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• familyserch.org ID: 9V45-N8H
• Residence: 1873, Rock Creek Township, Cowley, Kansas, USA
• Residence: 1880, Rock Creek Township, Cowley, Kansas, USA
• Residence: 1900, Shawnee Township, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA
• Residence: 1908, , St. Francois County, Missouri, USA
• Created: 09 Aug 2018

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Moved to St. Francois County, Missouri in 1908.


1910 Census:

Name: Amos Stevenson
Age in 1910: 60
Birth Year: abt 1850
Birthplace: Missouri
Home in 1910: St Francois, Saint Francois, Missouri
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Head
Marital status: Widowed
Father's Birthplace: North Carolina
Mother's Birthplace: Missouri
Native Tongue: English
Occupation: Farmer
Industry: General Farm
Employer, Employee or Other: Own Account
Home Owned or Rented: Own
Home Free or Mortgaged: Mortgaged
Farm or House: Farm
Able to Read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes

Household Members:
Name Age
Amos Stevenson 60
Daisy Stevenson 31
Bessie Stevenson 29

Land Grant:

Accession Nr: KS3620__.235
Issue Date: 9/1/1873

State Meridian Twp - Rng Aliquots Section Survey County
KS 6th PM 030S - 004E S½NE¼ 12 Cowley
KS 6th PM 030S - 004E N½SE¼ 12 Cowley

Section S12 T30S R4E
Meridian Sixth
State Kansas
Source USFS
GLO GLO Township Records

Calculated Values
Acres 648
Centroid 37.4546629, -96.9429958
Corners NW 37.4618834, -96.9524522
NE 37.4619533, -96.9342223
SE 37.4474634, -96.9333222
SW 37.4474035, -96.9519522



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Died:
Barnes Hospital

Buried:
findagrave.com memorial # 215108565

Amos married Mary Jane Wallace on 17 Feb 1874. Mary was born on 16 May 1846; died on 13 Mar 1908; was buried in Knights of Pythias Cemetery, Saint Francois County, Missouri, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Eura Etta Stevenson was born on 05 Jul 1877 in Rock, Cowley County, Kansas, USA; died on 18 Apr 1958 in , Berrien County, Michigan, USA.
2. Daisy Lou Stevenson was born on 17 Jan 1879 in Rock, Cowley County, Kansas, USA; died on 7 May 1961 in Farmington, Saint Francois County, Missouri, United States; was buried in Knights of Pythias Cemetery, Saint Francois County, Missouri, United States.
3. Bessie Elizabeth Stevenson was born on 25 Jul 1880 in Rock, Cowley County, Kansas, USA; died on 13 Dec 1956 in Farmington, Saint Francois County, Missouri, United States; was buried in Knights of Pythias Cemetery, Saint Francois County, Missouri, United States.
4. Rev. Carl Alexander Stevenson was born on 01 Oct 1882 in Rock, Cowley County, Kansas, USA; died on 19 Jan 1975 in East Peoria, Tazewell County, Illinois, United States; was buried in Graham Cemetery, Dallas County, Missouri, United States.
5. Forest Stevenson was born on 28 May 1885 in Rock Creek Township, Cowley, Kansas, USA; died on 23 May 1889 in Rock Creek Township, Cowley, Kansas, USA; was buried in Widener Cemetery, Cowley County, Kansas, United States.

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(Research):FROM NORTH CAROLINA TO MISSOURI 1819

The Revolutionary War was over, Thomas Jefferson had purchased the Louisiana Territory from France. First there were exploring parties, then the establishment of forts, missions, and settlements. Lewis and Clark ascended the Missouri River in the summerof 1804. Zebulos M. Pike explored parts of Kansas and Nebraska two years later. A scientific expedition under Major Stephen H. Long came up the Missouri, in the first steamboat to enter the country, in 1819.
The War of 1812 took the English and Indians out of the territory which is now Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. The Indians that were left were being pushed West onto reservations. Settlement of the Louisiana Territory was the issue of the day. Spain and France had tried to settle it for the past 100 years but were unsuccessful.
There was a trail west from the Carolina and Virginias through the Cumberland Gap, on through Tennessee and Kentucky that Daniel Boone, Simon Kenton and others had established before the Revolutionary War. It went on to cross the Ohio River close to where it joined the Mississippi, To cross the Mississippi the trail led to Moccasin Springs, where Mr. Green ran the ferry that took you across the river. The Trail of Tears State Park is there now.

Mitchell Fleming, James Stevenson, Zenos Ross, Robert McFarland, Anderson Mitchell. Mr. Querry, Thomas Wilson, J. Wallace, John Garner, ____ Hill, and Phillip Clodfelter all came to the Louisiana Territory over that trail. Whether they were all in the same wagon train or in different groups, I don't know. There were lots of wagon trains going west at that time. As history goes, some traveled on Sunday and some didn't. Any way, they all settled within walking distance (at that time) of each other. I do know that Phillip Clodfelter came alone.

SETTLED IN CAPE GIRARDEAU COUNTY, MISSOURI

The territory was was settling up fast. The county seat was moved from Cape Girardeau to Jackson in 1815. The north end of Cape County is where the Stevensons lived. I'll try to locate the eleven families that made up the community where my ancestors lived.
They all entered land along the Blue Shawnee or Muddy Shawnee Creeks, except Anderson Mitchell. He was east of the Mitchell Fleming place, at the top of a little hollow that runs into Lovejoy Hollow. It is just my guess that if you went back a generation or two you would find Andersons in the Mitchell family and Mitchells in the Fleming family.
We will leave the Anderson Mitchell place, go due west over the ridge to Zenos Ross' place. His land joined Mitchell Fleming's land. Zenos' land was ridge land, his house was up in the timber, while Mitchell Fleming's 80 acres was bottom land along BlueShawnee Creek. The Fleming graveyard is in the northeast corner of this plot. Ross married a Fleming girl.
Across Blue Shawnee a little south of the Fleming place, there
is where James and Jane Stevenson raised their family. Out of their ten children only two of them that lived stayed in Missouri, Alexander K. and William. Alexander bought Robert McFarland's place when he moved to Illinois. William stayed on the home place.
Go on west across Muddy Shawnee Creek, on the west bank was the Hill place. This is where he got the idea of the hog ring for which he later received a patent. You can still buy Hill Hog Rings.
His daughter Margaret was Alexander K. Stevenson's first wife. They had three children. Julia went to Illinois, Mary Jane died in infancy. Linley was the boy, he grew up with Ransom Mitchell. They were buddies; whatever one did the other did. I've heard my Granddad say, "if they were playing a game at school they had to both be on the same side or they wouldn't play. When the Civil War broke out Linley joined the Union Army, Ransom stayed homne and remained neutral. Linley went through the war in Cape Girardeau, Shiloh, and the seige at Vicksburg. When he was being mustered out in St. Louis he took small pox and died. He was buried in Old Apple Creek Cemetery, Pocahontas, MO.
Frankie Jane (Shoults) Carruthers has some letters that Linly wrote, from Vicksburg, to her Grandpa Ransom while the seige was going on. In one letter he said, "There hasn't been a shot fired today. I think they are as big a cowards as we are." He asked Ransom if he was taking care of the girls, and he thought that he would take caligraphy when he got back home. The letters are written with black ink, his hand writing was good.
About three quarters of a mile down the creek was the Quary place. The house wasn't close to the creek, it was up on the ridge but there was a good spring there. When Knox bought the place he built a big house north of the spring on the top of the hill.
My dad told me this story. Issac Query was one of the boys. He was an old bachelor when Dad was a little boy in the 1890's. He lived with my Grandpa and was sort of a hired hand. He liked to hunt.
Issac was training the dog to not be gun shy. One day Issac told Dad to come and go with him and the dog squirrel hunting. Dad didn't want to go, but he went anyway. Dad said that Issac really knew what it took to break a dog of gunshyness. Dad said he never knew when his gun shyness was broken. As long as I knew him he could shoot with the experts. He taught "we boys" how to use a gun.
In August of 1970, I pulled my trailer to Fruitland from Albequergue and parked it in my Dad's backyard. The next morning just at daylight a charge went off right over our trailer. Wanda jumped out of bed, I was beginning to think I was back in the old Army and that was the reville cannon. I got out to see what was going on. Dad was standing in the yard with the shotgun in one hand and a starling in the other. He said he was just getting his exercise. He threw the bird down on a pile of birds in a flower bed next to a tree. Ther were 32 birds and 33 empty shells. He said, "I must have missed one." I always figured that he got his basic training from Issac Query.
The next place north of the Quary place was that of Thomas Wilson. He had a section or more of land (all ridge land) away from the creek.
Appleton was about five miles north of this settlement. That was where everyone went to get their mail. When anyone was there
they picked up the mail for all that were close around them. Thomas Wilson was there when the news came that Lincoln was elected President. When he came back and passed out the mail he said, "Lincoln was elected and I'm ready to fight". He was one thathad slaves.
The Wallace place was bottom land along the creek between the Quary place and the 80 acres that Mitchell Fleming gave to Robert McFarland when he married his daughter Agness.
The McFarland place was mostly bottom land. He didn't want the house in the bottom so he bought ten acres from Thomas Wilson and built a big two story log house away from the creek. There
wasn't a spring close so they dug a well. The old house and log barn stood there for well over a hundred years. All that is there now to mark the place is the well.
My Great-grandfather bought the place from McFarland when he moved to Illinois. This is where Alexander K. Stevenson raised his family.
by Meredith Stevenson

