of war, and
arguing that Joshua should stay at home like his brother John, the tory.
In the midst of his argument the Quaker fell out of the tree, and
striking the ground violently, broke his neck, and was picked up dead.
This was regarded as an act of Divine Judgment in favor of the war, and
probably went far toward encouraging the despairing hearts of the
patriots about them.

A few years after the war he moved with his family to a place "near the
Warm Springs, Virginia," said E. D. Stephens. Whether this was the Warm
Springs in Bath County, is hard to determine. "And then in a few years"
said the same person, "to near LEXINGTON, (Carlisle) Kentucky." These
residences are indefinitely located. "The Warm Springs" may have been in
what is now KENAWHA County, West Virginia for there are such there, and
according to Mr. Jordan, above quoted, they lived "near a river, in the
vicinity of the residence of Daniel Boone," who lived in KENAWHA. (See
Hale's "Trans-Allegheny Pioneers"). It was while here, said Jordan, that
Boone was a frequent visitor to the place of Joshua, whom he invariably
greeted as "Cousin." Just what the relationship was is unknown, but it
undoubtedly existed. One evening Boone came to the Stephens' place,
weary, and said "Twenty-one less." They understood from this laconic
remark, that he referred to the number of Indians he had killed that
day.

Joshua was accompanied or followed to "near Lexington" by two of his
brothers-in-law, Joshua and Jonathan Humphreys. Here two of his sons
left to find homes for themselves--David Humphreys, (10), who settled in
Evansville, Indiana, and Silas, (14), who settled in Nashville, Tenn.
Katie, (12), a daughter died in Kentucky at a tender age.

It was while in Kentucky that he knocked a Dutchman down for insulting
his daughter Hannah, and dislocated his (Stephen's) thumb.

It must have been about 1798 when he decided to remove to near
Chillicothe, Ohio, for that year his son, E. D. Stephens was fourteen
years old, and was apprenticed to a tanner, which naturally was on his
mother's death. This occured while they were on the Pickaway Plains, in
Ohio. As they were travelling, the women of the party took off their
shoes to walk on the cool grass on account of the heat. His wife was
bitten by a copper-head snake, and shortly died, her body turning to the
color of the snake.

JOSHUA STEPHENS, (6), was over six feet high, kept his face shaven
smoothly, had blue eyes an