Pioneer Beaver Creek Settler Carved Home In Wilderness 
  by Henry P. Scalf

 Submitted by Rich Salisbury 
 
 
  (The following article appeared over several issues of the Floyd
County Times, beginning with April 4, 1963 - Page 2, Sec. 2.) 
 
 
 (This history of the Stephens family was written from a compilation
of data gathered by Henry Stephens, of Prestonsburg, and his son,
Edgar P. Stephens. This article is the first of a series.)
 
 Samuel Stephens, progenitor of the Big Sandy branch of the family,
emerges to history on the Floyd County, Kentucky, records when he
married Florence  Patton, July 26, 1821.  Whether he was a child when
Virginia and was brought to Kentucky by his parents or other relatives,
or like many stalwart young men of the time immigrated westward by
his own decision is not known.
 
 There were others of the Stephens name in early Floyd County when
Samuel Stephens and Florence Patton married.  On December 11, that
year, Andrew Stephens and Susanna Williams were united in wedlock.
It is presumed Samuel and Andrew were brothers.
 
 It was Jacob Mayo, deputy clerk of the Floyd County Court for many
years, and afterwards clerk himself for years, who issued the
marriage license and accepted the security that authorized the union
of Samuel Stephens and Florence Patton.  The license may be found
recorded in marriage book No. 1,page 158, being number 692 in the
county since the records were rehabilitated after the courthouse
burned in 1808.
 
 It reads: "This shall license and permit you to join in marriage
 according to the rites and ceremonies of the church to which you
 belong Samuel Stephens and Florence Patton and for this shall be
 your sufficient warrant.  Given under my hand this 21st day of
 July, 1821. Jacob Mayo, D.C.F.C.C."
 
 The marriage return was made by Stephen Harper, J.P., who wrote:
 "I hereby certify that the within named couple was this day joined
 together in marriage as the law directs by me, this 26th day of
 July, 1821." Samuel Stephens at the time of his marriage was 20
 years old, having been born November 11, 1801, in that part of
 Russell County, Virginia, that became Wise county in 1856.  His
 wife, one year older, was the daughter of James Patton and Florence
 Graham Patton, early Beaver Creek settlers.
 
 In the first quarter of the nineteenth century land available for
preemption in early Floyd was plentiful, except for the river
bottoms.  The huge John Preston survey of 100,000 acres had encircled
a line around the Big Sandy River bottoms from the mouth of Johns
Creek upstream for many miles but in the main the bottoms of the
larger tributary streams were untouched.  Samuel Stephens and
Florence Patton Stephens settled on Stephens Branch, near the present
Alphoretta, gave their family name to the stream.  In that almost
unbroken sylvan barony of thousands of acres of land they raised 15
children and a foster daughter.
 
 The Big Sandy valley in 1821 was sparsely settled.  Only the year
before Samuel Stephens married did anyone claim and settle on the
bottoms where Martin now stands. Prestonsburg was a struggling little
village of less than 50 persons.  Pikeville was unheard of and long
valleys, like the one where Stephens settled, were empty except for
primeval trees and abundant game.
 
 All the children of Samuel and Florence Patton Stephens lived to
adulthood which was unusual indeed for, in the semi-wilderness of
early Floyd County, the hazards of life and the lack of proper
medical care lessened the survival rate.

 There were fields to clear of giant timber, long hours of almost
intolerable toil in and outside the house, and epidemics of small
pox that swept the land. Life was hard and back-breaking labor was
eternal.
 
 Around the Stephens home the virgin timber yielded to cleared fields
and Samuel rapidly added to his original acres by additional patents.
In time the early homesite had grown to mammoth proportions.  But
this preoccupation of Samuel with land acquisition was for a laudable
purpose.  He was providing for his posterity, left each of his
children several hundred, a few, thousands of acres.
 
 The order of birth of the Stephens children cannot be given.  We
know that Jenny, daughter of Florence, was born about 1818, possibly
1819.  She was reared by Samuel and Florence, took their name, and
reaching maturity, married John Stone, October 29, 1837.  Her
husband, while at work on Turkey Creek, cut his leg with an axe.  He
bled to death.  Jenny, now a widow with five children, remarried
Andrew J. Canady, bore him four children.  Descendants of this later
union now bear the name Kennedy.
 
 Rebecca Stephens, one of the older daughters of Samuel and Florence,
married George W. (Hopkins) Allen,  April 28, 1840. They had sixteen
children.
 
 George W. Stephens, one of the older sons, married Margaret
Handshoe, July 24, 1844.  He settled on the Caney Fork of Middle
Creek and reared ten children and died about 1900.
 
 William D. Stephens married Rebecca Bradley, November 3, 1857, and
were the parents of eleven children.  Reuben Stephens married Nancy
Jane Hicks, April 21, 1859, and continuing the tradition of large
families in the Stephens sept, had twelve children.
 
 It is not known to whom Alexander Stephens was married.  He,
contrary to the dominant southern feeling of his kinsmen, joined the
Union army in either Ohio or Illinois, served through the Civil War
as an officer.  He came back to Stephens Branch after the war was
over, willing to forget the differences with his people. But his
brothers were a bit embittered by the war, and Alexander left for
the west.  It was rumored that he died in the Chicago fire in 1871,
but this fear proved groundless.  Decades later a son came back to
Kentucky from Oklahoma to inquire about the division of the estate of
his grandfather but finding no provision had been made for Alexander,
returned to Oklahoma.  Knowledge of this family does not exist with
the Big Sandy Stephens descendants.
 
 First to marry after the Civil War from the patriarchal home of
Samuel Stephens was Mary.  October 11, 1865, she was married to
David Osborne. To this union were born eight children. Samuel A.
Stephens married an Osborne also, presumably a sister to David. 
Samuel A. and Sarah Osborne were united in marriage, October 10,
1866, and to them were born fourteen children.
 
 John Stephens, born 1836, was never married.  He was lured
westward by the news of the California gold rush and did not return
until about 1907 or 1908.
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 Sons of Pioneer Stephens Were Divided In Civil War
 
 (This is the second in a series of articles on the Stephens family
 compiled from data gathered by Henry Stephens and his son,
 Edgar P. Stephens.)
 
 The years, between 1821 when Samuel Stephens and Florence Patton
were married and the outbreak of the Civil War, was a period of time
that historians designate as the log cabin development period in the
Big Sandy valley.
 
 The pole cabin of the pioneer settlers disappeared and the more
commodious hewed-log home appeared in its place.  There were a few
added utilitarian comforts in these homes all produced with great
labor.  The Stephens home, typical of those built by the landed
settlers, grew to large proportions to house the 16 children.
 
 Early, though, many of this big family began to marry and left the
paternal hearthstone, but the younger grew and it is a fair
inference that the Stephens Branch home was full for years.  There
was talk of war and the young men, some married, chose sides in the
bitter sectional strike, imitating their elders who were vocal on
the questions of the day.
 
 Came 1861 and Col. Andrew Jackson May began recruiting soldiers for
the Confederacy at Prestonsburg.   Although George had been married
since 1844 and William had taken a wife four years before they both
enlisted to fight for the South.  Alexander didn't share the
prosouthern sympathies of his two older brothers and left home to
cast his lot with the Union.

 Tradition, usually unreliable but often indicating the basic truth,
asserts that Alexander was a brilliant man and had acquired
considerable education. He taught school for several years and it is
said that a few years before the Civil War he, George and Reuben went
west. They became separated, according to this tradition, and the
three never saw each other until after the close of the war.
 