A.K. Stevenson was ordaind Ruling Elder in Apple Creek Presbyterian upon the death of his father James, 13 Oct 1851. The last mention of him as an Elder in the church records is 10 Apr 1863, on pg 49. No reason given.

MO Probate: Alexander K Stevenson, Cape Girardeau Co; Probate Date: 27 May 1881; Will Record, Vol D-E, 1867-1916


Know all men by these presents that I, Alexander K Stevenson of the County of Cape Girardeau and State of Missouri, being of sound and disposed mind do make this last will and testament;
First - I give unto my Wife Elizabeth all of my Property both Real and Personal, to enjoy during her natural life, except that hereinafter named, to dispose of as she may see proper-provided a majority of my hiers agrees thereto.
Second - My Daughter Jennie J Stevenson is to have one horse (or fifty dollars in money as she may choose).
Third - My Daughter Rosie A Stevenson is to have one horse (or fifty dollars in money as she may choose), also money sufficient to pay one years board and tuition at a high school, and forty dollars in money, which I give to said two girls in order to make them equal with all my other children herefor said.
Fourth - My Son Lawrie D Stevenson is to have one third of all grain, hay &c, raised on the farm since the first day of January 1879, also one third of all the stock - bought or raised since Jan 1st 1879, except two horses to be choosen by my said wife Elizabeth as her own property.
Fifth - At my death my Wife Elizabeth may choose whoever she thinks best to execute this my last will and may sell any property that she, and a majority of my heirs may wish to dispose of, the proceeds to be equally divided amongst all of my heirs.
Sixth - The remainder of my property undisposed of at the death of my wife Elizabeth shall be equally divided amongst my heirs, including distributive receipts of some of the heirs for money paid them on their share.
In witness whereof, I have here unto set my hand, this 27th day of May A.D. 1881.
Alexander K Stevenson
Signed and declared by the above named Alexander K Stevenson, to be his last will and testament, in the presence of us, who at his request, and in his presence, have subscribed our names as witnesses thereto.
George W Seibert
Eli Abernathy
John Bonney
State of Missouri, County of Cape Girardeau - In the vacation of the Probate Court
Be it remembered, that on this 21st day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eight one, before me, Joseph Koehler, Clerk of the Probate Court, held in and for the County of Cape Girardeau and State of Missouri, personally appeared John Bonney and Eli Abernathy who, being duly sworn upon their oath, depose and say that they were present, and saw Alexander K Stevenson sign the foregoing instrument, purporting to be the last will and testament of him the said Alexander K Stevenson, and heard him publish and declare the same to be his last will and testament, and that at the time of signing the same, the said Alexander K Stevenson was of sound and disposing mind and more than twenty one years of age, and that these deponents and George W Seibert, the other attesting witness subscribed their names thereto as witnesses to the same, in the presence of the testator, and of each other, and at the request of the said Alexander K Stevenson.
All erasures and interlinations made before signing.
John Bonney
Eli Abernathy
Sworn to and subscribed before me, the undersigned Clerk of the Probate Court, the day and year first aforesaid.
Joseph Koehler, Clerk Probate Court

Buried:
Row 10 grave II

Alexander married Elizabeth Leonard Clodfelter on 4 Dec 1845 in Shawnee Township, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA. Elizabeth (daughter of Phillip Clodfelter and Jemima Jane Foster) was born on 24 Jun 1824 in New Wells, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, United States; died on 28 Nov 1901 in Leemon, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA; was buried in Apple Creek Cemetery, Pocahontas, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Row 10 grave JJ

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James married Jane Fleming on 26 Nov 1808 in , Cabarrus County, North Carolina, USA. Jane (daughter of Mitchel Fleming and Agnes Kennedy) was born on 11 Jan 1786 in Mecklenburg County, , North Carolina, USA; died on 16 Apr 1865 in Cape Girardeau County, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA; was buried in Apple Creek Cemetery, Pocahontas, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Buried:
findagrave.com memorial # 23159525

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Married:
Name: James Stevenson
Gender: Male
Spouse: Jane Fleming
Spouse Gender: Female
Bond date: 26 Nov 1808
Bond #: 000010223
Level Info: North Carolina Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868
ImageNum: 002620
County: Cabarrus
Record #: 02 187
Bondsman: Mitchel Fleming
Witness: Rd. Brandon

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• familyserch.org ID: K23Q-FCC
• Immigration: 1818
• Created: 09 Aug 2018

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From a letter writtten by Eugene Knox, son of John W. Knox, grandson of Ezekiel McNeely on 25 Oct, 1926, in Jackson, MO.

In the summer of 1818 there came on horseback from Cabarrus County, North Carolina one Phillip Clodfelter. He was of a family of 17 children, having nine brothers. His father gave each son two hundred dollars and a horse when they were old enough to shift for themselves. He passed along a road running near where New Wells in this county now stands and about a mile northwest of said
site he passed a camping ground of the Shawnee Indians. These indians, you recall, were originally inhabitants of the Scioto Valley of Ohio and were the bravest, most determined and resourceful enemies that the whites encountered west of the Allegheny Mountains. They were having some kind of a dance and as
he passed two shots were fired. He did not know why, nor did he try to find the reason but immediately acted upon the theory that "distance lends enchantment to the view".

After viewing the country he returned to North Carolina, married, and the following year he, a brother John and the other brothers name I cannot recall came to Missouri. The Indians had been moved by the government and he entered land which was a part of their camping ground and his son now has as his garden plot the spot on which the Indians were holding their pow-wow.

The brother John settled near Appleton but I have found no trace of descendants. The other brother settled some distance northwest of Jackson.

Phillip Clodfelter was a cooper by trade. He made buckets, churns, tubs, barrels, and pails of various kinds. The writer well remembers seeing them in use. He has many contrivances made of wood and among them a wooden plow. This was all wood except an iron point. I well remember seeing this at the centennial celebration of 1876 at Shawneetown. This plow was also at one of the early Home Comings held at Jackson and a grandson told me it had been brought to Cape Girardeau but he did not know by whom.

In the same parade was a flail for beating out wheat belonging to Mr. Clodfelter and carried by Henry Moore, a brother-in-law of Dr. R. T. Henderson of Jackson. I had reached my sixth birthday two months previous to this but I can at this moment see the greater part of that parade.

Phillip Clodfelter possessed those stable qualities characteristic of the North Carolinians who sought homes in this far land. The records of Apple Creek Church show that he, with Thos. Wilson and Benny Brown, rented seat No. 1 in that church in the year 1826. A daughter, Margaret, married Ransom Mitchell, Elizabeth married Kennedy Stevenson and they both proved to be "Mothers of Israel". The writer gladly bears witness to the piety of grandma Stevenson and has no hesitancy in saying that no family reared in the north part of Cape County did more for the causes of morality, education, and religion than hers, a family of five sons and two daughters.

