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findagrave.com memorial # 65188797

Row 23, Plot 41 - Unmarked grave

Elizabeth married John George Clodfelter on 10 Sep 1779 in Lexington, Davidson County, North Carolina, United States. John (son of Felix Glattfelder and Maria Sarah Meier) was born on 09 Oct 1757 in York, York County, Pennsylvania, USA; died on 05 Oct 1833 in , , North Carolina, USA; was buried in Pilgrim Reformed Church Cemetery, Davidson County, North Carolina, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Find A Grave Memorial# 84974608

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Find A Grave Memorial# 84974608

Family/Spouse: Nancy Clodfelter. Nancy was born in 1781; died on 26 Jul 1861 in , Rowan County, North Carolina, USA; was buried in Back Creek Presbyterian Cemetery, Rowan County, North Carolina, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Elizabeth married John Albright about 1808. John was born on 4 Dec 1784 in York, York County, Pennsylvania, USA; died on 5 Oct 1837 in , , North Carolina, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Joseph married Charity Yokeley on 29 Jul 1822 in , Rowan County, North Carolina, USA. Charity was born on 27 Sep 1804 in , Davidson County, North Carolina, USA; died on 27 Jul 1893 in , Davidson County, North Carolina, USA; was buried in Bethesda United Methodist church Cemetery, Welcome, Davidson County, North Carolina, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Immigration: 1818
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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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Row 10 grave JJ

Elizabeth married Alexander Kennedy Stevenson on 4 Dec 1845 in Shawnee Township, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA. Alexander (son of James Stevenson, Junior and Jane Fleming) was born on 18 Oct 1809 in , Cabarrus County, North Carolina, USA; died on 16 Dec 1881 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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Row 11, Grave NN

Mary married Joseph Cicero Wallace on 26 Oct 1848. Joseph was born on 19 Nov 1826 in Shawneetown, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, United States; died on 11 Aug 1920 in Jackson, 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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Find A Grave Memorial# 23134556

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Row 27 Grave A

Family/Spouse: Ransom Mitchell. Ransom (son of Anderson Mitchell and Charlotte Brown) was born on 13 Feb 1832 in , Wilkes County, North Carolina, USA; died on 31 May 1867 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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Row 29, Grave H

Leonard married Sarah Ann Youder on 05 Sep 1866 in Cape Girardeau County, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA. Sarah (daughter of Phillip Clodfelter and Jemima Jane Foster) was born on 18 Nov 1842; died on 21 Mar 1912 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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Sarah married Leonard Phillip Clodfelter on 05 Sep 1866 in Cape Girardeau County, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA. Leonard (son of Phillip Clodfelter and Jemima Jane Foster) was born on 03 Jan 1839 in New Wells, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, United States; died on 05 Jan 1928 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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• 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

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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]

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Had a farm 3 1/2 miles west of Rock, Kansas in 1873. In 1891 the family moved to Winfield, Kansas. - Ted Stevenson Genealogy research 1990.

Died:
From "The Southeast Missourian" - August 11, 1932

Theodore Stevenson Was Native of Cape Girardeau County

Theodore Phillip Stevenson died in Topeka, Kansas, on Tuesday, August 2. He was a native of this county and united in marriage with Jennie Hinkle who proceed him in death. The family later moved to Kansas which they made their permanent home. Four daughters and one son were born to them, the son dying in infancy. The family resided on a farm in Kansas, later moving to Winfield. After the death of his wife, Mr. Stevenson made his home with his daughters, all of whom are married.

Theodore Stevenson was the son of Alexander and Elizabeth Stevenson and was born in Shawnee township, July 30, 1849. His parents came to this county from North Carolina in 1809 and entered land which they improved. The Stevenson family has wielded a great influence for good in this county and have always been regarded as one of the leading families of the community.

Surviving, in addition to the children, are a brother Alpheus C. Stevenson of Pocahontas, and a sister, Mrs. John T. McNeely of Leemon.