 George Stephens had several children before he entered the
Confederate army but we are unsure as to the number.  Both George and
and William joined Co. B 13th Calvary Regiment, C.S.A, that Col.
May had formed.  The date was October 9, 1862.  The next day, the
reason not stated, both men left Co. B, went over to Company F and
remained in that group until the war ended.  Alexander, their brother
was out west, in either Ohio or Illinois, and soon joined the Federal
forces.  Neither were to see each other until after Lee surrendered
when Alexander came back to Stephens Branch, found his brothers,
perhaps others of the family, cool to his service as a Union soldier.
He left again for the west and only vague rumors came back that he
went to Indian Territory, married an Indian chief's daughter, and
lived out his life on the Oklahoma prairie.
 
 George Stephens, who married Margaret Handshoe, settled on the Caney
Fork of Middle Creek.  Little is known about Margaret Handshoe's
family, except that she was from Salt Lick, on Right Beaver Creek.
Her mother was a Prater and one of her sisters married William
Coburn, and another married Alexander Coburn.
 
 Children of the union of George and Margaret Stephens were Alexander,
married Delila Hale, daughter of Samuel Hale and Eda Helton Hale;
Harrison married Rebecca Allen, daughter of James Allen who lived in
the head of the Left Fork of Middle Creek; Martha married Morgan
Baldridge, and settled on Jones Fork, near the present Lackey but
left years later and went to Rowan County; Henry C. married first to
Fannie Hicks and after her death Alice Risner;
 
 Darcus married Daniel Wicker, of Jones Fork where they lived and
died; Florence married James Bradley; Minerva married Alexander
Hamilton and went to housekeeping on the Caney Fork of Middle Creek
where they lived and died; Cynthia married Jefferson Justice, and
upon his death remarried Joe Morgan Thornsberry; Polly Ann married
Hager Ousley, lived and died on Caney Fork; Samuel married first
Catherine Coburn and after her demise married Rachel Bradley.
 
 Jennie, the foster child of Samuel Stephens and daughter of his wife
Florence, married John Stone and to them were born these children:
Cynthia Stone married a Goodman; James married Polly McDaniels;
Sally died not married; Nancy married Henry Patton and after his
death married Jack Howard; and Florence who married Thomas Conley.
After the untimely death of John Stone from an accident on Turkey
Creek she remarried Andrew J. Canady and to them were born four
children; Dave Canady married Florence Stephens, daughter of Thomas
and Nancy Jane Hicks Stephens; Mary Canady married Gobe Compton;
Lige, a great fiddler and variety musician, who was never married;
Rebecca married Jack Hale.
 
 Rebecca Stephens, who married George W. (Hopkins) Allen in 1840, was
the first of the many children of Samuel Stephens to die.  She and
George Allen were the parents of 16 children:
 
 Mary married Edward Halley; Louisa married James Halley; William;
James P., born 1859, married Sally May, born 1854, died 1921, Amanda
married B.L.C. May, born November 4, 1859, died January 8, 1952;
John B.; Florence married William Pratt; Susan married Milton Spears;
David; Darcus married John Galloway; Robert; Andrew married Florence
Stephens, daughter of Reuben; Alexander married Elizabeth Stephens,
of the William Stephens line, August 8, 1884; Rebecca married S.P.
(Boge) Ratliff; Reuben died young; and Samuel who also succumbed in
his youth.
 
 Reuben M. Stephens, who married Nancy Jane Hicks in 1859, resided on
Stephens Branch.  Their 12 children were Solomon G., married Martha
Hale; Mary Ann married Wilson Shepherd, December 7, 1882.  Cynthia
married Johnnie Patton, March 16, 1889; Francis married Joe Shepherd;
John E. married Mary Hale, sister to Martha Hale who married Solomon
G. Stephens; Florence married Andrew Allen; Rebecca married Jake
Crisp; Darcus married Will Haywood and lived and died on Spurlock
Fork of Middle Creek; G.C.(Cleve) married Catherine Bailey, who died
in 1956; Malcolm married first to Mary Howard, second to Rebecca
Maggard, third to Delilah Moore and fourth to Draxie Vance; Jennie
married George Bailey; and Isabelle who married Lewis Howard, 
November 24, 1888. James P. Stephens, born January 25, 1825, died
February 29, 1904, married Cynthia May, who was born June 7, 1835,
died December 9, 1869.  Ten children were born to this union before
Cynthia died.  James P. and all of his children with the exception of
James A., a babe, left Beaver Creek soon after the mother's death and
moved to Kansas.  Jame A. was reared by his uncle and aunt, George
and Mahalia Hagans May and assumed the name of his foster parents.
 
 Sons and daughters of James P. and Cynthia May Stephens were George
J., married Alma Hindee Vaughan, October 23, 1901; Willam H. married
Levisa Jane Stufflebean, April 12, 1883; David married Causetta
Osborne, December 31, 1891; Solomon married Hettie Epley, March 1,
1890; Reuben and John died in infancy; Daniel W. married Martha
Patton, February 8, 1872; Marcus L. married Anne May Constable.
Solomon May and a few members of his immediate family returned to
Kentucky three years ago after an absence of half a century.
 
 William Stephens, who married Rebecca Bradley, was the father of 11
children; Susan married Felix J. May; Samuel married Mary Hale; Isaac
N. married Ann Flannery; Dollie, married Pharis Crisp; Elizabeth
married Alexander Allen; Polly married Jack Patton; Florence married
Hiram Bradley; Eli married Fannie Patton and after her death married
Myrtle Curnutte; Alexander married Angie Harman, and moved west;
Darcus married Starling Gibson; Cynthia married first Wesley Ratliff
and second Ned Ousley.  Cynthia died on Caney Fork. John Stephens,
one of the older sons of Samuel Stephens, never married. He went to
California in the Gold Rush but returned to die in the Big Sandy.
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  Underneath Vast Stephens Farm Lay Huge Reserves of Minerals
 (This is the third article in a series on the Stephens family.)
 
 John Stephens, one of the sons of Samuel Stephens and Florence
Patton Stephens, who went heading for California in the Gold Rush,
had no inkling that underneath land on the waters of Beaver and
Middle Creek lay a fortune at home in coal and natural gas.
 
 John, who never married, returned from the west, a bit disillusioned
about far-off wealth and knowing nothing of "black diamonds" and the
other hidden minerals of the mountains, sold his part of his father's
estate to one of the other heirs. But whether John Stephens or any of
the heirs of the Stephens estate knew of it or not a vast storehouse
of mineral wealth, awaiting development, was under the 16,000 acres
of the Stephens barony.  Stephens Branch, approximately three miles
long, all of the Caney Fork of Middle Creek down to what oldsters
called the Cold Spring, and hundreds of acres of bottom on main
Beaver lay under a title to Samuel and Florence Stephens.  They, too,
had little conception of the vast resources under their land.
 
 Decades later the Bailey-Ferguson Coal Company and soon afterward
the May Coal Company began development.  Today the Stephens Elkhorn
Fuel Corporation, successor the May Coal Company, is exploiting part
of the original; Stephens farm.  It is said that none of Samuel
Stephens' heirs reaped any large reward from the land.  Most of them
were restless and, people said, stubborn. They wanted to leave the
old home site, look for wealth and a good life elsewhere.
 
 Development of the natural resources of Big Sandy was coming,
though, before Samuel and Florence died.  In the eighties a railway
pushed up the valley to Peach Orchard, finally to Whitehouse.  Timber
merchants swarmed on the main stream and looked up into the tributary
valleys.  Giant walnut trees were bought for a song. In a few years
other buyers returned to dig up the stumps. While Samuel Stephens was
approaching the last years of his life, logging became the concern of
many prominent Big Sandians and Catlettsburg grew to the largest
hardwood market in the world.  It held that lead for a decade or
more.
 
 All of the many sons and daughters of Samuel Stephens were married
before 1880, with the exception of John who had gone west.  The
Stephens Branch home was never empty, though, for grandchildren were
constant inmates.
 
