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 the three that I saw. But I saw the photograph of the three. She is a very amiable woman.

The term, "One of the Four," has frequently been used in this book. It was explained before it was used, but, perhaps, it would be well to explain it again. There were Four emigrants, who came from Ireland to America in the year 1772. They settled in South Carolina. They were William, James, Elizabeth and Nancy Stephenson, two sons and two daughters of Robert Stephenson, a Scotchman, who reared a family in County Antrim, near the little town of Ballymoney, Ireland. All our relatives in America, so far as we know, descended from these four, two brothers and two sisters. Hence, any one of these Four emigrants is called "One of the Four."

There is strong circumstantial evidence that Robert Stephenson, of Ireland, had a younger brother named James Stephenson, who reared a family in County Antrim, Ireland, and that some of James' descendants came to America, and that the Stevensons in Fairfield County, South Carolina, are the descendants of the James Stephenson, of Ireland. One of these Fairfield Stevensons was six feet and nine inches high and was familiarly called "Long Robert Stevenson."