Brief Life History of Benjamin Franklin
When Benjamin Franklin Stephens was born in 1838, in Georgia, United States, his father, Benjamin Stephens, was 32 and his mother, Nancy Elizabeth Baggett, was 32. He married Frances A. Boss on 6 July 1856, in Walton, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Walton, Georgia, United States in 1850. He died on 23 June 1862, in Danville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States, at the age of 24, and was buried in Danville Confederate Hospital Cemetery, Danville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States.
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- Benjm F Stephens in household of Benjamin Stephens, "United States Census, 1850"
- Legacy NFS Source: Benjamin F. Stevens - Individual or family possessions: Family genealogies: birth-name: Benjamin F. Stevens
- Benjamin Stephen, "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950"
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1838 · Orders No. 25 Removes Cherokees
A small group of Cherokees from Georgia voluntarily migrated to the Indian Territory. The remaining Cherokees in Georgia resisted the mounting pressure to leave. In 1838, U.S. President Martin Van Buren ordered U.S. troops to remove the Cherokee Nation. The troops gathered the Cherokees and marched them and other Native Americans from North Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama along what is now known as “The Trail of Tears.” Approximately 5,000 Cherokees died on their way to Indian Territory.
1844 · Lumpkin's Jail
In 1844 when Robert Lumpkin bought land in Virginia, this would be the spot of the Infamous Slave Jail (or Lumpkin’s Jail). The slaves would be brought here during the slave trade until they were sold. Lumpkin had purchased the land for his own slave business.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Stevens .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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