 Samuel Stephens, after a vigorous old age, died, July 24, 1887.  His
widow survived until 1890.  Both were buried in the cemetery that
bears the Stephens name, on a point near the residence of the late
B.L.C. May, who married a granddaughter.  In this pine-covered
cemetery, others, who like Samuel and Florence Stephens pioneered the
development of homes in the community, lie buried.  A black-topped
road trails along now at the foot of the hill, going up Stephens
Branch and down Caney Fork.  In Samuel's day it was a wagon-rutted
trail.
 
 Eight children of the old pioneer whose marriages and children were
not listed in former articles of this series are Thomas, Samuel A.,
Mary, Cynthia, Andrew, David, Morgan G., and Darcus P.
 
 Thomas married Nancy Jane Bradley, March 15, 1852, and had 12
children. They were Susannah, married Isaac F. Flannery, April 13,
1876, and upon his death married Sam England; Florence married David
A. Canady, November 30, 1871; Isaac married Malinda Yates; Samuel
married Rebecca Castle, November 19, 1890, and after her death
married Sophie Whitaker, December 22, 1919, and following her death
married Mary Salmons, June 2, 1923, and later married Rosa (Wireman)
Handshoe; Reuben A. married Nancy Haywood, December 28, 1881 and upon
his death she married Thomas Ratliff, September 29, 1894. She died in
Utah.  James B. married Lurania Haywood, November 14, 1882; William
D., born October 14, 1859, died January 19, 1926, never married; J.R.
(Riley) married Margaret Baldridge; George H., about which no
information is available; Rebecca A. married Sandy Vaughan, November
30, 1887,  and after his death married B.B. (Doc) Porter; Lee married
Susan McKnight; Elizabeth married John McGann and later, March 25,
1869, married Vinson Bentley.

 Samuel A. Stephens, born April 30, 1831,died May 30, 1890, married
October 10, 1866, Sarah Osborne, born March 27, 1839, died June 19,
1904.  Their 11 children were David married Louisa Martin, February 10,
1903; D.B. married Myrtle L. Hall, January 22, 1908; B. B. married
Rosa Martin, March 4, 1905 and following her death married Virgie
Ratliff, May 29, 1909; Ed L. married Grace Adams, of Magoffin county
and upon her death married Lilly May, also of Magoffin county; Susan
married June 24, 1886; Thomas G. (Bringe) Allen; Ferdinand married
Fanny Howard and later January 17, 1894, married Lydia Crisp; Monroe
married Reecie Crisp and later Allie Adams; Rhoda married
S.B. Osborne; Mary married A.L. Osborne and later was married to John
Johns; Irvin, not known as to whom married, but it is said he went to
Oklahoma; Florence married Bill Flannery; Dollie G. married February
5, 1906, Elbert Pratt; Sidney married Logan Dingus; Margaret, died in
infancy.   [AE: "measles"] Mary Stephens married David Osborne, October
11, 1855.  They had eight children: Albert married Ella Prater and after
her death married Hattie Preston Allen; Samuel married Susan Osborne;
Matt married Darcus Patton; Ewing married Stella Chapman; John D.married
Ella Hall and later Clara Hall; Rebecca married Joe Salisbury;
Cynthia married Jacob Crisp; Rhoda married Logan Dingus.  Cynthia and
Rebecca Osborne were twins. Cynthia Stephens married Samuel Hale and
to them were born only one child which died in infancy.  This was a
second marriage of Samuel Hale, he having married Eda Helton whose
mother was a Wireman, before his marriage to Cynthia Stephens.  There
were eight children born to this first marriage of Samuel Hale.

The eldest, James Hale, emigrated west where the nearest railway to
the Big Sandy was Cincinnatti and it was necessary to go there by
steamboat. Arriving in Kansas City, Missouri, the western railway
terminal, he found himself with only fifty cents.  James Hale, the
oldest, died a few years ago in Waynoka, Oklahoma, possessed of
vast real estate holdings, one ranch alone having 35,000 acres on
the Cimarron River.  He survived all of his brothers and sisters.
In 1926 he returned to the Big Sandy to visit his relatives, the
only time he ever came back.
 
 Other sons and daughters of Samuel Hale and Eda Helton Hale were
A.J. Hale, died at Verdigris, Oklahoma; B.B. Hale, died at Cody,
Nebraska; John who emigrated to Missouri, but returned to die in
Floyd county; Vinson Hale, who went to Oklahoma but had his legs
broken in a wagon wheel and died from the effects of the injury;
Delilah born 1875, died August, 1933 married Alexander Stephens,
born July 15, 1865, died December 30, 1953, having married in
1889; Mary married Samuel Stephens and died in Webster county,
Missouri. Samuel Stephens was killed in an automobile accident
near Salyersville, Magoffin county, and his body was returned to
Missouri to be interred by his wife; Martha Hale married Paul
Shepherd (Hale) and they moved to Seymour, Webster county,
Missouri, where they died.
 
 Andrew Stephens married Rosann Carpenter of Magoffin county.
Their nine children were:
Rush who married Mary Whittaker; George married a Risner and
later Margaret Howard; Samuel married Essie Allen; Judge married
Cora Whittaker and later Della  Patrick; Bruce married Pearlie
Allen; Flora married Wed Risner and later Warnie Patrick; Dora
married Peter Risner; Dave married Mary Wireman; Tilden married
Minnie Mooney.  Rosann Carpenter was a sister to George Carpenter
who married Darcus Stephens.
 
 David Stephens married Margaret Daniels and to them were born 11
children:
John married Annie Salisbury, April 23, 1882; James married Betsy
Salisbury; Andrew married Rebecca Cornett; Albert married Annie
Clark; Samuel married Martha Hayes, November 7, 1908; Mary married
James Tomlin; Rebecca, never married; Fannie married S. D. Kirk;
Cynthia married Frank Bunch; Miranda married Ned Gearheart;
Darcus married Jeff Galloway.  David Stephens, father of the above,
lived near the mouth of Spurlock, on left Beaver Creek. He was
county judge and surveyor of Floyd county.
 
 Morgan G. Stephens, born 1843, died 1917, married February 11, 1864,
to Malinda J. Hale.  They were the parents of ten children: Mary Ann,
married Palmer Scutchfield, March 23, 1881, and both died at
Jeffersonville, Kentucky, but were buried near Water Gap, Floyd
county; Darcus F. married Jeff Bingham, March 20, 1882; Kate married
Ayris Spradlin, September 28, 1890; Claybourne married Hester Cooley,
June 24, 1894; Camillus, never married; James P. married Lydia J.
Cooley, May 18, 1902; Samuel married Mary Gormley; Florence married
Columbus Crisp; October 9, 1900; John married Nola Baldridge; Cynthia
married Jesse Hatfield, July 22, 1923 and upon his death married Dan
Prater, of Brush Creek, Right Beaver Creek.
 
 Darcus P.Stephens married George Carpenter, of Magoffin county, and
both died at Salyersville. Their twelve children were Samuel, who
married Cassie Allen and later Sally Pratt; Kate married Morgan
Hamilton; Alex, died at age 18 of typhoid; Florence married Dudley
Howard; Mary married Ben Hale; Morgan married Nora Owens and later
Maxine Arnett; Cornelia married first to Isaac Prater, second to Ray
Barrack, and third to Harry Neeley; Johnny, died at one year of age
of measles; Will Press married Rose May; G. C. (Cleve) died in
infancy; Bertha married Henry Patton; Cynthia married Fred Patrick.
 
