... Peter Tevis wrote his own will 9 July 1801, naming his wife Catharine, two older sons Peter and Noah; and five younger children; Thomas Snoden, Polly, Isaiah, Rowland and Violet.
Apparently life was not easy for Peter Tevis. In 1800 he and Catharine sold half of their 100-acre tract. Beginning in January 1802, after his death, his underage sons were apprenticed by the Mason County Court under an act "Concerning the Poor." An execution against his estate, brought on 150 acres on which he had a life estate, resulted in a sheriff's sale of the property in 1810. His widow continued to be taxed at Stone Lick Creek. She was listed as the head of household in the 1810 census of Kentucky; and she was probably living with her son Isaiah, still in Mason County, in 1820. ...