While the son Leonard Clodfelter has made as we say no great mark in the world, he has been a member of Apple Creek Church for nearly sixty nine years and of such is the bone and sinew of the land. When Leonard Clodfelter's marriage day arrived a great rain was falling and his intended Sarah Tricky lived on the opposite side of Shawnee Creek which was impassable all day the
wedding was celebrated the following day.

Phillip Clodfelter lived more that his four score years and sleeps in Apple Creek church yard.


Immigration:
From a letter written by Eugene Knox, son of John T. Knox, grandson of Ezekiel
McNeely on 25 Oct., 1926, in Jackson, MO.

In the summer of 1818 there came on horseback from Cabarrus County, North Carolina one Phillip Clodfelter. He was of a family of 17 children, having nine brothers. His father gave each son two hundred dollars and a horse when they were old enough to shift for themselves. He passed along a road running near where New Wells in this county now stands and about a mile northwest of said site he passed a camping ground of the Shawnee Indians. These Indians, you recall, were originally inhabitants of the Scioto Valley of Ohio and were the bravest, most determined and resourceful enemies that the whites encountered west of the Allegheny Mountains. They were having some kind of a dance and as
he passed two shots were fired. He did not know why, nor did he try to find the reason but immediately acted upon the theory that "distance lends enchantment to the view".

After viewing the country he returned to North Carolina, married, and the following year he, a brother John and the other brothers name I cannot recall came to Missouri. The Indians had been moved by the government and he entered land which was a part oftheir camping ground and his son now has as his garden plot the spot on which the Indians were holding their pow-wow.

The brother John settled near Appleton but I have found no trace of descendants. The other brother settled some distance northwest of Jackson.

Phillip Clodfelter was a cooper by trade. He made buckets, churns, tubs, barrels, and pails of various kinds. The writer well remembers seeing them in use. He has many contrivances made of wood and among them a wooden plow. This was all wood except aniron point. I well remember seeing this at the
centennial celebration of 1876 at Shawneetown. This plow was also at one of the early Home Comings held at Jackson and a grandson told me it had been brought to Cape Girardeau but he did not know by whom.

In the same parade was a flail for beating out wheat belonging to Mr. Clodfelter and carried by Henry Moore, a brother-in-law of Dr. R. T. Henderson of Jackson. I had reached my sixth birthday two months previous to this but I can at this moment see the greater part of that parade.

Phillip Clodfelter possessed those stable qualities characteristic of the North Carolinians who sought homes in this far land. The records of Apple Creek Church show that he, with Thos. Wilson and Benny Brown, rented seat No. 1 in that church in the year1826. A daughter, Margaret, married Ransom Mitchell, Elizabeth married Kennedy Stevenson and they both proved to be "Mothers of Israel". The writer gladly bears witness to the piety of grandma Stevenson and has no hesitancy in saying that no family reared in the north part of Cape County did more for the causes of morality, education, and religion than hers, a family of five sons and two daughters.

While the son Leonard Clodfelter has made as we say no great mark in the world, he has been a member of Apple Creek Church for nearly sixty nine years and of such is the bone and sinew of the land. When Leonard Clodfelter's marriage day arrived a great rain was falling and his intended Sarah Tricky
lived on the opposite side of Shawnee Creek which was impassable all day the wedding was celebrated the following day.

Phillip Clodfelter lived more that his four score years and sleeps in Apple Creek church yard.

Buried:
Row 29 Grave O

Phillip married Jemima Jane Foster on 3 Dec 1822 in , Rowan County, North Carolina, USA. Jemima (daughter of David Foster, Sr., daughter of David Foster, Sr. and Elizabeth Leonard Luckie) was born on 02 Oct 1796 in , Rowan County, North Carolina, USA; died on 06 Aug 1866 in New Wells, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, United States; was buried in Apple Creek Cemetery, Pocahontas, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Buried:
Row 29, Grave M

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• MISE: Revolutionary War
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(Research):THE STEVENSON FAMILY

Certificate of Service in the Revolution

NORTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL COMMISSION
This is to certify that this is an accurate copy from records in the official custody of the North Carolina Historical Commission. The United States of America to the State of North Carolina. For sundries furnished the Military of North Carolina, as allowed by Cathey and Harris, auditors, Salisbury District
as per their report No. 37.

To Capt. Jas. Stevenson, for services of himself and
Company P payroll 6401 Pounds: 482.14.2

(Report No. 37 is undated. Report 32 is dated June 1781. Report No. 40 is dated Sept. 1781.)

From: Accounts of United States with North Carolina, War of Revolution, Book A, page 184.
Raleigh, July 30, 1924.

(Signed) R. B. House, Archivist


The above is a copy of the official records furnished me by Mr. House.
My mother frequently told brother John and myself about her grandfather whom she remembers distinctly; having lived in the house with him,and having been about 10 years old when he died. She told us that he had served in the Revolutionary War, and was an elder in Poplar Tent Church.

She also told us of a Gen. Stevenson, who was a distant relative, but not a ---(I've forgotten what). But since I've found out that there were two James Stevensons, soldiers from the same county, I feel sure that she told us why her grandfather signed his name as he did.

According to Kennedy Stevenson, there were three Stevenson brothers who lived in Pennsylvania. Two remained there, while the other one came to North Carolina and became our ancestors. It Seems that this one was Kennedy's grandfather, the one here called Capt. Jas. Stevenson. If so he must have come to North Carolina about the beginning of the Revolution. Pay Roll 6401 was manifestly for service in the Gates and Green Campaigns in 1780 & 1781.

I have gotten the marriage bonds of my grandfather John Stevenson to Elizabeth Cockran, and of his younger sister Deborah to William Hauck. But I have not succeeded in finding the marriage bond of my Great-grandfather Stevenson or Latta.

My mother remembers lighting her grandmother's pipe, so she must have died in the later 20's. Her grandfather seems to have died in the early part of 1832. The plantation was willed to my grandfather, John Stevenson, who sold it out to different parties and started to Missouri on October 1, 1832, taking his three single sisters with him.

There were many families of Stevensons in North Carolina before the Revolution and doubtless Great-grandfather was related to some of them. I mention one of them: William Stevenson came to Pennsylvania in 1748 and to North Carolina in 1784. He was quite a noted character, and very prominent in church work. From his powerful prayers, he was familiarly known as "Little Gabriel". Our ancestors were probably a relative of his.

Stevenson, Steven's son, is a very common name and has always been familiar in Presbyterian circles. In 1860, there were 27 ministers of that name in Presbyterian churches throughout the world. In 1926, there were 22 in the U.S.A. Presbyterian Church, some of them descendants of "Little Gabriel".

In the census of 1790, there were two James Stevenson's in Mecklenburg County as follows:
1. James Stevenson, males over 16, 1; males under 16, 4; females, 4.
2. Jas. Stevenson, males over 16, 1; males under 16, 2; Females, 5.

Our family records show only two sons; James born 1781, & John born 1786, and they give us the names of only three daughters born before 1790, on of whom, Sarah, was born Feb. 8. 1790. There were no twins, and their birth records would be as follows:
a. James, b. 6/30/1781
b. Margaret, b. 1783
c. John, b. 1/11/1786
d. Jane, b. 1788
e. Sarah, b. 2/3/1790
f. Debora, b. 1793.

If there were four daughters in 1790, one of them must have been born before 1781. Another reason for thinking this was the case is that Mother speaks in her Journal of receiving a letter from "cousin John Nesbit". But I have not been able to find a marriage bond.

Capt. James Stevenson owned a farm in the neighborhood of Poplar Tent, large enough to be called a plantation. He was an elder in that church for many years before his death in 1832. His son James Stevenson and Jane Fleming were married in Cabarrus County where Poplar Tent is located. But John Stevenson and Mrs. Elizabeth Cochrane were married in Rowan County. Probably James Stevenson may have lived in Rowan before moving to Missouri in 1819; as Elizabeth, born in 1819 is said to have been born in Rowan County.

My knowledge of the home life of Poplar Tent family is derived from my mother, who often talked to us children about it. She was ten years old when her grandfather died, and she remembered him distinctly. She also remembered her grandmother. The two families lived together, probably in adjoining houses; the grandfather and the grandmother with the three maiden aunts in one house, and the father and mother with the six children in the other.

