>orn on Feb- ^ ruary 8. 1874. xi. Ann Clap]) Stevens, who was born on I)eceinl)Lr 21, 1832. She was probably named for her uncle Cyprian's wife. She married Rollin Reed, who was the son of Rev. T. B. Reed, formerly of \'t. At one time he was a teacher in Prescott. Wis., and also a school commissioner. They hid: (i) Altie Reed, who was born in 1857. (2) Myron Reed, who was born in 1862. 2. Dr. Benjamin W'illard Stevens, who was born on Jan- uary I. 1789. resided at (iuilford, \T. He married, first. .Maria Hou.qhton, who was born on h'ebruary 2S>, T7<;5. ."^he died (mi Aui^ust 12, 1825. She hnd six children. He married, second, Lydia Henry, the sister of Edward Henry, who married Eliza A. Stev- ens, the daughter of Susannah Greenlief and Dr. Si- mon Stevens. Lydia Henry had but one child, L_\dia Henr\ Stevens, who died in infancy. Dr. B)eniamin Willard Stevens, ])\ his first wife. Mari: Houghton, had children, as follows: i. Darwin Houghton Stevens, who was born o'l March 3, 1814, at (iuilford, \'t., and resided at Athol, .Mass. lie married at Dana. Mass.. on Mav 14, 1842, Harriet Andrews, who was born on October 4, 1817, at Stockridge, Mass, She was the daughter of Elijah Andrews and .Mar\- 1 I PHILIP B. LEWIS, Husband of Jane Amanda £teven= THE ANCESTRAL LINE OF DR. ELVIRA STEVENS BARNEY. 227 Ann Stone of tliat place. They had : (i) Alary Ehzabeth Stevens, who was born on August ly, 1844, at (luilford, \ t. She mar- ried Addison M. Sawyer. (2) Ambrose Cyprian Stevens, who was born on December zj, 1(848. at Guilford, W., and who died on ( )ctober 25. 1870. at Davenport, Iowa. (3) hlorcnce Eugenie Stevens, who was born on August 14. 1856. at Davenport. Iowa. She died on August (), 1857. ii. Edward Stevens, who was l^orn on March 13, 1815. and who died on March 2}^. 1816. iii. Edwin W'illard Stevens, who was born on March 15, 1817, at Guilford Center, \t. He married at Shelburne Ealls, Mass., on April 26, 1846, Betsy A. iMsk. who w"as born on July 2}^. 1822. She was the daughter of Daniel iMsk. She died on Jan- uary 12, 1853. iv. Miranda Stevens, who was born on July 8, 1819, and W'ho died on May 23, 1894. V. Simon Stevens, who was born on July 13. 1822, at Guilford, At. On May 19. 1853, he married Mary Electa Davis, at Peru, Vt. She was born on August 16, 1835. ^t Ludlow, Vt., and was the daughter of Isaac Davis and Poll}^ Pyper of Landgrove. \'t. Simon Stevens died on Jan- uary II. 1892. They had: (i) Benjamin Willard Stevens, who was born on November 8. 1854 at Shelburne Ealls, Mass. (2) Alaria Houghton Stevens, wdio was born on October 31. 1856. (3) Edwin Henry Stevens, \vho was born on March 2. 1861. vi. Mariah Electa Stevens, who was born on Marcii 30, 1825, at Guilford, \'t. She married at Guil- 22% THE sti£\"j:x.s Gi:.\i:.\LUGV. ford on July 30, 1844. Dr. Sanford Elisha Plumb, a practicing physician, who was born on March 28, 1823, at Hahfax, \t. He died on May 9, 1862, at Otisville. X. Y. She followed his pro- fession the rest of her life after his death. She died at New A'ernon. ( )range Co., N. Y. They ^--^ , had: < (i) Dr. Charles S. I 'lumb, who was born on December 2^, 1847. at Halifax, V"t. He married Syreiia I>oyd of Red Bank, N. Y. He died on April 2^, 1881, at New Yori: City. His ol)ituary. published in the "Mid- dletown Daily Argus," says: "He studied luedicine with Drs. Law and Boyd of New ■^ York City, and was a graduate of the Uni- "' versity Medical College and of the College of Pharmacy. He had a large, lucrative practice and endeared himself to his patients and friends by his kind and affable luanner and strict integrity of character. The typhoid fever of which he died was con- tracted in the discharge of his professional duties." He had : a. Tracy Boyd Plumb, who was born on September 4, 1875, at Red Bank. (2) Ida I'lunib. who was born on July 7, 1855, at ( )tisville. X. Y., and who married George (iraham of Xew N'ernon. N. Y. They had: a. Jessie t^lumb (iraham, who was born or. August 2"/, i88r. b. Millie Lua Graham, who was born on ; July 19, 1883, and who died on Novem- ber 27. 1884. c. ?\larv Emma Graham, who was born on April 24. \^^G. i H 3. Cvi)rian Henry Stevens, who married Ann Clapp of JANE AMANDA STRVENS, Who Married Philip B. Lewis THE ANCESTRAL LINE OF DR. ELNTRA STEVENS BARNEY. 23 1 Westmin.ster, \'t., and removed to Michigan where he died young'. al:;out 1825. She is said to have hved to about 1874. She was an aunt to the Willards, a love- ly woman who kept the W'illard Hotel at Washington. His cousin. William, who was the son of Polly Stevens and Joseph Baker, married Harriet Claj)p. 4. Samuel Cunnabell Stevens, who was the son of Dr. Simon Stevens and his second wife. Eunice Cunna- bell, was born on C)ctober 19, 1794, in Guilford. Wind- ham Co.. \'t. He was married on April 3. 1824, by Rev. F. J. Rogers, of Bernardston, to Minerva Althea Field, who was born on October 26, 1803. at Bernards- ton, Franklin Co., Mass. In the spring of 1829 they removed to Gerry, Chautauqua Co., N. Y. lit the summer of 1843. ^^^ ^""^ ^^is oldest daughter. Jane, were baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Lat- ter-day Saints by Elder ^^'ade. One week afterwards his wife, Minerva, was baptized by Elder Joshua Hol- man. In the spring of 1844 his two eldest children went to Nauvoo, Hancock Co., 111. Mr. Stevens with the balance of his family left his home on March 3, 1845, '^"f^ arrived at Xauvoo, on July 20, 1845. hav- ing traveled down the Ohio and up the Mississippi rivers. Being detained on the road and reaching the hot climate at the mouth of the Ohio with the fatigue of the journey and the excessive heat, Mrs. Stevens was prostrated with fever and in changing boats at St. Louis, was unable to do so without aid. The new country in which Xauvoo was located was ver}' un- healthy at first and the family suffered from its ef- fects. Mr. Stevens was ordained an Elder on August 10, 1845, by Elder Baker. He rented a hou.se on the cor- ner of Warsaw and Ripley streets but they were there only a short time when they were all taken sick with the dysentery. Mr. Stevens died at eight o'clock in the morning on October 4, 1845, having been sick and confined to his bed for twelve days with typhoid fever. He slept himself away and was insensible from the first. His wife, Minerva Althea Field Stevens, fol- 2^2 THE STEVENS GENEALOGY. lowed hiiii on January 6, 1846, and was linricd by hi- >ide on I'arley street. This was at the time of tlic expulsion of the peoi)le from that place. \\ hile she was ])reparin«;- for the exit, ])archin!4 corn to meet emer- gencies, she t(^ok cold and after a sickness of four weeks left her family of five to face the cold and stubliorn facts of life alone. Mr. Stevens was beloved by all (^f his half broth- ers and sisters. J5oth he and his wife taught school before the}- were married. She commenced tailiir- ing with her widowed mother at ten vears of age. Si)ecin:ens of her ])ainting and her penman- ship and needle work are still pre-crx-cd auK^ng her children After her marriage she felt a ]~)ride in dress- ing in her home knit silk stockings and of exhibiting her home spun and woven linen towels, her own earned and self-made silk dresses and her heavih^ embroidered white ones. Her life in after \ears became more domesticated and she was called a fine cook. She 1 lulled sorrel to set the logwood dve to color the wool that she carded and spun and when she had completed the tailoring, a neighbor said to her, "Mrs. Stevens where does your husband get such good fitting broad- cloth suits?"" Her answer was: "Mv husl)and has not worn other than mv own manufacture these twenty years." She showed to the writer a little book wherein she kept an account of her earnings at tailoring. In fifteen years she had by the needle earned, in those days of hard times in a new countrv, S500.00 besides being a mother of eight children. She was fond of raising chickens and geese. She made her own* feath- er beds. (|uilts, rugs and counter])anes, mittens, stock- ings and straw hats, shawls and flannel dresses. l\lr. Stevens had disabilities which unfitted him for some laborious work. He met with reverses in his earl\- married life, when he was a merchant. He had procurt'd means to ])urchase more goods and his partner, .Mr. Warren, his cousin, stole the means and left the coinitrv. He then had to assiune bot''- II L-: AXCESTRAL LINE OF DR. KLXIR.'v STEVENS BARNEY. 