Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Stephenson, Levi W., 1908 

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         Levi W. Stephenson. 
     [Special to The Times-Dispatch.] 

  IVOR, VA., October 27.- Mr. Levi W. Stephenson, aged seventy-eight, died on 
Sunday, the 25th, at his home, near Berlin, Va., and was buried to-day in the 
family burying ground at his home place, with Masonic honors.  Mr. Stephenson 
was a survivor of the War between the States.  Married in his early life, he 
was the father of eight children*, five of whom survive him, namely: Dr. H.U. 
Stephenson, of Toano, Va.; Messrs. F.H. and J. Allen Stephenson and Mrs. Frank 
P. Pulley of Southampton county, and Mr. L.E. Stephenson, of Wakefield, Va. 
Mr. Stephenson was a prominent member of Millfield Baptist Church, also of 
Berlin Lodge, No. 2, A.F. & A.M. 


Levi Washington STEPHENSON, farmer, Confederate veteran, 
b. 4 Jul 1830, Southampton Co., d. 25 Oct 1908, at home, near Berlin, 
interred in the family cemetery*, home place, 27 Oct 1908, 
"Times-Dispatch" (Richmond, VA), Oct. 28, 1908, p. 4, col. 5 
   online as part of the Library of Virginia's Virginia Chronicle 
   newspaper database, at: 
   https://virginiachronicle.com/ 

*Additional information: 

Site not known (Apr 2020) to the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} 
   Cemetery Project. 

The 1900 Census gives Owns Free Farm #233; 7 of 12 children surviving. 

His in-laws and sons Floyd Holden & Jas. Allen STEPHENSON 
   are buried in Millfield Baptist Church Cemetery. 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 1 (I-19 & 24): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol1.txt 

Mother-in-law Frances "Fannie" BRANCH 1m. Wm. Henry HOLDEN and 
   2m. William G. STEPHENSON. 

Levi m. Elizabeth L. Holden, 10 Jan 1854.  (Southampton Co. MB1:10; M.Reg. 702) 

He transferred from the Southampton Cavalry (A/13th Va. Cav.) to the 
   Southampton Lee Artillery (A/18th Va. Heavy Art'y). 

Son Dr. Hack Urquhart STEPHENSON supposedly possessed the skeleton of 
   Southampton Insurrection leader Nat Turner, who sold his own remains; 
   article (Richmond "Times," Oct. 14, 1897) posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/news/18971014rt.txt 

Hack is buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Richmond. 
   (Find a Grave Mem. #16997686) 


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