 There were 177 known children and grandchildren of Samuel and
Florence Patton Stephens.  Last of the children of Samuel and
Florence to die was Mary Osborne, wife of David Osborne.  She
succumbed near Printer, September24, 1924.
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  Samuel Stephens' Descendants Participated In Public Affairs
 
  (This is the fourth article on the Stephens family compiled from data
 gathered by Henry
 Stephens and his son, Edgar P. Stephens.)
 
 In the century and half since Samuel Stephens, the progenitor of the Big
Sandy family, was born in Virginia several thousand descendants have lived,
carved out their destinies and either passed on or live today to claim him
as an ancestor.
 
 Many engaged in business or went into the professions, notably the law.
Others sought public office and served in various official capacities
in local or district government.  There were physicians, a number
were teachers.
 
 David Stephens, son of Samuel and Florence Stephens, who married
Margaret Daniels, was elected county judge and also served as county
surveyor of Floyd county.  His son Albert, of Prestonsburg, was elected
Commonwealth's Attorney of the 31st judicial district.  Claude P.
Stephens, son of Albert was elected and served as Commonwealth's
Attorney for the same judicial district from 1922 to 1934.  He was
named United States Assistant District Attorney for the Eastern
District of Kentucky by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and in a few
years succeeded Sawyer Smith as District Attorney.
 
 John Stephens, of Water Gap, son of Morgan Green Stephens and Malinda J.
Hale Stephens, taught school for many years and was elected to the office
of County Superintendant of Schools, succeeding Harry N. Cooley.  H.C.
Stephens, grandson of Samuel and son of George W. Stephens, was elected
to the office of Justice of the Peace for one of Floyd county's eight
magisterial districts.  Henry Stephens, son of Alexander Stephens and
Delila Hale Stephens, was elected Circuit Court Clerk in 1915 and served
two terms. He was a successful candidate for Circuit Judge in 1939,
serving six years.
 
 Three of Samuel Stephens' descendants were physicians - Dr. Orris
Gearheart, Dr. O.T. Stephens, and his son Dr. Raymond Stephens. 
Six were practicing attorneys, one of whom is Harris Stephens Howard,
a great-grandson, of Prestonsburg.  George Stephens, grandson of
David and Margaret Daniels Stephens, is now an instructor in a
California college.
 
 David Stephens and his wife, Margaret Daniels Stephens, resided on Left
Beaver Creek, near the present post office of Printer.  Their 11
children married chiefly in the local families of the area.  John,
the eldest son, married Annie Salisbury in 1882.  Their two
children were Grover, married Minnie Dingus, January 9, 1908;
and Annie who married Monroe Stumbo, January 3, 1905.
James Stephens, second son of David, married Elizabeth (Betsy)
Salisbury and they were the parents of three children: Ballard
F. married Sallie Fitzpatrick, July 23, 1913; Beverly married
Mona Howell, June 4, 1917; Viola married John Hamilton, October
21, 1904.
 
 Andrew Stephens married Rebecca Cornett, and they were the parents
of 10 children: John, Wilbur and Lockhart, triplets, died, infant;
Betty, married George Stephens; Jerry married Wanda Scott, later
Jenny Bunting; Emma married George Hereford; Lesty B. married
Ernest Akers; William R. married Bird Weddington and upon her
death married China Dillion; Bertha M. married John Butler;
David married Dora Snapp.
 
 Albert Stephens, who married Annie Clark, was the father of ten
children: Claude P. Stephens, married Bess Leete; Oscar married
Virginia Needham; Edgar married Gladys Cooper; Alta married Alex
L. Davidson, who served a term as County Judge of Floyd county;
Ethel, twin sister of Alta, married Blaine Smith; William, died
not married; Lindsay married Lucille Rorrer and later Gunnells;
Cora married C.D. McHone; Lewis P. married Roberta Bradley; Florence
married J. W. Howard, Presonsburg attorney.
 
 Samuel Stephens, fifth son of  David and Margaret, married Martha
Haynes in 1908, and were the parents of seven children, most of
whom live in or near Missoula, Montana. They are Martha, Mary,
Kermit, Kenneth, May, Margery, and Barbara.  May married Ray Wohischlager.

Mary Stephens married James Tomlin (son).  Five of their children,
Dorothy, Sam, Dolly, Rebecca and Rufus, are living in the Northwest,
near Bellingham, Washington.  Rebecca Stephens, daughter of David
and Margaret Daniels Stephens, was an invalid and never married.
Fannie married S.D. Kirk and their children live in West Virginia and
Iowa.  Their four children were Dakota, married Claude Knockenheimer;
Ballard, Bascom, and Marie. Cynthia Stephens married Frank Bunch. 
Their children were Marie, Harry,Haber and Mildred.  Harry Bunch
was killed in Ashland.
 
 Darcus Stephens was twice married.  To her and her first husband Jeff
Galloway, were born five children: Hazel, Opal, Kermit, Edgar, and
Vernice.  To Darcus and her second husband, Percy Kiser, was born
only one son, Percy Kiser, Jr.  These sons and daughters of Darcus
Stephens lived in and around Kenova, West Virginia and Catlettsburg,
Kentucky.
 
 Miranda Stephens married Ned Gearheart and resided for years on Toler
Creek, near Amba, Kentucky.  After his death Mrs. Gearheart moved to
Betsy Layne where she died in 1955.  Their 11 sons and daughters are:
Robert married Ann Beverly, later Martha Jones; Hatler married Minnie
Haynes and moved west; Dr. Orris married May Dingus; Verlie married
Oscar Bush; Sally married J. Burke Bush; Carlye married Palmer Crum;
Margaret married Okie Compton; Kelsa married Jesse Elliott; Fred
married Rachel Roberts; Fannie married Don Bush; Bill D. died infant.
 
 Nearly all the children and several of the grandchildren of Miranda
Stephens Gearheart and Ned Gearheart were teachers.
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 THE  STEPHENS  FAMILY
 The Samuel A. Stephens and Sarah Osborne Stephens Line
 
 (This is the fifth article in a series on the Stephens family written
 from data compiled by Henry
 Stephens and his son, Edgar P. Stephens.)
 
 Samuel A. Stephens, one of the many sons of Samuel Stephens and Florence
Patton Stephens, was married to Sara Osborne, October 10, 1866.  To this
union were born 14 children.
 
 Many descendants of Samuel A. and Sara Osborne Stephens are physicians
and teachers.  Mrs. Ralph and William Allen are great-great grandsons of
the pioneers, Samuel and Florence Stephens.  Dr. J. H. Allen, of Maytown
and Allen, is a great-grandson of Samuel, the Stephens Branch settler, and
his son, Dr. Claude, operates the Beaver Valley hospital at Martin.  Dr.
Gene Combs, son of Townsel and Octavia Allen Combs, is a great-great-grandson.
 
 Dave Stephens married Louise Martin, February 10,1903.  They had five
children: Claude, never married; Lillian, married Ben Ferguson and they
were the parents of Ben and Charles Ferguson; Marie, married James Salisbury
and were the parents of six children.  Children of Marie and James were
James, married Betty Lou Hall; Phillip, not married; Chaddie; Judith; William;
and Timothy.  Dale, fourth child of Dave and Louise Martin Stephens, married
Ruth Gilliam and they were the parents of Donald.  Morris, son of Dave and
Louise, married Katherine Wisecup.
 
 D. B. (Dock) Stephens married Myrtle Hall, January 22, 1908, and to them
was born Oriole, who married French Maggard, August 2, 1930.  Children of
Oriole and French Maggard are Sally and Ruth.
 
