A person listed with him in the 1850 census could possibly be his mother - Barberry Stephens, age 75, born North Carolina.
"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MH59-X82 : 9 November 2014), Daniel Stephens, Jackson county, Jackson, Alabama, United States; citing family 542, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
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