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Ellenor (Nella) Houghton   (Daughter of Jonathan & Nancy)

Born: 21 Feb 1825, Bedford Township, Upper Canada
Married: 8 Jan 1844, Andrew Stephenson in North Crosby Township, Upper Canada, by Rev. J. Hughes.  He was born 1821 in Ireland, and died 1904 in Grand Traverse Count, Michigan. 
Produced: William Stephenson (b.1844, Canada) (d.8 Feb 1870, Midland Michigan,; m. Unknown (Cause of Death: Inflammation of bowels) (Occupation: 1870, Farmer)
Charles Stephenson (b.1847, Canada)
Henry Stephenson (b.1849, Canada) (Occupation: 1880, Illinois Census, Farming, Mayfield Township, Dekalb Co.)
Mary Stephenson (b.1851, Canada)
Alonzo Stephenson (b.1854, Canada)
Edward Stephenson (b.1859, Illinois) (Occupation: 1880, Illinois Census, Farm laborer, Dekalb Township , Dekalb Co.)
Eliza Stephenson (b.1862, Illinois) (1870 Census of Grand Traverse County, Michigan , Living with her Grand Parents , Jonathan and Nancy Houghton)
Died: 28 Apr 1864,  Mayfield, Dekalb, Co., IL  Buried in Joiner Cemetery Pioneers in the eastern part of Mayfield Township, near where the two branches of the Kiskwaukee River flow together, needed a place to lay their dead in the early 1840's. They chose the top of  a hill  over looking the river to the east and northeast. Unused for over 60 years its cracked and broken stones give names as well as dates on the births and deaths of some of this section's earliest white settlers.
Narrative: * 1860, Illinois Census, Andrew Stephenson: Farm laborer, Mayfield Township, Dekalb Township , Dekalb Co., IL
* 1880, Michigan census, Farm laborer, Mayfield Township, Grand Traverse Co.


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