Mary Stephenson (1848)

Born 1848 in Mercer, Ohio, United States

Ancestors

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Biography

Mary Stephenson was born circa 1848.^[1] She was the daughter of Hiram Stephenson and Mary Ann Grant of Mercer County, Ohio.^[2]

Mary Stephenson appears in the 1870 Census with her father Hiram and aunt/stepmother Elizabeth Grant Landon Rockwood Stephenson.^[3] In 1870, she was a school teacher.

After the 1870 Census, there is no evidence of Mary Stephenson. If you search Buck Cemetery where her parents are buried, you will find a Mary Stephenson who was born in 1840 and died in 1873. It seems somewhat plausible that could be her. However, the birth year is eight years earlier than the age represented in three separate Censuses.

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXQP-X3W : 12 April 2016), Mary Stephenson in household of Hiram Stephenson, Hopewell, Mercer, Ohio, United States; citing family 369, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCPQ-9RT : 2 October 2017), Mary Stephenson in entry for Hiram Stephenson, 1860.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6L7-GW2 : 12 April 2016), Mary Stephenson in household of Hiram Stephenson, Ohio, United States; citing p. 7, family 49, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,742.