Re: Joshua Stephens, d. ca. 1735 VA
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Joshua Stephens, d. ca. 1735 VA
Kay Bedford 1/10/01
There could be a connection to the Stephens Family described in the following document written by Jonathan Dyer Stephens in 1899.I am decended from this family through.
BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF THE STEPHENS FAMILY IN AMERICA.
by Jonathan Dyer Stephens, written in1899:
Amidst the multiplied Literature of this progressive age, we find it interesting and refreshing to read something from the annals of our ancestors; also records of our kindred in the sunshine of whose love we feel a pleasant thrill of union.Greatly desiring to perpetuate this bond of love; and the names of the descendants of Joshua Stephens, we submit the following:
Among the colonists brought to Maryland by Cecil Lord Baltimore, during latter part of the seventeenth century, was a young son of a clergyman in the south of England...his name was John Stephens.(Note that the Maryland colony was founded by the second Lord Baltimore who lived from 1605 to 1675 and four more descendants held that title and governed the Maryland Colony).The colonial charter was granted to him in 1632 and the colony was mature and in full operation by 1849. This young man married and lived at what is known as the Salt Marshes on the Chesapeake, where some of his descendants yet live.He had three sons, Uriah, Joshua and John.Of the families of Uriah and John, we have but little knowledge.
Joshua (note: b. 1735 in VA) married an english lady named Dyer in Virginia early in the eighteenth century.Some time prior to the revolution he removed his family to Wilkes county North Carolina where he lived during this trying time, a staunch whig, he served under Col. Cleaveland and took part in the battle of Kings Mountain and minor skirmishes of the war.As an incident of the battle of Kings Mountain, when Col. Ferguson the British commander fell his fine cream colored mare galloped down the mountain bearing the empty saddle and was captured by Joshua Stephens.
Joshua Stephens's three oldest sons, John, Elisha, and Levi were in the continental service during the war of the revolution.Of John's family but little is known the writer.Elisha, was a methodist preacher.Levi, his third son and Isaiah the fourth, Joshua the sixth and Hezekiah the seventh were in after years residents of Tennessee.Jeremiah the fifth son went to Kentucky on his attaining his majority.Joseph the eighth lived and died in North Georgia.Absalom the ninth died in Habersham County Georgia.Elijah the tenth son was born in Wilkes County, North Carolina, August the 30th A.D. 1786 and died in Harralson county Georgia June the 24th, 1871.Of John Stephens family but little is known as he returned to North Carolina after the family removed to Pendleton South Carolina about the year 1793.
Elisha had several sons Manoah, John, Larkin, Lemuel, and Elisha, and three daughters, One of who married Davidson, one Kellet, and one Eli Pitchford.Levi Stephens had only daughters one of whom married a man maned Garret and died in North Georgia.
Isaiah was a Baptist preacher.He had several sons.Joseph who lived in Gwinnett County Georgia who also, had several sons and Joshua who died in Kentucky.This Joshua had three sons, Calloway, David, and Joshua.Calloway raised a family and he and David died during the Civil.Joshua the youngest lives in Texas.Joseph Ezzell married one of the elder Joshua's several daughters.Isaiah had two sons by a second wife, John & Jeptha.
Of Jeremiah (who went to Kentucky) we have no record.
Joshua resided and died in Tennessee.We have no knowledge of him further than he had one son whose name was John.
Hezekiah was also a baptist preacher.He had one son named Dyer and several daughters, one of whom married James Poe.
Joseph was a baptist preacher he was drowned in enharley (sic) creek in Cass now Bartow County, Georgia.He had two sons Elias and Absalom.The family of Elias are in Gordon County, Georgia and the western states, and the family of Absalom who was also, a baptist preacher are in Bartow County Georgia.
Absalom the ninth son of Joshua Stephens had several sons of which Hiram went to west and William died in North Georgia of the rest of his family we have no record.He died in Habersham County, Georgia about the year 1867.(Note Samuel Stephens of Hall County, Georgia was a son of one of Joshua Stehens ptr's sons; of which one I am not certain but think it was Hezekiah.There were three daughters born to Joshua Stephens one of whom married a McFarland in North Carolina.She had one son, whatever became of him we have no record.;
Elijah the tenth son married Martha Patterson who died about the year 1811 bearing an infant daughter named Cynthia who in after years married Joseph Morgan and became the mother four sons and three daughters.Morgan died in 1858 and her three eldest sons died in the civil war, viz;William Leander, James Madison and Washington Posey.Her eldest daughter was mysteriously murdered in the woods.Her youngest son married and died bearing 3 or 4 children.Her younget daughter married C.C. Lewis and has several children.Elijah Stephens married as second wife Lucy Flanigan daughter of William and Polly Flanigan who came from Wales some years previous to the revolution.William Flanigan served during that war with General Sumpter.By this marriage he had two sons and one daughter:Elijah Bluford, born October 31, 1817 and Mary Lesia, born September 2nd, 1819.His wife Lucy Stephens died in October 1840 and in 1849 he married his third wife Rebecca Banks.
Washington Dyer Stephens, married to Caroline Miller daughter of Aaron and Penelope Miller of Carrol County, Georgia, about the year 1837.To them was born five sons and three daughters............?........... Stephens died in 1855 and his wife the next year.The three oldest boys died in the civil war.Their names were John, Levi Aaron and William Madison.John was married and left a daughter.The next son Wiley Clark is in Texas.The two oldest daughters are also in Texas both married.The youngest daughter died young.The youngest son Washinton Payne died at _hulafinnee Ala.
Elijah Bluford Stephens married Emilia Jones Ayres daughter of John and Eda Ayres August 23, 1838.To them were born four sons and one daughter.Jonathan Dyer born June the 9th, 1839.Married Rebecca Pitman Feb 3rd, 1859.To them were born eight daughters and three sons.Newton Jasper born Aug 2, 1840 married 1865 to Jane Dowdel to them were born four sons and one daughter Monroe Clark born 1841 died in infancy.Mary Elizabeth born September 15, 1843.Elijah John born October 13, 1845 married January 19, 1868 to Mary Ann Weatherby, widow, daughter of Wilson F. and Sarah Blackstock.To them were born one son and theree daughters Mary A., Stephens died January 24, 1874.Elijah J. married Penninah E. Trammel, November 15, 1874, to them were born three sons and three daughters.Emilia Jones Stephens died Nov. 6. 1846.Elijah Bluford Stephens married a second wife Jane Barret. daughter of John and Jane Barrett. June 11, 1848.To this marriage were born two sons and three daughters.William Alexander born August 5, 1849 married to See Page 6, Nancy Caroline Jan. 5. 1851, Lucy Jane (died when small), and Lewis Pierce (died when small).
(Jonathan Dyer Stephens...1899)
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