233 their debts as that was then the law. But bv the aid of a friend he settled all accounts and it left him penniless. His daughter, Amelia, once said : "One cause of father's failure was, his endorsing- notes for other people, which was then very customary. He obtained through a lawsuit, $1,500.00, and the ver}^ day he receivetl it, these notes were brought against him and the lawyers took every cent of it." Through these combined circumstances the hopes and ambitions of the }oung- people were nearly broken to the extent that they left their friends, parents and grandparents to make a new home in the West, arriving in the little town of Gerry, Chautauqua Co., N. Y., in 1829. Here he borrowed money of an acquaintance who had pre- ceded them, to buy a cow. During the preceding five years the_\- had become the jtarents of four children. Thev had : i. Rollin Stevens, who died on May 5, 1827, at the age of two years and two months and fifteen days. He was a twin. Rollin died of whooping-cough. The other twin was : ii. Carlos Stevens, who was born on Februarv 3, 1825, at Guilford, Windham Co., Vt. He went to Nauvoo, 111., in 1844, with his sister, Jane, and learned and worked at the mason's trade until November i, 1845, He married Belinda El- dredge, who was born on jMay 27, 1834, at New- York. They resided there on a farm in 1864, and built a residence in Yorkville, Kendall Co., where they lived for the purpose of educating their girls. He then moved, in 1875, to Tioga, Mahaska Co., Iowa, and purchased land which he divided into four sections for himself and three daughters. He died about 1900, and was buried at Salt Lake City, Utah. They had : ( I ) Amelia Minerva Stevens, who was born on August 4, 1855, on the farm in 111. She married Clarence Almarine Howell, who was. 234 '1111-: STi-:\i':\s (;i-:.\i:.\i.ogn' born on Xov. 8. 1854 in Winterset, Iowa, They had : a. Walter Carlos Howell, who was born on March 5, 1880. !). Jesse Ross Howell, who was born on July 15, 1881. c. Bennie Curtis Howell, who was born on May 18, 1883. d. Stevens Cunnabell Howell, who was born on April 13, 1885. e. Leah Althea Howell, who was born on January 17, 1890. f. Emma Jane Howell, who was born on ( )ctober 31. 1892. i;". Ilarnard I'ield Howell. (2) \\ arren h'ield Stevens, who was born on February 16.' 1859. He died when he was fifteen days old and was buried in the Gris- wold liurial grounds. (3) lane Leander Stevens, who was liorn on A])ril iC), i860, in Kendall Co., 111. She married on January 8. 1877. John Milton Urown, who was born on ( )ctober I, 1857. He was the son of .Arsemus JJrown and Har- riet Ward. Jane Leander Stevens and her husband, John Milton Brown, had: a. Lula llrown, who was born on ( )ctober 20, 1878. This child died at birth. 1;. Claudia I^rown, who was born on June 2=,. 1882. at Rose Hill. Iowa. c. Ida l'a\' lirown, who was born on Sep- teml)er 24, 1889, at Watcheer, Iowa. d. I'd\'ira Stevens Brown, who was l)orn on July 7, i8<;8, at Hooper, Colo. (4) Ida Malinda Stevens, who was born on Feb- ruary 21, 1862, in Kendall Co. On April 30. 1884, ^'i*-' uiarried James Lenuiel Sullivan in PHILIP BESSUM LEWIS, Son of Philip B. Lewis THE ANCESTRAL LIXE OF DR. EIA'IRA STEVENS BARNEY. l^^J Macedona. They were niarried by Mr. Evans, a pastor of the M. E. Church. After their marriage they removed to Iowa on her father's farm. They had : a. Jennie Naomi Sulhvan, who was born on July 3, 1887, at Macedona and died there on June 4, 1888. b. Florence Sullivan, who was born on June 19, 1890. c. Carlos Cunnabell Sullivan, who was born March 5, 1892. d. Bessie Sullivan, who was born on Novem- ber II, 1894. (S) Eddie Lewis Stevens, who was born about 1867. iii. Jane Amanda Stevens, who was born on June 8, 1826. She was delicate from birdi and at the age of sixteen she walked on crutches eight- een months. She married, first, Kimball Bul- lock about March 15, 1846, at Nauvoo, 111. They had : (i) Joseph Bullock, who was born on February II, 1847, and who died on February 17. 1847, at St. Joseph, Mo. She married, second. Philip B. Lewis, on May 11, 1848, at Winter Quarters, now called Florence, Iowa. He was born on January 16, 1804, at Marblehead, Essex Co., Mass., and died at Kanab, Utah. Philip P,. Lewis, married, first, on June 27' ^^2>7y Maria Theresa Bonney, who was born on March 17, 1817, at New Bedford, Bristol Co., Mass., and who died at Garden Grove, Iowa, on June 17, 1846. Jane Amanda Stevens and her husband, Philip B. Lewis, had : (2) Philip Edmond Lewis, who was born on March 22, 1849. He died on June 29, 1849, and was buried at Salt Lake Citv, Utah. 238 THE STEX'KXS GENEALOGY (3) William Henry Lewis, who was bcM-ii on June 2^, 1850. He was named for his fath- er's two Ijrothers. He died at Los Angeles on June 30, 1851, and was buried by the side of his mother in 1856. at San Bernardino, Cal. About 185 1. I'hili]) 15. Lewis and his wife left for a mission to the Hawaiian Islands. While there he i)urehase(l a tin shoj) and worked at his trade at times 1;_\- w hieh he earned means to aid the mis" sion in liu}-ing a press to print l)ooks in the Ha- waiian language. His wife aide<[ him by teach- ing a few pupils while she worked at needle work to earn their daily sustenance, until her health so failed that a change seemed necessary. She crossed the Pacific Ocean without her husband and arrived in San l*"rancisco about Nov. 15, 1854, and spent some few n^.onths with her sister, El- vira, in that city. During the rainy season she was at Santa Clara which was not suited to her feeble condition. She had an opportunitN" to go to San Bernardino and left on Saturday April 2/, 1855, by sea. She stood the joiu-ney well but riding for seventy-five miles in a stage over a rough road in one da}' after her arrival, ])rostrated her. She was carried into the mountains twelve miles awa\- by her re(|uest to obtain cold wat(M- and fresh air. They built her a little room but tin- change was too invigorating and she tlied August 10, 1855, 'it the age twent\-seven years, two months and two days. ."-^lie was buried in San Ilernadino, Cal.. where her mmi was buried by her side being removed from l,i>> .\ngeles. Her husband cane to San iiernardino on Xov. 17. 185s with a wagon and two spans of mules enroule to Salt Lake Cit}, where he arrived early in the spring of 1857. Lhili]) W. Lewis, married, third, early in th';- winter of 1858, .Mrs. Mary Scott, who was born on ( )ctober 29, 1817, at New liedford. She had THE ANCESTRAL LINE OF DR. ELVIRA STEVENS BARNEY. 