Brief Life History of Henry
When Henry Stevens was born on 9 March 1784, in Maryland, United States, his father, Richard Stevens, was 49 and his mother, Lydia Garner, was 42. He married Hannah Mariah Bennett on 17 January 1805, in Ohio, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 9 daughters. He lived in Ohio, Kentucky, United States in 1840 and Hartford, Ohio, Kentucky, United States for about 10 years. He died on 9 July 1874, in No Creek, Ohio, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Carson Cemetery, Hartford, Ohio, Kentucky, United States.
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- Henry Stevens, "United States Census, 1870"
- Henry Stevens, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Henry Stevens, "Find A Grave Index"
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1786 · Shays' Rebellion
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
1792 · Becomes the 15th State
On June 1, 1792, Kentucky became the 15th state. It was the first state west of the Appalachian Mountains
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Name Meaning
English (London), Flemish, Dutch, and North German: patronymic from the personal name Steven . The surname of Flemish origin is also found in the Walloon part of Belgium. In North America, the English form of the surname has also absorbed some like-sounding Jewish names and various other European cognates, e.g. Greek Stefanidis , Serbian Stevanović (see Stevanovic ), Slovenian and Slovak Štefanič (see Stefanic ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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