HANNAH STEPHENS, (13), daughter of Joshua Stephens, (6), is described as having been a very "beautiful woman" and was widely courted on that account, her father having been compelled to chastise a Dutchman, who became too familiar. She was born in Penn., May 2, 1776; accompanied her parents to Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio. She married Thomas McClish in Ross County about 1803. About 1816, or perhaps a little earlier, they moved to Shelby County, where he founded the town of Hardin, Oct. 5, 1816, naming it for the famous Kentucky general, (General Hardin was killed near there) which was the first County Seat. He dedicated a square to the county on the condition that it should be used solely for the Court House, which it never was, and is still unused. At an early date they moved over in Putnam County, then a dence wilderness, and lived with no neighbors nearer than 40 miles amid Indians and wild beasts. She died March 13, 1840. Her husband was born July 1, 1776, and died of a nasal hemmorrage Dec. 26, 1826. They were buried near Dupont, where their graves are yet to be seen. (I have a page of their family record taken from their old family Bible). Their children were:
27. SILAS, b. Oct. 15, 1804; m. Nancy Mellinger; d. June 16, 1860.
28. ELIZA, b. Dec. 26, 1806; m. John Bush; d. Nov. 24, 1827.
29. JOHN JACKSON, b. March 5, 1808; d. unm., Oct. 25, 1841.
30. THOMAS, b. March 3, 1816; d. unm., April 3, 1846.
SILAS STEPHENS, (14), son of Joshua Stephens, (6), left his father's home, "near Lexington, Kentucky," and settled near Nashville, Tenn., where he married and acquired considerable property in land and slaves; these latter he freed just before the war (about 1859), and one of them came to Shelby County, Ohio, which is the only information ever had from Silas. He died sine prolos about 1865.
JOHN STEPHENS, (15), son of Joshua Stephens, (6), was born Dec. 23, 1781, in Penn., accompanied his parents to Ross County, Ohio; voted for the adoption of the first constitution of that state November 29, 1802, being just about of age; enlisted in the U. S. Army for the war of 1812; was present at the surrender of General Hull, Sunday, August 16, 1812; and witnessed the victory of Commodore Perry, September 10, 1813, from the shores of Lake Erie. Rev. M. A. Jordon, his step-son said that John entered the Army as an ensign, and rose to the rank of Colonel, and after the war was high sheriff of Western Ohio. He was commissioned Captain of the State Militia in 1822. (I have the original commission issued by Governor E. A. Brown). About 1816, he moved to near St. Paris, Champaign County, where he died on his farm September 12, 1873. He had been a lay preacher of the Methodist Protestant Church. He was twice married, first to Nancy Brown, (about 1810), by whom he had nine children; he married secondly Mrs. —— Jordan, by whom he had no children. Nancy Brown Stephens was born Feb. 4, 1787. His children were:
31. ELIZABETH, d. unm., aged 18 years.
32. JOSHUA, b. Jan. 4, 1812; m. Nancy Creegan; d. Feb. 1, 1891.
33. DAVID HUMPHREYS, b. Nov. 8, 1813; d. Aug. 23, 1846; m. S. A. Burton.