Son of Zadok Stephenson and Esther Sweem
Civil War Veteran
2 NE Cavalry Co. L
Died Denver, Colorado
Obituary
Printed in the afternoon section of the Denver Post on Saturday April 14, 1928:
J. STEPHENSON, UNION ARMY VETERAN, DIES
Complications Following Operation Cause Demise; Was in 85th Year
Taps were sounded today for a blue-coated veteran of Gettysburg and Chickamauga, James Stephenson. Complications resulting from an appendicitis operation caused his death at 3 a.m. in St Joseph's Hospital. He was nearly 86 years old.
Mr. Stephenson was in Army service for more than three years. Shortly after the outbreak of the Civil War, he enlisted in Company L, Second Nebraska cavalry. This was one of the regiments that fought the Sioux Indians in the Dakotas.
After a year and a half of Indian fighting, Mr. Stephenson was mustered out. He re-enlisted in Company K, Missouri infantry, and for two years was in the thick of some of the hottest fighting in the civil conflict.
Slightly Wounded in War
He was slightly wounded in an engagaement in Tennessee in the closing years of the war.
Mr. Stephenson was born in Buchanan County, Missouri, July 10,1843. When he was seven, his family moved to Nebraska.
After the war, he was active in surveying work for the government. Mr. Stephenson was one of the men to survey the site of McCook, Nebraska. It was in this town that he spent most of his life.
For a time he also was engagaed in freighting across the plains from St. Joseph, Mo, to Denver by ox train. His wagons brought back lumber on the return trip.
Mr. Stephenson had lived the last two years of this life with his daughter, (Nettie) Mrs. M. S. Jimerson, 2422 Champa St. Denver, CO.
To Be Buried in McCook
G.A.R. services will be held for him here (Denver, CO), after which the body will be removed to McCook for burial.(Note: he was buried in Harris Cemetery, Barada, NE.)
Survivng Mr. Stephenson are six daughters:
Mrs. Esther Palmer, Pender, Ne
Mrs. Ellen Beal, Wynmore, Ne
Mrs. Anna Dewey, Garber, Okla
Mrs. Pauline Hayes, St. Louis,Mo.
Mrs. Grace Randall, Fall City, Ne
Mrs. Nettie Zadock Jimmerson, Denver, CO.
a son: James E. Stephenson, St. Joseph, Mo.
a sister, Mrs. T.E. Bloom, Marshalltown, Iowa(note: Mrs. Bloom was actually his daughter, Mary Elizabeth Stephenson, not his sister) and three brothers, Jerome and Curtis Stephenson, both of Fairmount, Ne. and Zadock Stephenson, Raymond, Ne.
Mr. Stephenson was a member of A. Lincoln Post No. 4, Grand Army of the Republic. He was a member of the Christian Church.
End of Obituary
James S. Stephenson married Sarah Malvinie Smith in 1866 in Barada, Richardson Co. Ne. She died in 1903.
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Civil War Veteran
2 NE Cavalry Co. L
Died Denver, Colorado
Obituary
Printed in the afternoon section of the Denver Post on Saturday April 14, 1928:
J. STEPHENSON, UNION ARMY VETERAN, DIES
Complications Following Operation Cause Demise; Was in 85th Year
Taps were sounded today for a blue-coated veteran of Gettysburg and Chickamauga, James Stephenson. Complications resulting from an appendicitis operation caused his death at 3 a.m. in St Joseph's Hospital. He was nearly 86 years old.
Mr. Stephenson was in Army service for more than three years. Shortly after the outbreak of the Civil War, he enlisted in Company L, Second Nebraska cavalry. This was one of the regiments that fought the Sioux Indians in the Dakotas.
After a year and a half of Indian fighting, Mr. Stephenson was mustered out. He re-enlisted in Company K, Missouri infantry, and for two years was in the thick of some of the hottest fighting in the civil conflict.
Slightly Wounded in War
He was slightly wounded in an engagaement in Tennessee in the closing years of the war.
