Biographical Sketch of Dr. G.W. Stevenson, Pulaski County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas,
 Pulaski, Phelps & Dent Counties, Missouri, Published 1889, Goodspeed
 Publishing Company.

Transcribed by: Penny Harrell (Incog3678@aol.com)

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Dr. G.W. Stevenson, a prosperous physician, residing about twelve
miles south of Waynesville, MO., was born in Kentucky in 1818, and
is the second of six children born to the marriage of Zadock Steven-
son and Alsie Appleton.  The former was born in France in 1752, and
during the colonists' struggle for liberty came to America with
Marquis de La Fayette, and was an active participant in the Revolu-
tionary War.  He also served in the War of 1812 and the Black Hawk
War, and died in 1859, at the age of one hundred and seven years.
He was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was the
father of thirteen children, seven of whom were born to a former
marriage.  His wife, Alsie, was born about 1790, and died in Miss-
issippi about 1860.  At the age of seven years Dr. G.W. Stevenson
was sent to France by his parents to receive his education, and at
the age of thirteen returned home, and after a time entered the
medical colleges of Cincinnati, Ohio and Indianapolis, Ind., and
completed his medical education in Kentucky, at the age of thirty.
He practiced his profession ten years in Indiana, three years in
Illinois, and then came to Missouri, where he is yet actively en-
gaged in practicing.  In 1861 he enlisted in the Confederate army,
serving as orderly-sergeant under Gen. Price until he received his
discharge in August, 1865.  He received five wounds, but none of
them were very serious.  He has always been a Democrat in politics,
and while residing in Illinois served as judge of his county for
eighteen months.  He was elected sheriff of Lawrence County, Ark.,
in 1850, and has been urged many times by his friends to run for
office.  In 1854 he was united in marriage to Miss Lucy M. Garrison,
who died in March, 1871, having become the mother of three children.
In 1874 he married his second wife, the widow of Pleasant Solomon.
She was born in Tennessee in 1836.  Dr. Stevenson's children are as
follows:  Emily, widow of John Ousley; Mary (deceased) and George.
The doctor is a Mason, and he and wife are members of the Missionary
Baptist Church.

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