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Facts and Events
| Name[1] |
Elisha Stephens |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[4] |
Abt 1783 |
North Carolina, United States |
| Marriage |
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to Sarah (add) |
| Property[2] |
7 Apr 1824 |
Whitley, Kentucky, United Statessurveyed land on Marsh Creek for land grant |
| Census[5] |
1830 |
Whitley, Kentucky, United States |
| Census[6] |
1840 |
Whitley, Kentucky, United States |
| Death[4] |
Jan 1850 |
Whitley, Kentucky, United States |
| Probate[3] |
18 Feb 1850 |
Whitley, Kentucky, United StatesWill proven in court |
References
- ↑ Whitley County, Kentucky history and families, 1818-1993. (Paducah, Kentucky: Turner, c1994)
p. 322.
Stephens – The Stephens family in Whitley County and McCreary County descend from Moses Stephens, Henry Porch, and William Creekmore.
Moses Stephens was born around 1762, in South Carolina and moved to Kentucky before 1790.
By his first wife Tempy (Temperance) he had three sons; Elisha, Joshua, and Solomon.
Joshua Stephens, son of Moses, was born in 1785, and died in 1855. He was a miller by trade and married another Tempy. They are buried in the Lower Cal Hill Cemetery at Pine Knot. Joshua and Tempy had 14 children, among them a son named Elisha.
- ↑ Jillson, Willard Rouse, and Kentucky. State Land Office. The Kentucky Land Grants: A Systematic Index to All of the Land Grants Recorded in the State Land Office at Frankfort, Kentucky, 1782-1924. (Louisville, Kentucky: Standard Printing Co., 1925).
Elisha Stephens, 50 acres, surveyed 7 Apr 1824, Marsh Creek watershed, Whitley County
- ↑ Broyles, Stephen H. Whitley County, Kentucky will book 1, 1818-1854. (Newton, Massachusetts: S.H. Broyles, c1991)
p. 70.
Be these none to all home [Be this known to all whom it] may concern that I Elisha Stephens being infirm in body and cant Expect to continue long in this life but Strong in Mind & in my proper senses d[o] make this last will & testament to despose of my Es[t]ate both personal and rel Estate Betwe[e]n my beloved wife Sally Stephens and my children to wit Joel Stephens my son I will him the land that he lives on begining near the Dock house where the water pearsever Runing up the Ridge to the bluff of rocks thence to wards the pint [point] where the old Road cum from James Stephens house my Son James Stephens I will him the survey that he lives on with the exeption of what lies on the south side of Joel to the ridge above named my son Joshua Stephens I will him the land that he lives on also a part of the land where I now live begining on the corner near the Meating House thence to the Creek at the nearest place thence up the Creek to the Mouth of the injen branch above where he now lives my son Solamon Stephens I will him one Dollar my son William Stephens I will him one dollar my doter Pegy Murphy I will here one dollar my doter Elizabeth Cornelus I will here one dollar My doter Saly Stephens I will her one dollar all the ballance I will to my wife Sally Stephens during life or widowhood one yellow girl named Amy I will her free at thirty year of age & her posterity the land where I now live I will to my son Eslish Stephens at his mother death then Elish Parkes, Uriar Pakes to have a equo shear [an equal share] with the Ballance ["of the"] airs [heirs]
att Soloman Stephens, Uriah Parkes, Joshua Stephens
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State of Kentucky Whitley County Court Sct.
February Term 1850
I Addison Williams Clerk of the County Court for the County aforesaid do hereby Certify that the foregoing will & Testament of Elish Stevens was this day produced in Open court & proven to be the act & Deed of the said Elish Stevens by the oaths of Solomon Stevens & Joshua Stevens . . .
18 February 1850
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 District 1, Whitley, Kentucky, in United States. U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1885: [database on-line]. (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010)
line 21, 1850.
Elisha Stephens, 58, male, married, b. N. Carolina, d. January, farmer,
Cause of death: Jaundice, 0 days ill
- ↑ Whitley, Kentucky, in United States. 1830 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M19).
2 males under 5, 1 male 5-9, 1 male 10-14, 1 male 15-19, 1 male 40-49 [Elisha], 1 female under 5, 1 female 5-9, 1 female 30-39 [Sally]
- ↑ Whitley, Kentucky, in United States. 1840 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M704).
3 males 5-9, 1 male 10-14, 1 male 15-19, 1 male 50-59 [Elisha], 1 female 10-14, 1 female 40-49 [Sally]
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