Sunday, May 30, 2010

Carnton Plantation near Battle of Franklin and Carnton Civil War Cemetery

The porch where the bodies of four Confederate Generals lay after the bloody Battle of Franklin











Several of our Stevens / Stephens ancestors fought in the Battle of Franklin















Carnton Plantation as it appears today

Copiah County Civil War Veterans


Dedication of the Memorial to Civil War Veterans serving from Copiah County, Mississippi

Some photos from the research over the years


Joel Stevens Family Cemetery at Benton, Yazoo County, Mississippi - recently relocated by the Highway Department
































Branch Beech Family Cemetery at Fairview, Williamson County, Tennessee (now called Beech-Hughes Cemetery)


Martha A. Stevens, wife of Paul Beech, and daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Page) Stevens

Thursday, March 11, 2010

a sample photo from the book


Photo of Joel Stevens Kennard, son of Mary "Polly" Stevens and Michael Kennard and courtesy of Lila Porterfield

Take a look at the Table of Contents . . .


Book Update March 11, 2010

The book has been typeset and sent to the printer in Baltimore.
ONE SOUTHERN STEVENS FAMILY - Descendants of William Stevens and the Related Families of Stephens, Davis, Page, Riggins, Kennard and Wooldridge from North Carolina to Tennessee and Beyond
The result is 269 pages of text plus 20 pages of illustrations plus a 42-page name index.