of Camp Verde,
should desire to know the full line of his paternal ancestry, he would
find his name on page (41) 56, where his number is given as 275: then
looking up the left-hand column of figures he will find No. 275 on page
(21) 27, where he will find the date of his birth, and that his father
is Samuel Stephens, No. 76; thence, running up the column to No. 76,
which he will find on page (11) 12, he will find that Samuel was the son
of Charles Stephens, No. 19; the latter figure is found on page (8) 8,
where Charles is shown to be the son of David Stephens, No. 10; the last
figure is to be found on page (7) 7, showing that David was the son of
Joshua Stephens, No. 6; he is the son of Joshua Stephens, No. 3. His
pedigree is:

Joshua Stephens, (3), father of
Joshua Stephens, (6), father of
David Stephens, (10), father of
Charles Stephens, (19), father of
Samuel Stephens, (76), father of
Williams Stephens, (275), father of

The name STEPHENS is of Greek derivation, and means a "crown". Just how
it came to be adopted by the ancester of this family is unknown. The
Welsh seldom used surnames at that period, one name usually sufficing;
the son taking his father's name with the Welsh suffix "AP," meaning
"son of"; thus STEPHENS AP EVANS, meaning Stephens the son of Evans,
while the latter would be Evans Ap somebody else. W. H. Stephens, (41),
son of the aforesaid E. D. Stephens, (16), once told the writer that the
old family name was STEPHENSHIP. In a conversation between the writer,
(182), and Rev. M. A. Jordan, a stepson of Col. John Stephens, (15), a
brother of E. D. Stephens, (16), Mr. Jordan said that, according to his
information, the original family name was STEPHENS O'BIVENS. Mr. Gilbert
Cope, an eminent genealogist, living at West Chester, Pennsylvania,
clears these discrepancies by stating that the name was STEPHENS AP
EVANS; that is, Stephens the son of Evans. It is thus easy to see how
easily one confused it into Stephenship, and the other into Stephens
O'Bivens. Accordingly, it must be true that Joshua Stephens, Senior,
(3), and perhaps his brothers, David, (5), and Ebenezer, (4), adopted
the permanent surname of Stephens. In fact, a family tradition is that
the emigrant ancester did adopt this name of Stephens. The father of
Joshua Stephens, Sr., (3), who, it is supposed, remained in Wales, may
have been named Stephens, (2), and his father's name may have been
Evans, (1); indeed, this the