The Stephens Family Part 13

HETTY MELISSA LENOX, (173), daughter of Hetty (Stephens) Lenox, (40), was born July 9, 1853; married Nov. 29, 1877, Henry Bennett Bilter. He was born May 8, 1852. They live at Wabash, Mercer County, Ohio.

Children:

434. JOHN THEODORE, b. Feb. 26, 1881.

435. AMANDA, b. March 4, 1884.

436. MARY, b. Dec. 15, 1886.

SARAH ELIZABETH STEPHENS, (174), daughter of W. H. Stephens, (41), and Julian Crisup Lenox, was born in Hardin, Shelby County, Ohio, March 13, 1837; has been a successful teacher in the public schools, academies, colleges and universities, all her life. Wrote a grammar; married at Santa Clara, California, June 14, 1860, Oliver Spencer Frambes, of Ohio, a professor then in the University of the Pacific, and the founder of several academies and colleges, and the University of Southern California, now a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church; he was born Feb. 1, 1830, in southern Ohio, is descended from the Frambes family of New Jersey of Huguenot descent (Frambes is from the French, meaning strawberry). They lived at Traver, Tulare County, California, in 1892, but in 1905, in Los Angeles. Children:

437. ELEANOR, b. Oct. 22, 1865.

438. PARK SARGENT, b. Feb. 1, 1870; accidentally killed April 23, 1886.

O. S. Frambes d. Jan. 13, 1906.

Sarah Elizabeth Frambes d. Aug. 12, 1906.

HAMILTON WILLIAM STEPHENS, (175), son of W. H. Stephens, (41), was born in Hardin, Shelby County, Ohio, Feb. 20, 1839; graduate of the University of the Pacific of 1865; reversed the order of his given names to avoid confusion with his father's initials; became book-keeper for the Santa Clara Valley Mill & Leather Company, with which firm he has been, excepting four years, since 1867; married Sept. 27, 1869, Georgia Anna Harlow; she was born May 26, 1849: was County Recorder and Ex-Officio Auditor of Santa Clara County 1879-82; resides near San Jose, California. Children:

439. ADELLA MAY, b. June 16, 1872; m. Chas. Wooster, July, 1902.

440. ELEANOR, b. Jan. 27, 1876; m. Dr. Francis Williams, May 26, 1903

441. ROY HAMILTON, b. Feb. 20, 1880.

442. GEORGE LENOX, b. Oct. 19, 1881.

COLUMBUS CECIL STEPHENS, (176), son of W. H. Stephens, (41), was born in Hardin, Shelby County, Ohio; changed his name, dropping the Christopher and adding the Cecil, in honor of his mother's family; accompanied his parents to California in 1857; he returned to Ohio in 1859, via Panama and New York, and entered the Delaware College; in 1861 he came overland to California a second time, this time being alone most of the way and afoot, walking over 1500 miles in seven weeks, and rejoining his father's family at Ione, Amador County, Cal., graduated from the University of the Pacific as Santa Clara in 1865; taught school two years; admitted to practice law in the third district of California Jan.

15, 1867; married first Dec. 31, 1867, Flora Belle Williams, at Pine Grove, Esmeralda County, Nevada, second daughter of Thomas Williams and his wife Mary Blasdel, sister of Ex-Governor H. G. Blasdel, of Nevada.

She was born in Elizabethtown, Indiana, Dec. 23, 1846, and died at San Jose, Calif., July 14, 1881. He practiced law in San Jose from 1867 until May, 1881, when he moved to Tucson, Arizona. Was admitted to the Supreme Court of California July 11, 1870; June 6, 1873, was admitted to the United States District Court; July 12, to the United States Circuit Court; May 20, 1881, to the Arizona District Court; Feb. 13, 1882, to the Arizona Supreme Court; ---- 888, to the United States Circuit and District Court for the District of Southern California. Married secondly Mary Elizabeth Pearson, of Tucson, Ariz., Feb. 3, 1883. She was born June 22, 1863, at Petaluma, Cal., third daughter of Richmond C. Pearson and his wife, Mary Ayers. In 1884 he was elected Councilman at Large for Southern Arizona (the Upper House of the Territorial Legislature). While there, among other bills, he succeeded in having pa.s.sed those abolishing the English Common Law Doctrine of Riparian Rights, now incorporated in the Const.i.tution of Arizona, and establishing the University of Arizona.

In June, 1887, he moved to Los Angeles, Cal., where he at once became one of the leading members of the bar. Is a K. T. Mason, member of the Historical Society of Southern California. He died in Los Angeles, Cal., Sept. 7, 1894.