Mr. Stephenson was born in Buchanan County, Missouri, July 10,1843. When he was seven, his family moved to Nebraska.
After the war, he was active in surveying work for the government. Mr. Stephenson was one of the men to survey the site of McCook, Nebraska. It was in this town that he spent most of his life.
For a time he also was engagaed in freighting across the plains from St. Joseph, Mo, to Denver by ox train. His wagons brought back lumber on the return trip.
Mr. Stephenson had lived the last two years of this life with his daughter, (Nettie) Mrs. M. S. Jimerson, 2422 Champa St. Denver, CO.
To Be Buried in McCook
G.A.R. services will be held for him here (Denver, CO), after which the body will be removed to McCook for burial.(Note: he was buried in Harris Cemetery, Barada, NE.)
Survivng Mr. Stephenson are six daughters:
Mrs. Esther Palmer, Pender, Ne
Mrs. Ellen Beal, Wynmore, Ne
Mrs. Anna Dewey, Garber, Okla
Mrs. Pauline Hayes, St. Louis,Mo.
Mrs. Grace Randall, Fall City, Ne
Mrs. Nettie Zadock Jimmerson, Denver, CO.
a son: James E. Stephenson, St. Joseph, Mo.
a sister, Mrs. T.E. Bloom, Marshalltown, Iowa(note: Mrs. Bloom was actually his daughter, Mary Elizabeth Stephenson, not his sister) and three brothers, Jerome and Curtis Stephenson, both of Fairmount, Ne. and Zadock Stephenson, Raymond, Ne.
Mr. Stephenson was a member of A. Lincoln Post No. 4, Grand Army of the Republic. He was a member of the Christian Church.
End of Obituary
James S. Stephenson married Sarah Malvinie Smith in 1866 in Barada, Richardson Co. Ne. She died in 1903.
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Son of Zadok Stephenson and Esther Sweem
Civil War Veteran
2 NE Cavalry Co. L
Died Denver, Colorado
Obituary
Printed in the afternoon section of the Denver Post on Saturday April 14, 1928:
J. STEPHENSON, UNION ARMY VETERAN, DIES
Complications Following Operation Cause Demise; Was in 85th Year
Taps were sounded today for a blue-coated veteran of Gettysburg and Chickamauga, James Stephenson. Complications resulting from an appendicitis operation caused his death at 3 a.m. in St Joseph's Hospital. He was nearly 86 years old.
Mr. Stephenson was in Army service for more than three years. Shortly after the outbreak of the Civil War, he enlisted in Company L, Second Nebraska cavalry. This was one of the regiments that fought the Sioux Indians in the Dakotas.
After a year and a half of Indian fighting, Mr. Stephenson was mustered out. He re-enlisted in Company K, Missouri infantry, and for two years was in the thick of some of the hottest fighting in the civil conflict.
Slightly Wounded in War
He was slightly wounded in an engagaement in Tennessee in the closing years of the war.
Mr. Stephenson was born in Buchanan County, Missouri, July 10,1843. When he was seven, his family moved to Nebraska.
After the war, he was active in surveying work for the government. Mr. Stephenson was one of the men to survey the site of McCook, Nebraska. It was in this town that he spent most of his life.
For a time he also was engagaed in freighting across the plains from St. Joseph, Mo, to Denver by ox train. His wagons brought back lumber on the return trip.
Mr. Stephenson had lived the last two years of this life with his daughter, (Nettie) Mrs. M. S. Jimerson, 2422 Champa St. Denver, CO.
To Be Buried in McCook
G.A.R. services will be held for him here (Denver, CO), after which the body will be removed to McCook for burial.(Note: he was buried in Harris Cemetery, Barada, NE.)
Survivng Mr. Stephenson are six daughters:
Mrs. Esther Palmer, Pender, Ne
Mrs. Ellen Beal, Wynmore, Ne
Mrs. Anna Dewey, Garber, Okla
Mrs. Pauline Hayes, St. Louis,Mo.
