440. ELEANOR, b. Jan. 27, 1876; m. Dr. Francis Williams, May 26, 1903.
441. ROY HAMILTON, b. Feb. 20, 1880.
442. GEORGE LENOX, b. Oct. 19, 1881.
COLUMBUS CECIL STEPHENS, (176), son of W. H. Stephens, (41), was born in Hardin, Shelby County, Ohio; changed his name, dropping the Christopher and adding the Cecil, in honor of his mother's family; accompanied his parents to California in 1857; he returned to Ohio in 1859, via Panama and New York, and entered the Delaware College; in 1861 he came overland to California a second time, this time being alone most of the way and afoot, walking over 1500 miles in seven weeks, and rejoining his father's family at Ione, Amador County, Cal., graduated from the University of the Pacific as Santa Clara in 1865; taught school two years; admitted to practice law in the third district of California Jan. 15, 1867; married first Dec. 31, 1867, Flora Belle Williams, at Pine Grove, Esmeralda County, Nevada, second daughter of Thomas Williams and his wife Mary Blasdel, sister of Ex-Governor H. G. Blasdel, of Nevada. She was born in Elizabethtown, Indiana, Dec. 23, 1846, and died at San Jose, Calif., July 14, 1881. He practiced law in San Jose from 1867 until May, 1881, when he moved to Tucson, Arizona. Was admitted to the Supreme Court of California July 11, 1870; June 6, 1873, was admitted to the United States District Court; July 12, to the United States Circuit Court; May 20, 1881, to the Arizona District Court; Feb. 13, 1882, to the Arizona Supreme Court; —— 888, to the United States Circuit and District Court for the District of Southern California. Married secondly Mary Elizabeth Pearson, of Tucson, Ariz., Feb. 3, 1883. She was born June 22, 1863, at Petaluma, Cal., third daughter of Richmond C. Pearson and his wife, Mary Ayers. In 1884 he was elected Councilman at Large for Southern Arizona (the Upper House of the Territorial Legislature). While there, among other bills, he succeeded in having passed those abolishing the English Common Law Doctrine of Riparian Rights, now incorporated in the Constitution of Arizona, and establishing the University of Arizona. In June, 1887, he moved to Los Angeles, Cal., where he at once became one of the leading members of the bar. Is a K. T. Mason, member of the Historical Society of Southern California. He died in Los Angeles, Cal., Sept. 7, 1894.
Children:
By Flora Belle Williams:
443. FLORENCE ELEANOR, b. Dec. 27, 1867; d. Feb. 21, 1869.
444. EDWARD CECIL, b. Jan. 30, 1870; m. Esther E. Benjamin, (a Jewess).
445. FANNIE GERTRUDE, b. April 15, 1872; d. Oct. 25, 1873.
446. WALTER HERBERT, b. Aug. 9, 1874.