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Kelsey Stevens
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3 February 1808 – 10 October 1859
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BIRTH: Lena Stevens Notes.
MARRIAGE: Lena Stevens Notes.
DEATH: Lena Stevens Notes.
BURIAL: Lena Stevens Notes.
CENSUS: 1850 Census; Harrison Twp., Potter Co., Pa., Farmer, aged 42, born NY.
!The following account of Kelsey Stevens was told on a Sunday afternoon, March 9, 1919, by Minerva Stevens Stone: "I remember when we moved from Freetown [Cortland County, New York], Harrison [Potter County, Pennsylvania]. I was fifteen years old at the time and we had been planning all winter on moving to Pennsylvania in the spring; in fact father [Kelsey Stevens] had come through in the winter with one load of such things as we could spare from our regular housekeeping needs until spring. The spring was advanced that year and the weather had been so warm and pleasant that we planned to leave April 11th. We drove over to Grandfather Watrous', my mother's parents, to spend the last night in Freetown. In the morning we awoke to find the ground covered with snow and the weather disagreeably cold. Winter wraps were all packed and to make our family comfortable for the journey some wraps had to be unpacked, other garments were borrowed from Grandmother Watrous, to be returned by Carey Watrous who was driving one of the loads of goods while Father drove the other. The entire journey was cold and miserable. It was a most unpleasent trip in the face of leaving all our relatives behind and the thought of coming into this most unsettled section of Pennsylvania. After five days we reached thelocation for our new home. Uncle Carey returned to Freetown. We settled on a farm about one and one half mile north-east of the present village of Harrison Valley. There we lived for about five years, then sold it to Ed Doud and moved to a farm farther up the hill which was later owned by Wakefield Hubbard. It was on this farm that we lived when I was married to Nelson Stone and when the boys, George, Jason, and Sylvester went to war [Civil War]. George and Jason enlisted their services at the beginning of the war. Sylvester and my husband Nelson did not go until the last year of the war. My father was a salesman of lightning rods, a part-time job with farming. While on business in Olean, New York, he was taken ill and died October 10, 1859. He was buried there owing to the difficulty of bringing the body home in those days. Mother was the only member of the immediate family with him in Olean. With father gone, the head of the household rested upon the eldest son, Sylvester. But he, as well as Jason and George, were away at war. That left only Eugene, a young boy of twelve, at home. When Nelson and I were married we went to keeping house on the farm just a little above and across the road from my people. We continued to own that farm until Nelson's death. Now our son Dell owns it. During my husband's service in the war, I went to live with my mother. She gave me the parlor room. And there baby Dell and I lived until Nelson came back from the army."
Beebe; History of Potter County; p. 82: Kelsey Stevens, the ancestor of a well-known family, settled in 1849 on a farm 1 1/2 miles north of Harrison Valley.
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- on a Sunday afternoon, March 9, 1919, by Minerva Stevens Stone: "I remember when we moved from Freetown [Cortland County, New York], Harrison [Potter County, Pennsylvania]. I was fifteen years old at the time
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