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Stephen Benjamin Maret

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Stephen Benjamin Maret

Birth
Paint Lick, Garrard County, Kentucky, USA
Death
25 Jul 1886 (aged 72)
Maysville, DeKalb County, Missouri, USA
Burial
Wood, DeKalb County, Missouri, USA Add to Map
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It is believed that Stephen B. Maret arrived in what is now DeKalb County on his 25th birthday. He taught the first subscription school in the area; it was located near the Oak Grove School site. After purchasing land on Lost Creek, he married Nancy Sherard in 1845. They had two sons, Addison and John Mattison. In the 1849 Gold Rush, Stephen B. Maret traveled to California by covered wagon. His party encountered Indians at the Colorado River and so decided to make the return trip by ship around Cape Horn. After the death of his first wife, Stephen B. married Sarah Greenwalt Price, a widow with two children. To this union ten children were born. Besides the two who died in infancy, there were Jesse, Hampton, Stephen, Elizabeth, Wallace, Joseph, Jack and Ira. Military records show that the Marets had a contract with the Government to furnish meat for the army. Stephen B's second son, John Mattison, made at least two trips to Wyoming to hunt antelope. The family doctor's fee was also paid partly in meat. In 1869, organizational plans were made for the Mount Moriah Baptist Association in Stephen Benjamin's home, 4 miles north of Maysville. The house is still standing.
It is believed that Stephen B. Maret arrived in what is now DeKalb County on his 25th birthday. He taught the first subscription school in the area; it was located near the Oak Grove School site. After purchasing land on Lost Creek, he married Nancy Sherard in 1845. They had two sons, Addison and John Mattison. In the 1849 Gold Rush, Stephen B. Maret traveled to California by covered wagon. His party encountered Indians at the Colorado River and so decided to make the return trip by ship around Cape Horn. After the death of his first wife, Stephen B. married Sarah Greenwalt Price, a widow with two children. To this union ten children were born. Besides the two who died in infancy, there were Jesse, Hampton, Stephen, Elizabeth, Wallace, Joseph, Jack and Ira. Military records show that the Marets had a contract with the Government to furnish meat for the army. Stephen B's second son, John Mattison, made at least two trips to Wyoming to hunt antelope. The family doctor's fee was also paid partly in meat. In 1869, organizational plans were made for the Mount Moriah Baptist Association in Stephen Benjamin's home, 4 miles north of Maysville. The house is still standing.

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