239 a son five years old. They removed to St. George. Utah, and then to Kanab. Kane Co., Utah. She died there on November 14, 1875. He mar- ried, fourth, Emily Lewis, who was the daughter of James and Emily Lewis, of Kanab, LItah. She had one daughter by her previous husband. This daughter, Edith, was born on September 5, 1873, at Provo City, ITah. Philip B. Lewis, had by his wife, Emily : ( I ) Philip iJessum Lewis, who was born on l-'ebruary 28, 1877, ^^is father being seventy- three years of age at the time of his son Phil- ip l>essum"s birth. On Nov. 13, 1879, Philip B. Lewis, died at the age of seventy-four, years, from an attack of bilious fe- ver. He was active and energetic as a young man. He was a noble worker and an honest man and was loved by all who knew him. He was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints for forty years. In the early days of the church he was ordained a seventy, was president of the Ijranch where he resided in Massa- chusetts, was chosen as one of the Council of Fiftv in Nauvoo, 111., was president of the Sandwich Island mission and before his death was ordained a Patriarch. His son, Philip P)essuni Lewis, was taken to Salt Lake City by his father's sister-in- law. Dr. Elvira S. Barney, and sent to school for seven years at which time, January 1894, he was sent to live with his kindred at Kanab. ITah, at the age af seventeen. iv. Amelia Althea Stevens, who was born on Alav 7, 1828 at Guilford, Windham Co., \t. She mar- ried, first, Jonathan Crosby in the Temple at Nauvoo, 111. She married, second, Eugene Trous- lot, as second wife, as he had been juarried once before. Amelia .Althea Stevens and her husbau'! Eugene Trouslot had : ( L) Rollin B. Trouslot. 240 THE STEVENS GENEALOGY. V. Barnard Stevens, (twin to Elvira) was born on March 17, 1832, and died on June 26, 1858. He was buried at Bristol, Kendall Co., 111. He was re-buried by his twin sister at Salt Lake City, Utah, on September 16, 1895. He left a wife and a son who resided at Monte \'ista, Colo., in 190 1. He had one child: (i) Barnard Field Stevens. vi. Elvira Stevens, who was born on March 17, 1832, was the twin sister of Barnard Stevens. A sketcl: of her life follows as Part V.. of this work. vii. Eunice Stevens, who was born about 1838-9, died in infancy, and was buried on the old farm near Bucklin's corner in the town of Gerry, Chautau- ([ua Co., N. Y. viii. Kollin Stevens, who was born in September 1841 and who died on November 8. 1842. ix. Minerva Stevens, who was liorn about 1844. died at birth. 5. luuiice Stevens, who was a daughter of Dr. Simon .Stevens and his second wife, Eunice Cunnabell, was born about ly^/y and died about 1799. 6. (ireenlief Stevens, who was the son of Dr. Simon Stevens and his third wife. Susannah Greenlief. He died at the age of thirty-three and was never married. 7. Eliza Almeda Stevens, who was also the child of the third wife, was born on August 20, 1806, at Guil- ford, \'t. .She (lied on July 2(), 1882. She married on April 22, 1835, Edward b'ish Henry, who was born on October 2t,. 1801 at Heath, Mass. In early life he was a school teacher and for six years, a farmer. He died on ( )ctober 12, 1874. They had: i. Edward Stevens Henry, who was born on February 10, 1836, at (luilford, Mass. He married, on February 11, i860, Lucinda Elizabeth Dewey, who was born on January 26, 1832. She was the daugh- ter of Ansel Dewey and Sarah Ann Brown. They had : (i) Maud Hem-y, who was born on October 19, CARLOS STEVENS, Eldest Brother of the Author THE ANCESTRAL LINE OE DR. ELVIRA STEVENS BARNEY. 243 1868, at Rockvillc. Conn. She (lied on (Oc- tober 18. 1875. ii. Abby PLliza Henry, who was born on December 5, 1837. at (inilford, ATass. She never married. iii. Esther Henry, who was l)orn on Jannary 8. 1840. She never married. iv. Catherine Henry, who was born on ]*"el)ruar\- i"] , 1842, at (jnilford, Mass. She married in Sep- tember 1872, at Worcester, Mass., Herbert David Cough, wht) was Iwrn on September 2, 1842 in England. The}' had : ( I ) Marv Louise (iough, who was l)orn on March ij , 1874 at Worcester, Mass. V. Charles \\'illard Henry, who was born on Xovem- l)er k;. 1844, at Greenfield where he died in 1840. vi. Martha hrances Henry, who was born on .Kpril 27, alx)Ut 184C), at (Greenfield. She married in January, 1876, Xathan Metcher I'eck. They haer 4, 1883. V. Ella M. Barnes, who was born on January 25, 1852. and who married on December 26, 1880, Martin Z. Raymond. Thev had: (i) Carl Horace Raymond, who was born on June 16, 1882. (2) Burrell Cone Raymond, who was born on February T3, 1886. vi. Leanna Barnes, who was born on July 17, 1854, and who died on September 2, 1856. 3. Dolly Sawyer Barnes, who was born on March 16, 1799. She died in Blinois. 4. Cyprian Barnes, who was born on November 5, 1800. He married Sarah Chadrey. 5. Louisa Barnes, who was born on November 10, 1802. She married Addison Pratt, who was born on February 22, 1802. They had : i. Ellen Sophronia Pratt, who was born on February 16, 1832, in Ripley, N. Y. She married on May 26, 1856, Wm. McGary in San Bernardino, Cal. They had : (i) Emma Francelle McGary, who was born on March 8. 1859, at Ogden, Utah. (2) Ellen Caroline McGary. who was born on June 29, 1861, at Beaver, Utah. (3) William Addison McGary, who was born July 6, 1863, and who died on October 14, 1867. at Beaver, Utah. (4) Aurora Frances McGary, who was born on October 2, 1867 and who died on January 19, 1869, at Beaver, Utah. ii. Frances Stevens Pratt, who was born on Novem- ber 7. 1834. at Ripley, N. Y. She married on October 7. 1856, in San Francisco, Cal., Jame^ Dver. TIk^' had : 2i0 Till-: STE\ENS GENEALOGY. (1) Addison I'ratt l)\cr. wlin was Ixtrn on May II. 1859, in San Lorenzo. Cal. (2) Harris Dyer, who was born in iSfx;. in Los Angeles. Cal. (3) I'ranklin Dyer, who was horn ahont ]<>J2. Lois L)arnes Lratt. who was born on March (>, 1837. ''^ l\i])ley, X. V. She married John I Innl, who was l)orn on March (.). 1833. in Ldwards Co.. 111., on jnh 4. 1857. The following is an extract from the Woman's I^xponent of Salt Lake City. Ctah : "It l)ecomes our painful duty to transmit to you the sad intelligence of the death of our l)e- l()\-ed sister. Lois llarnes I'ratt. wife of iJishop John Hunt, who dej^arted this life, through an ac- cident of being ])urned, Ahu'ch (). 1885. . Sister Hunt was born on ALu'ch (). 1837. in the town of l\i]jle\. Chautauqua Co.. X. ^'. She was baptized when eight \ears old in the Mississi])])i river. ^\ hen ([uite small her father. [{Ider .\ddison I'ratt. was called on a mission to the Societ\' L- lands, and was al)sent several \ears. Her moth- er. Louisa !'). I'ratt, with her four little daughters, ])assed through all the persecutions of the Saints without her husl)aud"s help, while he was awav Ial)oring as a missionarw and crossed the plains, dri\'ing her own team, with the assistance of a >mall l)o\'. and arrived in the x'alUw among the first, in President L)righam ^'ouug"s compau\'. ■"When in her thirteenth \ear Sister Lois Hunt went w ith her mother and sisters to join her father on his second mission to tlie Society Is- lands. rhe\' remained there one }ear and a half. .She could talk and sing in the Tahitian language. \\ hen the\- returend from their mission they re- mained in California, where she l^ecame ac(|uaint- ed with and was married to John Hunt, on July 4, 1857. by Win. j. CO.x. ".Slie was the mother of eight children, six daughter^ and two sons, all of whom are still liv- ing". She was chosen second counselor to .Sister THE ANCESTRAL LINE OF DR. ELVIRA STEVENS BARNEY. 