Benjamin STEPHENS

                   Never married or had children   Moved to Claiborne County, Alabama.  according to Uncle Robert Sandford;s notes.
                  

                   moved to Kentucky, and lived and died on the adjoining farm of General Stephns.  Thier children were Ezekiel, Robert, John, Betsy Wilson, Agnes Riley and Mary Gunning
                  

                   Married a Miss Falconer (or Faulkner) of Fayette County, Kentucky.  Their children were Jan, who married Ezra Fish;  Marion  who married a Jackson;  Benjamin; Albert : John and Joe:  and Almeda, who married Stephen Waite:  Eliza, who married  a brother of the Coveningon attorney known as Governor Fiske.

John Stephens lived on a farm    Notes from Uncle Robert Sandford  2007
                  

                   lived and died in Orange County, Virginia  After his death, Lucy  moved to Cass County, Missouri, doubtless to the home of some of her children.
                  

                   William Stephens, married Louisa Nelson, in Orange County, Virginia  He had one daughter, Anges, and three sons,  Thomas, Lunsford and ABsolum, all residents of Monroe County, Missouri, except theri sister Agnes who married her first cousin William, so n of Benjamin and lived to rear a large family in the "East Bend Neighborhood" of Boone County Kentucky.
                  

                   know as Polly, and marrie dWaller Herndon and lived betwwen Indipendence and Walton, Kentucky.  Their children were Eliza, wo married Fount Riddell, Waller Herndon, Jr., who married RAchal Hughes
( sister of Rebecca Hughes Stephens)  Zachory, who married Mary Jane  Clemmons.
                  

                   In the IGI I found a person that is probably Nancy Waller Stephens sister.  Mary Waller Stephens born in 3 Feb 1789
in , orange Virginia  died on  26 Mar 1873 Bapt on 21 Feb 1998 in the Boise Temple
and Endowed on 19 of Jun 1998 Boise
sealed to parents on 08 Aug 1998
                  

                   according to Uncle Robert Sandford's notes Leonard Stephens married Katherine Sanford, daughter of Richard and Winnifred Sanford, August 19, 1813  (from the bible record of Jack L. Stephens, Dallas , Texas)    Leonard was reared on his father's farm in Kenton, then Campbell County, Kentucky, which he acquired at his father's death and to which he added in acreage until he owned over 2,000 acres.  It was Benjanmin Stephens purpose to locate in Fayette County when he first reached the state of Kentucky, but after a short stay near Bryan ' Station he moved to Kenton County by way of the Old Turkey Foot Road and located three miles west of Independence, where he reared a large family ( as above numerated and where he is buried)   The record on his tombstone reads:
          Benjamin Stephens
          died September 4, 1839
          aged 86 years
          settled here when this was an
          unbroken forest
Leonard Stephens died with considerable wealth and prominence but better still, left behind him an unsmirched name, a high reputation for high moral dealings with his fellowman.

This General Leonard Stephens is the brother of Nancy Stephens Sanford who married Thomas Sanford

(Notes from Uncle Robert SAndford)

General Leonard Stephens came to Kentucky when a boy from Orange County, Virginia, where he
was born March 10, 1791.  His father, Benjanin Stephens, is in all probability a direct descendent of the Richard Stephens of James City County , Virginia.  He was a member of the House of Burgesses; and of the Governor's Council; and was also a Colonel in the Virginia Militia.  In fact, he was a leading citizen and facotr in Virginia about the years 1625-1636.  It will require further search of the Virginia records to establish his connection, but Genjanim Stephens appears to have been a great-grand-song of Richard.  Benjamin Stephens married , as shown by bible records, and record on the tomb-stone, "Dorothy Jemima Waller"  She was a daughter of Colonel John Waller .  (Uncle Robert Sandford's notes)