. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. 0"OSH:TJJL STEIPSIEITS. Joshua Stephens was born in 1793, and was second child, born in Canisteo, of Jedediah Stephens. He was mar- ried Dec. 29, 1811, to Rhoda, daughter of Uriah Stephens, who was son of the first settler of Canisteo Valley. She was born in 1795, and married at the age of sixteen. This couple first settled by themselves in 1815 on Bennett Creek, then a wilderness, on two hu
. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. 0"OSH:TJJL STEIPSIEITS. Joshua Stephens was born in 1793, and was second child, born in Canisteo, of Jedediah Stephens. He was mar- ried Dec. 29, 1811, to Rhoda, daughter of Uriah Stephens, who was son of the first settler of Canisteo Valley. She was born in 1795, and married at the age of sixteen. This couple first settled by themselves in 1815 on Bennett Creek, then a wilderness, on two hundred acres of land, the property now being owned by his children, and on which three of them now reside. They commenced clearing their land, his wife not only attending to the housework in the rude log house, which now stands on the place, but she often assisted him at the log-pile piling brush, and in the gen- eral work of preparing the land for cultivation. At this time on their farm were scattered Indian wigwams, so that their immediate neighbors were the red men of the forest. Mr. Stephens was a warm friend of the Indian, and often befriended them; but other white men were unfriendly, and often had quarrels with them, burnt their wigwams, and tried to drive them away. This so en- raged the Indians that they resolved upon the death of one of their persecutors. Mistaking Mr. Stephens for this man, they shot him in mid-day ,• he was hunting for his oxen in the woods. His death oc- curred Sept. 20, 1825. The mother and her four children—Elizabeth, Abigail, De Witt C,. MRS. RHODA STEPHENS. and George J—were left to meet the obstacles of a life in a new country as best they could, but she proved herself equal to the emergency. Her courage, ambition, executive ability, and perse- verance made her successful. With the aid of her children she went on clearing the land, fencing and cultivating it. Her eldest son, at the time of the death of his father, was only seten years of
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