253 Willmirth East, Stake President, July 12, 1880. When Sister East moved away she was chosen first counselor to our Stake President, Sister Em- ma S. Smith, September 18, 1883. "She was a noble, generous woman. She could truly be called a leader among us ; especially, by her example, influencing us to be punctual and prompt at our meetings, encouraging us to be faithful in looking after the sick and needy, teaching us to be charitable to each other ; always a peace maker, and one who could always see some good in everyone. As her husband was our Bishop and father, she was also our mother. "The following resolutions of respect we feel unanimousl}- to adopt : "That, inasnuich as our Heavenly h'ather has seen fit to take from our midst our dearly beloved sister, who w-as ever faithful and true, "Resolved, That we, the members of the Re- lief Society, do deeply mourn our beloved Presi- dent, and that we condole with her husband and daughter, who are absent at this time, and with every n:ember of the family, in this their great loss : but while weeping together, we feel to look beyond this vale of tears to the happy home above, and to the time of rejoicing when the faithful will all be re-united. And, be it "Resolved, That we present a copy of these resolutions to the mourning family, that a copy be sent to the Exponent and also that a cop\' l)e pre- served in our Stake Record. (Signed) EMMA S. SMITH MARY J. WEST LUCY H. FLAKE JANE FREEMAN PHEBE KARTCHNER "Snowflake, Apache Co., Arizona, March 13. 1885." John Hunt and Lois Barnes Pratt had : !54 'J'!"'- STi';\iixs r,\:sE.\\.nr,y. ( I I Ida I'ranccs limit, who was Imrn on .\lai'c!i S, 1858, near L'c(lar Citw Iron t'o. I'tah. She married on .\la_\' 23. i88_'. Dax'id 1\. ['(hill as second wife. (2) .\la}' Louise Hunt, who was l)orn on .\ia\ 5, i8()0. at San liernarchno. C'aL .She mar- ried on ( )ctol)er 2(>, 1881. Alof Larson at .""^t. (ieoro'e, L'tah. ( ^^ ) AnneH Hunt, who was l)orn on l'"ehruar\ 15, i8()j. at .San r>ernar(hno. C 'ah .She inar rieil ( )rrin kartchner. on ( )ctoher 11, 1883. at St. ( ieor^v, Ltah. (4) Christabell Hunt, who was Ixirn on .\ni;ust 2/, 1864, at Leaver City, Ltah. .She niarrieil on .Sei)temher 11. 1883. at .St. ( leori;'e, Ltah. I'harles L. hlake, who was l)orn on ( )ctol)er 18. i8<)2. at lieaver, Ltah. 'Ihey ha(L a. Marion L\man I'lake, wlio was l)orn or juh- 23. i88^, at Snowflake. .Vri/ona. ( 3) Lewis limit, who was l)orn on \oveml)er i.). i8()(), at l'>ea\'er, Ltah. He married Delia Ann Willis, who was horn ( )ctol)er _^o, i8()ij {()) John .Xddison Hunt, who was born on .'September i, i8()(j, at lleaNer. Ltah, and who married .\lar\' h^dlen Cross. 17) Xettie Hunt, who was l)orn on Xovem])er 24. 1872. at IJcaver. Ltah. She married josepii A. Kencher. 18) Lois Hunt, who was born on .\'o\-ember 8. 1873, and who married |ose])h .\. West on .May 3. 18(^7. iv. .\nn Louisa I'ratt. DR. ELVIRA STEVENS BARNEY, At fifty years of age THE STEVENS GENEALOGY. PART \' BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF DR. ELVIRA STEVENS BARNEY, Prepared by Laron A. Wilson. A friend and acquaintance writes of Dr. Elvira Stevens Barney, as foliows : "Sister Elvira possesses in her dual nature, all the energy, per- severance, firmness, determination, will-power, executive and financial ability of the sterner sex, with the tenderness, symj^athv and delicate sensibility of the true woman. She is in truth a philanthropist who ne\'er turned ?. deaf ear to the cries of the suffering- or oppressed nor withheld her hard earned substance, her time, nor strength from those in need. She is a deep and earnest thinker with a keen sense of justice and an advocate of the rights of all mankind. She is of decided opinion and is often solicited for counsel because of her excel- lent judgment and extensive experience. Her words and works will .^ cand as an imperishable monument to her memory among her chosen people." Lelia Tuckett h>eeze. Another friend says: "Dr. Elvira Stevens Barney, is here classed among the medical fraternity, and her labors and history have been in- terwoven with those of the Latter-day Saints from her early childhood in so manv varied and unselfish fields of labor that the small space allotted us will not permit of many particulars. Had she in her cliildhood possessed the advantages of a thorough education to aid in tlie development of those many abilities which have manifested them- selves under the most dispiriting surroundings, it would be difficult to sav now what she might have accomplished. She possesses an indomitable spirit that rises above obstacles and turns to accouni every available means, that cultivates inherent junvers to their best uses. She is an upbuilder." After her parents died, the Mormon people, with whom Elvir.1 Stevens had cast her lot, were driven from their homes in Xauvoo. ^5*^ THE STEVENS GENEALOGY. 111., by mob law. She had tlie invahiahlc amount of $10.00 to fit herself for the e.xit. It, however, fully .served its purpose by paying for the few most needed substantial articles for such a journey. \\'hile they were camping by the way with their scanty supply of food and clothes, the Lord sent quails upon them which were so tame that thev would come to the beds of the sick, as nuich as to say. "Slav me and eat." Through these forced hardshi])s the Lord was able to show forth His power. At one time while camping under a bowery, as the wagon had gone some hundreds of miles away with articles for sale in txchange for provisions, a drenching rain came u])()n her part_\- and she was compelled to sit all night in a chair within a tent, the water running in streams under her feet. At another time, an old ladv and herself while sleeping under a wagon, awoke to find several inches of snow covering their bed. Continued harships and exposures ac- companied by much suffering from fre(juent visitations of ague and cold, often reduced her to a state of physical disability approaching d.eath. ."■^he witnessed the solemn separation of the members of the "Mormon Battalion" from their families, five hundred men having'; been called by the Laiited States government for the Alexican war of 1846, while tliey were encamped at the lUuffs, in Iowa on the cast side of the ^Missouri river, then far in the wilderness, the exiles h-aving traveled several hundred miles with ox teams, and now and tb.en a yoke of cows, without seeing a house, ^^'hile camping on the Mis- souri river, at Winter Quarters, now called Morence. many lived on th,,' side hill in "dug-outs" their wagons being used for ])edrooms. (Often four slept in one bed and could barely kee]) from freezing while the | winter's blustering, chilling wind, snow and sleet were fierce with- out. Leader these trying circumstances they were forced to live o>i ccrn bread and water. The corn was ground in a large colTee mill. They had erected a mill but the intense cold tied it up. The few tal- low candles they had were used to grease their ])ake-kettles. Some were obliged to remain several years in this condition before suffi- cient means could be obtained to enable them to continue their jour- ney. In the summer of 1848, Elvira taught school, studying of nights 1"\ a chip fire to keep in advance of her ]ni])ils. ]\Iore than one of the ])ublic speakers of toda}' can date his first lessons in elocution ami aruiimetic from her training. Ihev crossed the western ])lains and tlic \\ asatch range of momi- l.'iins ;uid arri\ed in .