Aunt Deborah and William Hauch were married before Mother was a year old. It was a delightful home as remembered by Mother.
But James and family had moved to Missouri a dozen years before and many neighbors were going. Mother's half-sister and brother had gone. The Missouri craze was on, but the grandfather was too old to think of going. So he willed his farm to his son John, probably with the understanding that after his death, John would sell out and take his single sisters to Missouri.

About this time Congress granted a pension to the State Militia soldiers who had served in the Revolution. But his discharge was lost so he filed to get a pension His hand shook so he could not write his name, and his hand had to be held to make his mark. It seems he died in the first part of 1832. The recorder of the county wrote me that my grandfather, John Stevenson, had sold the land in different tracts.
Wagons and teams were provided, and on October 1, 1832, they started for Missouri. It was beautiful weather, and they had a delightful trip. On the first Sunday out they did not leave camp. Some acquaintances passed who were also going to Missouri, and they quyed them about lying up on Sunday. The answer was, when you get there, tell them we're coming, but they were passed at the crossing of the Ohio River, and the Sunday travelers got in several days late with poor and fagged teams.

They must have visited with their brother James in Cape Girardeau County and with their children David and Eleanor Luckey, and Robert N. Cochran in Perry County before buying a home. But at last they found a 80 acre tract of vacant land joining David Luckey's place on the S.E. which he entered and built a temporary house. A good log house was built later, either by grandfather, or Uncle Bell.

A bunch of Presbyterians had settled on Long Branch; a school house was built on the land of Mr. Campbell, an elder of the church, about a half mile west of Grandfather's home. A church had been built some distance west but had burned down by this time. But they preached in an arbor on old Mr. Cline's place. Rev. John F. Cowan had charge of Brazeau and Apple Creek Churches. So the family joined the church in May, 1834.

One of the sisters, Margaret I think, married Mitch Fleming Jr. and moved to his place near Apple Creek Church. In May, grandfather and grandmother visited them, and while there, grandfather and grandmother and Aunt Margaret took violently ill, and all three died within a week. It was supposed that they were poisoned by the water that seeped into the Spring from a nearby graveyard. It is my understanding that Jane (the single sister) married Mitchell Fleming after the death of Margaret.

Shortly after the death of her parents, the oldest daughter Mary married --- Bell, and they obtained the 80 acres. Uncle David Luckey opened his house and home to the orphaned family. In a few years Elizabeth married James Hope, an elder of the Apple Creek Church. Adaline married Joseph McLane. James went to friends near Reno, IL. He made his home with a man named Douglas, I think. One of Mr. Douglas' sons became a prominent S. S. worker and minister. James died while still a young man. John died in Louisiana in 1854. I think he was engaged in buying horses in Illinois and Missouri and driving them to Louisiana. He died among strangers.

Mother made her home for some time with her sister Lizzie Hope, and went to the Shawnee School, a kind of High School conducted by a Mr. Morris. She thus fitted herself for teaching, and taught for some time before she married Father in March 1846.

From the earliest times the Stevensons have been Scotch-Irish Presbyterians. But in later times some of them have become Methodists. Amos K., a son of Kennedy is a local Methodist minister, and his son Carl is in the itinerancy. I think Amos' twin brother, Theodore, and his family are Methodists. Two of the sons of Mitchell Fleming Stevenson have been elders in the Presbyterian Church. His daughter, Mrs. Alice Gibbens is in the Congregational Church. So far as I know all of the descendants of Captain Jas. Stevenson are upright, law abiding citizens with the confidence and esteem of their neighbors.

Of those who remained in North Carolina, the Hauchs and the Nesbits, I know nothing. There may be none remaining in the old home, or there may be scores of them. But a glance at their genealogy shows them scattered all over Missouri, Illinois, Kansas, Texas, Dakota, and California. Everywhere they form a nucleus of a high type of Christian civilization.

-from "the History of the Stevenson Family" by Rev. S. A. McPherson.
Written in 1927.



NORTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL COMMISSION
This is to certify that this is an accurate copy from records in the
official custoday of the Noth Carolina Historical Commission. The United States
of America to the State of North Carolina. For sundries furnished the Military
of North Carolina, as allowed by Cathey and Harris, auditors, Salisbury District
as per their report No. 37.

To Capt. Jas. Stevenson, for services
of himself and Company P payroll 6401 Pounds: 482.14.2

(Report No. 37 is undated. Report 32 is dated June 1781. Report No. 40 is
dated Sept. 1781.)

From: Accounts of United States with North Carolina, War of Revolution,
Book A, page 184. Raleigh, July 30, 1924.

(Signed) R. B. House, Archivist

Capt. James Stevenson*
Known Regiment(s) Associated With: Rowan County Regiment
Known Year(s) as a Captain: 1780-1781

Known Privates, Drummers, Fifers, etc.:
Mitchell Fleming
Thomas Lackey
Matthew Vandiver
William Woodside
Date(s):
Known Battles / Skirmishes:
-
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* Note - there were two Captains of NC Militia named James Stevenson.

This man was from Rowan County.

The other Capt. James Stevenson was from Washington County.

http://www.carolana.com/NC/Revolution/patriots_nc_capt_james_stevenson_rowan.html

North Carolina Counties 1775-1787:

https://www.carolana.com/NC/Revolution/nc_counties_during_revolution.html

D.A.R:
STEVENSON, JAMES Ancestor #: A109229
Service: NORTH CAROLINA Rank(s): PATRIOTIC SERVICE, CAPTAIN
Birth: ANTE 1748 BLADEN CO NORTH CAROLINA [incorrect - should be Lancaster County, PA]
Death: 1830 CABARRUS CO NORTH CAROLINA
Service Source: HAUN, NC REV ARMY ACCTS, BOOK A, PART XII, P 1622
Service Description: 1) MILITIA; FURNISHED SUPPLIES

RESIDENCE
Created: 2002-03-27 23:23:55.3, Updated: 2012-12-10 09:18:47.0, By: 1) County: MECKLENBURG CO - District: SALISBURY DIST - State: NORTH CAROLINA


Daughters of the American Revolution Patriot # A109229

Death location :Coddle Creek, Cabarrus Cty., North Carolina

From Mitchel Fleming's Revolutionary War pension application:

And further, he states that in the year 1782 he was drafted or classed in the County of Rowan in the State of North Carolina aforesaid and was mustered into a company of horse under the command of Captain James Stevenson, that, he marched with the company above mentioned, in a Regiment of horse and foot under the command of Colonel Isaacs, to meet the British at Wilmington North Carolina, but before reaching Wilmington was ordered to stop on Deep River about 50 miles above Fayetteville, having been informed that the British had evacuated Wilmington, that the horse company to which he was attached was employed in reconnoitering the Country about Deep River, suppressing the Tories, disaffected &c; that he served with the troops above mentioned two months during which time they took about 20 Tories were disaffected persons and conveyed them to Salisbury Rowan County North Carolina where he received a written discharge: That not then or since believing that the discharges he received as aforesaid, would b

Stevenson, James
Rowan County Regiment
1780 -1781
1780-1781, a Captain under Col. Francis Locke.
1780, also attached to Col. Elijah Isaacs (Wilkes County Regiment).

https://www.carolana.com/NC/Revolution/nc_patriot_military_captains.html

MISE:
Certificate of Service in the Revolution

NORTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL COMMISSION
This is to certify that this is an accurate copy from records in the official custody of the North Carolina Historical Commission. The United States of America to the State of North Carolina. For sundries furnished the Military of North Carolina, as allowed by Cathey and Harris, auditors, Salisbury District
as per their report No. 37.

To Capt. Jas. Stevenson, for services of himself and
Company P payroll 6401 Pounds: 482.14.2

(Report No. 37 is undated. Report 32 is dated June 1781. Report No. 40 is dated Sept. 1781.)

From: Accounts of United States with North Carolina, War of Revolution, Book A, page 184.
Raleigh, July 30, 1924.

