Person:Joseph Stevenson (9)

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From "A history of Kentucky and Kentuckians", Vol. 2, by E. Polk Johnson, Lewis Publishing Company:

Joseph H. Stephenson, son of Thomas and Mary (Hawkins) Stevenson, was born in Orange County, Virginia, on the 6th of November, 1771. (Mother Mary Hawkins would have been age 55 at Joseph's birth, which appears problematic) As a young man he emigrated to Kentucky, settling at what is now Kirksville. Madison county, in 1798. There he purchased land and there he devoted the remainder of his life to agricultural pursuits. He married Miss Mary Tribble, daughter of Rev. Andrew Tribble. an able Baptist clergyman, who had taken part in the fight for religious liberty in Virginia. Rev. Andrew Trihble married a daughter of Thomas Burris, whose wife was a daughter of Roger Tandy, a very early settler of Spottsylvania county. Virginia. Thomas Burris served under Washington in the battle of the Meadows and he also participated in a number of engagements of the war of the Revolution. He and his three sons-in-law came to Madison county, Kentucky, about the year 1783. James H. Stephenson changed the spelling of the family name by substituting "ph" for "v", as he had been in funned by a learned educator that this change was logically correct, the name being derived from Stephen. Joseph H. and Mary (Tribble) Stephenson reared a large family of children, and one of the number was Dr. Andrew Tribble Stephenson, father of him whose name initiates this review.

1.   Joseph H. Stephenson, married Polly Trimble [s/b Tribble], December ___, 1806, daughter of Elder Andrew Trimble [s/b Tribble] & wife, Sally Burrus.
   
   Joseph H. Stephenson was born in Orange County, Virginia, November 6th, 1771.
   
   He was a contractor and moved to Madison County, Ky, prior to 1800. He purchased five small farms. September 17th, 1799, he purchased of Thomas Kennedy & Wife, Agnes, or Nancy, 100 acres of land on Silver creek in Madison County. Ky. December 26th, 1815 of Thomas Kennedy & wife, Edna, 98 acres of land on the dividing ridge between Paint Lick creek and Silver creek. February 24th, 1825, he & wife, Polly, conveyed to James Byrum 12 acres of land on the aforesaid ridge.
   
   Twelve children were the fruits of the marriage of Joseph H. Stephenson and Polly Trimble:
   
   -- 1 – Paulina Stephenson
   
   -- 2 - Albert Gallitin Stephenson.
   
   -- 3 - John C. Stephenson, was a soldier in the Mexican War.
   
   -- 4 - Sarah J. Stephenson, married Thomas Arnold.
   
   -- 5 - Frances Stephenson, married Thomas Bogie, February 7th, 1836, son of James Bogie & wife, Sarah Hunter. (See Clark report.)
   
   -- 6 - Dr. Andrew Trimble Stephenson, was educated in the common schools of Madison, his native County, and began the study of medicine in 1845. In 1846-47, he attended his first course of lecture at Transylvania University of Lexington, Ky, graduating at the Medical School of Ohio, in Cincinnati, in 1848.
   
   Attending in 1852, the hospitals and schools in Philadelphia and New York. In 1847, he formed partnership with Dr.. Pearce, in Lancaster, Ky., which continued two years; he then moved to Madison County, where he practiced until 1880, when he retired from the practice. April 22nd, 1852, he married Elizabeth Ann Smith, daughter of Benjamin Smith & wife, Mrs. Judith Page, nee Smith, of Madison County, Ky..
   
   Children: (of Dr. Andrew Trimble and Elizabeth Ann Stephenson)
   
   ---- 1 – Mattie Stephenson.
   
   ---- 2 - Mary Stephenson.
   
   ---- 3 - William W. Stephenson, attorney at law, member of Harrodsburg bar, Mercer County, Ky.
   
   ---- 4 - Julia Stephenson, married Charles M.. Kurtz, of New York City.
   
   ---- 5 - Elizabeth Stephenson.
   
   In 1860, Dr. Stephenson move to Washington County, where he bought 700 acres of land, which he sold in 1884 and removed to Mercer County, where he bought 452 acres of land.
   
   ---- 7 - Mary Ann Stephenson, married J. K. Wilson.
   
   ---- 8 - Martha M. Stephenson, married Charles Cosby, son of Austin Cosby and second wife, Malinda Alverson. (See Cosby record.)
   
   ---- 9 - Peter Trimble Stephenson.
   
   ---- 10 – Dr. Joe Thomas Stephenson.
   
   ---- 11 - James M. Stephenson, probably the oldest child, died September 28, 1809.
   
   Joseph H. Stephenson served in three campaigns against the Indians. He died in 1837. His wife first joined the Baptist Church, later followed the doctrines and tenets of Rev. Alexander Campbell in the division. She died in 1872, in the eighty fourth year of her age.
   
   -- Hon. Andrew Stephenson, sometime Speaker of the United States Congress was a third cousin to Joseph H. Stephenson, and the father of Hon. Joseph W. Stephenson, one time Governor of Kentucky.
   
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