^alt Lake valley on Se])tember 20. 1848; in the 11 iiUlC.KAl'HICAL SKIITCH LINE OF DR. ELNIKA STEVENS liARNEV. 261 first company of that year^ of which Zera Pulsipher was captain, having been some five months in transit. The Pioneers and one company had arrived the }ear l^efore. On her way across the plains the buffaloes were frequently seen on the hills in droves of hundreds. The meat of these animals was . usetl as food and with buffalo chips the emigrants baked their bread. Having' traveled nine hundred miles by ox-team, we find th'.^ sn])ject of this sketch by the side of two yoke of oxen with her sick sister Jane and brother-in-law, Philip B. Lewis, with a broken arm, all under her care. They here came to the first fort built by the Pioneers of logs, with dirt roof. In her diary, she says : "The sight of the gigantic mountain peaks, seemingly towering above the shining sun in the clear, azure sk}', brought a cheer from the weary travelers. Where now is a beautiful city, we saw nothing but tall sage brush, sand, grashoppers and crickets." ( )ne womaii remarked that she would rather, as tired as she was. go a thousand miles farther than stop in a place so forbidding, but not so with Elvira. She was pleased to know that the journey was ended and she felt no concern for the future. Her first lesson in surgery was in helping Captain Pulsipher to set her brother-in-law's broken arm. Her next lesson was in medi- cine in breaking up her sister's fever. She crossed the mountains in buckskin shoes of her own make, the skin having been jnirchased from the Indians. At the first meeting she attended in the valley held in the open oir, she wore a calico bonnet and her best calico dress had patches on the elbows. She worked six weeks to earn a pair of leather shoes. She says in her diary : "There was not much aristocracy in those days but the people sang praises to God and danced with as much sincerity and ])urity of heart as ever King David did before the Lord." Their laws were few and simple ; in a Bishop's court a brother forgave his brother ; they helped and loved each other and God heard and loved them. Then came another manifestation of His power. One thousand miles from supplies and no railroad ; their crops were Ihreatened with destruction by the crickets that came from the moun- tains, the earth being blackened by their great numbers. Th'.' people fasted and pra\e(l for deliverance, when suddenly a cloud aj)- pcared which was remarkable for its rapid approach. It was a cioiul of sea gulls which lit upon the ground and devoured the crick- 262 THE STEN'liXS GEXKALO(JV, et!^:, relieving" their stomachs of their contents time and time ai^'ain n;;t'ii the side hills and retnrning- 1<> their mission with the same apparent crav- ing ai)petite as at tirst until as with a besom the ground was cleared. Al this time. 1848. the "Mormon liattalion Hoys" were returning ti) tlKMr families, who had been enabled b\- aid from the church to con- tinue their journe}' to the vallev pur])oseh' to meet the returning sol- diers. An im])ortant e\-ent of this period was the discover\- of gold in ( alifornia Iw the Mormon boys who brought gold dust and nuggets with them. The rapidh' spreading" news, caused a large emigration of gold seekers to pass through the small colony of a few hundred .'^ouls. . These g"old seekers brought with them much that was need- ed and exchanged the same for the ])ro(lucts of the earth, continuing tluir journey on pack mules. Thus, again, did the ( iod fearing ])eo- ])le acknowledge His hand, for these emigrants had come with car- riages and well filled wagons without auv knowledge of the desert and the terrible journey bef<_)re them and were encumbered with mirrors, furniture, feather beds and well made clothing. Men's clothing was purchased as cheap as in New York City. Groceries, fruits, cured meats, flour b}" the wagon loads, were almost given away to lessen the burden, for it would have been inipossible for emigrants to cross the western desert with such loads. What does the subject of our sketch do now? She took advan- tage of this opportunity and as the gold seekers disposed of their liot black woo] hats, she sold them straw hats as fast as she was able to make them. In this way she added to her mite and accumulated iier first I'ifty Dollars which supplied her with clothing for the cold w Miter of 1850. The following" summer she resumed her school teaching. ( )n March 13, 1851, she commenced a tedious journe}' to the Sandwich Islands on a mission accompanying" her sister, Jane Lewis, with ox teams, and a large company that were going to colonize a ])lace they named San Bernardino, in California. Fron"i her diary, x'hich she kept for fifteen years, we gather some of these facts. After a journey of three months, having been much exposed to the Indians, whom they often fed and froni whose arrows they at other times narrowly escajicd with their lives, the colonists arrived at their desti- rjation. The greatest vigilance had to be maintained to protect their ^:tock which was sometimes driven off and wounded or killed by the Indians. It was often necessary to travel at night to avoid the heat of the burning desert. mOGRAPHlCAL SKETCH LINE OF DR. ELVIRA STEV'ENS T.ARNEY. 265 The 1 8th of June found them in Los Angeles, where having sold their teams they camped in tents for nearly three weeks. Elvira, from over exertion, here lay sick with a fever again at the point of death. £.nd her nephew, AX'illiam Henry Lewis, was taken sick and died on June 30. 185 1, while she was unable to leave her bed. On July 7, 1851, the sick and the well had arrived at San Francisco at which ])lace, her journal says, she landed on July 11, 185 1, "stiff from head to foot with great suffering from inflammatory rheumatism." as the accomo- dations were insufficient for her reduced health while traveling six hundred miles by sea to the north in the damp and foggy atmosphere. Under date of July 29, she writes : "Having suffered greatly through the day. the Lord was im|)lored through His servants, and I was im- mediately relieved, and that was the first night's rest for six weeks ihat I had experienced." The next morning she assisted in preparing breakfast apparently with the same ease as though she had not been sick. At this point we find her at work in a dress maker's store : next, she is oft'ered $[ 00.00 ]^er. month for a year in a hotel in Sacra- mento, but she remained there only long enough to obtain sufficient means to accomplish the mission she had started upon. On November 30, 1851, she arrived at the Sandwicli Islands, pfter traveling a di.stance of one thousand miles by land, six hundred miles up the Pacific coast and two thousand one hundred miles on the Pacific ( )cean, which had taken eight and one-half months, a journey that might now be accomplished in that number of days. Here she lived for six months among the natives on the Island food, which con- sisted of tarrow and sweet potatoes, made into batter and soured ; short rations at that, and yet she attained the weight of one hundred and lifly-two pounds. She writes : "I often thought of Alexander Selkirk, who said he was monarch of all he surveyed. Here, months passed, while we were living on the lava strewn island of Hawaii. No ships came to bring tidings. I was left to view the rolling billows that separated me from all 1 held dear — cnmtrv and friends. Not a white woman to speak to in my own tongue. 