(Signed) R. B. House, Archivist

DAR ID # A109229

North Carolina Militia - furnished Supplies

Buried:
no gravestone

James married Sarah ? about 1775 in Mecklenburg County, , North Carolina, USA. Sarah was born in 1760 in , , North Carolina, USA; died about 1828 in , Cabarrus County, North Carolina, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Created: 09 Aug 2018

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• familyserch.org ID: KPH5-X4H
• Occupation: Farmer
• Emigration: 1819; Rowan County, NC to Cape Girardeau County, MO
• Created: 09 Aug 2018

Notes:

-- From the Jackson Post & Cash - Book, June 26, 1974, Jackson, Missouri

Mitchell Fleming honored; soldier in Revolutionary War…



By: TOM NEUMEYER

Mrs. Gale Seabaugh’s great, great, great, great, grandfather, Mitchell Flaming, came briefly into the limelight last Friday as his final resting place was marked by the Daughters of the American Revolution with a bronze plaque honoring him as a soldier inthe Revolutionary War. Because few of its veterans came this far west, such a plaque is relatively unique in this area.
The grave is near New Wells on the old Fleming farm, which is now owned by Marvin Richter. Mrs. Seabaugh, who is Secretary at the Presbyterian Church 1n Jackson, provided the information on her ancestor for this article, with a assistance from her grandfather, H. R. Stevenson of Fruitland.
Mitchell Fleming was born in April, 1761, in Kent County, Del. In a few years, the Fleming family pulled up stakes and moved south to Rowan County, N.C. near the Coddle Creek Church. He grew up fast in the wilderness that was short on comforts and long on hardships. In 1777 he enlisted in Captain Craig’s Company, of Col. Francis Locke's Regiment at the age of 16. The Company was involved in one skirmish at Coney Island on the Savannah River. In 1782 Fleming became a private in Captain James Stevenson's Company of Col. Isaac's North Carolina Regiment. The pay receipts from the period of his service are listed in North Carolina records.
With the war’s finale, he married Miss Agnes Kennedy June 27, 1784, in Rowan County N.C. The new family established a farm in Meckinburg (now Cabarrus) County with land he inherited from his father, George Fleming. In 1819 the family joined a group of colonists and left North Carolina by wagon train to arrive in Cape Girardeau County.
After arriving, Fleming bought some land in Shawnee and Apple Creek Townships at $1.25 an acre. Land patients were issued for his purchases in 1821 and 1823. The land was scoured mostly in 80 acre plots for a total of 840 acres. Practically all of it waslocated among various creek bottoms. As each of his daughters married, he deeded his new son in law an eighty acre tract, which later was willed to the daughter.
On September 21, 1821, Fleming's wife died. Agnes was born in Chester Co., Pennsylvania July 20, 1760, and bore all of Fleming's children. In 1824 he took a second wife, Miss Jane Stevenson, who was a sister to his son in law, James Stevenson. Jane andJames were children of Fleming's commander, Capt. James Stevenson. James married Fleming's eldest daughter, Jane.
Besides some confusion in names this caused some confusion in relationships. Jane Stevenson Fleming’s brother, James became her son in law after her marriage.
Mitchell Fleming began receiving a pension for his tour of duty in the war in 1832 when Congress passed a general pension act. His application was executed December 22, 1832 in Cape Girardeau County.
The Mitchell Fleming family was charter members of Apple Creek Presbyterian Church. He had the position of first ruling elder till a year before his death. Fleming must have been a deeply religious man, for when finds were being raised to pay for the new church, be pledged his entire pension from the war until the building was paid for. Mitchell Fleming passed away April 18, 1837, at the age of 76, after leading quite a full life. His wife, Jane, followed him in death four days later. The Fleming family plot contains the graves of Mitchell Fleming, his two wives, his daughter Margaret, and a son, Hiram, and his two wives and a daughter. The plot was situated on a hill in the Fleming farm that now belongs to Marvin Richter. Fleming's tombstone is decorated with thirteen stars around the base of the ball on the top.
Fleming's nine children, all by his first wife, Agnes, were as follows:
• Jane. She was born January 11, 1786, married James Stevenson in N. C., and died April 16, 1865, and was buried in Apple Creek Cemetery.
• William married Ginny Woodside in N. C. in 1808 and remained in that state.
• Richard married Jean Waddington in N. C. in 1814 and also remained there.
• Margaret was born February 17, 1791, died August 15, 1822, having not married, and was buried in the family cemetery.
• Mary was born August 26, 1794, married Benjamin Brown in 1824, died March 20, 1864, and was buried in the Apple Creek Cemetery.
• Agnes was born December 23, 1795, married Robert S. McFarland December 20, 1821, went to Bond County, Ill. in 1837, died May 12,1865 and was buried in Bethel Cemetery, Bond County.
• Elizabeth married James B. Little in 1824 and it is thought they moved to Texas.
• Sarah was born January 18, 1802, married Zenas N. Ross, died September 27, 1879, and was buried in the Apple Creek Cemetery.
• Hiram was born August 17, 1804, was a merchant who had one of the first stores is Jackson, married to Jane Stevenson, January 1837, who died that December, and then married Margaret Stevenson by whom he had one daughter, Martha Jane, born in 1842 and died 1846. The whole family is buried in the Fleming Cemetery.






Alena McCord - Mitchell Fleming History


MITCHELL FLEMING


by Alenia McCord

He was born in April 1761 in Kent County Delaware, but very early in life moved to Rowan County, N.C. near the Coddle Creek church, with his parents. There he enlisted in Captain Craig's Company in 1777, age 16 years (Colonel Francis Lock's North Carolina Regiment) and was in an engagement at Caney Island on the Savannah River. He enlisted in 1782 and served as a private in Capt. James Stevenson's Company, Colonel Isaac's North Carolina Regiment. Later his eldest daughter married Capt. Stevenson's son James. (Pay receipts are listed in North Carolina records).
He married Agnes Kennedy 27 Jan 1784, in Rowan County, N.C. They lived from that time until 1819 in Mecklenberg County (became Cabarrus about 1786) on the land he inherited from his father, George Fleming. In 1819 he went by wagon train with a large colony from the area of the Coddle Creek Church to Cape County, MO. There he purchased a section of land in Shawnee and Apple Creek townships for which he paid $1.25 an acre. He received patents for all this in 1821 and 1823. Agness Kennedy Fleming died in 1821, and in 1824 he married Jane Stevenson, who was a maiden sister of his son-in-law, James Stevenson. The marriage is recorded both in Perry County, MO and in Cabarrus County, N.C.
One thing about his land purchases: he came to Cape County very early, so he did not take his sections in one piece. He took it in eighty acre parts, and practically the entire 640 acres was in various creek bottoms, the best land at that time. As each daughter married he deeded his son-in-law and eighty acre tract, which was later willed to the daughter.
In 1832, when Congress passed a general pension law he received a pension for his Revolutionary War service on his application executed 22 Dec 1832 in Cape Girardeau County, MO.

Mitchell Fleming was a charter member, along with his entire family, of the Apple Creek Presbyterian Church and was the first ruling elder of the church, remaining in that position until the year before his death. He seemed to always been the heaviest contributor to the church. One time, when they were raising money to pay for their new building, he pledged his entire pension from the Revolution until the building was paid for.
Mitchell Fleming, two wives, daughter Margaret, son Hiram, his two wives and daughter are buried on a hill on his farm, now belonging to Marvin Richter, in Shawneetown Township, Cape Girardeau County, MO. On his tombstone, around the ball at the top arethirteen stars.

Mitchell Fleming - born 22 April 1761, died 18 April 1837.

Agnes Kennedy (1st wife, mother of children) - born 20 July 1760 in Chester County, PA, died 21 Sept 1821.

Jane Stevenson (2nd wife) - born 1776, died 2 May 1837,

Children:
1. Jane - born 11 Jan 1786. Married James Stevenson in NC.
died 16 April 1865, buried in Apple Creek Cemetery.
2. William - married Ginny Woodside in NC 1808, remained in NC.
3. Richard - Married Jean Wadington, 1814 in NC, remained in NC.
4. Margaret - Born 17 Feb 1791, died 15 August 1822, unmarried.
5. Mary - Born 26 Aug 1794. Married Benjamin Brown in 1824. Died 20 March 1864, Buried Apple Creek Cemetery.
6. Agnes - Born 23 Dec 1795. Married Robert S. McFarland
20 Dec 1821. Died 12 May 1865. Came to Bond County IL in 1837. Buried Bethel Cemetery.
7. Elizabeth - Born ? Married James B. Little, 1824. It is thought they moved to Texas.
8. Sarah - Born 18 Jan 1802, died 27 Sept 1879. Married Zenas N. Ross.
9. Hiram - Born 17 Aug 1804, died 22 Mar 1843. He was a merchant, had one of the first stores in Jackson. Married Jane Stevenson, born 1814, died 23 Dec 1837 (dau of John Stevenson) 10 Jan 1837. Married second Margaret ______ did not find a marriage record. All buried in the Fleming Cemetery.

