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Rev William Stevenson

Birth
Abbeville County, South Carolina, USA
Death
5 Mar 1857 (aged 88)
Arizona, Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, USA
Burial
Burial Details Unknown. Specifically: It is speculated that he may be buried at the Forest Grove Cemetery in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana. Add to Map
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Married February 4, 1794 in Greene County, Tennessee to Jane Campbell. 11 children were born to this union. They were: Elizabeth, JOHN W, Mary, Hugh, Sarah, William C., Nancy, James Porter, David Young, Jane Ann, & Henry Walker.
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From the book: William Stevenson Riding Preacher
By Walter N. Vernon
Published by Southern Methodist University Press, Dallas, Texas (1964).
Chapter VII - In Louisiana / Page 63
The place where Stevenson was buried has not been positively identified, but careful investigation has narrowed the most likely locations to two. Church records stated that he died at the home of his son-in-law, Major James Dyer. Major Dyer, then a rather prosperous planter, had a large country home, the location of which has been established by Mrs. John C. Allen of Dallas, a great-great-granddaughter of Stevenson. It was on a farm about 6 miles east of Homer. In the fall of 1964 Mrs. Allen learned from Mrs. Annie Mae Tooke Hemphill, who now lives on part of the Dyer farm, across the road from the old Dyer house, that there were at one time 8 or 10 graves in a private burying ground near the old house. No markers are left, & signs of the graves are becoming faint. It may well have been here that Stevenson was buried.
The other likely place is the cemetery of Forrest Grove Methodist Church, which was built about 1845 near Dyer's home. The church building was later moved, but the old cemetery remains at the original location. This was the most prominent Methodist church in Claiborne Parish & the Dyers & Stevensons probably had a big hand in its founding. Thus it would be logical for the venerable preacher to have been buried there.
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Married February 4, 1794 in Greene County, Tennessee to Jane Campbell. 11 children were born to this union. They were: Elizabeth, JOHN W, Mary, Hugh, Sarah, William C., Nancy, James Porter, David Young, Jane Ann, & Henry Walker.
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From the book: William Stevenson Riding Preacher
By Walter N. Vernon
Published by Southern Methodist University Press, Dallas, Texas (1964).
Chapter VII - In Louisiana / Page 63
The place where Stevenson was buried has not been positively identified, but careful investigation has narrowed the most likely locations to two. Church records stated that he died at the home of his son-in-law, Major James Dyer. Major Dyer, then a rather prosperous planter, had a large country home, the location of which has been established by Mrs. John C. Allen of Dallas, a great-great-granddaughter of Stevenson. It was on a farm about 6 miles east of Homer. In the fall of 1964 Mrs. Allen learned from Mrs. Annie Mae Tooke Hemphill, who now lives on part of the Dyer farm, across the road from the old Dyer house, that there were at one time 8 or 10 graves in a private burying ground near the old house. No markers are left, & signs of the graves are becoming faint. It may well have been here that Stevenson was buried.
The other likely place is the cemetery of Forrest Grove Methodist Church, which was built about 1845 near Dyer's home. The church building was later moved, but the old cemetery remains at the original location. This was the most prominent Methodist church in Claiborne Parish & the Dyers & Stevensons probably had a big hand in its founding. Thus it would be logical for the venerable preacher to have been buried there.
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