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The Ancestors of Cleon Stevenson and Jewel Tuttle Our earliest Stevenson ancestor that we have been able to identify is Robert Stevenson, who married Christian Reid in Low Church Parish in the town of Paisley, in the shire (or county) of Renfrew, Scotland on June 2, 1744. They had seven children, the youngest being Michael, born August 20, 1761 in Paisley. He married Margaret Pollock in 1784 at Neilston Parish in Barrhead, Renfrewshire. (See Pollock history). They had eight children, and the second youngest, Michael, born September 10, 1798 married Janet Telfer, daughter of Thomas Telfer and Janet Brice. (Telfer was also sometimes spelled Telford.) Michael and Janet came to the U.S. in about 1843 with their children, and received a series of federal land grants in the Randolph, County Illinois area where they farmed. Their son, Robert, born in 1821, was a harnessmaker and married Elizabeth Sands, who was born in 1837 in County Londonderry, Ireland, the daughter of James Sands and Jane Voyle. (Her sister, Mary Ann Sands, married Archibald McCauley, and was the grandmother of Sadie McCauley.) Five of their sons, William, Jack, Sam, Edward and Tom played instruments and formed the Stevenson Boys Band, playing at parties and fairs in the area. Their son Edward, born August 3, 1879, married Sadie McCauley in 1907 in Washington County, Illinois. Sadie was the daughter of Archibald McCauley and Mary Elizabeth Hemphill. Archibald descended from Joseph and Mariah McCauley (also spelled McAuley) of Ireland; their son Archibald, born in 1816 in County Londonderry, Ireland, married Mary Ann Sands, sister of Elizabeth. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sadie McCauley's mother, Mary Elizabeth Hemphill, was the daughter of Hugh Hemphill and Nancy McKinney who came to Washington County, Illinois from Ireland in 1867. Hugh was the son of John Hemphill and Mary Reid, who came to America in 1863, living in Illinois for several years before moving to their daughter's home in Bloomington, Indiana. John's father, Hugh Hemphill was born about 1770 and lived in County Antrim, Ireland near the town of Coleraine. Some of their children emigrated to Australia, but John, Esther and Matthew all sailed to the U.S. The origins of the Hemphill line are in Ayrshire, Scotland, moving to Northern Ireland in the 1600's at the beginning of the Plantation of Ulster. John Hemphill married Sarah Lyons and although they stayed in Ireland, her brother James, born in 1777 came to Marissa, Illinois and settled there with his family. Both the Hemphills and Lyons were Presbyterian. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Edward Stevenson and Sadie McCauley had three children: Cleon, Ivan, and Lola. Cleon married Jewel Tuttle, daughter of Albert Wesley Tuttle and Lizzie Jane Gideon. Albert's mother, Maude Tuttle was the daughter of Henry Clay Tuttle and Julia A. Woods. Julia, whose father was from Scotland and mother was Cherokee, was born in Christian County, Missouri. Her parents were killed when their farm was raided by vigilantes or bushwackers, possibly the post-civil war gang known as the Bald Knobbers. Julia and her sister Mattie were raised by the Johnsons, on a neighboring farm. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lizzie Jane Gideon, Jewel Tuttle's mother, was a descendant of James Isham Gideon. James Isham was born in Cork, Ireland in 1748. He and his two brothers sailed to Norfolk, Virginia in August of 1764. When the Revolutionary War broke out, all three brothers joined to fight against the British, his brother Frank being killed in battle. James married Martha 'Patty' Mills in 1787 in North Carolina and eventually settled to farm in Hawkins County, Tennessee. Their youngest son, John, a clockmaker, married Mary 'Polly' Evans and traveled to Christian County, Missouri on foot in 1849 due to unrest in the south over slavery. They had thirteen children, including two sets of twins. One of the twins, George Washington Gideon, born in 1836, married Martha Jane Logan in Stone County, Missouri in 1855. He enlisted in the 24th Missouri Infantry in 1861 and served four years in the Union Army during the Civil War. His wife, Martha Jane, descended from Anthony Logan and Agnes Curry who were married in Goochland County, Virginia in 1759. Their son Alexander Logan married Jeannie Sadler and served in the Revolutionary War for Virginia. The youngest of their eight children, Alexander Thomas Logan, married Eliza Turner in 1836 in Virginia and later moved to Christian County, Missouri. Their daughter, Martha Jane was one of four Logans who married members of the Gideon family. George Washington Gideon and Martha Jane Logan's son, James Franklin Gideon, married Sarah 'Ollie' Stout and they were the parents of Lizzie Jane Gideon. The Gideons and Logans are early American colonial families whose descendants were pioneers, among the first to migrate westward and settle the Missouri frontier. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Photographs of several of the family members described above are listed on the Stevenson Family Page. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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To correspond with other STEVENSON researchers, please sign the STEVENSON guestbook below. Be sure to name your early Stevenson ancestors so others sharing common ancestors can find you. Drury, Gideon, Gidley, Pollock, and Mignier dit Lagacé guestbooks are on those family pages. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