1 was occupied in studying a foreign language and teaching the natives to speak my own." Here, too, she acquired the art of swimming by which means she. in later vears, was enabled to rescue a lady from drowning in a bottom- less spring, in Utah. Once she came near being engulfed in the channel, wiiile crossing between the islands in a whale-boat with the natives. During the eleven months which she s])ent on four islands of th;i 266 Tllli .STl-:\'IiXS GENEALOGY. group, she wrore a letter to a native lawyer. Uana. in his own tongue. Although forty years have elapsed, she converses huentl\' with the na- tives who have gathered to L'tah. We hnd in her j(nirnal much interest- ing matter which we are ohliged to omit for want of space. During the time of her stay, in learning the native language, teaching school, and visiting her sister on the isle of ( )ahu, her time was abundantly occupied. ( )n October 7, 1852. a vessel, on which she was a passenger, set sail for San Francisco and while visiting some local ]ioints to take on shipments of fruit, a rough sea came on during which the vessel was nearly wrecked on the breakers, and the ship returned to the beautiful harbor of Honolulu for repairs. .\ fever set in after leaving the vessel, which confined Elvira to lur bed until the 19th of ( )ctober, when a sec- ond attempt was made to leave the islands, resulting in a voyage or much uncertaint}. .\t last, on the 1 ith of November, the joyous cry of ■'Uuul" was heard on deck, and shortl}' afterwards the Uav of San h^ran- cisco was sighted. Here a dense fog was prevailing which necessitated many futile attempts to enter the harbor in safety. Four days were ])a.Nsed in these endeavors and a second narrow escajK' from shipwreck was encountered before the vessel was finally moored at the dock in San Francisco IJay, where the fatigued jjassengers landed with light hearts. We next find the subject of our sketch making shirts at $10.00 a- piece. The wife of the gentleman for whom she made them presented her with a complete set of clothing, the outer garment being a silk dress. She writes : "The Lord knew that I needed them and I thanked Him and them, also." Thus she was able to earn means to pay her ship fare of $80.00 for which she had given her note. She remained three years in Upper California. ( )ne summer she raised three thousand chickens. In the winter of 1856, she taught in a district school in San Fernardino, California. In the spring of 1857, she returned to Salt Lake Cit\-. riding seven hundred miles on horseback. When she arrived at her destination, she resumed school teaching in i85(;. During that year she assisted in the amputation of the arm of a dear friend, Irene Pomeroy. .In 1863 sh3 traveled east to visit her kindred and rode sixteen days in an overland stage. In 1864 she went to Wheaton College, 111. and returned home after two year"^ absence. I'rom 1855 to 1864 she had taught school in ten different places, generally four terms a year ; had, during these years, taken four homeless children into her care until other ways opened for them, in 1873, she ado])te(l a bain' l)o\', whom she schooled and fc)r m lUOGRAPHICAL SKETCH LINE OF DK. EL\IRA STEVENS T'.ARNEV. 269 whom she provided, for eleven years. In this year she commenced writing- u]) her genalog-jcal record issuing- the fallowing. CIRCULAR LETTER. To aitx person zcho iiihc'-ifs the family munc of STEI'EXS : 1. The undersigned has for a long time been endeavoring to col- lect all the information attainable of the Stevens Family, primarily with tite design of completing the history of her own branch of the family. In doing" this, she has become possessed of a great mass of facts con- cerning the history and genealogy of the family in general, which are of indirect personal interest, and which much more nearly concern others of the name than herself. Hence, she will be able to give information lo others concerning their own lines, when the work becomes completed. 2. Months and years have already been spent in the search, and in copying from difiterent genealogical works, wdiere those of the name oi Stevens have married those of other names ; and all the information that could be obtained up to date, from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, the New York and Boston Genealogical So- cieties, the Library of Universal Knowledge, and other books, has been collected. 3. This family have filled a great chapter in the world's history. Among my records, I find an account of Henry Stevens, who settled in Paris in 1470, of the family of the celebrated printers ; of Wm. Stevens the great ship carpenter ; and of Ebenezer Stevens, active in the agitation that led to the Revolutionary war, and one of the tea party of 1773, who was lieutenant at the siege of Quebec. 4. I have already matter that will make a very interesting book, but I have hopes of enriching it by the aid of others. This sweeping and massive information will be very desirable when once collected and published, but we cannot publish unfinished or incorrect records, until a'l the accuracy possible is attained, and all the means of information exhausted. There still remains a mass of work to be completed by cor- respondence. 5. Only persons who have undertaken such a work, can appreciate fully the labor, correspondence and perplexities involved. Much of this arises from the procrastination of persons applied to for information, v.ho, while perfectly well disposed to give it, delay doing so. Such de- lay, involves delay in the whole work, and it is earnestly requested of 270 THE STE\'ENS GENEALOGY. ell to whom this shall come, that the information be promptlx" returned, 0/ that the statement be made by postal card that it cannot be furnished, in which case it will be sought for through other channels. 6. All who are addressed are earnestly requested tohave the good- ness, speedily, to send all the information in their possession, and are respectfully reminded that while they may personally care nothing' for such work, there are a great number of persons who do care for it u])o:i whom their compliance will confer a favor. The name and ])ostoffic'" address of all- persons who are supposed to have information, are re- quested ; also, any facts concerning; the history or biography of the family in general. Ancient dates are very desirable, as they are more difficult to obtain. 7. In time we are in hopes of being alile to make UKjre or less perfect connections of the present families of Stevens with the ancestral line. I design following the female line as far as possible. Sometimes I have followed the generations. In such work, accuracy and fullness are above all things desirable, especially in the dates of births, deatli- and marriages, in the designation of the place of residence of the person •^ r.amed, and in giving the full names, and if possible, parentage of per- sons with whom they have intermarried. Address nil coiiiniiiiiicafio)is to Dr. E. Ste\'ens B.