Father: James W. Stevens Mother: Mary Jane Jackson Birth date and place: October 4, 1813, Harrison County, Indiana Birth date and place:1829, Kentucky, probably Fleming County Death date and place: October, 1876 Jewell County, Kansas Death date and place: between 1900 and 1905, Jewell County, Kansas Marriage date and place:1848, Keokuk county, Iowa Marriage date and place:1848, Keokuk county, Iowa Parents:Abraham Stevens , Rebecca? possibly Crandall Parents: John Jackson, Mahala Williams James W. Stevens was married in Harrison county, Indiana August 14, 1838 to Martha Boley, daughter of Isaac and Mary Jemison Boley. All of their children were born in Indiana. By 1850 Martha had apparently died, as in August of 1849 in Keokuk County, Iowa James W. Stevens was married to Mary Jane Jackson. Their first child had apparently been born before the marriage and was named Martha Boley Stevens. James W. Stevens bought land in Keokuk County, Iowa in June of 1848. the deed record says that he was "of Lee County, Iowa", so apparently The Stevens family, or he by himself first, were in Lee County, Iowa, before coming to Keokuk. (Lee county is in the southeast corner of Iowa, Ft. Madison being the county seat. Keokuk County is about halfway between Lee county and the city of Des Moines.) By 1860 this family was living in Mercer County, Illinois. But they seem to have spent the years 1854 and 1856 somewhere in Missouri as their second two children were born in Missouri. By 1860 Mary A, Stevens has married a younger brother of her stepmother. and has a child 3 years old. Then in the census of 1870 the family is back in Keokuk County, Iowa, Martha having married John C. Brown by this time and Mahala having married James Beasley. In about 1874 or so the Stevens family moved to Jewell County, Kansas, Grant township. They are listed in the 1875 Kansas state census. James W. Stevens died in 1876 according to a letter in possession of one of the cousins in Indiana that I corresponded with in Indiana. Mary Jane Stevens applies for and receives land under the homestead act. Their son Jacob is also living in Jewell County and receives land under the homestead act. She sold the land about 1900 and is not in the 1905 Kansas state census or the 1910 US census, so apparently died soon thereafter. Children, by first wife Abraham B. born about1835 Mary A. born about1837 James Jackson Julia born about 1838 Isaac N. born about 1840 John A. born about 1842 Children by Mary Jane Jackson: Martha Boley 1849-1924 John C. Brown Mahala M. born about 1851 in Iowa James Beasley Jacob M. born about 1854 in Missouri Elizabeth born about 1856 in Missouri Robert Regester Rebecca B. born about 1859 in Illinois Georgia Ellen born about 1863 in Illinois Sarah born about 1867 in Illinois