-by Miss Alenia McCord
1716 West Jackson St.
Vandalia, IL 62471
24 Feb 1974


D.A.R.:
FLEMING, MITCHEL Ancestor #: A040665
Service: NORTH CAROLINA Rank(s): PRIVATE
Birth: 4-22-1761 KENT CO DELAWARE
Death: 4- -1837 CAPE GIRARDEAU CO MISSOURI
Pension Number: *S16810
Service Source: *S16810
Service Description: 1) CAPTS CRAIG, JAMES STEVENSON
2) COLS LOCK, ISAACS; GENS RUTHERFORD, LINCOLN


Find A Grave Memorial# 66156553

Fleming Family by Miss Eugenia Lore (Cannon Memorial Library, Concord, NC - Researched 29 June, 1992 by Rob Lewis

If Allison, the 2nd named son, was born in 1759, then Mitchell, then their son was born about 1761, for he is listed as giving military service from Salisbury District during the Revolutionary War and must have been at least 16 years old by 1777 or 1778.

GEORGE FLEMING, in his will, gave his son, MITCHELL FLEMING, a plantation in Mecklenburg County adjoining Alexander McEwin, James Tanner, John Houston, and John Neisler.

In the Register's Office in Cabarrus County, Book 9, page 336, MITCHELL FLEMING gave this tract of land to his son, WILLIAM FLEMING "for love and affection."

MITCHELL FLEMING son of George Fleming and his wife, Margaret, married 27 January 1784 in Rowan County, N.C.

Agness Kennedy

Their known children:

1- William Fleming, 10 Jan 1785, died 10 Oct 1858
Married Jane Woodsides (of whom further)

2- Jane Fleming Died 16 April 1865 in Missouri

Married 26 November 1808, James Stevenson, died 13 Oct 1851

3- Mitchell Fleming, Jr.

Married 14 January 1824, Jane Stevenson

And perhaps these - George Fleming and Hiram Fleming, who we find in Missouri, along with Mitchell and Jane Fleming Stevenson, Jane Fleming and her husband, James Stevenson, and Mitchell Fleming, Jr., migrated to Missouri and were charter members of the Apple Creek Presbyterian Church which was organized 21 May 1821. According to Poplar Tent records, James Stevenson was elected to Eldership in 1820 but shortly afterwards moved to Missouri and being elected to the same office in the Apple Creek Church, served throughout a long and useful life.

Mitchell Fleming,Jr. evidently came back home, maybe because of the girl he left behind - anyway we find him marrying Jane Stevenson in 1824 here in Cabarrus and he took his bride back to Missouri.

Perhaps this migration to the west was the reason we find on Book 9, page 336 the deed dated 1819 - no month or day - given by Mitchell Fleming, to his son WILLIAM FLEMING "for love and affection", on waters of Coddle Creek and Park's Creek - Michael Freases' corner, Joseph Baker's line and said William Fleming's line, John Hall's line, Adam and Samuel Rosses' line - containing 145 acres - including all houses, orchards, minerals, etc.
Wits: James Query and John Kimmons.
This deed was recorded at the January sessions, 1820.

This branch of the FLEMING family have been active in the work of the Bethpage Presbyterian Church since its beginning in 1794. Mitchell Fleming was an Elder and Trustee that year. His son, William, was elected and Elder in 1821 and served for 37 years. Thomas A. Fleming was also an Elder and wrote a history of the Church for its Centennial in 1894.

The Revolutionary War Military Service for Mitchell Fleming is found in Roster of North Carolina Soldiers, pages 379 and 380. He served as a private from Salisbury District and was paid by certificates #2555 and #3076.

Researched and compiled by Eugenia W.Lore 1971.


Fleming, Mitchell
Rowan County Regiment
1777 - 1781
1777, a Private under Capt. James Craig and Col. Francis Locke.
1781, a Private under Capt. James Stevenson and Col. Francis Locke.
Born in 1761 in Kent County, DE.

https://www.carolana.com/NC/Revolution/nc_patriot_military_privates_f.html



Mitchel Fleming
Died at his residence in Cape Girardeau Co., Mo. The 16th of April, 1837, Mr. Mitchel Fleming, aged 76 years and 7 days. Mr. F. became hopefully pious at an early period of his life and sustained the high and responsible office of ruling elder in the Presbyterian church for the last 20 or 22 years; the duties of which of which he discharged in such a manner as gave evidence that he felt in some good degree, the solemnity of the work which had been committed to his care. He had been in feeble health for some years, and often expressed a desire to depart and be with his precious Savior; but still professed a willingness to wait his appointed time, until the Bridegroom of souls, should call him to the marriage supper of the Lamb.
He felt a deep and lively interest in the prosperity of Christ’s kingdom in the world, and especially in that portion of the vineyard over which he had been placed as a ruling elder. A few hours before his sprit took its flight from the body, he said, “ Iam not surprised that I am dying; but I am surprised that death does not execute his summons more speedily.” He closed his own eyes, and sweetly fell asleep in the arms of Jesus, without a struggle or a groan.
It may well be said of our departed friend, that he went down to the grave, like a shock of corn fully ripe.

Jane Fleming
Died in Cape Girardeau Co. Mo. May 2, 1837, Mrs. Jane Fleming, widow of Mr. M. Fleming, whose death we have just recorded, in the 61st year of her age. She was a member of Apple Creek church, of which her husband had been ruling elder, and gave comfortable evidence that she had experienced a change of heart, and manifested by her orderly walk and godly conversation that her affections were placed on things above, and not on things on the earth. She died in the exercise of her rational faculties, rejoicingin the hope of meeting her blessed Redeemer in heaven.
We trust she is now celebrating the praises of God and the Lamb before the “great white throne," with her affectionate husband, whose loss she had mourned only a few weeks !

Elizabeth Stevenson
Departed this life in Cape Girardeau Co. Mo. the 8th of May, 1837, Mrs. Elizabeth Stevenson, consort of Mr. John Stevenson, in the 51st year of her age. Mrs. S. died in the same house in which Mr. And Mrs. Fleming had so recently died. Mrs. S. was a member of Brazeau Church, Perry Co., and in the judgment of charity hopefully pious.

She left a husband, a numerous family of children, and a large circle of friends to mourn her death. She cheerfully submitted to the will of her heavenly Father, and died in peace, with the comfortable hope that her sins were pardoned; her soul sanctified, and that the night of death would be to her the beginning of an eternal day of peace, joy, and immortal glory.

John Stevenson
Departed this life in Cape Girardeau Co., Mo., 14th of May, 1837, Mr. John Stevenson, husband of Elizabeth Stevenson, in the 49th year of his age. He was taken sick the night his wife lay a corpse, and was removed next day to his brother’s Mr. James Stevenson, where he died, after an illness of only 6 or 7 days. Mr S. was also a member of Brazeau church, Perry Co. and was regarded by all who knew him as a man in which whose heart the seeds of God’s grace had been planted and watered by the renewing, sanctifying, and genial influences of the Holy Sprit.
Whilst the tears of the bereaved children still flowed freely for a tender and affectionate mother, new fountains were opened by the sudden death of the beloved and pious father.

This is indeed an afflictive dispensation of Providence to this bereaved family; but they mourn not as those who have no hope. Mr. S a few hours before he died, put on his spectacles, called for his hymnbook, selected a hymn and requested his mourning friends to sing it. The writer was present when his spirit bade adieu to its clay tenement, and well may it be said of his “Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright; for the end of that man is peace.” Ps. Xxxvii.37. Mrs. Fleming and Mr. Stevenson were bother and sister. This singular and mysterious providence loudly admonishes all the friends of the deceased, as well as all other, of the mortality of man, and the necessity of being prepared for a deathbed and a dying hour. May the Lord, who sits as a sovereign on his throne, bless, comfort and sustain the bereaved.

