JONAS STEVENS. 



MRS. JONAS STEVENS. 



JONAS STEVENS. 



Joseph Stevens, Sr., was either a native of New 

 England or came from England previous to the 

 Eevolutionary war, as he served in that war and had 

 settled in Saratoga County before the war, where 

 some of his children were born. 



Joseph, Sr., and his son, Joseph, Jr., settled in 

 Campbelltown, Steuben Co., about the same time, 

 being March, 1805, — both of whom were farmers. 

 Joseph, Sr., died while a resident in Wheeler, Steuben 

 Co., far advanced in years. He and his wife were 

 members of the Baptist Church at the time of their 

 death. 



Joseph, Jr., and family (except one) were members 

 of the Presbyterian Society. 



Jonas Stevens came to Campbell with his parents 

 March 13, 1805, and has continued to reside here 

 ever since except a few years spent at Monterey. 

 He married Elizabeth, daughter of Jedediah Miller, 

 of Ulysses, N. Y., Sept. 28, 1826. Mrs. Stevens 

 was born Aug. 18, 1807. Of this union five children 

 were born, viz. : George, Hannah, Harmon, Ralph, 

 and Jennie. All are living in Campbell, except 

 Jennie, who resides at Avon, N. Y. Mr. Stevens 

 has been a farmer by occupation, and has endured 

 the privations incident to a pioneer life. 



For more than forty-eight years he and Mrs. 

 Stevens have been living at their present home in 

 Campbell, and he has always been closely identified 

 with the best interests of the town. Mr. and Mrs. 

 Stevens have been members of the Presbyterian 

 Society for more than fifty years, and Mr. Stevens 

 is one of two of the first seven who organized the 

 Presbyterian Church at Campbell. In politics Mr. 

 Stevens is a staunch Republican, and two of his sons, 



Harmon and Ralph, were soldiers in the 107th 

 Regiment, New York Volunteers, in the late war. 

 Ralph lost his right arm during the engagement at 

 Dallas, Ga., in 1864. Harmon and Ralph were 

 both honorably discharged, and are now citizens of 

 Campbell. 



For more than fifty-two years Mr. and Mrs. Stevens 

 have been walking lifers journey together, and now 

 in their advanced years they can look back over 

 those years of labor with the satisfaction of knowing 

 that their children are numbered among the respect- 

 able citizens of Steuben County. 



Jonas Stevens, the subject of this sketch, is of 

 English origin. Jonas, son of Joseph, Jr., and Abi- 

 gail Knowlton Stevens, was born in Sangerfield, 

 Oneida Co., N. Y., March 13, 1803. 



Joseph, Jr., son of Joseph, Sr., was born in Still- 

 water, Saratoga Co., N. Y., Dec. 5, 1771, and died 

 in Campbell, N. Y., Dec. 1, 1843. His wife, Abigail 

 Knowlton, was born in Stillwater, Saratoga Co., 

 N. Y., June 22, 1777, and died in Michigan, Dec. 

 19, 1864. Her remains were brought home and 

 buried by the side of her husband, upon the farm 

 where they spent so many pleasant years together. 



By this marriage Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Stevens had 

 eleven children, all of whom, save the five oldest, 

 were born in Campbell, N. Y., and the others in 

 Sangerfield, Oneida Co., N. Y. Names of children, 

 — Jared, Permelia, Haddassah, Amos, Jonas, Ben- 

 jamin, Joseph, Ralph, Marcus, Almon, and John. 

 All of this large family lived to be men and women, 

 and those who died each reached more than seventy 

 years save two. Tavo others are to-day upwards of 

 seventy-two years of age. 