Children:

By Flora Belle Williams:

443. FLORENCE ELEANOR, b. Dec. 27, 1867; d. Feb. 21, 1869.

444. EDWARD CECIL, b. Jan. 30, 1870; m. Esther E. Benjamin, (a Jewess).

445. FANNIE GERTRUDE, b. April 15, 1872; d. Oct. 25, 1873.

446. WALTER HERBERT, b. Aug. 9, 1874.

447. CLARANCE ARTHUR, b. Feb. 29, 1876; m. Oct. 2, 1903, Irene Steyming, who was born May 3, 1876.

448. ALBERT BLASDEL, b. Jan. 13, 1873; lives in San Francisco, Cal.

By Mary Pearson:

449. CHARLES CECIL, b. Jan. 6, 1884.

450. FLORENCE MAY, b. Sept. 23, 1885.

451. ETHEL ELEANOR, b. July 15, 1887.

452. IRENE MARGUERITE CECIL, b. Jan. 24, 1892.

VIRGINIA PAULINE STEPHENS, (180), daughter of W. H. Stephens, (41), was born in Hardin, Shelby County, Ohio, April 28, 1845; graduate of Young Ladies' Inst.i.tute, of Santa Clara and State Normal School, at San Jose, California; has been a public school teacher all her life; married David Kindle Zumwalt, of Visalia, California, of the Zumwalt family of Missouri, Jan. 18, 1874; was divorced Jan. 12, 1882, for desertion; lives in Los Angeles, Cal.; has one child:

453. CORA CECIL STEPHENS, b. Nov. 19, 1875.

BASCOM ASBURY CECIL STEPHENS, (182), son of W. H. Stephens, (41), was born on Monday, March 5, 1855, at 7:00 A. M., in Lockington, Shelby County, Ohio; a.s.sumed the name of Cecil of his mother's family; graduate of Santa Clara High School, 1871; clerked in the Santa Clara Post-Office two years; founded the Santa Clara Echo, now the Journal; in 1875 entered the ministry of the Seventh-day Adventist Church; ordained to the ministry Sept. 6, 1878; married Sept. 8, 1878, Minerva May Overshiner; she was born in Sacramento, California, Jan. 15, 1857; she is a daughter of G. A. J. Overshiner and his wife Minervea Dumpy; in 1879 was President of the Nevada Conference; preached from 1875 to 1881 in Northern California and Nevada, and was very successful in obtaining converts and organizing churches; left the ministry in June, 1880, on account of personal differences with church authorities, and resumed journalism; published papers in Dixon and Santa Cruz, Calif.; in Jan.

1881, went to Arizona; settled in Los Angeles, Calif., in March 1882, where he has ever since resided with the exception of one year, June 1883-4 in Tucson, Arizona; was reporter several years on papers in Los Angeles; in 1886-7 published the Pomoa Progress; in 1882, the Daily Commercial in Los Angeles; in 1883-4, was city Editor of the Daily Citizen at Tucson; attended the Quijotoa mining excitement in 1884; in 1886, visited Indiana and Kentucky on detective business and took occasion to visit the ancestral home in Shelby County, Ohio, and obtained a ma.s.s of information of family history, on which he has been engaged since April 1881. In April, 1890, joined a fillibustering expedition to capture Lower California from Mexico and annex it to the U.S. Was selected Secretary of State of the proposed Republic, but before the scheme was ripe, as proposed by its British promoters, it was betrayed and exposed; regular contributor to the press and magazines, and an advocate of State division; author of several Pamphlets on Southern California, Arizona and Lower California; three years Secretary of the Historical Society of Southern California; author of a History of Los Angeles City, and another of Los Angeles County; and another of San Diego County, and one in MSS of Orange County; also a work on State Division (in MSS) engaged in oil and mining business; agnostic in religion; independent in politics; children:

454. BASCOM ALBERT, b. in San Jose Cal., Oct. 11, 1879.

455. MINERVA ELEANOR, b. in San Diego, Cal., Jan. 3, 1882; m. A. H.

Nieman Aug. 25, 1903; child: Minerva Catherine, b. Jan. 12, 1905.

456. WILLIAM ASBURY GIDEON, b. in Los Angeles, Cal., Sept. 6, 1886.

ELLEN MINERVA STEPHENS, (183), daughter of Joshua M. Stephens, (42), was born Sept. 16, 1841; married Joseph H. Baker; he was born Dec. 9, 1835, and was shot and killed Oct. 20, 1876, while Sheriff of Portage County, Wisconsin, in the act of executing a writ of ejectment; his murderer was promptly hanged by a mob. She is the mother of six children, and lives at Plover, Portage County, Wisconsin. Children:

457. FRANCES, b. Aug. 24, 1865; m. William Hartwell.

458. JOHN STANLEY, b. April 9, 1867; d. Jan. 7, 1875.

459. GEORGE H----, b. April 9, 1869.

460. WALTER, b. June 10, 1871.

461. BLANCHE, b. June 19, 1874.

462. JOSEPH H----, b. April 13, 1876.

SIDNEY STEPHENS, (184), son of Joshua M. Stephens, (42), was born Nov.

8, 1842, near Woodstock, McHenry County, Illinois; married Oct. 10, 1866, Emma Elizabeth Lombard; she was born Oct. 8, 1845; they live in Livingston, Montana. Children:

463. MINERVA ISABELL, b. Nov. 27, 1867.

464. MABEL SIDNEY, b. Dec. 11, 1873.

465. ARTHUR DUANE, b. Oct. 11, 1884.

STANTON WESLEY HAWKEY, (185), son of Roda (Stephens) Hawkey, (44), was born Oct. 3, 1848; married May 11, 1870, Clara Edith Lenox, daughter of James Lenox, born Nov. 4, 1855, (brother of John Lenox of Wapakoneta, Ohio.) They live at No. 70 Woodlawn Ave., Indianapolis, Indiana; he is a grocer. Child: