hurch, and President of the Indiana Conference at the time
of his death; he married Sytha Annesley Burton April 13, 1838: (she was
born Sept. 29, 1817, near Flemingsburg, Ky.); lives at St. Joseph, Mo.
He died August 23, 1846; their children were:

129. EMMA CLARISSA, b. June 23, 1842; m. A. D. Jewell.

130. JOHN OLIVER, b. Nov. 20, 1844; m. Sarah J. Dinkle.

131. MARTHA M----, b. May 13, 1847; m. Gad W. McCoy.

MARIA STEPHENS, (34), daughter of John Stephens, (15), was born about
1815, in Ross County, Ohio; accompanied her parents to Shelby County,
where she married John Blake in 1846; had only one child, a daughter,
who lived only a few months; both mother and child are buried in the
Presbyterian graveyard at Sidney, Ohio. Her child was:

132. ----.

OLIVER PERRY STEPHENS, (36), son of John Stephens, (15), was born June
20, 1820, near Sidney, Ohio, where he was raised on his father's farm;
became a preacher in the Methodist Protestant Church; married first June
11, 1846, Mary Ann Biddle, a daughter of William H. Biddle, of New
Jersey, a direct descendant of William Penn. She was a women of marked
literary ability, the author of several fine poems; was born Sept. 19,
1821, and died April 15, 1869; she bore him five children. He married
secondly Mary Catherine Hartsook, Nov. 2, 1871; she was the daughter of
Elijah Barnett Hartsook, and was born Dec. 3, 1836. She bore him one
child. He died at Sabina, Ohio, Nov. 6, 1873, and was buried by the
Masonic Lodge of that place. His widow, Mrs. Mary C. (Hartsook)
Stephens, lives eight miles southeast of Xenia, Ohio, her post-office
address. (His remains now repose in the Cemetery at Xenia, Ohio, where
also lives his widow, 1906.) His children are:

By Mary Ann Biddle:

133. DAVID STUBERT, b. May 12, 1847; m. Marietta L. Gibson.

134. EMMA CATHERINE, b. Dec. 6, 1848; m. Ira Underwood.

135. LOUISA FRANCES, b. May 16, 1851; m. J. A. Van Auken.

136. WILLIAM CHALMERS, b. May 29, 1857; m. Mary Anetta Underwood.

137. HERBERT TAYLOR, b. Sept. 10, 1864; m. Emma West Johnston.

By Mary C. Hartsook.:

138. ELIZABETH HARTSOOK, b. May 7, 1873; m. Charles Doods.

SARAH STEPHENS, (37), daughter of John Stephens, (15), was born in
Shelby County, Ohio, August 4, 1822; married Smith Wallace May 11, 1843;
they moved to Clark County, same state, where Wallace farmed; she died
June 3, 1868. Her children were:

139. ELLEN, b.