18. JOSHUA, m. Nancy Gibson.

19. CHARLES, m. Malinda Carr, of Kentucky.

20. SILAS, b. Feb. 24, 1801; m. Julienne Evans; d. Mar. 28, 1876.

21. ELIZA, m. —— Vance; d. April 11, 1876 sine prole.

22. THOMAS DAVID, d. unm.; was in U. S. Army.

SARAH STEPHENS, (11), daughter of Joshua Stephens, (6), married Charles Vandever, of the Vandever family of New Jersey, then living (about 1802), in Chillicothe, Ohio. They moved with the others of the Stephens family to Shelby County about 1816, where she died about 1846, and was buried in the old Hardin graveyard. Subject of a poem by B. A. C. Stephens (182); she had four children:

23. MARY, m. John Wilson.

24. CATHERINE, b. Mar. 21, 1804; m. Josiah Gaskill; d. Nov. 3, 1845.

25. RACHEL, b. May 9, 1809; m. John Garnahan; d. Dec. 3, 1850.

26. JOSHUA, b. Sept. 9, 1812; m. Susanna Burton; d. ——.

HANNAH STEPHENS, (13), daughter of Joshua Stephens, (6), is described as having been a very "beautiful woman" and was widely courted on that account, her father having been compelled to chastise a Dutchman, who became too familiar. She was born in Penn., May 2, 1776; accompanied her parents to Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio. She married Thomas McClish in Ross County about 1803. About 1816, or perhaps a little earlier, they moved to Shelby County, where he founded the town of Hardin, Oct. 5, 1816, naming it for the famous Kentucky general, (General Hardin was killed near there) which was the first County Seat. He dedicated a square to the county on the condition that it should be used solely for the Court House, which it never was, and is still unused. At an early date they moved over in Putnam County, then a dence wilderness, and lived with no neighbors nearer than 40 miles amid Indians and wild beasts. She died March 13, 1840. Her husband was born July 1, 1776, and died of a nasal hemmorrage Dec. 26, 1826. They were buried near Dupont, where their graves are yet to be seen. (I have a page of their family record taken from their old family Bible). Their children were:

27. SILAS, b. Oct. 15, 1804; m. Nancy Mellinger; d. June 16, 1860.

28. ELIZA, b. Dec. 26, 1806; m. John Bush; d. Nov. 24, 1827.

29. JOHN JACKSON, b. March 5, 1808; d. unm., Oct. 25, 1841.

30. THOMAS, b. March 3, 1816; d. unm., April 3, 1846.

SILAS STEPHENS, (14), son of Joshua Stephens, (6), left his father's home, "near Lexington, Kentucky," and settled near Nashville, Tenn., where he married and acquired considerable property in land and slaves; these latter he freed just before the war (about 1859), and one of them came to Shelby County, Ohio, which is the only information ever had from Silas. He died sine prolos about 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. ¼ of section 18 Turtle Creek Township, Shelby County, where he farmed till his death, on September 20, 1868. He married Jan. 11, 1811, Sarah Groome, daughter of Ezekiel Groome and Rhoda (Brittain) Groome, formerly of Trenton, N. J.; she was born May 23, 1792, and died Jan. 13, 1871; their children were:

40. HETTY, b. Oct. 28, 1811; m. John Lennox; d. May 30, 1860.

41. WILLIAM HUMPHREYS, b. Feb. 25, 1813; m. 3ts.; d. Dec. 13, 1879.

42. JOSHUA M., b. Dec. 12, 1814; m. Minerva Metcalf; d. July 5, 1844.

43. EZEKIEL GROOME, b. Nov. 25, 1816; d. Aug. 20, 1820.

44. RHODA, b. Feb. 22, 1819; m. Wm. Hawkey; d. Nov. 13, 1852.

45. JOHN WESLEY, b. Feb. 22, 1819; m. Sarah Graham; d. May 18, 1881.

46. ELIZA, b. March 14, 1821; m. Wm. Hawkey; d. Sept. 29, 1887.

47. DAVID NELSON, b. Feb. 23, 1823; m. Elyda Stone.

48. BENJAMIN LAKIN, b. Oct. 17, 1824; d. July 16, 1828.

49. SARAH ANN, b. Feb. 11, 1827; m. W. B. Cannon; d. Dec. 22, 1855.

50. ALLEN EBENEZER, b. Dec. 30, 1829; d. unm., Nov. 5, 1888.

PRISCILLA STEPHENS, (17), daughter of Joshua Stephens, (6), was born in Penn., November 30, 1786, and accompanied her parents to Ross County, Ohio, where she married first Robert Donahue, by whom she had one child, a boy, who died young; becoming a widow, she married secondly James Moore (from Virginia), of Franklin County, Ohio, by whom she had thirteen children. He was born August 7, 1787, and died April 11, 1847. About 1831, they moved to near Sidney, Shelby County, Ohio, and about 1841, they moved to Pulaski County, Indiana. She married James Moore Nov. 10, 1810. She died April 24, 1849. Her children were:

51. —— Donahue, died young.

By Moore.

52. LUCINDA, b. October 25, 1812; m. Jacob Marshall.

53. MINERVA, b. Dec. 8, 1813; m. Richard Francis.

54. HUGH SCOTT, b. March 17, 1815; m. 2 times.

55. DOUGLAS LEE, b. March 19, 1816; m. 3ts; d. April—, 1853.

56. HANNAH, b. July 6, 1817; m. Jacob Baker.

57. JAMES WELLS, b. Oct. 23, 1818; d. unm.

58. THOMAS McCLISH, b. June 25, 1820; m. Mary A. Mowdy; d. Dec. 4, 1862.

59. JEMIMA CARTER, b. Sept. 1, 1821; m. John B. Rockwell.

60. ANN URITTA, b. Nov. 3, 1822, m. T. S. Long; d. June 17, 1864.

61. EPHRAIM RILEY, b. Jan. 8, 1824; m. 2ts; d. July 8, 1864.

62. ALICE JANE, b. April 13, 1825; d. unm.

63. ELIZABETH MARGARET, b. Sept. 7, 1826; m. J. W. Williams; d. May 25, 1856.

64. ELLEN MARY, b. April 17, 1828; m. R. Richardson; d. 1853.