A. R. Hogue: Part Two, Personal Sketches, p. 81, 82

Isaiah Stephens. 1837

Isaiah Stephens lives on the breaks of the Cumberland Plateau, ten miles south of Jamestown, and is a native of the county. His father was David Stephens. Grandfather Thomas Stephens came to Fentress County from near the South Carolina coast when this section was a wilderness. His mother, Sarah Long, was born in South Carolina, and came with her father, Henry Long, and settled on Indian Creek on a part of what is now the J. C. Smith Farm. Indians were then plentiful on this creek. From this fact the creek derived its name.

He is a member of the M. E. Church. He was marrie~ to Polly Ann Greer in 1863 and Sarah Hood in 1898.

One of his brothers was a soldier in the Mexican War and died in the service. John, Russell, David and Edward Stephens were his other brothers, and are the ancestors of nearly all the Stephen's now living in the county. All have been farmers, and respected, law-abiding citizens of the county.

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