William Normandy, the third son of Rev. John C. Stephenson and his wife, Agnes Simpson, married Miss Adaline Davidson. They reared a family in Lawrence County, Alabama. Normandy died during the war. His two sons, John and Scott, went to Texas, and, when I last heard from them, they were living near Rice, Texas.
Sallie, eldest daughter of Rev. J. C. S. and his wife, Agnes, married William Jefferson Jamison, of Alabama. After four children—two sons and two daughters—were born, Mr. Jamison died. The eldest son, Joseph, went to the war and died in camp. Jack, the second son, went to Arkansas. He married the daughter of Hugh S. Stephenson, Mariah.
Katie, the second daughter of Rev. J. C. Stephenson, married Wilson H. Martin, of Mount Hope. They reared a family near Mount Hope. Robert, a farmer, living three miles north of Mount Hope, is their son. He is mail contractor between Mount Hope and Leighton. He married Miss Bennett. They have a large and respectable family of interesting children. Some of his daughters are married. He is doing well.
Mrs. Joe Smith, of Mount Hope, is a daughter of W. H. Martin and his wife, Katie. Mr. Smith and his wife have reared and educated a family of very promising children. Joe and his sons are engaged in farming and merchandising. There are no better people in the neighborhood than Joe Smith and his family.
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Thomas H. Stephenson, Boyce, Texas.Simpson Reed Stephen, son of Rev. J. C. Stephenson and Agnes, married. Two children were born; his wife died. He went to Ennis, Texas, remarried, and died at Ennis, leaving no children of his last marriage. Eugene Stephenson, of Ennis, Ellis County, Texas, and Mrs. T. A. Smith, of Shreveport, Louisiana, are his only children.
Thomas Hercanus, the fifth son of Rev. John Campbell Stephenson and his wife, Agnes Simpson, was born on a farm near Mount Hope, Lawrence County, Alabama, February 18, 1833. Thomas, like his brothers and sisters, had good parental discipline and moral training. He was reared to work on a farm. He was educated in the common schools of the country. Thomas was a young man of fine physique. He was industrious and had a good business education, and his integrity was undoubted; hence he had no trouble in finding good paying employment as manager of a large plantation and the negroes. The war found him raising cotton with negro slaves. He left the cotton field and went into the Confederate army. He served in the Fourth Alabama Cavalry till the surrender. His war record was good. Before the war he married Miss Elizabeth A. Hamilton. Two children were born. His wife died. One child died in infancy; the other is Mrs. Cora, wife of D. E. Eason, of Garrett, Ellis County, Texas. Mr. Eason is a farmer. He and his wife have a family of small children.
In 1866 Thomas H. Stephenson married Miss Henrietta Bridges, near Mount Hope, Alabama. He moved to Texas, in 1876, and settled in the rich prairie country in Ellis County, a few miles east from Waxahachie. In a few years he bought land where he now lives, at Boyce, a railroad town. There were born unto Thomas H. Stephenson and his wife, Henrietta, five children, who are now living, namely, John B., Eliza, Joseph, James A. and Henry. These children have not only been well educated in the common acceptation of that term, but they have been taught self-reliance. They have had the best of moral training. They are intelligent and well prepared for the battle of life.
John B. Stephenson married Miss Nellie Fay Boyce, daughter of Capt. William A. Boyce, of Boyce, Texas. She is one of the seven beautiful daughters of her father. She is as amiable as she is beautiful. John B. Stephenson is manager of. The American Central Life Insurance Company for Texas.
Joseph is not married. He is telegraph operator for Houston & Texas Central Railroad at Waxahachie, Texas.
James Albert Stephenson, son of Thomas and Henrietta, married Miss Fannie Lee Boyce, a sister of his brother's wife. She is a most excellent lady, highly educated and accomplished. She and her husband are live members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church at Greenville. She is a beautiful and very attractive woman. As worthy and intelligent as James A. Stephenson is, he has his superior for a companion. They live in Greenville, Hunt County, Texas. He is an insurance agent for the Provident Savings Life Assurance Society of New York. He is managing a large business successfully.
Henry, the youngest son of Thomas H. Stephenson and his wife, Henrietta Bridges, is not married. He lives at Dallas, Texas, and is a stenographer for Dallas. Security Company.
Eliza, the flower of the family, prefers to stay with her aged parents and see to their every want.
Thomas H. Stephenson resides on his little rich prairie farm within three hundred yards of the railroad depot at Boyce. He and his family are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He is a ruling elder in his church. He lives quietly on his farm and has a competency. More than that, he has the satisfaction of having reared and educated a family that morally, intellectually and socially stands among the best people of that splendid, rich country.
John Elam Stephenson, a younger brother of Thomas H., was a well educated young man, quite prepossessing in his manners. He married Miss Hancock, of Russellville, Alabama. One child was born. The parents both died. The daughter married Dick Martin, a young farmer near Mount Hope. After three children had been born the mother died. Mr. Martin married again.
The next son of J. C. Stephenson was Felix. He was an oddity. He never married. Died at the age of forty.
Martha Ann, the last child of Rev. John C. Stephenson and his wife, Agnes Simpson, married Joseph Tyler, a good, industrious farmer. They reared only one child, Minnie. She was as well educated as the Mount Hope schools could then do. She married Fletcher Morrison, a very energetic, industrious farmer. Mr. Morrison owns a great deal of land and lives on the old Dill Bean place, near Mount Hope. Mr. Morrison has a good sized family, all girls except one, Tommie. One of their daughters married Prof. C. C. Kerby, the principal of the Mount Hope Wallace Institute. Another daughter married Mr. Ed. Plaxco, a farmer. Joseph Tyler died several years ago. Martha Ann lives happily with her daughter and has a good home and an abundance in her old age. No better woman lives anywhere than Martha Ann Tyler, nee Stephenson. As a token of my high appreciation of her virtues I have in part dedicated this family genealogical history in honor of her.
Pleasant Wright Stephenson, the third son and sixth child of Hugh W. and Margaret Stephenson, married Miss Margaret (Peggy) McGaughey, the daughter of a major in the Revolutionary War. After the children were nearly all grown the family settled east of Memphis, in Tennessee. There were two daughters and several sons. Jane, the oldest daughter of P. W. Stephenson and his wife, "Peggy," married in Tennessee. She is dead. There were no children.