daughter of Joshua Stephens, (6), married Charles
Vandever, of the Vandever family of New Jersey, then living (about
1802), in Chillicothe, Ohio. They moved with the others of the Stephens
family to Shelby County about 1816, where she died about 1846, and was
buried in the old Hardin graveyard. Subject of a poem by B. A. C.
Stephens (182); she had four children:

23. MARY, m. John Wilson.

24. CATHERINE, b. Mar. 21, 1804; m. Josiah Gaskill; d. Nov. 3,
1845.

25. RACHEL, b. May 9, 1809; m. John Garnahan; d. Dec. 3, 1850.

26. JOSHUA, b. Sept. 9, 1812; m. Susanna Burton; d. ----.

HANNAH STEPHENS, (13), daughter of Joshua Stephens, (6), is described as
having been a very "beautiful woman" and was widely courted on that
account, her father having been compelled to chastise a Dutchman, who
became too familiar. She was born in Penn., May 2, 1776; accompanied her
parents to Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio. She married Thomas McClish in
Ross County about 1803. About 1816, or perhaps a little earlier, they
moved to Shelby County, where he founded the town of Hardin, Oct. 5,
1816, naming it for the famous Kentucky general, (General Hardin was
killed near there) which was the first County Seat. He dedicated a
square to the county on the condition that it should be used solely for
the Court House, which it never was, and is still unused. At an early
date they moved over in Putnam County, then a dence wilderness, and
lived with no neighbors nearer than 40 miles amid Indians and wild
beasts. She died March 13, 1840. Her husband was born July 1, 1776, and
died of a nasal hemmorrage Dec. 26, 1826. They were buried near Dupont,
where their graves are yet to be seen. (I have a page of their family
record taken from their old family Bible). Their children were:

27. SILAS, b. Oct. 15, 1804; m. Nancy Mellinger; d. June 16, 1860.

28. ELIZA, b. Dec. 26, 1806; m. John Bush; d. Nov. 24, 1827.

29. JOHN JACKSON, b. March 5, 1808; d. unm., Oct. 25, 1841.

30. THOMAS, b. March 3, 1816; d. unm., April 3, 1846.

SILAS STEPHENS, (14), son of Joshua Stephens, (6), left his father's
home, "near Lexington, Kentucky," and settled near Nashville, Tenn.,
where he married and acquired considerable property in land and slaves;
these latter he freed just before the war (about 1859), and one of them
came to Shelby County, Ohio, which is the only information ever had from
Silas. He died sine prolos abou