The
Stephenson Family
by: John Clavin Stephenson
(excerpted
from Stephenson Family: a history
of the Stephenson Family from
Georgia)
William
Henry
Stephenson, a direct lineal descendant of
Henry Stephenson, of
Scotland, down through Robert Stephenson, a
Scotchman, who reared a
family in County Antrim, Ireland; William
Stephenson, a Revolutionary
soldier of Chester County, South Carolina;
Hugh W. Stephenson, of Maury
County, Tennessee; William Watson
Stephenson, of Lawrence County,
Alabama, and Felix Claiborne Stephenson, of
Marengo County, Alabama,
but recently of Texas, was born October 6,
1840, in Itawamba County,
Mississippi . He was the first son of
F. C. Stephenson and his wife,
Polly McGaughey. Polly McGaughey was the
second daughter of Col.
Washington McGaughey, formerly of Lawrence
County, Alabama. William
Henry learned the drug business in Linden,
Alabama. He has followed
that business the most of his life. He went
into the Confederate army
in 1861. He went with the Eleventh Alabama
Regiment direct to Virginia
in 1861. He was in General Lee's army during
the four years of the war.
He participated in all the battles and
marches to which that noted
Virginia army was subjected. He never left
the army from the time he
went into it till the close of the war. He
was at the surrender at
Appomattox, April 9, 1865. He, at the close
of the war, like other
young Confederate soldiers, penniless,
returned to his home in
Mississippi. Henry farmed for four years.
October 24, 1869, he married
Miss Emma J. Stovall, daughter of George W.
Stovall, of Lee County,
Mississippi. At the close of the year 1869,
he moved to Paris, Texas.
There he entered the drug business as clerk.
In 1877, he moved to
Whitesboro, Texas, and still acted as clerk
in a drug store. In 1885
he went to Collinsville, Texas , and
commenced business on his own
account, where he is now a successful
merchant. To him and his wife
have been born eleven children, six sons and
five daughters. Three of
the sons died in infancy. The other three
sons having received a good
business education.
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