 Bascom B. Stephens married Rosa Martin, March 4, 1905.  She was born
October 5, 1888, died of typhoid while they were living in Tennessee.
Bascom Stephens brought his dead wife and an infant daughter, Thelma, back to
Kentucky in a buggy, being several days on the journey.  Thelma married
Miles May and was the mother of Marvin, married Irene Boyd; Gardis, Joe,
Frank, Miles, and Bascom, not married.Bascom Stephens remarried to Virgie
Ratliff, May 29, 1909.  They had six children: Ray, married Julia
Baldridge; Lon married Fay Maynard; Edward married Marie Wiley;
Floyd married Mary Smith; Bonnie married Howard Turnipseed; Clyde married
Isabella Miller.
 
 Edward Stephens married Grace Adams and, upon her death, Lily May.  One
child of Edward, a graduate of Brown University practiced law and
married in Chicago. He died there.
 
 Ferdinand Stephens, married Lydia Crisp, January 17, 1894.  After the
demise of Lydia Crisp Stephens he remarried to Fannie Howard.  Children
of Ferdinand were Effie, married Burnett; Bessie married Hardy Gardner.
 
 Susan Stephens married Thomas G. (Bringe) Allen, June 24, 1886.  They
had six children, Dr. J. H. Allen, born May 2, 1888, married Bertha May,
born February 3, 1891. Dr. Allen, a member of the Floyd County Board of
Education, lives at Maytown.  Children of Dr. Allen and Bertha May Allen
are George who married Juanita Taylor; Dr. Claude married Katherine
McKinney; Harriett married Savage Cooley; Peggy Jo married Maurice Vaughan.
 
 S. C. (Coley) Allen married Rhoda Preston and were the parents of four
children: Barbara Leo Carter; Corinne and Geraldine, not married; Joyce
married Volney Allen.
 
 Charles A. Allen married Maggie Webb and were the parents of five
children: Dr. Ralph Allen married Glema Hughes; Dr. William Allen married
Betty Jean May; Stanton, never married; Wilma, died in infancy;
Robert married Katherine Stapleton.
 
 Octavia Allen married Townsel Combs.  Children were Townsel, not
married; Lamarr, married Marie Rannels; Dr. Gene Allen married
Bennie M. Caudill, daughter of Circuit Judge John W. Caudill;
Thomas married Ailleen Hays.
 
 Rosalie Allen married William P. Leslie who became  a distinguished
Texas judge. Two sons and a daughter are William, Rosalie, married
Judge Charles Loretta of New York; and Robert.
 
 Effie Allen married Dr. Richard Duke.  Two children are George, never
married and was killed in an automobile accident in Oklahoma, and
Mildred who married John Martin.
 
 Rhoda Stephens married S. B. (Dosh) Osborne. They were the parents of 14
children.  Holly B. Osborne married Town Hall, who served as County
Superintendant of Floyd County Schools and they were the parents of Town
Hall, Jr.  Chauncey Osborne married Goldie Gearheart and had two
children, Holly Fay, married a Wicker, and Herbert.  Perchie Osborne
married Wesley Moore, Bernie Osborne married J. A. (Artie) Gearheart
and were parents of Ray, married Audrey Fraley, and Salem who married
Delsie Napier. Edna Osborne married Graden Akers and later Bill Caddes.
One son of Edna was Bobby G., not married.  Astor Osborne married Grace
Cooper.  Polly Osborne married Roy Martin and had five children;
Perchie Theodore Gibson; Roy, D; Quanda L., Trudy Joy, and Lloyd,
all not married.  Barney Osborne married Elizabeth. No children.
Klondike Osborne died in infancy as did  Triby and Flota. Two other
children of Rhoda and S.B. Osborne also died in infancy. Monroe
Stephens married Reecie Crisp and upon her death Allie Adams.
There were no children born to either union.
 
 Irvin Stephens married in Oklahoma.  The name of his wife and a son are
not known.
 
 Sidney Stephens married Logan Dingus and were the parents of four
children. Bessie (Elizabeth?) married Ben Osborne and had two children;
Leona, married Alfred Davis, and Homer married in Ohio, William Dingus
married Ruth Estes and were the parents of Paul and Charlene.  Glenn
B. Dingus married Fannie Hall and later Louise Boggs.  Grace Dingus
married William Ratliff and were the parents of two children: Luke,
married Ramona Sauber, and Vio married Goldie Gallagher. Mary Stephens
married A.L. Osborne, September 5, 1903, and after his death to
John Johns.  Children of Mary Stephens and A.L. Osborne were Gardia,
married Maggie Osborne and had five children: Adrian, Orin, Teddy,
Jerry, and Patsy, all of whom are married live in Texas; Mabel
Osborne married Emory McComas and had two children - Katherine
and Joan, married in Indiana; Lou Osborne married Reevis Hall
and were the parents of seven children - Wendell, Victor,
Robert, Ned, and Gary, married in Indiana.Lois married Robert Martin;
and John Osborn, unmarried.
 
 Children of Mary Stephens Johns and John Johns were Octavia, married
Leslie Pelphrey who had one child, Mary Lou, who died in infancy; Lucy
Johns married Charles B. Moore; Margie Johns married Donald Powelson
and were the parents of Donnie and Jane; Marvel married Marvel
Perkins and had three children: Eugene, Donald, and Phillip, not
married; Ferdinand Johns married Claudene Carder and were the
parents of Ivy Gale; Wilma Johns married Elwood Rorrer and were
the parents of Larry W., Mark K., Carol and Mark M.; Ross Johns, not
married.
 
 Dolly Stephens married Elbert Pratt, February 5, 1906, and they were
the parents of 16 children. Roger Pratt, not married.  Custer Pratt
married Mary Synder and later Mae Hoover. Children of Custer were
Wendell, Creed, Patsy and Lindy.  Henry Pratt married Lima Wright
and were the parents of two children, not married. John Pratt
married Amanda Moore and were the parents of six children - Cornetta,
Raeburn, Juanita, Priscilla, and Zeta, all unmarried, and Marilea, died
infant.

 Nora Pratt married Garland Martin and are the parents of eight
children: Daphne, Chalmer, Glemma, Thomas, Daina, June, Joan,
and Gaylord.  None married. Russell Pratt married Flora Allen
and are the parents of Xenia, and Valrie, neither married.
Jay Pratt married Hermie Lawson and have four children: Diana,
Judy, Kenneth, Sharon, neither married.  Grover Pratt married
Emmeline Ratliff and are the parents of Janet, Ronnie, Caroline,
Roger, Gary, Pamela, Deanie, and Jeanie, who are twins.  Woodrow
Pratt married Myreda Moore and are the parents of Cheryl and Lynn.
Rhoda married Curtis Sizemore and later Lonne Green.  Children
were Adria and Alice.  Ruth Pratt married Warren Risner and they
were the parents of Deborah, Delana and Denise. Raymond Pratt
not married.  Norma Pratt married James Johnson and are the
parents of Bonna and Stephen.  Miles E. Pratt and Arzilla
Pratt died in infancy. The sixteenth child died in infancy, unnamed.
 
 Flaura Stephens married Bill Flannery and they were the parents of
nine children. Alifair Flannery, not married.  Parley Flannery
married Grace Ousley. Amos Flannery married Birdie Parrott.  Roy
Flannery never married. Ellen Flannery married Henry Salisbury,
Sarah Flannery married Foster Porter and were the parents of Rita.
Sonya B. Flannery married Ed Greer.Rhoda Flannery married Ed
Halbert.  Ray Flannery married in Ohio. Margaret Stephens,
youngest daughter of Samuel A. and Sarah Osborne Stephens,
died in infancy.
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  THE  STEPHENS  FAMILY
 The George W. Stephens and Margaret Handshoe Stephens Line
 
 (This is the sixth article on the Stephens family compiled from data
 gathered by Henry Stephens
 and his son, Edgar P. Stephens.)
 