Theodore married Julia Matilde Hinkle on 15 Aug 1872 in Shawnee Township, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA. Julia was born on 19 Sep 1853 in Shawneetown, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, United States; died on 21 Jul 1888 in Rock Creek Township, Cowley, Kansas, USA; was buried in Widener Cemetery, Cowley County, Kansas, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Died:
A.C Stevenson, 90, Dies at Fruitland; Native of County

Jackson, Oct. 26.

Alpheus C. Stevenson, 90 years old, died at the home of is son, Roy, in Fruitland at 2:15 o’clock Saturday afternoon. He had been critically ill for several weeks, suffering from ailments incident to advanced age. The body was brought to the Wilson-Statler-Seabaugh Funeral Home, where the funeral services were held this afternoon by Rev. J. T. Cherry of Cape Girardeau, an old friend of the family. Burial was at the Old Apple Creek Cemetery with the Putz and Reisenbichler Undertaking Co. in charge.

Born near New Wells in 1852, the son of pioneers, Mr. Stevenson lived his entire life in this county. He was a community leader, a progressive farmer and a schoolteacher. As a teacher he served at New Wells and at Liberty No. 1 several terms, but farming was his principal occupation. He was married to Julia Boren on Jan. 6, 1876. She died July 12 this year. After retiring from active farming, Mr. and Mrs. Stevenson moved from the farm to Pocahontas in 1923, where they lived until April this year when Mrs. Stevenson was stricken with paralysis. Since that time Mr. Stevenson had lived with his son in Fruitland. He was a deacon in the Old Apple Creek Presbyterian Church 30 years, and held minor positions of honor and trust in the community where he lived 70 years.

He is survived by three sons, Maple O. Stevenson of Ferguson, Dr. A. L. Stevenson of Warrensburg, and H. Roy Stevenson of Fruitland, nine grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs. Jennie McNeely of Cape Girardeau.

Alpheus married Julia Margaret Boren on 06 Jan 1876 in Shawneetown, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, United States. Julia (daughter of Hiram E Boren and Barbara Caroline Garner) was born on 03 Jan 1854 in New Wells, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, United States; died on 12 Jul 1942 in Fruitland, 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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When I interviewed his son, Fontaine, in 1992, he stated that Hugh and his brother Lowry both moved to Texas at the same time - 1898. - Rob Lewis

Buried:
Find A Grave Memorial # 173475034

Hugh married Florence Maury on 25 Dec 1888. Florence was born about 1860 in Port Sullivan, Milam County, Texas, USA; died on 07 Mar 1929 in Houston, Harris County, Texas, United States; was buried in Liberty City Cemetery, Liberty County, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Dan Stevenson
1523 W. Second
Freeport, TX 77541

June 2, 1989

Dear Kinsman,

Genealogy is a never-ending sequence of puzzles and solutions~ so I thought I’d send some information I have accumulated since the 1988 gathering.

Stevensons arrived in the colonies as early as 1690, so that by the first U.S. census, Stevenson was one of the country’s most common surnames.

The common ancestors of our Texas branch of the Stevensons are the early settlers of Friendswood, Lowry David Stevenson and his wife Lula Jane Jones Stevenson, my great-grandparents. Taken from various sources their story is as follows:

Both Lowry David and Lula Jane were born in Missouri. He on May 19, 1858 and she on Aug. 25, 1861. They were married circa 1881 in Missouri.

Their first two children were born in Missouri. Guy W. Stevenson, born April 1883 and Zue M. Stevenson was born May 21,1890.

Soon after Zue’s birth the family of four moved to Cowley County, Kansas. Earl Vincent Stevenson was born November 23, 1891 in Rock, Kansas (in northern Cowley County). The Stevensons moved to Texas circa 1896. Vern Stevenson, son of Guy Stevenson retellsthe Stevenson trek to Texas.

“They came to Montgomery County, Texas from Winfield Kansas (the county seat of Cowley County) in two covered wagons. My father (Guy would have been about 13) was old enough to drive one of the teams. They had two geese who walked all the way. The last night the geese walked into the campfire and burned their feet a little and had to ride the rest of the way.”

