OBITUARY: James Stephenson, 1883 - Smith County, TX Submitted by Vicki Betts 21 Sep 2002 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************************** TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, March 17, 1883, p. 7, c. 5 STEPHENSON.—James Stephenson was born in Blunt county, Tenn., May 16, 1798; married Nancy C. Nations, in Alabama, Sept. 28, 1823; professed religion and joined the M. E. Church in 1824, in which he lived a very active and devoted member until the 14th of Dec. last, when he left the church militant for the church triumphant. Thus lived for nearly sixty years one of the most devoted men I ever knew. I have been intimate with him for nearly twenty-five years. A hundred times, I think, I have seen him shouting happy. One of his sons was a local preacher in our church, but was killed ruing the war; another is now an exhorter, class leader and church secretary, and another is Sunday-school superintendent. He was a member of Ebell society, on Starrville circuit. He was buried at Old Canton in this county. May God bless his aged companion and children and help them meet him where parting is no more. —C. H. SMITH.