Alton Observer | Alton, Illinois | Thursday, June 15, 1837 | Page 3

Southern Campaign American Revolution Pension Statements
Pension application of Mitchel Fleming S16810 fn14NC
Transcribed by Will Graves 12/28/08

[Methodology: Spelling, punctuation and grammar have been corrected in some instances for ease of reading and to facilitate searches of the database. Also, the handwriting of the original scribes often lends itself to varying interpretations. Users of this database are urged to view the original and to make their own decision as to how to decipher what the original scribe actually wrote. Blanks appearing in the transcripts reflect blanks in the original.]

State of Missouri County of Cape Girardeau
A declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of 7th June 1832. On the 22nd day of December in the year of our Lord 1832 personally appeared before the Justices of the County Court of the County of Cape Girardeau aforesaid, in Open Court, Mitchel Fleming, a resident of Apple Creek Township in the County of Cape Girardeau and State of Missouri aforesaid aged 71 years and eight months Who first being duly sworn according to law; Doth on his oath make the following declaration in orderto obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832; That he volunteered in the year 1777 in the County of Rowan in the State of North Carolina, in Order to supply a draft to be made for the term of five months; that he was first mustered into the Company of Captain Craig at the cross roads near Charlotte North Carolina; the Colonel who commanded the Regiment into which he was mustered was Colonel Frank Lock [sic, Francis Locke]; and the General who commanded the b
And further, he states that in the year 1782 he was drafted or classed in the County of Rowan in the State of North Carolina aforesaid and was mustered into a company of horse under the command of Captain James Stevenson, that, he marched with the companyabove mentioned, in a Regiment of horse and foot under the command of Colonel Isaacs, to meet the British at Wilmington North Carolina, but before reaching Wilmington was ordered to stop on Deep River about 50 miles above Fayetteville, having been informed that the British had evacuated Wilmington, that the horse company to which he was attached was employed in reconnoitering the Country about Deep River, suppressing the Tories, disaffected &c; that he served with the troops above mentioned two months during which time they took about 20 Tories were disaffected persons and conveyed them to Salisbury Rowan County North Carolina where he received a written discharge: That not then or since believing that the discharges he received as aforesaid, would be
That the said Mitchel removed from North Carolina to Cape Girardeau County Missouri, in the year 1819 where he has resided ever since; that he has no documentary testimony and this Country by which he can establish the facts above related. The said Mitchel hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present; and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State. And to the Interrogatories prescribed by the War department & put by the Court, the said Mitchel Fleming answers and says as follows 1st I was born in Kent County in the State of Delaware in the year 1761 2nd I have my age recorded in my family Bible at my house about 12 miles from this place (Jackson) I hated entered by James Nixon a school master taken from the family record of my father; 4. [sic] I belonged to the militia, and there was a draft to be made and I volunteered on the first call and on the Second of militia were classed and the class to which I belonged were called out;


Robert Brevard Senior of legal age being first duly sworn according to law States that he has been acquainted with Mitchel Fleming more or less for some time before the commencement of the revolutionary war, that they were boys together, and the same neighborhood, at that time Rowan County State of North Carolina; that they both belong to one company in that County; That it was a custom at that time of the war breaking out with Great Britain for the soldiers of the company, when a call was made, to Volunteer, that he has knowledge of said Mitchel Fleming having been out on a tour of duty, but not belonging to the same class in which Mitchel did was never out, at the same time with him: those that some part of the company were sent on an expedition down onthe Savannah River; has no doubt but said Mitchel Fleming rendered the services in his declaration set forth and mentioned
Sworn to and subscribed in open court December 22, 1832
S/ Robert Brevard
[Thomas P. Green, a clergyman, and Samuel B. McKnight gave the standard supporting affidavit.]

[facts in file: veteran died April 15, 1837]

Mitchel married Agnes Kennedy on 27 Jan 1784 in , Rowan County, North Carolina, USA. Agnes was born on 20 Jul 1760 in , Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA; died on 21 Sep 1821 in Cape Girardeau County, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA; was buried in Fleming Cemetery, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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A Patriot of the American Revolution for NORTH CAROLINA with the rank of PRIVATE. DAR Ancestor #: A045346

Ernst: "Minute book 1778 reveals he signed the Oath of Allegiance of Rowan county in 1778 during the last two months of that year he served as a private in the North Carolina troops under Captain Sapp's company and Colonel Paisley's North Carolina regiment. He enlisted in 1779 and served 3 months as private in Captain John Sapp's company... pension was granted.

He was in the Revolutionary War, a Private.

Find A Grave Memorial# 17979456



John George Clotfelter or Johann Jorg Glatfelder S 8220
He enlisted in 1778 and served 5 months as private in Captain John Sapp's Company, Colonel Paisley's North Carolina Regiment. He enlisted in 1779 and served 3 months as private in Captain John Sapp's North Carolina Company. Veteran did not state his residence at time of enlistment nor previous to that date.
Veteran's application was dated November 19, 1832, at which time he resided in Rowan County, North Carolina. He was then aged 75 years. Pension was granted.

Southern Campaigns American Revolution Pension Statements & Rosters
Pension application of George Clodfelter (Glatfelder) S8220 f23NC
Transcribed by Will Graves 8/7/07 rev'd 11/15/14 [Methodology: Spelling, punctuation and/or grammar have been corrected in some instances for ease of reading and to facilitate searches of the database. Where the meaning is not compromised by adhering to the spelling, punctuation or grammar, no change has been made. Corrections or additional notes have been inserted within brackets or footnotes. Blanks appearing in the transcripts reflect blanks in the original. A bracketed question mark indicates that theword or words preceding it represent(s) a guess by me. The word 'illegible' or 'indecipherable' appearing in brackets indicates that at the time I made the transcription, I was unable to decipher the word or phrase in question. Only materials pertinent to the military service of the veteran and to contemporary events have been transcribed. Affidavits that provide additional information on these events are included and genealogical information is abstracted, while standard, 'boilerplate' affidavits and

State of North Carolina, Rowan County
On this 19th day of November in the year of our Lord 1832, personally appeared before the
Court of pleas & Quarter Sessions for the County of Rowan, George Clodfelter, a resident of the County & State above mentioned, aged 75 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832.
That he volunteered in the year 1778 under the following officers General Rutherford [Griffith Rutherford], commanding officer, Paisley [John Paisley] Colonel, John Lopp Captain, Lieutenant & Ensign not recollected. That he marched to the Savannah River and remained there about five months, at which time he was discharged by order of General Rutherford & returned home.
That in the year 1779 he was drafted into the service under Captain Lopp, William Standart Lieutenant and served three months against the Tories without going out of the State.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency of any State.
One & subscribed, the day & year aforesaid.
Sworn to in open Court the 19th of November 1832.S/ George Clodfelter, X his mark S/ Jno. Giles, Clk
[p 14] 1
I George Fritz
the above mentioned tours with George Clodfelter who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration & that I know that he served as stated.
a resident of Davidson County North Carolina do hereby certify that I served in both
Sworn & subscribed, the day & year aforesaid.
S/ George Fritz, X his mark
[p 14] 2
I John Kuntz
been well acquainted with George Clodfelter for 60 years and I know that he served as stated in the above declaration.
Sworn to and subscribed, the day & year aforesaid in open Court.
S/ John Giles, Clerk S/ John Kuntz, X his mark
1 sic, George Fritts S6864
2 sic, probably the same man as John Koonts S7118
do hereby a resident of Davidson County North Carolina do hereby certify that I have

[p 15]
State of North Carolina, Rowan County: Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions May Sessions
On this 20th day of May in the year of our Lord 1833, personally appeared before the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Rowan George Clodfelter, a resident of the County of Rowan, who first being duly sworn according to law, doth on hisoath make the following declaration --
That in his former declaration bearing date the 19th of November 1832, forwarded to the war department, examined and returned, when he states that he volunteered in the year 1778 under General Rutherford commanding officer, Paisley Colonel, John Lopp Captain, Lieutenant & Ensign not recollected, That he marched to the Savannah River and remained there about five months He now states upon his oath, that he was not aware that such precision would be required, and he declares upon oath that he volunteered in the year 1778 under General Rutherford commanding officer, Paisley Colonel, John Lopp Captain, Lieutenant & Ensign not recollected, That he marched to the Savannah River and remained there five months at which time he was discharged by order of General Rutherford and returned home – His second tour of service was a day as is stated in his former declaration.
S/ George Glatfulder [sic]
[Veteran was pensioned at the rate of $26.66 per annum commencing March 4th, 1831, for service as a private for 8 months in the North Carolina militia.]