April 25, 1898 their fourth child, Leslie Ward, was born a native Texan.

“Lulu didn’t like it there (in Montgomery County); it was a rough lumbering town, but they had a fine crop of cantaloupes. Believe they stayed there about two years. One day a stranger came walking down the railroad track and Lowry invited him in for dinner. He said, (You have a fine family Mr. Stevenson. Why don’t you visit Friendswood and see what you think. That is a settlement of Quakers and would be a much better place for your children. Frank J. Brown was an envisionary Friend who left Kansas seeking a promised land in southern Texas (a close friend had talked him out of Oregon). On his way south he passed thru Estacada, Crosby County. Brown had been a member of Estacado Meeting but was still looking for his promised land. It is interesting to note that soon after his transfer of membership from Faivriew, Kansas to Estacada Texas 2/18/89 in the minutes of the Estacado Meeting ”Considered changing Estacado Monthly Meeting from Iowa Yearly Meeting to Kansas Yearly Meeting, but the subje

F. J. Brown and T. H. Lewis secured from J.C. League (League City), a 1538 acre tract of land on Clear Creek. In July of 1895 they (Friends who had left Kansas with Brown and those who had joined him in Estacado) started building their homes. F. J. Brown,A.W. Lewis, and Nancy Lewis were appointed a committee to visit Friends in this vicinity and impress upon them the importance of having their membership rights transferred to Friendswood. Many did and Friendswood was underway. The first official changeover of the Meeting of Estacado to Friendswood was April 18, 1896. (Note: June 19, 1897 “The matter of changing from Iowa Yearly Meeting to Kansas Yearly Meeting came up for discussion and this meeting united in directing the clerk to make application for transfer.”) Friendswood was no more than four years old when the Stevensons arrived

February 17,1900 L.D. Stevenson with wife Lula and son Guy were recieved into membership. (taken from the minutes of the Friendswood Monthly Meetings).

July 7, 1900 Leslie Ward Stevenson their youngest died.

Edith Brown McGinnis, daughter of Frank J. Brown, told of the tragic part the 1900 Storm played in the Stevenson’s early history in her book THE PROMISED LAND.

“The Stevensons had only recently moved to Friendswood. Their fragile house was blown to splinters with them in it. Miraculously they had all escaped serious injury. As the storm let up they all got together and made their way to the Browns. They were allhalf frozen and besides themselves with fright. Mary Jane (Brown) dragged her children out of the only warm bed, and put Mrs. Stevenson and her little ones in their place.

Provisions were low and the Brown’s had intended going to town this day to lay in a supply of groceries. Mary Jane had put the last flour into the large batch of bread she was baking when the trees struck the kitchen. This bread, still in the oven and soaked with water, was all they had to eat. After a fire was finally kindled the bread was dried out for breakfast.

The Stevenson family who were the guests of the Browns for several weeks consisted of Laurie (sic) Lulu and their children Guy, Zue and Vincent. Guy was about sixteen years of age and Zue and Vincent about ten and eight respectively. With this crowd of hungry people the water soaked bread did not last long, and Mary Jane was put to it to get anything for them to eat until the Red Cross sent in aid. Laurie went to League City and got his share of this; for they had lost clothes, house, furniture, and everything
they had in the world.”

My grandfather Paul Rafael Stevenson was Lowry and Lula’s last child. He was born in Friendswood Feb. 9, 1901.

