447. CLARANCE ARTHUR, b. Feb. 29, 1876; m. Oct. 2, 1903, Irene Steyming, who was born May 3, 1876.
448. ALBERT BLASDEL, b. Jan. 13, 1873; lives in San Francisco, Cal.
By Mary Pearson:
449. CHARLES CECIL, b. Jan. 6, 1884.
450. FLORENCE MAY, b. Sept. 23, 1885.
451. ETHEL ELEANOR, b. July 15, 1887.
452. IRENE MARGUERITE CECIL, b. Jan. 24, 1892.
VIRGINIA PAULINE STEPHENS, (180), daughter of W. H. Stephens, (41), was born in Hardin, Shelby County, Ohio, April 28, 1845; graduate of Young Ladies' Institute, of Santa Clara and State Normal School, at San Jose, California; has been a public school teacher all her life; married David Kindle Zumwalt, of Visalia, California, of the Zumwalt family of Missouri, Jan. 18, 1874; was divorced Jan. 12, 1882, for desertion; lives in Los Angeles, Cal.; has one child:
453. CORA CECIL STEPHENS, b. Nov. 19, 1875.
BASCOM ASBURY CECIL STEPHENS, (182), son of W. H. Stephens, (41), was born on Monday, March 5, 1855, at 7:00 A. M., in Lockington, Shelby County, Ohio; assumed the name of Cecil of his mother's family; graduate of Santa Clara High School, 1871; clerked in the Santa Clara Post-Office two years; founded the Santa Clara Echo, now the Journal; in 1875 entered the ministry of the Seventh-day Adventist Church; ordained to the ministry Sept. 6, 1878; married Sept. 8, 1878, Minerva May Overshiner; she was born in Sacramento, California, Jan. 15, 1857; she is a daughter of G. A. J. Overshiner and his wife Minervea Dumpy; in 1879 was President of the Nevada Conference; preached from 1875 to 1881 in Northern California and Nevada, and was very successful in obtaining converts and organizing churches; left the ministry in June, 1880, on account of personal differences with church authorities, and resumed journalism; published papers in Dixon and Santa Cruz, Calif.; in Jan. 1881, went to Arizona; settled in Los Angeles, Calif., in March 1882, where he has ever since resided with the exception of one year, June 1883-4 in Tucson, Arizona; was reporter several years on papers in Los Angeles; in 1886-7 published the Pomoa Progress; in 1882, the Daily Commercial in Los Angeles; in 1883-4, was city Editor of the Daily Citizen at Tucson; attended the Quijotoa mining excitement in 1884; in 1886, visited Indiana and Kentucky on detective business and took occasion to visit the ancestral home in Shelby County, Ohio, and obtained a mass of information of family history, on which he has been engaged since April 1881. In April, 1890, joined a fillibustering expedition to capture Lower California from Mexico and annex it to the U.S. Was selected Secretary of State of the proposed Republic, but before the scheme was ripe, as proposed by its British promoters, it was betrayed and exposed; regular contributor to the press and magazines, and an advocate of State division; author of several Pamphlets on Southern California, Arizona and Lower California; three years Secretary of the Historical Society of Southern California; author of a History of Los Angeles City, and another of Los Angeles County; and another of San Diego County, and one in MSS of Orange County; also a work on State Division (in MSS) engaged in oil and mining business; agnostic in religion; independent in politics; children: