Benedict T. Stevens and Mary Heeter

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Husband Benedict T. Stevens ¹

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           Born: 20 Feb 1838 - Springfield Twp, Huntingdon Co, PA 1
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         Father: Benedict Stevens (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Eva [Unk] (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 4 Jun 1863 - Three Springs, Huntingdon Co, PA 1

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Wife Mary Heeter ¹

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         Father: Judge  Heeter (      -      ) 1
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Children

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1 F Ida Stevens ³

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            AKA: [Unk] Stevens 2
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         Spouse: Siegel Ashman (1862-      ) 2

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2 M John A. Stevens ³

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         Spouse: Elizabeth Shue (      -      ) 3

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3 F Edwinna Stevens ³

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4 M Edgar B. Stevens ³

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         Spouse: Minnie C. Stake (      -      ) 3

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General Notes: Husband - Benedict T. Stevens

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He was first a pupil in the common schools, attending school only during the winter terms of three months. He afterwards attended select schools at Beersville and Three Springs, and, for one term, at Orbisonia, Pennsylvania. He was not merely a pupil, but was indeed a student, doing much independent work at home. For five terms he taught winter schools in Clay and Springfield townships. During the summer months he worked on the home farm, until he was eighteen years old, when he began to learn plastering. At this handicraft he served an apprenticeship of two years, with his brother David, and was still thus engaged in 1862, when he left all other work to aid in the defense of his country. He enlisted in Company B, One Hundred and Tenth Pennsylvania Volunteers, for three years, or for the war. At Winchester, Virginia, he joined his regiment, which soon after moved to Fredericksburg, and from that place was ordered back to the valley. On the way Mr. Stevens was taken ill of typhoid fever, and in May, 1863, was sent to the hospital in Washington, D. C. There, in June, 1863, he received his discharge, by reason of disability. After his recovery, at home, he worked for a short time at his trade, with Mr. Swope. In the winter of that year he taught school; in the following summer he farmed the homestead. Mr. Stevens re-enlisted in February, 1864, in the Twenty-second Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company H, joined his regiment at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and moved with it to Martinsburg, thence to Cumberland, and thence into Camp Stoneman, near Washington, D. C. They received their horses at Harpers Ferry, joined Sheridan's command in the Shenandoah valley, and took part in all the battles along that valley. Among the most noted ones were Winchester, Fishers Hill and Cedar Creek. In the last-named engagement Mr. Steven's horse was shot under him, and he was sent to the rear, while Sheridan rode up on his famous black charger. Mr. Stevens was accidentally wounded in camp in the spring of 1865, at New Creek, West Virginia, receiving a bullet through his right arm which was in such a position that the bullet passed twice through it. He was sent to the camp hospital, and was discharged under general order in June, 1865. Mr. Stevens went home, but could not work at his trade on account of the wound in his arm. He taught school for two terms, and then, with a partner, engaged in the marble business, which he carried on for two or three years. In 1872 he embarked in mercantile business, working at intervals as salesman. In partnership with his brother, Wesley L. Stevens, he opened a general store in 1877, in Three Springs, Pennsylvania; several years later, buying out his brother's interest, he converted it into a hardware store, and continued the business alone. A few years later he re-admitted his brother to partnership, and still later on, sold out to him, and went out for a time as traveling salesman. He then purchased the business and the real estate from his brother, and conducted the business alone until 1895, when he admitted his eldest son as his partner.
Mr. Stevens was a staunch Republican. He served as councilman and as school director. He was a comrade of Colonel Albright Post, No. 483, G. A. R., at Three Springs.

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Notes: Marriage

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He and his wife were the parents of ten children, six of whom died in infancy.

1 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 405.

2 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 8.

3 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 406.