[compiled and edited by Mrs. William John Gross, 220 North Nineteenth Street, Clarinda, Iowa, 1941]
... He married Elizabeth A. Stivers, of Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, on November 1, 1840. They were considered one of the oldest wedded couples in that state, being married for sixty-seven years. ...
To Elizabeth and Stephen D. Paris were born twelve children:
- James M. in 1841,
- Rozelle (Roselle) in 1842,
- Nancy Jane in 1845,
- Anna Elizabeth (Lydia) in 1847,
- Hugh D. in 1849,
- Mary T. (Mary Frances) in 1851,
- Samuel in 1852,
- John H. in 1857,
- Sarah A. in 1860,
- Ulysses Grant in 1864,
- Minnie Campton, and Luella in 1867. ...
