The Stephens Family: A Genealogy of the Descendants of Joshua StevensStephens, Bascom Asbury Cecil
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The Stephens Family: A Genealogy of the Descendants of Joshua Stevens
Stephens, Bascom Asbury Cecil
Stevens family
EPHRIAM RILEY MOORE, (61), son of Priscilla (Stephens) Moore, (17), was
born in Franklin County, Ohio, Jan. 8, 1824; accompanied his parents to
Western Ohio and Indiana; with his brothers D. L. (55) and T. McL.,
(58), founded the town of Mooresburg. He married first Oct. 13, 1847,
Sarah Jane Patterson, by whom he had two children. His wife dying, he
married secondly June 13, 1852, Rachel Ann Murphy, who bore him five
children. He died July 8, 1864. His widow survives him, now Mrs. R. A.
Hastings, of Mooresburg, Pulaski County, Indiana, who has the original
family record of Mrs. Priscilla (Stephens) Moore, (17), Children:
By S. J. Patterson:
245. WILLIAM PATTERSON, b. Oct. 25, 1848; m. M. Locke.
246. JOHN WESLEY, b. ----, 1849; d. May 10, 1856.
By R. A. Murphy.
247. NATHAN HURT, b. Mar. 23, 1853; m. Susie A. Parsley.
248. EPHRIAM RILEY, b. July 27, 1856; d. Aug. 12, 1856.
249. THOMAS RILEY, b. Feb. 27, 1857; m. Nettie L. Borch.
250. LILY DAY, b. Nov. 18, 1853; m. Lee Monroe.
251. HENRY P----, b. Nov. 23, 1860; d. Mar. 3, 1861.
ELIZABETH MARGARET MOORE, (63), daughter of Priscilla (Stephens) Moore,
(17), was born Sept. 17, 1826; accompanied her parents to Western Ohio
and Indiana; married Sept. 28, 1843, John W. Williams, to whom she bore
four children; she died May 25, 1856; J. W. Williams still lives in
Union City, Indiana. Children:
252. PRISCILLA ELLEN, b. May 29, 1845; m. Oscar Knowlton.
253. SARAH JANE, b. Mar. 20, 1848; m. E. W. Penny.
254. MARY ANN, b. Aug. 9, 1850; d. Aug. 2, 1851.
255. EVA ADALINE, b. Aug. 13, 1853; d. Oct. 17, 1853.
ELLEN MARY MOORE, (64), daughter of Priscilla (Stephens) Moore, (17),
was born April 17, 1828; accompanied her parents to Western Ohio and
Indiana; in which latter state at Logansport she married Richard
Richardson, to whom she bore one child, and died in May (or June) 1853.
Child:
256. DUDLEY, lived five or six years.
NOTE:--The foregoing closes the records of the Seventh Generation, so
far as I have them to date.
EIGHTH GENERATION.
SILAS STEPHENS, (65), son of Joshua Stephens, (18), married Emma Walker,
by whom he had two children. His parents lived in Evansville, Indiana;
was a tanner; moved to a farm in Warrick County, Indiana; died Feb. 28,
1859. It has been very difficult to get any information about him, or
what has become of his children who are:
257. JOSHUA WING, (Merchant at Browns, Edwards County, Ill.)
258. FREDERICK, d. unm.
ANN ELIZA STEPHENS, (67), daughter of Joshua Stephens, (18), was born
Dec. 19, 1824, probably in Evansville, Ind.; married first Dec. 22,
1842, George L---- Schnae, by whom she had three children. He dying,
she married secondly, Thomas F. T. Roberts, Feb. 28, 1884; he died Nov.
27, 1887; Mrs. A. E. Roberts may now be living at New Harmony, Indiana.
Her children by Schnae were:
259. EMILY, b. Sept. 18, 1843; m. William H. Bennett.
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