Samuel Stevenson and Nancy Ann Dawson

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Husband Samuel Stevenson ^{1 2}

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           Born: Abt 1822 - Poland, Mahoning Co, OH
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           Died: 1855 - Pennsylvania 3
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         Father: James Stevenson (Abt 1755-Abt 1840) 4 5 6
         Mother: Catherine Moore (      -      ) 4 7

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       Marriage: 

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Wife Nancy Ann Dawson ²

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            AKA: Ann Wilson 8
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           Died: Abt 1854 - St. Louis, MO
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Children

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1 F [Unk] Stevenson

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         Spouse: [Unk] Hayes (      -      ) 3

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2 M Homer Stevenson ⁹

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           Born: 7 Sep 1844 - Glasgow, Beaver Co, PA 3
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         Spouse: Margaret J. Hineman (      -      ) 10
           Marr: 30 Apr 1872 3

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General Notes: Husband - Samuel Stevenson

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He married when a young man, and settling in Glasgow, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, there followed the trade of chair making in an establishment of his own. Finding this a steady but not an attractive, lucrative source of income, in 1854 he and his family started for the west, Kansas being their objective point. They traveled down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to St. Louis, Missouri, where, navigation being blocked by ice, they were compelled to lay over until the spring thaw. In this winter the wife and mother died, and though almost frantic with grief, the rest of the family continued on their way to Kansas. Here Mr. Stevenson purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land near Leavenworth, and commenced building a home, which was not yet completed when he and all his children were stricken with fever and ague. In the autumn (1855) they returned to Pennsylvania, where, as a tragic end to an ill-fated trip, the father of the family died, two weeks after their arrival. Beginning with the death of the mother in St. Louis, misfortune had pursued the family throughout their entire journey, the attack of malaria suffered by all so weakening Mr. Stevenson that the homeward journey was too great a strain upon his fever-racked and chill-shaken body. Relatives rallied to the aid of the orphaned, of whom there were seven, and all were provided with comfortable homes.

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General Notes: Wife - Nancy Ann Dawson

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from Hookstown, Greene Twp, Beaver Co, PA

1 —, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 347.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 1003, 1011.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 1011.

4 —, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 346.

5 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 487, 822.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 988, 1001, 1010.

7 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 989, 1001, 1010.

8 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 989.

9 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 562, 716, 1011.

10 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 716, 1011.