The Friends Academy and Church played quite a role in the Stevenson family history during this time. Here is a small historical sketch and description of the Academy as written in the 1920-21 catalog:

The old saying: “It is an ill wind that blows no one good,” for the great Galveston storm of September 8th, 1900, blew down the pines out of which the Academy building was erected. The logs were sawed into lumber, and the building put up almost entirely by members of the colony with no financial compensation whatsoever, for the people had a mind to work. Friendswood Academy was a part of the original plan of the founders of Friendswood. (Before moving to Friendswood the Estacado Meeting had built an Academy in Estacado, which was then sold when they relocated to Friendswood.) Its construction was begun in 1901 by the Friends of Friendswood Monthly Meeting and its management has been under their control ever since. Friendswood Academy is the only Friends’ school in the State of Texas. Friendswood is the ideal location for a school because Friends have always endeavored to give their children a guarded Christian education, it is removed from the debasing influences and temptations so common to cit

A member of the Stevenson family was on the Board of Trustees from the first board until the Academy closed in 1928, first Lowry David Stevenson then his son Guy.

Earl Vincent Stevenson and Zue M. Stevenson Bales were both Principles. In fact Earl Vincent was Principle while his future wife
Mary was a student.

Zue Bales was the last teacher at the Academy in 1928 when she wrote:

“As the faithful old Academy building was demolished and hauled away, so went· the dreams of our founding fathers; for they visualized as a permanent part of our community an Institution of higher learning where the Bible would be supreme and the young people would be trained for Christian service. This can never be the primary purpose in a tax-supported~ state controlled school. However, it is gratifying that so our young people choose to go to school to Christian Colleges and Seminaries to prepare for Christian leadership.”

According to Vern Stevenson, Lowry was also Friendswood’s first notary and carried the mail. Railroads and waterways were the arteries of business during those years. The Friends self-imposed isolation had its drawbacks, produce, supplies and mail had to be shuttled back and forth to the nearest railroad at Webster, or sent downstream. He writes:

“Lowry carried the mail from Webster with a spring wagon with compartments in the dashboard so that he could sort mail on the way home and put mail in the Star Route boxes along the way. We (the Guy Stevenson family) lived about four miles west of Friendswood.

When my mother, (Emma B.Miles Stevenson, daughter of Jessie Miles) would meet my Grandfather Lowry on the road he would stop, pullout his leather wallet, fish out an Indian Head penny for
me and say “Here’s a penny to the boy some candy.” It bought
as much candy as any boy should have, maybe more.
Grandpa wore a goatee and I thought he was Santa Claus.”

Francis A. Wright, a visiting Friend on church business describes Friendswood and it’s surroundings Jan.13,1910:

“Clear Lake shaped like a horseshoe some three miles long and a
mile wide from which runs Clear Creek, which is navigable for launches and barges as far up as Friendswood.

Outside the business of selling real estate~ the principal industries at present seem to be rice culture and growing of figs and oranges. Much of the country is still open prairie, but we saw large numbers of orange and fig groves, recently planted (In the 1910 census Lowry shows his land to be a fruit farm), and a few older orange orchards, which were yielding a crop worth from $600-$800 per acre. The principal orange grown is the “Satsuma”, a Japanese variety, which when budded on the “Trifoliata” stockwill stand considerable cold, owing to the habit of the latter becoming dormant in the winter. The Satsuma is a small orange, very sweet, and as it ripens about two months ahead of the earliest California varieties, it commands a ready sale at good prices. The trees come to full bearing in about four years with the first fruit appearing on some trees as early as the first year. The figs are known as seedless, and while there is little sale for them raw, there is a constantly growing demand for

The severity of the late freeze of 1912 on the early bearing Satsuma is evident in the May 18,1912 report of the Friendswood Academy Board:

“Owing to freezes and bad weather conditions~ the orchards and nurseries in this country are badly injured and in some cases destroyed. A considerable number of patrons of the Academy are not able to meet their obligations at present, leaving the board without sufficient funds to pay their teachers.” (After considerable discussion the board was authorized to borrow the money to payoff the indebtedness)

An even greater disaster, The 1915 Storm, was soon to strike: “Owing to the destructive hurricane on the 15th and 16th of this month and all the members have suffered great loss of buildings and crops and some stock and that the Academy building is damaged so much that it is unfit for use of meeting and school, F.J.Brown and Rachel Middleton appointed to act with the trustees to ascertain the amount necessary to repair the loss and are directed to appeal to Friends in other places for help to repair Friendswood Academy Building.”(The destructive force of this hurricane must have been tremendous to so wreck a building
constructed in the wake of the 1900 Storm.)

