Stevenson, Miles

Born: 1807-06-02 Kentucky

Died: 1868-05-13 Menard County, Illinois

Stevenson came to Sangamon County, Illinois, around 1822, settling in Cartwright Township. In 1828, he married Deborah Irwin, with whom he had seven children. In the 1840s, Stevenson and his family relocated to Menard County, Illinois. In 1850, he was farming in Menard County and owned real estate valued at $1,000. In 1852, Deborah Stevenson died, and in 1853, Miles married Nancy Williams.

Gravestone, Irwin Cemetery, Pleasant Plains, IL; Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, Sangamon County, 27 November 1828, 24 November 1853, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Menard County, IL, 338; John Carroll Power and S. A. Power, History of the Early Settlers of Sangamon County, Illinois (Springfield, IL: Edwin A. Wilson, 1876), 685.