 On the fifth article on this family the name of Baisden Osborne was
inadvertently omitted as a son of S. B. Osborne and Rhoda Osborne
and grandson of Samuel A. Stephens and Sarah Osborne Stephens.
He married Mildred Slone and they are the parents of James, Paul,
and Ray Osborne.)
 
 George W. Stephens, who married Margaret Handshoe, July 24, 1844, lived
on the Caney Fork of Middle Creek.  He was a member of the Confederate
armed forces, enlisting under Col. A.J. May at Prestonsburg.  He was
a skilled carpenter and farmer.
 
 George and Margaret, who was called Peggy, were the parents of ten
children. Alexander L. Stephens, born July 10, 1865, died December
30, 1953, married Delilah Hale, in 1889, daughter of Samuel Hale
and Eda Helton Hale. They had two sons and two daughters: Henry C.
Stephens, born September 19, 1890, married first Julia B. Conley,
July 3, 1912.  She was born January 27, 1891. Their two sons are
Edgar P., born October 14, 1914, married Rose Ranier, who died in
Paintsville, and James D., born May 2, 1916, married Willette
Bruner and are the parents of three children.  Edgar P.  and
James D. both were graduated from the University of Kentucky.
Henry later married Katherine Leake, April 19, 1953.
 
 James Stephens, second son of Alexander and Delilah Hale Stephens,was
 born September 17, 1892, married Virgie Ousley, December 13, 1917.He was
 killed by Magistrate Robert Slone, his cousin, February 11, 1931,on Spurlock
 Fork of Middle Creek.  He had no children.
 
 Cynthia Stephens, born in May, 1894, married R.C. (Cob) Fitzpatrick,
December 31, 1912.  They are the parents of three children:
Delilah Fitzpatrick, married Francis Oppenheimer.  No children.
Woodrow Fitzpatrick married Nora Tussey. They are the parents of
one child.  Rhoda Fitzpatrick married Harmon Tussey and they are
the parents of Judy. Ella Stephens, daughter of Alexander and
Delilah Hale Stephens, married first Simon Haywood, February
7, 1913.  They were the parents of Julia Haywood who married Ad
Slone and they are the parents of 11 children. After the death of
Simon Haywood, his widow Ella remarried to Oscar Miller. They are
the parents of eight children: Delilah, married Marvin Calhoun;
Virginia married Leslie Wallen; Ruby married Alex Hyden; James
married first Mary Collins and later to Ratliff; Nora, Henry,
unmarried; William married Clevenger, granddaughter of James
Clevenger, of Prestonsburg; and Donald, killed in an automobile
accident near Lancer.
 
 Harrison Stephens, married Rebecca Allen,July 19,1887.They had only
one daughter, who married Abe Shepherd.  They are the parents of 12
children: Ashland Shepherd married Gladys Howard; Archer Shepherd
married Mary Shepherd; Arville Shepherd married Eva Shepherd; WIlliam
Shepherd married Helen; Harrison Shepherd married Ailene Roland;
Wheeler, unmarried; Elizabeth married Ashland Shepherd; Rebecca
Shepherd married Richmond Shepherd; Dona married Roy Turner;
Margaret married Don Tussey; Bertha and Allie died young.
 
 Martha Stephens married Morgan Baldridge, July 24, 1871.  They had ten
children. Nola Baldridge married John Stephens and they are the parents
of six children: Clayborne, married Irene Patton; Mary, died young; Thelma
married John Wallen; Morgan married Mary Ball and was killed in an automobile
accident in California; Elsie and Linda are single.Tom Baldridge
married Bertha Pelphrey.  One son is John Henry Baldridge.
 
 After the death of Bertha Baldridge her husband remarried.Lee
Baldridge married Amy Frasure and had several children.Dock
Baldridge married Flossie Brown.  Bill Baldridge married Emma
Perry.Sallie Baldridge married John Sexton. Minerva Baldridge
married John Roberts.Maggie Baldridge married Harve Porter.
Della Baldridge married Clabe Roberts.  Mary Baldridge married
Press Triplett.
 
 Henry Stephens, Squire, married first Fanny Hicks, July 29, 1886.They
had seven children: Alexander Stephens married Emma Johnson, November 23,
1904; Hiram married Della Flannery, November 15, 1906, and had no
children; Charles married Cynthia May, February 18, 1920, and to
them was born one daughter and upon the death of Cynthia, Charles
remarried Catherine Weiss and they were the parents of one daughter;
John C. married Lora Keathley and they had one daughter; Bob married
Minnie Bradley; George married Betty Stephens; and Grace married
William Bradley.
 
 Children of Alexander Stephens and Emma Johnson are: Betty, married
Edward Hunter; Mary, married; Grace, married Homer Ousley; Bertha,
married Henry Ousley; Henry, married Gracie Hughes and later Maude
Igoe; William married Verglinda Patrick; Nola married Isaac Stumbo;
Dora, married Jake Bradley; Julia, married Joe Hunter. Dora Stephens
daughter of Dr. Charles and Cynthia May Stephens, married Otto Elam.
Johnnie B. Stephens, daughter of John C. and Lora Keathley
Stephens married Carmel Osborne and later George Barnett.
Children of Bob and Minnie Bradley Stephens were: Fannie, married Curtis
Pitts;Ferdinand, Thelma, Claude, and LeRoy. Children of George and
Betty Stephens are: Lillian, died infant; Andrew married
Evelyn Akers; Virginia married James R. Balden; George, married
Mary Lee Harkey; and Margaret, married Harold Lockwood.
 
 One child of Grace Stephens Bradley and William Bradley is Ada Bradley
 who married Rhomer Osborne.  Ada Bradley was reared by Hiram Stephens and
 his wife, Della Flannery Stephens, as was Dora Stephens, daughter of Charles
 and Cynthia May Stephens, also Ferdinand, son of Bob Stephens and Minnie
 Bradley Stephens.
 
 Henry Stephens (Squire) married second to Alice Risner and they had nine
 
 children: Jay Stephens married Stella Calhoun, no children.  Albert
 Stephens, unmarried.  William (Bill) Stephens, unmarried, killed on the island of
 Luzon, in the Phillipines, in World War II; Harrison Stephens married Clara
 Howard.  One child of Harrison is Eddie.  Frank Stephens married Goldie Howard and
 they are the parents of a daughter, Wanda; Julia married Joe Helton, are the
 parents of four children - Annie Grace, Hazel, Franklin D., and Lilia Mae married
 Curt Mosley.  Lillie Stephens married E.J. Wright, who was killed on Spurlock
 and she remarried to Carson Hackworth and they are the parents of a
 daughter, Juanita.  Lillie Stephens married third to Willie Salisbury.  Marie
 Stephens married Hobart Pitts and have two children - John K., a teacher who is
 single, and Alice, who married Curtis Ousley.  Peggy Stephens died in infancy.
 
 Darcus (Duck) Stephens married Daniel Wicker, January 7, 1873.  They
 were the parents of 12 children.  Mark Wicker married Phoebe Keathley and
 their children were: Sarah married Dr. Russell L. Hall, of Wheelwright;
 Claude, Isaac, Carl and Edward.
 
 Will Wicker married Minnie Tackett and their children were Bardell,
 Opal, Ortha Clarice, Kenneth, Orville, Cephas and Quinnion.
 
 George Wicker married Lissie Triplett and were the parents of five
 children: Lawrence, Kenneth, Grace, Ted and Nancy.  The last two named are twins.
 
 Cleophas Wicker married Maggie Patrick and were the parents of 15
 children: Wilson married Thornsbury; Gladys married Curt Hurt; Virgil married
 Sylvia Bentley; Opal married Moore; Marie, Imal, Jean, Dan, Bobby, Wendell,
 Rondal, Ed, Curt, Bert, Willard who died infant.
 
 Cephas Wicker married Zonie Keathley, had one son, William.
 