WILL OF GEORGE CLOTFELTER, SR. 5 October 1837



In the name of God Amen, I, George Clotfelter, Sr. of North Carolina, Rowan County, being in prper mind and memory, and knowing it is appointed once for all men to die, doth give and bequeath anddevise my property in manner and form following, viz:



First I give and bequeath and devise to my wife Catherine Clotfelter two cows, two beds, Bedstead and covering one read chest my dressor and kitchen furniture her maintenance during life of my old plantation I now live on and one hundred dollars in money to be paid by my executors hereater named as soon as they collect it and six common seting chairs now on hand in use to have and hold for the same for ever.



2nd I give bequeath and devise to my son George Clotfelter, Jr. the Plantation he now lives on and has lived on a number of years, but as I give it for said Plantation Four hundred dollars I allow him to refund to my estate one hundred dol’ars less of money and property which I allow to be sold.



3rd I give bequeath and devise to my son Joseph Clotfelter, the plantation he now lives on and has lived on for a number of years and an equal share of my money and the price of property which will be sold at my death.



4th I give bequeath and devise to my son Daniel Clotfelter the plantation he now lives on had has lived on a number of years a equal share of my money and the price of the property which will be sold at my death.



5th I give bequeath and devise to the heirs of my son David Clotfelter and equal part of my money and the price of property which will be sold at my death.



6th I give bequeath and divise to my sons John and Philip Clotfelter an equal part of money and price of property which will be sold at my death.



7th I give bequeath and devise to my son Felix Clotfelter one hundred and too acres of land lying on the south of whare I live, the plat made Oct. 3rd, 1837, by James Crosley Surveyor, all I have given him heretofore equal part of money.



8th I give bequeath and devise to my son Moses Clotfelter, one hundred ninety three acres of land whare I know live, one horse, geers, plow saddle bridle, to take care of his mother with his proportionate part of my money and price of property sold after my death.



9th I give bequeath and devise to my son Joel Clotfelter ninety-too acres whare he now lives all I have I have given him also I allow Joel my son eight acres of my meadow joining William Barr and Felix Clotfelter.



10th I give bequeath and devise to my daughter Elixabeth Allbrite one hundred dollars then afterwards her equal part of money and property to be sold after my death.



11th Allow William, David and Jacob Keelers, my gransons, each ten to be given to them when my executor thinks fit and proper.



12 I give bequiath and devise to my Daughter Sally Clotfelter, one bed bed stead and covering, four hundred dollars cash equal part of money loned and price of property to be sold after my death but it is my will that one hundred dollars shall be taken thereout and given to her child to be loaned out by the executors until said child shall arrive a twenty one years old then to get the money with interest.



13th I give bequeath and devise to my daughter Susanna one bed, bedstead, and covering four hundred dollars csh and equal part of money and property sold.



14th I give bequeath and devise to my daughter Milly one beadstead and covering and four hundred cash and equal part of money and property sold.



15th I allow my wife and unmarried children to live together and suitable provision given to them by my executors for the one year out of stock or crops now on hand



16th I give bequeath and devise to Betsy my stepdaughter one hundred dollars to be paid her when collected by my ececutors.



Lastly I constitute make and appoint my sons George and Felix Clotfelter my executors of this my last will and testament disannulling all othe will or wills testament or testaments made by me ratifiying this to be my last will and testament.



In Witness whereof I have set my and and seal this 5th day of October 1837.



George Clotfelter (Seal)



Sealed signed and delivered in the presents of us and each of us.



Flex R. Gillespie



William Barr



I, B.D. McCubbins., C.S.C, do herby certify that the avove is a true and correct copy of will recorded in the in the Clerk’s office, same being taken from and compared with the original on file in this office

B.D. McCubbins

Clerk Superior Court Rowan Co.

(Seal)

Dated

9th day of April, 1830



Information taken from North Carolina Records.



Vol. 22 p 61 “North Carolina Revolutionary pensioners,

George Clotfelter, private.”



Vol. 8 p 743 “Bethany Church in earlier records know as Fredeickstown. Here at a distance of 12 miles east of Lexington on the Upper Abbotts Creek (Probably Davidson County formerly know as Rowan) settled the Clodfelters with others of their co-religionists who now sleep in the populous graveyard hard by.” (German Reformed)



June 25 2011 – Copied and printed by Melinda Wilson (Great, Great, Great Grand Daughter of George Clotfelter. I tried to type the words as I saw them, without changing spelling or other mistakes. I am not sure who copied this originally, but it was with a packet of documents passed down through my Grandmother, Ada Margaret Clotfelter, to my Mother, Barbara Johnston, to my sister, Tamara Wilson and me upon my Mother’s death in 1997.

Died:
Find A Grave Memorial# 17979456

Buried:
Pilgram Reformed Church Cemetery

John married Elizabeth Leonard on 10 Sep 1779 in Lexington, Davidson County, North Carolina, United States. Elizabeth (daughter of Johan Valentin Leonhardt and Anna Elisabetha Wallacher) was born on 14 Nov 1762 in Lexington, Davidson County, North Carolina, United States; died on 30 Nov 1795 in , Davidson County, North Carolina, USA; was buried in Pilgrim Reformed Church Cemetery, Davidson County, North Carolina, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• familyserch.org ID: LRS1-TTY
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findagrave.com memorial # 65188797

Buried:
findagrave.com memorial # 65188797

Row 23, Plot 41 - Unmarked grave

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• familyserch.org ID: MYGK-97R
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1780 Census Reconstructed Records:

in "Capt. Jno Cowins District"

Find A Grave Memorial# 22378782

Revolutionary War - DAR listing:
Service: NORTH CAROLINA Rank(s): CIVIL SERVICE, PRIVATE
Birth: CIRCA 1746
Death: ANTE 5- -1828 ROWAN CO NORTH CAROLINA
Service Source: NCDAR, ROSTER OF SOLS FROM NC IN THE AM REV, PP 124, 380; LINN, ABSTRACTS OF THE MINUTES OF COURT OF PLEAS & QTR SESSIONS, ROWAN CO, 1775-1789, VOL 3, P 25
Service Description: 1) OVERSEER OF THE ROAD; CAPT BAKER, MILITIA

D.A.R. Ancestor #: A211286


Roster of soldiers from N.C. in the Amer. Rev. Comp. By D.A.R. of NC. Durham, NC. 1932. Vol 57, page 73

The Will of David Foster dated 8-21-1827 names wife Elizabeth (nee Roseborough), sons David, William & Jesse, daughters Jemimah,Zellah, Catherine & Jane

http://www.thyatirapresbyterian.org/about/history/ David Foster Sr, possibly his first wife, Mary, and her father John buried here.

Buried:
findagrave.com memorial # 22378782

David married Elizabeth Leonard Luckie on 04 Mar 1780 in , Rowan County, North Carolina, USA. Elizabeth (daughter of John Luckie) was born about 1760; died after 1828 in , Rowan County, North Carolina, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Foster
• Created: 04 Aug 2016

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The Will of David Foster dated 8-21-1827 names wife Elizabeth (nee Roseborough), sons David, William & Jesse, daughters Jemimah,Zellah, Catherine & Jane

Died:
See is in the will of her husband, who dies 21 May 1828

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Name: David Foster
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GS Film Number: 000500952
Digital Folder Number: 004364080
Image Number: 00872



Citing this Record:
"North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 ," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XF9F-F2C : 10 February 2018), David Foster and Elizabeth Roseborough, 04 Mar 1760; citing Rowan, North Carolina, United States, p. , Office of Archives and History, Division of Archives and Records. State Archive of North Carolina and various county Register of Deeds; FHL microfilm 500,952.