Vern recalls the circumstances of his Grandfather’s death, late March 1918:

“One day Lowry drove a little mule to Webster. Lowry was standing up in the wagon with his back to the tailgate. When the train came puffing in, “Rabbit” the little mule shied and Grandpa fell backward to the ground on his head. Though he said he could drive home all right, the people said maybe he was hurt more than he thought. While someone drove the springboard home Grandpa was taken home in a Model T. My father stayed with his father all that night. When he came home that next morning looking awfully sad, he said that Grandpa had died during the night.”

I will end here hoping that you have enjoyed these stories of our past if they were unknown to you.

I look forward to seeing you all again.

Your Kinsman,
Dan Stevenson



Find A Grave Memorial# 13319420

Stevensons arrived in Friendswood with a little help
An 'angel' pointed the way
KELLY ADAMS, Chronicle correspondent
Published 5:30 am CDT, Thursday, September 6, 2001


Following is one in an ongoing series examining the story behind the names at prominent venues and facilities in the Clear Lake/Bay Area.
The names of a middle school and a park are only the more apparent reminders of the deep roots the Stevenson family sank into Friendswood over the past century.
Through the years, Stevensons have served in local positions including election judge, tax assessor, teacher, justice of the peace, notary public, Democratic precinct chairman and board member for the Quaker Academy.
But the Stevensons' role in the community wouldn't have happened were it not for advice from someone whom family members came to believe was an angel.
The first Stevensons -- Lowry, Lucinda and their children Guy, Vincent, Zue and a baby, Ward -- came to Texas from Missouri by wagon in the late 1800s.
To make room for the family's possessions in the wagon, the children walked.
The family first settled in a rough mill town in Montgomery County until a stranger, who stopped by the family's home seeking food and water, recommended the new Quaker settlement of Friendswood as a nice place to live.
"The family always considered that he was an angel who had come to warn them that they were in the wrong place, and that they needed to come to a better place to raise their children," said Marjorie Brown, granddaughter of Zue Stevenson Bales.
In 1899, four years after Friendswood was founded, the family boarded a train to Pearland and then walked to the small community.
When they arrived, the Stevensons were not Quakers, who also are known as Friends. But that changed since Friends had the only church in the area.
Friendswood Friends Church has had a lasting influence on the family, Brown said.
The first year in Friendswood brought hard times. Scorching temperatures destroyed the crops, the Stevensons' baby died and the family lost its home to the 1900 Galveston hurricane.
"Zue Bales remembered going into the garden and hanging onto the fence line, and she said the fact that her dress got caught on the barbed-wire fence was the only thing that kept her from blowing away," said Joycina Baker, author of Friendswood: A Settlement of Friendly Folk.
However, the family decided to rebuild. In 1908, Lowry Stevenson bought 10 acres for $250 and started raising figs, which were grown on the land until the 1950s.
Around that time, Friendswood was the fig capital of the Gulf Coast, Baker said.
Besides farming, Stevenson held many positions in the growing town. He was on the board of the Quaker Academy, Friendswood's first official school, which opened in 1902.
"He was an educated man and was important in building that part of the community when it was getting started," Baker said.
In addition, Stevenson was the town's first justice of the peace and notary public. At the time, taking on many jobs was a way of helping the developing area.
"The community was so tiny," Baker said. "When the community was started, there were about 25 people here. They all had their own niche. It took everybody to make the colony work."
Stevenson also served as the community's first election judge until he died in 1918 at age 59. Son Vincent then assumed the position.
Vincent Stevenson also was the first tax assessor for the Friendswood school district as well as a Democratic precinct chairman.
He was an enterprising man who would drive into town for neighbors and bring back supplies for a small fee. Stevenson also was athletic and built the first tennis courts in Friendswood for his family on the Stevenson property.
His sister, Zue Stevenson Bales, was respected as an educator. After attending the academy, she taught at the school and later became principal.
After the death of her husband, Edward Bales, she spent many years as a missionary in Mexico and Central America. She died at age 89 in 1978.
Today, the Zue Stevenson Bales Middle School, 302 Laurel Drive, honors her role in the community. Her descendants still live in Friendswood.
Known for her strong mind and will, Bales also had a giving nature even when she relied on her family for money in her later years.
It was the generosity of the third generation of Stevensons that made Stevenson Park off FM 518 available to the public.
In 1973, five years after his death, the children of Vincent Stevenson sold the city 10.5 acres and donated another two on the condition that a park be built and named after the family.

