Lewis Stephens

L. Granville Stephens, farmer and stock dealer of Washington County, Ark.,
was born in Monroe County, Tenn., May 1, 1859. His father, Lewis Stephens,
was born in Rowan County, N. C., April 26, 1811, and until fifteen years of age
resided in his native State. He was then taken by his father, Richard Stephens,
who was a soldier in the War of 1812, to Tennessee, and was there married to
Miss Elizabeth D. Dyer, a native of that State. They came to Washington
County, Ark., in 1869, and in 1874 purchased the farm on which he now resides,
and on which his son, L. Granville, was reared to manhood. The latter received
a good education in the school at Viney Grove, and after attaining a suitable
age took charge of his'father'sfarm, which he has now managed for about
eight years. He is largely eng!lged in buying and shipping stock, shipping nine
car loads in 1887, besides selling a large amount of stock at home. The home
farm consists of 180 acres of good bottom land, on Moore's Creek, all of which
is fenced, and 100 acres under cultivation. He has two other farms of eighty
acres each, with nearly all under cultivation, besides forty acres of timber land.
His mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Stephens, is a member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church.