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21, 1883; d. unm. Jan. 4, 1863. 166. RICHARD HAMILTON, b. Jan. 30, 1836; m. 4 times. 167. HENRY CLAY, b. March 11, 1838; d. unm. May 20, 1863. 168. SARAH ELIZABETH, b. Aug. 8, 1841; d. Jan. 3, 1847. 169. AMANDA MALVINA, b. Nov. 2, 1843. 170. GEORGE WASHINGTON, b. May 10, 1846; m. Mrs. Rosella Howe. 171. JOHN MARION, b. May 25, 1850; m. Catherine Regan. 172. WILLIAM HARRISON, b. May 25, 1850; d. Aug. 6, 1850. 173. HETTY MALISSA, b. July 9, 1853; m. H. B. Bilter. WILLIAM HUMPHREYS STEPHENS, (41), son of E. D. Stephens, (16), was born Feb. 25, 1813, on Walnut Creek, Franklin County, Ohio; was raised on his father's farm near Hardin; learned the shoemakers trade in that place; was there in partnership in that business with Calvin Lenox, and married Sept. 13, 1835, his sister, Julian Crisup Lenox, daughter of Richard Lenox, (she was born Oct. 10, 1812, and died Feb. 28, 1839); she bore him two children; he married secondly, Jan. 13, 1840, Eleanor Cecil, daughter of Jude William Wirt Cecil, of the Cecil family of Virginia; (she was born Aug. 5, 1820, near Lockington, Shelby County, Ohio; died June 12, 1866, at Portland, Oregon); he moved to Sidney, Ohio, and engaged in the transportation business on the Miami Canal; moved to Lockington, same County, and built a saw mill there in 1853; was a Whig in politics and a Methodist in religion; in August, 1855, moved to Grundy County, Missouri, and purchased a farm 2-1/2 miles southeast of Trenton; in April, 1857, started overland for California with ox-teams; was harrassed by Indians and Mormans on the way; arrived in California in Oct.; first settled in Ione Valley; then moved to Suisun, Solano County; in 1859, returned to Ione, but lost his farm there by reason of a Pico grant, as he had by the Waterman grant in Solano County; in 1861, moved to Santa Clara, California, where he followed the transportation business till his death; married thirdly, Nov. 30, 1870, Harriet Judidah Lusk, a native of Freehold County, N. Y., by whom he had no children; was town trustee of Santa Clara, and a stockholder in the local bank and street railroad; died Dec. 13, 1879, and was buried by the Odd Fellows, of which organization he had been a member since 1840; he wrote a history of the family, but the manuscript was lost. Children: By Julian C. Lenox: 174. SARAH ELIZABETH, b. Mar. 13, 1837; m. O. S. Frambes. 175. WILLIAM HAMIL
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