\rxev, Salt Lake City, Utah. In 1876 Elvira wrote a pamphlet on sericulture and appointed the first meeting on that subject. She advanced as a loan the first I'ifty Dollars to establish the "Home Made Straw Hat Industry." .She travelled in the interest of the "Woman's Exponent," a paper published in Salt Lake City. She was appointed to canvass the city for two books called, "The Women of Mormondom" and the "Life of Brigham Young" and raised five shares of $25.00 each in one day to pay for the ])ublishing. She was appointed for the purchasing and storing of grain for the Grain Association, in 1876. She traveled south and held fort}- five meetings in twenty-seven days in the interest of women's work in L'tah. This journey covered over nine hundred miles. Vp to l-'ebruary 1879, she had earned $9,003.00 by her own labor. After building two commodious houses, she, in ( )ctober 1879. started east to continue her medical studies which she had prosecuted at home for several years. She attended ihree com])lete courses being absent three years. In 1 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF DR. ELVIRA STEVENS BARNEY. 2/3 December, 1886,, she went to Arizona by rail and brought home Philip Bessum Lewis, who was the son of her brother-in-law, deceased, pass- ing on her way through the corners of four territories, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah. During her life, she has crossed the Pacific Ocean twice, the Western desert twice and the Eastern plains five times ; once with ox team, once in a stage coach, once with a horse team and twice by rail.* She has wrought at difl:'erent humble occupations belonging to a new country. She has been dressmaker, tailor, embroiderer, penman, archi- tect, lecturer and, finally, a genealogist. And now at the close of her career, she says : "My life has been real; my life has been earnest, and now if my zvorks praise me, truly I am praised, but all praise is given by me to the Lord for His guidance and preserving care." *Tlie details of two of the journeys taken by Dr. Barney are best given in her own words. See Appendix II. and III. 18 APPENDIX I. 1)||'"i-krexcf:s. To Sister Uliira. on her Si.vUcfh lUrthday, March 17. 1892. "Not all alike!" Ah no! 1 his world would be A stupid one, if we were all the same ; If on each point we could at once agree. Soon conx'ersation would grow weak and tame. One likes an apple best, and one a peach. Another, still, prefers the luscious pear; Important lessons these small items teach, ^^'hen we can pause, and give them timeh' care. For. as the mouth, S(^ also is the mind: Strange ditTerences control these heads of ours; A grain of thoug'ht. keen, witt}', or refined. One slights, another eag'erh- devours. Some rise in grand sublimitv aloft, The average minds of mortals far above: And some like sim])le music, low and soft, h'ind comfort, strength and joy in (|uiet love. ISut oh! how bless'd the being- in whose heart. The Gospel key-note is for each attuned : Who finds throughout Ood's garden, in each part. Rich fruits, though vines and trees are yet unpruned. Who. with Eliza Snow\ or Whitney soars. Hig^h heavenward, above all earthly towers ; AA'ith Emily bright inspiration pours, Or walks with "I'lmile" through fair, buried bowers. 2.-/(, THE STEVENS GEXEALOGV. With Zion's tliousand poets offers praise. Or shouts heroic in the Truth's defense : Then joins with "Lula's" artless, childhke plays. In loving homage to sweet innocence. Such is thy soul, Elvira, and today, I'll close this Birthday tribute, I have pen'd. By adding, I am bless'd to feel and say, I claim thee as ni}' sister and my friend. L. LuLA G. Richards. \ II. MY TRIP SOUTH. I left Salt Lake City Nov. 3rd and returned on Dec. nth, having traveled about 900 miles. I held forty-five meetings, passed through Nephi, Taylorsville, Warm Creek, Gunnison, Monroe, Panguitch, Hills Dale, Mammoth, Glendale, Orderville, Mt. Carmel, Kanab, Pipe Springs, Andrews Ranch, Virgin City, Duncan Retreat, Rockville, To- kerville, Leeds, Harrisburg, Washington, Middletown, St. George, Clara, Pine Valley, Pinto, Harmony, Kanarra, Hamilton, Cedar, Sum- mit, Parovvan, Paragoona, Bener, Adamsville, Minersville, Greenville, Indian Creek, Kanosh, Meadow Creek, Fillmore, Holden and Scipio. I was conveyed from place to place by the people and was met with the greatest cordiality and respect. Br. Seegmiller took me to all of the settlements of Sevier Co., being a distance of about 150 miles. He is very spirited and is a successful laborer in the United Order. There the people were greatly satisfied with their abundant harvest and they were working harmoniously in the United Order. The roads were fine and the weather was settled until I began traveling through Kane Co. There the roads were broken, rough and sandy. While I was passing over into Long Valley I was delighted with a forest of tall pines averaging from 50 to 100 feet high, and from 3 to 6 feet through. I was told that this forest extended 25 by 30 miles, directly on the ridge or summit, and the ground was free from brush or un- dergrowth, leaving the tall stately pines waiting for the woodman's axe. This was a great treat as the country for hundreds of miles is destitute of timber, only as it is found hid away in the hills. There has been a great drouth this season and the grass was all dried up, and the stock was driven off for better pasture land; especially in the region of Fillmore. In Orderville, there is an organized company numbering 29 men, 37 women, and 99 children, organized under the presidency of Hov/ard O. Spencer, and if muscle and sinew represent wealth, I thought it was well represented by these hale and hearty looking men whom I breakfasted with. The women were spinning and weaving, and the men were threshing out their grain,. They said their harvest had been very heavy and all seemed happy with their 278 TJIK STJ-:\1-:\.S CK-XKALuGN', prospects of future success. Long A'alley is more like a canyon than a valley as it is so narrow it will not admit of their s])rea(ling- their bor- ders very much. Kanah is elevated and the climate is much like the Xew Juigland States, the soil is of a reddish hue. Their liishop. L. J. Kuttall, had just arrived and was energeticalh commencing his new field of labor as a ])residing bishop. 1 found my brother-in-law. Philip p.. Lewis. His wife Alary died Nov. 14th after a lingering illness of one year ; she died strong in the faith of the Latter-day work, and was noted for her charity and liberality to the poor, and was cared for and dul_\- a])preciated by her husband. This brought the first and only gloom of my journe}'. The weather was cold and I left in a rain storm. I sto]iped at two Ranches, called Pipe Springs and Caanan P.anch, at which j)laces the surplus stock of St. George and other places are kept, and considerable beef, butter and cheese are furnished at these ])laces. Arrived at \Trgin, a place sometimes called Pocket- ville. did not see it until we had got right upon it. It is a lively little place : on inquiring for the Bishop, the boy told me that he lived up there on a sand hill, and while the carriage stood in front of the house in the deepest of sand, 1 looked directly over the fence and saw a beautiful flower garden and vineyard, such striking contrasts adjoining each other. As I passed on to St. George I looked back on Toker- ville and these little places and was forcibly reminded of a passage of Scri])ture referring to the saints being hid up in the mountains while the indignation of the Lord ])assed over the earth. Arrived at St. George after dark and found lU'o. Lrastus Snow