 Cynthia Wicker married Calloway Chafins and were the parents of eight
 children: Valice married Lizzie Hall; Cornelius married Vernie Martin;
 Grover and Robert died young; Alpha, unmarried; Pharis married Madge Napier; Johnny
 
 married Nora Terry; and Julius, unmarried.
 
 Mary Wicker married Coge Parsons.  Seven children are Calvin, Pierce,
 Ora, Alice, Kelse, Belle, and Imogene.
 
 Mousie Wicker died infant.
 
 Myrtle Wicker married Elihu Triplett.  Seven children are: Marie married
 Mickie Hicks; Irene married Ernest Stiles; Arnold married Betty Brown; Ivory,
 Clyde, Paul and Phil are single.
 
 Ora Wicker married Ballard Hicks.  Seven children are: Huey, married
 Margaret Wicker, Sally Smith, and Adis Bolen.  Beulah married Elliott Wicker and
 later Birt Nickles.  Flossie married John Wicker.  Lucy married Clifton Moore.
 Dorsie married Allen Hicks and later Feeley Patton.  Curtis married Hattie
 Knox. Ballard married Jaqueline Prater.
 
 Julia Wicker married Robert Wicker and are parents of four children:
 Annie married Dave Wicker; Perry married Geneive Parker; Harry married Lora
 Sparkman; Bernie married Gladys Parker.
 
 Virgie Wicker married Robert Martin and are parents of seven children:
 Colie died young; Minnie married Curt Triplett; Hager married Mabel Watts;
 Flossie married Quentin Quirkhill; Elmer married Gamble; Henry and Mitchell.
 
 Florence (Sissy) Stephens married Jim Bradley, December 25, 1867.  They
 had nine children: Harris married Rhoda Flannery and were the parents of ten
 
 children; Eva married Taylor Prater; Bertha married Claude Allen; Dona
 married Willard Ballard; Ada married Clyde Allen; Adam married Bessie Patton;
 Will married Marie Salisbury; Margaret married Ray Edward; Obra J. married
 Joe Vargo; Laudy married Roger Stevens.
 
 Hiram Bradley married Florence Stephens and had nine children: James
 died young; Minnie married Arlie Nabit and later Paul Pope; Cynthia married
 Elbertson Bentley; Taylor married Dora Howard; Joe married Pearlie
 Stephens; Charles married Martha Frasure, Eli married Dollie Castle; Nola married
 Willie Bentley; and Clint married Grace Allen.
 
 Samuel Bradley married Dora Ousley.  One child was Annie, married Goble
 Wireman.
 
 Sarah Bradley married Bill Shepherd and are the parents of five
 children: Katherine married Beecher Shepherd; Betty married John Allen; Oliver,
 Claude, and Bertha.
 
 Mousie Bradley married Lee Risner.  Nine children are Harris, never
 married; Manis married Clara Adkins; Jim married Melba Prater; Opal married
 Claude Sturgill; Eva married Gordon Tussey; Rhoda married Cephas Ousley; Josie
 married Leonard Ousley; Lorene, not remarried; McIntyre married Virginia
 
 Adkins, Poppy Bradley married A. L. (Hall) Flannery.  Ten children were
 Felix married Hazel Sammons; Nora married Robert Barnett; Tavis married Bertha
 
 Click; Maude married Linville Higgins; John married Elizabeth Barnett;
 Phillip married Della Parriott; Robert married Myrtle Frazier; Nola; Annie
 married Kelly Dingus; one died infant.
 
 Lula, Elias and James Bradley died young.
 
 Minerva Stephens married Alexander Hamilton.  They had six children.
 Mary married Gnat Anderson and had seven children: Alex married Osborne;
 Carrie, not married; Arthur married Irene Keel; John married Bess DeRossette;
 Jarvis, not married; Dora married Bennie Hurd; Rhoda married Levi Ousley.
 
 Aggie Hamilton married Morgan Allen.  Five children are Lizzie, married
 Ike Bradley; Tilden married Cynthia Prater; Norman; Ocie married in Ohio;
 Ella married Grover England.
 
 Rhoda Hamilton married George Skeans.  They had nine children. Minerva
 married William Reffett; Aggie married John Hayes; Elizabeth married
 Earl Wright; Mary married Homer Ousley; Taylor married Callie DeRossette;
 Jonathan married Blanton, Boyd county; Julia D. married Samuel Potter;
 William and Beverly died young.  Cynthia Hamilton married Nelson Hale. No
 children.
 
 Stephen Hamilton married Minerva Fitzpatrick.  Five children were
 Stephen married Sarah Thornsbury; Bennie married Maggie Miller; Annie married
 Ira Brookover; Cynthia married Oran Huddleston and upon her death he married
 
 Julia Hamilton.
 
 Tandy (Tan) married Phoebe Hyden.  One child is Alex, married Virgie
 Poe.
 
 (The George W. Stephens and Margaret (Peggy) Handshoe Stephens line will
 
 be completed in the next issue.)
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  THE STEPHENS FAMILY
 
  The William D. Stephens and Rebecca Bradley Stephens line.  Compiled by
 Henry Stephens and his son, Edgar P. Stephens.
 
 William D. Stephens, one of the 16 children of Samuel and Florence
 Patton Stephens, married Rebecca Bradley, November 3, 1857.  To this union were
 
 born 11 children.
 
 Susan Stephens married Felix J. May, December 22, 1891.  Their children
 were Monna, died infant; Lula married Earl Webb, and they are the parents of
 three children; Edna married Thurmal Click; Thomas married Gertrude Goble;
 Claude married Helen Salisbury; Lillian May married Frank May and they are the
 parents of three children; Lucille married Jack Ryan; Opal married Earl
 Martin. Viola May married William A. Stewart and they are the parents of eight
 children; Roger married Mildred Begley; William married Miram Byrd; Ogen married
 Thelma Branham; Emma married J. Talant; Ed married Shirley Salisbury;
 Joyce Frank P. Stewart; Berman died at age 10; Beryl married James A. Dixon;
 Minnie May married Leo Allen and they are the parents of seven children; Ines
 married Maltie Hall; Ida married Lowell Howard; Irene married Arnold Gayheart;
 Vivian, Chloe, Winform and Joe Ann; Willard May married Eula May Stephens and
 they are the parents of two children, Gordon not married; Evelyn married to
 George L. Stephens and Earl Edsel Moore; John May married Trilby Allen and they
 are the parents of three children, Roy May, single, and Ann and Loretta are
 married but names of husbands are not available; Claude May, single; Ethel May
 married Wayne Ratliff and they are the parents of two children, Phyllis and
 Wendel.
 
 Samuel Stephens married Mary Hale.  They are the parents of nine
 children. Darcus Stephens married Everett Jennings and they were the parents of
 one child, Mary, and she married first, Forest Halbert, and they had one
 child and later married William Boring; Anna Stephens married Arthur Parnell and
 they are the parents of three children, Marie, William, and Arthur, Jr.   Bertha
 Stephens married Arthur Whitaker and they are the parents of seven children,
 Beriah, Ruby, Harry (dead), Ted, Henry, Mary married Elmo Bryant, and Arthur,
 Jr. Lillian Stephens married Elige Williams and they are the parents of four
 children, Elige, Jr., Mary, Jo Ann, and Eula Mae; Viola Stephens married Webster
 Davis and they have no children; Beriah Stephens married Ocie Whitaker and
 they are the parents of four children -  Samuel, Ralph, Janice and Lillian; Fred
 Stephens married Verbena Joseph and they have one son, who married Joanne Prater.
 
