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 a Revolutionary soldier of Chester County, South Carolina; Hugh W. Stephenson, of Maury County, Tennessee; William Watson Stephenson, of Lawrence County, Alabama, and Felix Claiborne Stephenson, of Marengo County, Alabama, but recently of Texas, was born October 6, 1840, in Itawamba County, Mississippi. He was the first son of F. C. Stephenson and his wife, Polly McGaughey. Polly McGaughey was the second daughter of Col. Washington McGaughey, formerly of Lawrence County, Alabama. William Henry learned the drug business in Linden, Alabama. He has followed that business the most of his life. He went into the Confederate army in 1861. He went with the Eleventh Alabama Regiment direct to Virginia in 1861. He was in General Lee's army during the four years of the war. He participated in all the battles and marches to which that noted Virginia army was sub jected. He never left the army from the time he went into it till the close of the war. He was at the surrender at Appomattox, April 9, 1865. He, at the close of the war, like other young Confederate soldiers, penniless, returned to his home in Mississippi. Henry farmed for four years. October 24, 1869, he married Miss Emma J. Stovall, daughter of George W. Stovall, of Lee County, Mississippi. At the close of the year 1869, he moved to Paris, Texas. There he entered the drug business as clerk. In 1877, he moved to Whitesboro, Texas, and still acted as clerk in a drug store. In 1885 he went to Collinsville, Texas, and commenced business on his own account, where he is now a successful merchant. To him and his wife have been born eleven children, six sons and five daughters. Three of the sons died in infancy. The other three sons having received a good business education, are actively