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(Feb 7, 1816 - Abt, 1893)
Nickname:<NICK> Brantley BIOGRAPHY: William Brantley Stevens was t he son of He nry and Amy (Hicks) Stevens. Based on the birth dates o f Brantley Stevens' chi ldren, it appears he was married three times . He patented his first land in Ow en County, Indiana on January 8, 1 836. He entered a total of 120 acres that ye ar. Amy and Brantley li ved in Jackson Township on a farm worth $1,400 in 1860. Brantley joi ned the New Union Baptist Church in March 1846. In October 1852 he wa s brought up on charges of shouting and for using "spirituous" liquors . T he following month, he was excluded from the church for this offe nse. In June 1859 he and his father appeared before the church brethr en and satisfactorily r efuted unspecified charges that were made agai nst them. On July 18, 1869, Bran tley rejoined the church at the bar n of Isaac S. Lucas where a meeting was held . He once again got int o trouble, being excluded from the congragation in Janu ary 1877 alon g with his wife and daughter Marilda. William suffered a mental b rea kdown sometime between 1856-70. Although he was able to sign deeds u p to Ju ly 26, 1856, afterward, he only made his mark. He was liste d as illiterate in 1870. Stories have been passed down in the Halto m family of "Grandpa Brantley" losing his mind. One day his family c ame home and found him out in the yard e ating grass like a horse. Th e family had to chain him to a tree when they were working on the far m so he wouldn't wander off. They did the same in the house , chainin g him to a bedpost in the main room so he wouldn't fall into the fire p lace. Brantley apparently was married before he wed Amy Haltom, a s he had two or three children born ca. 1834-38. After Amy's death, h e married a household servant, Lucinda Yant, born 1848 in Ohio. She g ave him one child, Hiram. Lucin da joined the New Union Baptist Churc h on July 18, 1869 and was excluded along with William in January 1877 . Lucinda died April 1, 1910 in Jackson Township. Brantley, who was l isted in the Owen County Democrat on July 21, 1892 as "stil l sick" . He died in about 1893, in Owen County. Source: The History of th e H altom Family, By Patrick R. Pearsey, 1999
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| Birth | Feb 7, 1816 | Montgomery County, North Carolina | | | |
| Marriage | Sep, 1840 | Owen County, Indiana, USA - Amy A Haltom | |  | |
| Marriage | Jan 14, 1873 | Owen County, Indiana, USA - Lucinda Yant | | | |
| Death | Abt, 1893 | Jordan Village, Owen County, Indiana | | | |
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