https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/baytown-news/article/Stevensons-arrived-in-Friendswood-with-a-little-2021346.php




THE GREAT GALVESTON STORM

The terrible hurricane struck Galveston September 8, 1900. This flood an wind almost destroyed Galveston and left Friendswood a wreck....
The Stevenson's had only recently moved to Friendswood and thier frail house was blown to splinters with them in it. Miraculously they had all escaped serious injury. As the storm let up they all got together and made their way to the Browns. They were all half frozen and besides themselves with fright. Mary Jane dragged her children out of the only warm bed and put Mrs. Stevenson and her little ones in their place...
The Stevenson family who were the storm guest of the Browns for several weeks consisted of Laurie [Lowry] and Lulu and their children Guy, Zue and Vincent. Guy was about sixteen years of age and Zue and Vincent about ten and eight respectively.


This is a part of the lives of the founding families of Friendswood found in The Promised Land
by Edith B McGinnnis.

Buried:
Friends Church Cemetery

Lowry married Lula Jane Jones on 22 Dec 1880 in , Bond County, Illinois, USA. Lula was born on 25 Aug 1861 in , , Missouri, USA; died on 23 Jun 1943 in Friendswood, Galveston County, Texas, USA; was buried in Friendswood, Galveston County, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• familyserch.org ID: K8KG-ZMC
• Name: Jennie
• Created: 09 Aug 2018

Notes:

Apple Creek Presbyterian Church Session Minutes pg. 61: Jennie McNeely submits letter of dismissal to join Fairview M.E. Church 14 Sep 1890.

Honor Woman as She Has 75th Birthday

In their comfortable home, picturesquely located at the foot of
Mount Nebo and not far from the banks of the winding Indian Creek,
Mr. and Mrs. John T. McNeely were hosts yesterday to a large number
of relatives and friends, the occasion being Mrs. McNeely's 75th
birthday, The McNeely home, the old Leemon Hale place, is located
at the edge of the village named after that pioneer citizen, Capt.
Leemon Hale, Leemon. The guests and children of the aged couple
enjoyed the visit greatly, and presented a rather informal birthday
program for which the honoree expressed her appreciation

Four daughters of Mr. and Mrs. McNeely were present, Mrs. Onis
Poe and daughter Irlene of St. Louis; Miss Bess McNeely, who
remains at home with her parents; Mrs. C. E. Tuschoff of Old
Appleton, and Mrs. Ted Regenhardt and children, Alice and John
Donald of Cairo, Ill. Nieces present from a distance were Mrs.
Nola Gray of Garden City, Kas., Mrs. Eunice King of Anthony, Kas.,
Mrs. Bertha Snider of Winfield, Kas., Mrs. Grace Bruner of
Lawrence, Kas., and Mrs. Edith Hughey of Greenville, Ill., also a
grand-niece, Mrs. Neil Hughey, of Greenville, Ill. Other relatives
and friends were Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Stevenson of Pocahontas, Mr.
and Mrs. Roy Stevenson of Shawneetown, Mrs. Anna Thompson and Mrs.
Irene Kasten of Pocahontas, Mrs. Shabie Ruppel and daughters,
Rettie, Birdie, and Dell of Leemon, Miss Ella Daughterty and Mrs.
Horace Daughterty of Fruitland, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Sides and son,
Wayne Allen, Mrs. Herbert Englehart and sons Billie and Jimmie,
Mrs. Mollie Morton, Mrs. Ella Woods, Miss Myrtle Masterson, Mrs.
Mollie Sides and Mrs. Daisy Martin of the Leemon Community.

