Washington Co., AR - Biographies - L. Granville Stephens *********************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: The Goodspeed Publishing Co Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgenwebarchives.org *********************************************** L. Granville Stephens, farmer and stock dealer of Washington County, Ark., was born in Monroe County, Tenn., May 1, 1859, His father, Lewis Stephens, was born in Rowan County, N. C., April 26, 1811, and until fifteen years of age resided in his native State. He was then taken by his father Richard Stephens, who was a soldier in the War of 1812, to Tennessee, and was there married to Miss Elizabeth D. Dyer, a native of that State. They came to Washington County, Ark., in 1869, and in 1874 purchased the farm on which he now resides, and on which his son, L. Granville, was reared to manhood. The latter received a good education in the school at Viney Grove, and after attaining a suitable age took charge of his father's farm, which he has now managed for about eight years. He is largely engaged in buying and shipping stock, shipping nine car loads in 1887, besides selling a large amount of stock at home. The home farm consists of 180 acres of good bottom land, on Moore's Creek, all of which is fenced, and 100 acres under cultivation. He has two other farms of eighty acres each, with nearly all under cultivation, besides forty acres of timber land. His mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Stephens, is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.