1797 MARY ANN MIXON, JOHN MIXON (1775), JESSE MIXON (702), JOHN MIXON IV (6), JOHN MIXON III (3), JOHN MIXON II (2), JOHN MIXON I (1)

Mary Ann Mixon was born about 1831 in Perry County, Mississippi. Her parents moved from Marion County to Monroe in Perry County about that time. Sm. abt 1848 to William Mark Stevens, b. Jun 22, 1826, d. abt 1890, bur. Prospect Cemetery, Perry County, MS

William Stevens was born Jun. 22, 1826, Tangipahoa, Louisiana, according to Stevens family history. He was the son of Chauncey Bigelow and Lucy Ferrill Stevens. He and Mary, his wife, are buried Old Prospect Cemetery.

William Stevens enlisted at Augusta, Mississippi, September 17, 1861, in Company "G" 27th Regiment Mississippi Infantry in the Confederate Army. Civil War records show he was wounded and left at hospital at Perryville, Was a prisoner of War having been captured at Harrodsburg, Kentucky, and shipped to Vicksburg, Mississippi, and was exchanged on board. Steamer Metropolitan near Vicksburg on December 4, 1862. He was again in hospital March 4, 1863, by order of surgeon at Chattanooga, Tennessee. He was present for muster August 1863. Captured again November 24, 1863, on Lookout Mountain, and sent to Louisville, Kentucky, and then to Rock Island, and discharged there December 3, 1863.

The date of William Steven's death is not known, but he and three children had died by March 3, 1890. General Chancery Docket Index: Estate of William Stevens (Case No. 44). Final account filed: Citation issued to Mary Stevens, Zack Stevens, b. S. Stevens, William Stevens, Dora Stevens, Sarah Courtney, and child of Mrs. Lucy White, March 3rd. 1890.

It is said Mary Ann Stevens was very ill, but insisted she must visit her daughter, Sarah, Courtney, so a bed was placed on a wagon so Mary Ann could visit Sarah. Mr. Elbert Courtney said he was about four or five years old when his grandmother came to their house. One day he was sent to get his father from the field, and when he returned with his father, his grandmother was dead. Letty Stevens Morren says she was three years old when her grandmother died, so Mary Ann Mixon Stevens died about 1894.

The eldest child Elizabeth Stevens was running one hot day when she was about twelve years old she came to a spring and went in to cool off; the water was very cold and she was unable to walk from that day on. Mrs. Oscar Courtney said she was told, Elizabeth was a cripple, and would get around by sitting in a straight chair and moving it to where she wanted to go, and wore the legs of one chair down to the bottom rungs. She was persevering.

Zackariah Taylor Stevens born about 1850 in Perry County, Mississippi. He was married May 19, 1891, to Dona Gilbert of Bay Springs. He returned to Perry County to live with his brother, Benjamin S. Stevens. His daughter, Cally Cassie Malinda Stevens was reared by her mother who remarried. Cally married a Mr. English and visited her father about 1908. Zackariah Stevens died about 1928 according to nieces, Mattie Stevens Clark and Lettie Stevens Morren.

Census:

1880 Perry, MS, age 50, wife Mary A-48, children: Elizabeth-32, Lucy-19, Benjamin S-13, Emma-11, William-8

Children:

20992 Elizabeth Stevens – b. abt 1848

20993 Zachary Stevens – b. 1850, d. 1928

20994 John Stevens – b. 1851, d.

20995 Sarah Stevens – b. Dec 24, 1855, d. Jul 18, 1929

20996 Lucy Stevens – b. 1861, d. 1930

20997 Benjamin Stonewall Stevens – b. 1867, d. 1947

20998 Emma Stevens – b. 1869, d.

20999 William Wesley Stevens – b. Jan 1, 1873, d. Feb 25, 1966

21000 William Stevens – b. May 16, 1877, d. May 2, 1949, m. 5 May 1895 to Pheba Brown, b. Jun 1828, d. Oct 3, 1962, widow of Asa Mixon (see #1839) Both bur. Prospect Baptist Church Cemetery, Richton, Perry County, MS

21001 Mardis R. Stevens – b. Sep 23, 1919, d. Dec 24, 2010

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