Mrs. J. T. Mcneely, Aged 82, Passes

Mrs. Jennie McNeely, aged 82 years, died at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Ted Regenhardt, in Cape Girardeau Monday, following
an illness of two months.

Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 3 o'clock at the
Old Applecreek Presbyterian Church, conducted by Rev. Miles H.
Stotts, pastor of the Grace Methodist Church of Old Appleton.
Burial will be in the church cemetery.

Mrs. McNeely was born June 16, 1862, at Shawneetown. She united in
marriage with John T. McNeely on Dec. 12, 1889, she and her husband
then moving on a farm near Leemon, where they resided until his
death, Following her husband's death on May 15, 1941, Mrs. McNeely
took up residence with her daughter. She was the daughter of the
late Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Stevenson and recognized by all who knew
her as a fine character and Christian woman.

Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. T. R. Regenhardt, Mrs. C. A.
Poe of St. Louis, and Mrs. Ed Tuschoff of Old Appleton, and six grandchildren.

Christened:
Church Record

Buried:
grave site GPS: 37.49886 -89.62828

Row 10 Grave KK

Jemima married John Thomas McNeely on 12 Dec 1889 in Cape Girardeau County, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA. John (son of George Wesley McNeely and Marillus Haile) was born on 03 Nov 1859 in near Fruitland, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, United States; died on 10 May 1941 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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• familyserch.org ID: LTD2-4J5
• Created: 09 Aug 2018

Notes:

Rosa's long dress caught fire while washing clothes in a large kettle of hot water over an open fire. "She was burned from head to foot. They put molasses all over her and went for the doctor. She died the next morning" (Meredith Stevenson's History)

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• familyserch.org ID: LZZK-XDF
• Created: 09 Sep 2014

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• familyserch.org ID: 9QNG-H5R
• Created: 09 Sep 2014

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• familyserch.org ID: K8JV-MRL
• Name: Mattie
• Created: 09 Sep 2014

Notes:

Died:
No DC

Buried:
findagrave.com memorial # 137512503

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• familyserch.org ID: LWW7-5ND
• Created: 09 Sep 2014

Notes:

Find A Grave Memorial# 66226959

Buried:
findagrave.com memorial # 66226959

Theodore married Emma Schriner on 31 Jul 1894 in , Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA. Emma was born in Sep 1870 in , , Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• familyserch.org ID: MSKW-W6M
• Created: 09 Sep 2014

Notes:

Buried:
findagrave.com memorial # 23158862

Myra married William Franklin Shoults on 18 Dec 1890 in New Wells, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, United States. William (son of Benjamin Franklin Shoults and Amanda Jane Cotner) was born on 29 May 1862; died on 29 Jul 1943; was buried in Apple Creek Cemetery, Pocahontas, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• familyserch.org ID: 9S2R-DSH
• Created: 18 Aug 2013

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• familyserch.org ID: 9S2R-DZC
• Created: 18 Aug 2013

Notes:

Buried:
Row 31 grave Y

Family/Spouse: John Robinson Henderson, Jr.. John was born on 15 Jan 1852 in Cape Girardeau County, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA; died on 15 Oct 1896 in Cape Girardeau County, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA; was buried in Apple Creek Township, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• familyserch.org ID: K8CX-CH4
• Created: 18 Aug 2013

Notes:

Buried:
findagrave.com memorial # 64693483

Lot 45 grave B

Alpha married Amos Theodore Trickey on 5 Sep 1893 in , Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA. Amos was born on 27 Apr 1872 in Cape Girardeau County, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA; died on 04 Apr 1950 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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• familyserch.org ID: 9S2R-DCR
• Created: 18 Aug 2013

Notes:

Buried:
Row 29 grave J