John Stephens

STEPHENS, KINSEY

Posted By: Dorothy Gosse (email)
Date: 2/10/2002 at 13:58:50

Stephens, John, farmer, Section 8 (Illyria township); PO Illyria; was born in Worcestershire, England, January 21, 1830; came to this country in 1830; came to this county in 1864; has 100 acres of land valued at $4,000. Politics, Democrat. Married Mary Ann Kinsey in 1854; she was born in Breconshire, Wales, January 12, 1825; have one child - Kinsey Earnest, born April 11, 1866; came to this country in the steamship Penn; was eighteen days coming over.

from 1878 History of Fayette County, pages 642 & 643