Page:The Stephenson Family (1906).pdf/86

 worsted. He died in Alabama. Harriet lives with her son, James Steenson, on a farm near Mount Hope, Alabama.

James Monroe, the youngest son of Hodge L. Stephenson and his wife, Eliza P. Wasson, was born in Lawrence County, near Mount Hope, Alabama, August 10, 1840. He was educated in the common schools. He was a very dutiful, industrious, good boy. He joined the Cumberland Presbyterian Church when quite young. About the time he arrived at the age of maturity, the Civil War came on. Monroe volunteered for the Confederate service. He made a brave and useful soldier. At the close of the war he actively took up farming and continued to Mount Hope, Alabama, farm successfully till his death, which occurred June 10, 1887. On January 3, 1871, he married Miss Laura Dukeminier, near Mount Hope, Alabama. Miss Dukeminier was a daughter of Alfred Dukeminier. Laura was a most estimable young woman. There were born of this union nine children, six sons and three daughters. They are all married except the youngest son, and all live in the community where they were brought up. Their names are as follows: Charles Michaux, Fredrick L., Russell E., Frank David, Edward Alfred, Deaton Monroe Stephenson. The girls are Lula B.,