t 1865.

JOHN STEPHENS, (15), son of Joshua Stephens, (6), was born Dec. 23,
1781, in Penn., accompanied his parents to Ross County, Ohio; voted for
the adoption of the first constitution of that state November 29, 1802,
being just about of age; enlisted in the U. S. Army for the war of 1812;
was present at the surrender of General Hull, Sunday, August 16, 1812;
and witnessed the victory of Commodore Perry, September 10, 1813, from
the shores of Lake Erie. Rev. M. A. Jordon, his step-son said that John
entered the Army as an ensign, and rose to the rank of Colonel, and
after the war was high sheriff of Western Ohio. He was commissioned
Captain of the State Militia in 1822. (I have the original commission
issued by Governor E. A. Brown). About 1816, he moved to near St. Paris,
Champaign County, where he died on his farm September 12, 1873. He had
been a lay preacher of the Methodist Protestant Church. He was twice
married, first to Nancy Brown, (about 1810), by whom he had nine
children; he married secondly Mrs. ---- Jordan, by whom he had no
children. Nancy Brown Stephens was born Feb. 4, 1787. His children were:

31. ELIZABETH, d. unm., aged 18 years.

32. JOSHUA, b. Jan. 4, 1812; m. Nancy Creegan; d. Feb. 1, 1891.

33. DAVID HUMPHREYS, b. Nov. 8, 1813; d. Aug. 23, 1846; m. S. A.
Burton.

34. MARIA, d. 1848; m. John Blake.

35. RACHEL, d. young.

36. OLIVER PERRY, b. June 20, 1820; d. Nov. 6, 1873; m. 2 times.

37. SARAH, b. Aug. 4, 1822; m. Smith Wallace; d. June 3, 1868.

38. CATHERINE, b. Nov. 13, 1824; m. Robert Bower, died Dec. 6,
1905.

39. NANCY, b. March 22, 1827; m. T. T. Mitchell, died Jan. 8, 1909.

EBENEZER DAVID STEPHENS, (16), son of Joshua Stephens, (6), was born in
Chester County, Penn., May 7, 1784; accompanied his parents to Kentucky,
where, in 1798, (probably on the death of his mother), he was
apprenticed to a tanner at "Yellow Springs, Kentucky," but disliking his
master, ran away, and followed his father to Ross County, Ohio. He is
said to have burned the brick for the first house of that kind in
Chillicothe, and refused to take a piece of land in the proposed city of
Columbus, in payment for a kiln of brick; he served six weeks in the war
of 1812; in 1816, he settled on the S. E. 1/4 of section 18 Turtle Creek
Township, Shelby County, where he farmed till his death, on September
20, 1868. He married Jan. 11, 1811, Sarah Gr