Mrs. Grace Randall, Fall City, Ne
Mrs. Nettie Zadock Jimmerson, Denver, CO.
a son: James E. Stephenson, St. Joseph, Mo.
a sister, Mrs. T.E. Bloom, Marshalltown, Iowa(note: Mrs. Bloom was actually his daughter, Mary Elizabeth Stephenson, not his sister) and three brothers, Jerome and Curtis Stephenson, both of Fairmount, Ne. and Zadock Stephenson, Raymond, Ne.
Mr. Stephenson was a member of A. Lincoln Post No. 4, Grand Army of the Republic. He was a member of the Christian Church.
End of Obituary
James S. Stephenson married Sarah Malvinie Smith in 1866 in Barada, Richardson Co. Ne. She died in 1903.
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Civil War Veteran
2 NE Cavalry Co. L
Died Denver, Colorado
Obituary
Printed in the afternoon section of the Denver Post on Saturday April 14, 1928:
J. STEPHENSON, UNION ARMY VETERAN, DIES
Complications Following Operation Cause Demise; Was in 85th Year
Taps were sounded today for a blue-coated veteran of Gettysburg and Chickamauga, James Stephenson. Complications resulting from an appendicitis operation caused his death at 3 a.m. in St Joseph's Hospital. He was nearly 86 years old.
Mr. Stephenson was in Army service for more than three years. Shortly after the outbreak of the Civil War, he enlisted in Company L, Second Nebraska cavalry. This was one of the regiments that fought the Sioux Indians in the Dakotas.
After a year and a half of Indian fighting, Mr. Stephenson was mustered out. He re-enlisted in Company K, Missouri infantry, and for two years was in the thick of some of the hottest fighting in the civil conflict.
Slightly Wounded in War
He was slightly wounded in an engagaement in Tennessee in the closing years of the war.
Mr. Stephenson was born in Buchanan County, Missouri, July 10,1843. When he was seven, his family moved to Nebraska.
After the war, he was active in surveying work for the government. Mr. Stephenson was one of the men to survey the site of McCook, Nebraska. It was in this town that he spent most of his life.
For a time he also was engagaed in freighting across the plains from St. Joseph, Mo, to Denver by ox train. His wagons brought back lumber on the return trip.
Mr. Stephenson had lived the last two years of this life with his daughter, (Nettie) Mrs. M. S. Jimerson, 2422 Champa St. Denver, CO.
To Be Buried in McCook
G.A.R. services will be held for him here (Denver, CO), after which the body will be removed to McCook for burial.(Note: he was buried in Harris Cemetery, Barada, NE.)
Survivng Mr. Stephenson are six daughters:
Mrs. Esther Palmer, Pender, Ne
Mrs. Ellen Beal, Wynmore, Ne
Mrs. Anna Dewey, Garber, Okla
Mrs. Pauline Hayes, St. Louis,Mo.
Mrs. Grace Randall, Fall City, Ne
Mrs. Nettie Zadock Jimmerson, Denver, CO.
a son: James E. Stephenson, St. Joseph, Mo.
a sister, Mrs. T.E. Bloom, Marshalltown, Iowa(note: Mrs. Bloom was actually his daughter, Mary Elizabeth Stephenson, not his sister) and three brothers, Jerome and Curtis Stephenson, both of Fairmount, Ne. and Zadock Stephenson, Raymond, Ne.
Mr. Stephenson was a member of A. Lincoln Post No. 4, Grand Army of the Republic. He was a member of the Christian Church.
End of Obituary
James S. Stephenson married Sarah Malvinie Smith in 1866 in Barada, Richardson Co. Ne. She died in 1903.
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Siblings
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John S Stephenson
1837–1915
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Sarah E. Stephenson Goolsby
1838–1924
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Delphine Ann Stephenson Emigh
1848–1919
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Zadok Benjamin Stephenson
1849–1929
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Lois Esther Stephenson Friend
1852–1934
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Jerome Bonaparte Stephenson
1854–1929
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Candice Margaret Stephenson Robinson
1858–1944
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Stephen Curtis Stephenson
1862–1929
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