Person:Jacob Stephens (3)

Estate Records

Jehu's widow was named Bethia: "From other information a John (Probably an error for Jehu as so often happens to his records) Stephens died before the Sept. term of Blount Co. Tenn. Court 1810, and his widow, Bethia (this was Jehu's wife's name), relinquished her right to administer the estate in favor of John Stephens, Jr.

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1.   Lyman C. Draper Manuscript Collection
   pg. 79-80.

   Col. Jacob (Jehu) Stephens lived in what is now Wythe County on Reed Creek...-5 ft. 8-heavy made, & strong active man, a great wooodsman & a fine gunner. Rather illiterate...It was on Goose Creek in Bedford Co. where he Bufords lived, he was raised. Stephens' halfbrother & older(the same mother) was Capt. Henry Paulin...married for his first wife a Ramsey, a sister of Wm. Col. Stephens was a farmer - good character- lived in a Dutch settlement. Moved to Tennessee just as the bells of the Indians Wars...moved to Little River in Knox Co., Tennessee... Died there somewhere about the close of the War of '12.