Ray County, Missouri Biographies - John Stevinson (b. 1827)

Source: History of Ray County, Missouri 1881; p. 623


JOHN STEVINSON

John Stevinson is a native of Kentucky. He was born in Clark county, that state, on the 18th
day of May, 1827. Here he received his education, and lived until he had attained his majority.
He was married in Clark county, on the 24th of August, 1848, to Miss Mary Ann Stone, daughter
of Dudley Stone, Esq., of that county. He purchased a farm and conducted business upon it until
the spring of 1855, when he sold his farm in Kentucky, and removed to Jackson county, Missouri,
and located near Lee’s Summit. Here he resided until the war troubles of 1863 came. At this
time General Thomas Ewing issued his famous ‘order number eleven,’ banishing the people from
their homes, and our subject came to Ray county. After renting land for three years, Mr.
Stevinson bought a farm in section six, township fifty-one, range twenty-nine, and has lived
there ever since. He has recovered from the losses sustained by the war, and is now in a very
prosperous condition. He gives attention chiefly to grain raising, and the breeding of fine
varieties of live stock. Nine children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Stevinson, six of whom
are living at present time (April, 1881) named as follows: Mary Elizabeth, Asa, Williamson,
James, John, Sarah Mildred. Those dead are: Margaret Ann, Eliza Catherine, and an infant son.
Mrs. Stevinson and the eldest daughter beong to the Christian Church.


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