e at
Columbus, Ohio. Have one child:

635. MARY ----, b. ----.

ROBERT SIDNEY BOWER, (411), was born in Lima, Ohio, married to Edith
Hanson March 23, 1906; lives in Lima, has two children:

636. DOROTHY FAY, b. May 9, 1907.

637. MARY JANE, b. May 17, 1908.

CONCLUSION.

The foregoing seventy-three pages include all the names and date of
birth, deaths and marriages of the descendents of Joshua Stephens, (6),
which I have to date. The subject matter is merely a skeleton of the
mass of family history data, which I have on hand, including
biographies, pictures, manuscripts, letters, papers, relics, etc. I have
put it in this shape for the reasons:

1. That it is impossible just now to publish the family history in full
as it should be.

2. Fearing possibly a destruction of the data, etc., on hand, in this
shape it can at least be preserved, as one copy will be deposited in the
archives of the "Historical Society of Southern California," at Los
Angeles, California, and one copy in the archives of the "Ohio State
Archaeological and Historical Society" at Columbus, Ohio; so that, if
fortunately any relative should have a sufficiency of that commendable
family love and pride to perpetuate the record, he will have a
foundation on which to build, by going to those archives.

I am aware that this work must contain errors. Many letters are vague;
hand-writing hard to understand; correspondents are often contradictory,
and many of their statements are known by me to be erroneous. I have
endeavored to verify each report, and have, in many instances,
successfully. I will reserve an account of my very interesting
experience in digging up family history for the to be published work.
There are undoubtedly clerical errors in this work, which I have
corrected with ink so far as detected.

THIS WORK OF GATHERING family was begun in April, 1881, and has been
continued by me unremittingly ever since, and will be so long as I live.
Due acknowledgements will be made in the to-be published work, of all
assistance.

(Signed)
BASCOM ASBURY CECIL STEPHENS,
Los Angeles, California, Oct. 25, 1892.

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Location of graves in west end of the old Hardin grave yard on N. E. 1/4
of Section 29, of Turtle Creek Township, Shelby County, Ohio.

Reading from the left:
1. Sarah (Groome) Stephens No. 11
2. Benjamin Lakin Stephens