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Surnames: Stephenson, Crabbs,Edwards
Classification: Biography
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Stephen Stephenson, plasterer and farmer, was born in Hamilton County, Ohio, November 18,
1829, son of Peter and Jane (Crabbs) Stephenson, and is one of eleven children and of
Dutch-Welsh extraction. His father was born in Cape May,County, N.J.,in 1804, and the
mother the mother in Washgton County, Pennsylvania in 1807. The paternal grandfather was
a native of Wales, and died in Hamilton County, Ohio. The family came to Daviess County
Indiana, in April, 1839, and settled in Veal Township where the father died in 1880. By
occupation he was a cooper and farmer. He was an ultra-Abolitonist, and later became a
stanch Republican. His wife died in 1884. Our immediate subject recived a common school
education, and his early years were spent in learning the cooper's trade.
Subsequently he learned the plasterer's trade, and this has been his principal calling
through life. In 1865, he located on his present farm of 126 acres. Politically he is a
thorough Democrat,and for !
many years has advocated the principles of that party. In 1884, he was chosen assessor
of Harrison Township. He was married in December 1852, to Miss Sarah Edwards, born in
1834, daughter of John and Elizabeth Edwards. To their union five children were born:
Seth born in 1856, Jesse who is a teacher in the Washington public school and is taking a
course at Du Pauw University, and was born in 1859, Lillie B. born in 1862, John born in
1864, and Lizzie J. born in 1867. Mr. Stephenson joined the I.O.O.F.in 1862 and the
Masons in 1865.
History of Knox and Daviess County Indiana
Goodspeed Publishing; Chicago; 1886
Page: 871
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