Samuel Stephens and Miriam Pitman

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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: 1793 - Morrisons Cove, Bedford Co, PA 3

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   Other Spouse: Catherine McCartney (      -1825) 5 6 - 1811 4

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

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Wife Miriam Pitman ^{3 5}

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           Born:  - New Jersey
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           Died: Dec 1809 4
         Buried: 

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         Father: Joseph Pitman (      -      ) 3
         Mother: 

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Children

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1 F Rebecca Stephens ^{5 7}

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           Died: Bef 1880
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         Spouse: John Graham (      -Bef 1880) 5 7

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2 F Nancy Stephens ^{3 5}

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         Spouse: Jacob Stevens (      -      ) 5

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3 M Samuel S. Stephens ^{4 5}

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         Spouse: Rebecca Elkins (      -      ) 4 5

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4 F Sarah Stephens ^{1 4}

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           Born: 2 Sep 1799 8
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           Died: 8 Aug 1862 - ? Pine Twp, Indiana Co, PA 8
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         Spouse: Evan Griffith (1795-1845) 1 4
           Marr: 3 Dec 1818 8

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5 M John Stephens ^{4 5}

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           Died: Bef 1880
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         Spouse: Eliza Williams (      -Bef 1880) 4 5

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6 M Benjamin Stephens ^{4 5}

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         Spouse: Elizabeth Ginter (      -      ) 4 5

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7 M Abednego Stephens ^{4 5}

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           Born: 
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           Died: Bef 1880
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         Spouse: Rebecca Elder (      -Bef 1880) 4 5

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8 M William S. Stephens ^{4 5}

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           Born: 29 Nov 1808 - Indiana Co, PA
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           Died: 28 Feb 1888 - Indiana Co, PA 9
         Buried:  - Conrad Cemetery, Indiana Co, PA

         Spouse: Mary Mattern (      -1853) 5 9
           Marr: 1832 9

         Spouse: Sarah Ann Skiles (1825-      ) 5 9
           Marr: Feb 1857 9

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9 M Joseph Stephens ^{4 5}

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           Born: Dec 1809 4
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           Died: 
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         Spouse: Mary Stephens (      -      ) 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.

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General Notes: Wife - Miriam Pitman

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She died when Joseph, her youngest child, was but two hours old. She was buried on a part of the Brushvalley farm on which the village of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, now stands.

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 671, 1523.

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

9 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 673.