 William Stephens married Pansy Philpott and they have one son, Morris,
 and later Willam married Sarah _____; Nora Stephens, never married, was shot
 by Tom Shepherd, and bled to death.  He was her uncle.  All of Sam
 Stephens' children married first in Missouri except Beriah and this line lives
 mostly in Webster county in that state.  William and Fred are retired Army
 officers.
 
 Isaac Newton Stephens married Ann Flannery April 4, 1893.  They had
 seven children.  William married Sally Harmon, and they are the parents of two
 children - Julia Ann married Samuel Hale and Mary A. married Edgar Herald; Alex
 Stephens married Delphia Robinson and they have one daughter, Sally, not
  married.  Susan Stephens married James Hale, May 20, 1914, and they had
 four sons, Samuel married Julia A. Stephens; Henry Hale married Katherine
 Mead; and later Winifred Osborne; Edgar Hale married Barbara Howard; Thomas
 Hale died young.
 
 Ella Stephens married Will Barnett, May 21, 1914, and they are the
 parents of 11 children.  James married Mary Alka Buckley and later Virginia Ousley;
 Polkie married Sanford Ousley and later Raymond Fraley; Nelson married Virginia
 
 Vaughan; Polly married Hershel Lester; Alice married Gene Wright;
 William married Imogene Ousley; Darcus married Buck Wright; Ralph, Barnett,
 Halley, Alkie, and Alvin single.  Polly Stephens married Lewis Dingus and they
 were the parents of two children, Mark died at age of three years and Ruth
 married Charles McDavid.
 
 Willard Stephens married Darcus Hale and upon her death married Lillian
 Hale, and they have one child, Billie.  Walker Stephens died at age 21, never
 married.
 
 Dolly Stephens married Pharis Crisp and they are the parents of nine
 children. Mona Crisp first married William Brickley and they had two children;
 Lucy married E.C. Peters and William B. Crisp married Dixie Holbrook, and
 later Mona married Ezra Mayo and they had no children.
 
 Mazie Crisp married Joe Hughes, and they are the parents of six
 children. William married Betty Hovertter; Jo Ann married James McGauley; Fred,
 Maggie, Hilman and Ernest, single.
 
 Zola Crisp married G.C. Compton of Rochester, New York, and they are the
 
 parents of 11 children; Shirley married Ed McClellan; Pharis, single;
 Bessie married Demp Morelock; Sevier married Dorothy ____; Cecil married Carrie
 
 Campbell; Russell single; Daisy married T.C. Green; Gean, Nell, John H.,
 David single.  Lora Crisp married Joe Skeens of Cleveland, Ohio, and they are
 the parents of two children, Harold and John T. and they are both married
 and live in Cleveland; Arthur Crisp married Emma Lou England and they are the
 parents of five children, Nola, Patty.  Francis and Sherman, single; Russell Crisp
 married Audrey McClellan and they are the parents of two children.  Ronald and
 Uhlan, single; Shirley Crisp married Beatrice ____; of California, no children;
 Millie Crisp, not married, and Tracy Crisp died in infancy.
 
 Elizabeth Stephens married Alexander Allen, August 15, 1884, and they
 were the parents of eight children.
 
 Flora Allen married Arthur Whitaker and they were the parents of one
 boy, Alex, no married.  Annie Allen married Oscar Richardson, and they were the
 parents of one child, which died in infancy.  Rebecca Allen married Roland D.
 Shepherd and no children were born to this union; Albert Allen, never married;
 John Allen married Lissie Fitzpatrick, and they are the parents of three children,
 Alice married Rex Gayheart, Dewy _____; and Jim married Daisy Shepherd, no
 children; Isaac Allen married Mollie Salyers; Edward Allen married
 Goldie Parrott, and they are the parents of one daughter, Viola, who married
 Bill Henry Stephens.
 
 Polly Stephens married Jack Patton, March 3, 1905.  They are the parents
 of three children; Janet married Reb Hall; Alex Patton not married;
 Patricia adopted daughter, not married; Felix Patton married Maltie Ratliff, and they are
 the parents of four children, Jack, Janis, Patricia, and Georgia, all
 single. Clinton Patton married Gladys Ratliff, and they are the parents of eight
 children, Mary married Allen Bentley; Betty, Delores, Elmer, Robert, Clint, Otis,
 and William, single.
 
 Florence Stephens married Hiram Bradley and they were the parents of
 nine children.  Minnie Bradley married Arlie Nabit and later Paul Pople, with
 no children born to either union.
 
 Cynthia Bradley married Elbertson Bentley, and to this union eight
 children were born.  Florence died in infancy; Roy, Lynn, Fay, Susan, Raleigh, Elbert,
 Jr., and Rondel, single; Taylor Bradley married Dora Howard, and they are the
 parents of eight children; Ethel married Gordon Slone, Naomi married ____ Warrens;
 Charlene married ____ Hicks; Alton, Rayburn, Edgil, Bill T., and
 Caroline single; Joe Bradley married Pearlie Stephens and they are the parents of 14
 children. Clifford married Silva Lafferty, Zadie married Ollie Ratliff; Gorma
 married Lula Ratliff; Harlan married Helen Decini; Ruth married Arnold Moore; Louise
 married Lawrence Howard, Susan, Clara, Bonnie, Bobbie Coy, Billy, Clyde, and
 Shirley. Charles Bradley married Martha Frazier and they are the parents of four
 children.  Burnis married ____ Coburn; Riddle L. married Virginia
 Dingus; Honsel married ____ Bolden; and Nelis.  Elis Bradley married Dollie
 Castle, now in Michigan, names of children not known.  Nola Bradley married Willie
 Bentley and they are the parents of six children.  Carl married Betty Russell
 and later Goldie Bentley; Helen married Charles Boyd; Earl, Ada, Alton, and
 Lawrence single.  James Bradley died in infancy.  Clint Bradley married Grace
 Allen, and they are the parents of seven children Gardis, Alice, Pearlie, Zena,
 Nancy, Dora and Ann.
 
 Eli Stephens married Fanny Patton, April 20, 1901, and they had eight
 children. Pearlie Stephens married Joe Bradley, children listed under Florence
 Stephens, who married Hiram Bradley.  Myrtle Stephens died in infancy; Ruth
 Stephens married Charlie Allen; six children to this union -- Delmar married
 Melba J. Haywood; Doris married ____ Robinson; Velma, Nancy, Barbara, and Fay.
 Ballard Stephens married Ollie Smith, one child to this union, died
 young. Millard Stephens married Gypsy Wicker, and they had six children.
 Clayborne, Deranna Sue, Fanny, Danny, Gorman, and Carol Ann.
 
 Lundy Stephens, Haley, and Droxie died young.
 
 Eli Stephens married second time to Myrtle Curnutte, Sept. 5, 1922, and
 to them was born one daughter, Betty Lou, single and a teacher in the Floyd
 County schools.
 
 Alexander Stephens married Angie Harmon.  Three children were Frank,
 died in infancy; Josie married ____ Stamper; and Annie.
 
 Darcus Stephens married Starling Gibson, March 7, 1903.  One child died
 in infancy.
 
 Cynthia Stephens married Wesley Ratliff, January 22, 1880; they had five
 
 children - S.M. (Dock) married Sarah Ousley, no children; Alexander
 married Julia Ousley, no children; William and Flora died young of typhoid;
 Grant married Judy Bradley and they have eight children - Taylor, Alex, Troy,
 Russell, Grace, Rose, Dorothy and Norma, all married and live in Greenup county.
 
 Cynthia later married Ned Ousley and they had two daughters - Norsie
 married Fair Hicks and they had nine children; Orville married ____ Hicks;
 George married Marie Ousley, Daniel, John, married in Ohio.
 
 Dorsie married Jerry Saunders; Dawsie; and two others names not known,
 single; Dorsie one of the daughters of Cynthia married George Hamilton,
 had no children.