Samuel Stephens and Catherine McCartney

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Husband Samuel Stephens ^{1 2}

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           Born: Feb 1769 - Kentucky 3
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           Died: 23 Mar 1843 - Indiana 4
         Buried:  - near Rushville, Rush Co, IN

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         Father: Benjamin Stephens (Abt 1735-1814) 3 5
         Mother: [Unk] Caldwell (      -      ) 3

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       Marriage: 1811 4

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   Other Spouse: Miriam Pitman (      -1809) 3 5 - 1793 - Morrisons Cove, Bedford Co, PA 3

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   Other Spouse: Frances "Fannie" Thompson (Abt 1802-1886) 4 5 - Feb 1826 4

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Wife Catherine McCartney ^{5 6}

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           Died: May 1825 4
         Buried:  - McCartney Cemetery, Buffington Twp, Indiana Co, PA

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         Father: Joseph McCartney (      -      ) 5 7
         Mother: Sarah Galbraith (      -      ) 5

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Children

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1 F Miriam Stephens ^{4 5}

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           Born: 1812 4
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         Spouse: George Mattern (      -      ) 4

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2 M Thomas Stephens ^{4 5}

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           Born: 1814 4
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           Died: Bef 1880
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3 M Nicholas Stephens ^{4 5}

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4 F Martha Stephens ^{4 5}

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           Born: 1816 4
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           Died: Bef 1880
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         Spouse: Samuel Wilson (      -      ) 4 5

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5 M Estep Stephens ^{4 5}

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6 M Sampson Stephens ⁵

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            AKA: Samson Stephens 4
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           Died: Bef 1880
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7 F Jane Stephens ^{4 5}

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         Spouse: William Wilson (      -      ) 4 5

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8 M James Stephens ⁴

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9 U [Infant] Stephens ^{4 5}

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10 U [Infant] Stephens ^{4 5}

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General Notes: Husband - Samuel Stephens

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He and his young wife, sixteen years of age, came over the mountains on horseback, accompanied by Samuel's two brothers, Thomas and John. In a historical publication of Cambria County, Pennsylvania, we find the following: "Samuel Stephens, shortly after the close of the Revolutionary war, was imbued, like many of that period, with the spirit of adventure, and having learned of the productive soil in the valleys of the western slope of the Alleghenies and the abundance of game on its vast mountain ranges, set out to seek a home for himself in the wilds of western Pennsylvania. He was familiar with the country, although but a boy in years, having accompanied his older brothers, who traveled through the same on one of the military expeditions during the Revolutionary period to the headwaters of the Allegheny river and the Great Lakes. Samuel Stephens was accompanied to his new home by his brothers, John and Thomas, bringing with them their cattle and such household goods as were necessary and in common use at that time in the new country, and finally located" (1798) "in what is now Brushvalley township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, near the present site of Mechanicsburg. John and Thomas remained with their brother Samuel for some time, assisting him to clear some land and erect his cabin house, when they returned to their homes. Thomas had lost an arm as a result of a gunshot wound in the Revolutionary war."
Samuel Stephens located on the present site of Mechanicsburg, where he resided for a number of years, nine of his children being born on that tract.
After the death of his first wife, he became discontented, and sold his farm in Brush Valley, buying another on Blacklick creek, from Adam Richey, in Buffington township, Indiana County, about one mile northwest of Dilltown, in June, 1810. This farm was later owned by Frank G. Conrad. Here Samuel Stephens laid out the road that led to Croft, and thence to McCartney's.
In 1830 he determined to go farther west. Hearing from his brothers of the fertile and well-watered land in the state of Indiana, he sold his farm and all the personal property he could spare, and started on the first day of April, 1830, with his third family and household goods, driving to Pittsburgh by way of the old stone pike, thence by boat to Cincinnati. His son Estep was the only one of the first two families of children to go with his father. He finally located in Rushville, Rush County, Indiana, where he took up two or more farms.

1 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 529, 541.

2 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 671, 1224.

3 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 671.

4 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 672.

5 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 541.

6 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 672, 1224.

7 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 672, 1223.