and the Saints all congregated in a large hall awaiting my arrival. If the Queen of England had arrived I don't think that she could have been received with a more hearty welcome ; spent a couple of days of unalloyed pleas- ure in the society of the Saints in meetings. There was organized a society (jf young ladies of So members, by the president of the Re- lief Societv. Sister h'ins. Topics and items of interest were conversed ti])on at the meeting. .Some of the sisters accompanied me to the Clara. J do not think the earth can aft'ord a nobler spirited woman than 1 found there 1)\ the name of McLeland, such a calm and placid expression upon her countenance. ( )h, that all mothers could bury tiieir frowns and cares beneath such a smile which so well became her aged face ; she showed me a shawl and other articles that she had manufactured from her (nvn raising of silk. I never saw before, nor do I think the world can boast of such noble intelligent, fine-looking marriageable young ladies as I saw in those settlements where I visited; they appeared neat and clean. C(jmforta1)ly dressed, but plain and as APPENDIX. 2/0 t!iough their better judgment guided them. The ruggedness of the country and their surroundings showed that they had labored and en- countered much to make their homes, but yet with it ah there seemed to be sucH a welcome, meUow, brotherly and kindly feeling, unlike the mixed element of this city where our deportment is characterized with so much formality and coldness ; and I felt as though I little cared if I never returned to it again. At this point I commenced my home- ward journey, and was furnished with a span of horses that were called Dixie horses, and as they began to climb the ledges in ascend- ing the ridge that surrounds the west side of St. George, they remind- ed me of some well-trained goats, and their little feet unlike the clumsy American horses, could always find a place in the rocks ; but before I got over that day's journey of 45 miles, Bro. Foster furnished me with a span of horses that rapidly flew over the remaining twelve miles. In Pine Valley we had quite a snow storm, the summer sea- son is very short there, and they have very late and early frosts. As r passed on I was occasionally greeted by my warm friends of early life. In Pinto I found myself buried in the arms of a friend, one of our old-fashioned farmer's wives, who seemed to be blessed with too much good nature for her own good, if such can be the case, and she takes the cares of life so good-naturedly. Readers, her name is Haskell, and her children seemed happily organized like herself, her little home is so neat and clean that I thought what a paradise where order and contentment dwells. My space will not admit of the many items that might interest, therefore I will pass on until I arrive at Cedar; Eld. Erastus Snow had kindly telegraphed and made appoint- ments ahead of me. Here the Relief Society sisters had prepared a dmner at Bishop Lunt's, the very air seemed to breathe forth a spirit of welcome. The Bishop supports and aids the movements of the sisters, and they co-operate in their efforts in building up the kingdom. At Parowan, another principal city, Br. Jesse Smith is the Bishop, and his wife is president of the Relief Society, a very able and intelligent laborer and much respected by the sisters. Bishop Smith's mother, who is very aged, is one of those lovely old ladies that win the respect and esteem of everybody around them. At Bener, another large settlement, I stayed and held two meetings, and some of the sisters accompanied me to Minersville and we had a season of rejoicing to- gether. Bishop Murdock aided me in telegraphing ahead for convey- ances, etc. As I arrived at Cove Creek, Sister Hinckley favored me with a change of horses, one of them a fine-looking animal was called Scorchei, as he had been burned in Bro. Well's barn. Fillmore is 280 THE STEVENS GENEALOGY. the next large city. I was accompanied to meeting by Eld, Marian I ynian, and the powerful testimony he bore corresponded much with the spirit of the times. After leaving there I held meetings at the inter- vening places, including Nephi, at which place I was furnished with a conveyance which took me to the Terminus. Then took the cars to Salt Lake City. E. S. B. III. AN OPEN LETTER FROM DR. ELVIRA STEVENS BARNEY Dear Readers of the Woman's Exponent, your Editor has requested nie to give some details of a 4000 miles journey. Monday June 17th, at 7 a. ni., I left Salt Lake City on an excur- sion train of inclining chair-cars to Council Blufifs by U. P. Railway and was to return, from the Missouri River by the D. & R. G. Railway. I arrived at the Bluffs after two days and one nights's travel. Having thus crossed these plains three times by team, and three by cars. This v/as the limit of my excursion ticket. Tuesday i8th, I expected to leave on the evening train after getting lunch, ticket and checks. I had forgotten to take into consideration, as I was travelling eastward, it was necessary to watch the depot time, instead of my pocket time, which was that of Salt Lake City. I was left about an hour in the lurch. I telegraphed, "Got left, come next train." This was no loss to me, for one needs a good night's rest after a thousand miles travel and I got it. Wednesday, June 19th, fresh and happy I started for Grinneli, Iowa, on the Rock Island Road. About sunset within two miles of there, we found a freight train ahead with a smashed up engine, waiting for another one to draw it off the track. By this delay we were unable to make connection. What a blessing in disguise. To sleep nights, ?nd travel days. Nothing better. Thursday, 20th, I took the Iowa Central for Fremont. I was met at the depot at 2 p. m., by my niece Amelia Howell and her husband ; and had a four miles ride to their farm. There I found four boys, and two small girls happy to be acknowledged by their dear aged grand aunt. Dear Readers, I can tell you that as I seated myself at the table with these fine looking, intelligent children, whom I realized were my kindred, it was a happy moment of my life. Friday 21st, in the morning crossed Skunk River to the other branches of the family. Here I was greeted by a family gathering, con- sisting of my brother Carlos Stevens, seven years my senior, and his wife, they were both very feeble. Their daughter Jennie Brown, hus- band, and two girls, the youngest of whom constantly clung to my side, his daughter Ida Sullivan, and husband, and two girls, and a very 282 THE STEVENS GEXKALOC.V. bright little boy named after his gramlfatlier. The entire families both smIcs of the river, number sixteen. I'"or the sake of h.revity. I shall have to omit mneh that niit^ht be irlerestinL;', i»f the (lomestic ])ortion of m\ ^•i^it. I had been ])lanning to ha\e my brother visit Xauvoo. 111., with me. to find mv parents' graves. Now it seemed ])ro\'idential that an excursion train was t(-> leave th: next day for Xauvoo. My brother >aid he was too feeble to go. but consented Saturday 22nd. at ti\e o'clock a. m. .\1\ brother and I started, and arri\-cd by carriage at the dei)ot in time to go with the excursion. At 7 a. ni., we arrived at lUirlington, at 12 o'clock took the excursion boat and reached Nauvoo about 4 p. m. at the l'i)per Landing. I'ifty years had jiassed since 1 laid m\' parents here to rest. A family of hve were then left and soon scattere])()!, and retui-ne