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 Texas. A daughter, Tweatie, was born. He died in 1855. Tweatie grew up highly educated. She married Bryan Ardis, of Shreveport, Louisiana. A daughter was born, Tweatie. The mother died. Tweatie Ardis, the child, grew up and was well educated. She was splendidly accomplished. She married Mr. Frame, a wealthy young gentleman of Waukesha, Wisconsin.

Hugh Stewart Stephenson, the fourth son of William Watson Stephenson, married Miss Jane Morrow, near Leighton, Alabama. They went to Arkansas County, Arkansas. He practiced medicine a few years in a very rich malarial country. After three children, Mary Frances, Hugh Watson and William Claiborne, had been born, he and his wife died. Mary Frances is the wife of Mr. Carlile, in Western Texas. Mr. Carlile is following the railroad business on the Texas Pacific.

Hugh Watson, the second child, and first son, of Dr. Hugh Stewart Stephenson, was born near St. Charles, Arkansas, in 1854. His father and mother both died when he was five years old. His grandfather Stephenson, near Mt. Hope, Alabama, reared him. He was educated in the common schools of Mount Hope country. He and Russell M. Cunningham are about the same age. In boyhood they were close neighbors, attended school together, under my tutorage, for several years. They both studied medicine, married cous-