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"In what was called the Up-country, 200 miles north of Charleston, there lived two brothers named Steveson. (Note- 200 miles north of Charleston falls in North Carolina, maybe Orange Co., at that time.)
Charles Steveson was a well-to-do farmer. He married Jane Brown and to them were born four sons and six daughters. Jane married John Wolfe. Sarah married Patrick Young and after his death she married a Mr. Weeks and lived in Copiah County, Mississippi. Eliza married Daniel Friday Sally. Martha married James Fisher Hughes. Temperance married James Winningham. Judith died in girlhood. Jesse and Larkin married sisters named McKellar. Charles married Martha (Patsey) Coleman. Joel married Sally Craig. - She was no kin to us so far as we know.
James Steveson, brother of Charles Steveson, Sr., was a farmer and country merchant. James F. Hughes of Summerville, went to the up-country and was employed as a bookkeeper by Mr. James Steveson. During his two years in that part of the state he became intimately acquainted with Mr. Charles Steveson's family who were Methodists. Eventually he decided to cast his lot with the then despised sect, although he had been raised a Congregationalist. Before his return to Summerville, he had wooed Martha, daughter of Charles Steveson, who although a plain country girl, had an innate dignity of manner, a pleasant disposition, and above all, was an earnest Christian. In a short time he brought his bride to the home of his father (Summerville) where they lived for two years.
In 1822 Charles Steveson and family came to Alabama, accompanied by his son-in-law James F. Hughes, with his wife (Martha Steveson) and baby boy (C. E. Hughes). They all settled near Marion in Perry County.
The old name Steveson is now usually spelled Stevenson, or Stephenson."
(Pauline Hughes)


There are both a Charles and James Stephenson in
1790 > NORTH CAROLINA > JONES > NEWBERN DIST
Series: M637 Roll: 7 Page: 427
Charles Stephenson 232 (2 males over 16, 3 males under 16, 2 females)
James Stephenson 102 (1 male over 16, 0 males under 16, 2 females)

Birth	Abt 1765	Orangeburg District, North Carolina,
Marriage	1793	South Carolina, United States - Jane Brown
Census (family)	1830	Perry, Alabama, United States - Jane Brown
Death	4 Oct 1830	Perry, Alabama, United States
Will

Spouse	Jane Brown (1774 - 1850)
Child	Jesse A Stevenson (1794 - 1859)
Child	Judith Steveson (1797 - )
Child	Eliza Stevenson (1797 - )
Child	Jane Stevenson (1797 - )
Child	Sarah Stevenson (1797 - )
Child	Martha Stevenson (1799 - 1860)
Child	Larkin Stevenson (1800 - )
Child	Temperance Stevenson (1800 - )
Child	Charles Stevenson Jr. (1806 - )
Child	Joel Stevenson (1808 - )

Father	UNK Steveson ( - )
Sibling	James Steveson ( - )

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