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Delorma Theodore Stevens

Birth	:	27 Mar 1824 Brockville, Leeds and Grenville United Counties, Ontario, Canada
Death	:	11 Aug 1888 Dayton, Columbia County, Washington, USA
Burial	:	Nobe Cemetery, Nobe, Calhoun County, USA
Coordinate	:	38.9813000, -81.0380300
Plot	:	BLK B, LOT 68, SEC 05
Description	:	m: Sarah Anne Conger 30 May 1852 in Putnam Co, MO children: Eli Gafford, William Murry, Deltha Mae, Franklin Alexander and Rufus Miller Delorma Theodore Stevens went to Iowa from Canada to be with his brother Frederick in 1848. Delorma taught school at various times - South Exline in Iowa and later in Missouri. In the first few years in Iowa, before his marriage, he was doing well and in February 1851 advised those in Canada who did not own a farm not to purchase one there. "Farmers do not haft to work as hard here as they do... Read More	m: Sarah Anne Conger 30 May 1852 in Putnam Co, MO children: Eli Gafford, William Murry, Deltha Mae, Franklin Alexander and Rufus Miller Delorma Theodore Stevens went to Iowa from Canada to be with his brother Frederick in 1848. Delorma taught school at various times - South Exline in Iowa and later in Missouri. In the first few years in Iowa, before his marriage, he was doing well and in February 1851 advised those in Canada who did not own a farm not to purchase one there. "Farmers do not haft to work as hard here as they do there. Never buy one foot of land in that part of the world for you can get land here for one dollar twenty-five cents per acre that is better and more of it for there is no rocks here to jam one's toes or to smash against." The first school taught in the Caldwell Townhip, Appanoose County, was taught by D. T. in 1849, in a cabin on the farm owned by his brother F. A. Stevens. In the 1850 census he lived with his brother Frederick A. Stevens in Appanoose County, Iowa. He had taught in Schuler County, Missouri where niece Elizabeth and Sarah Ayres had gone with him. That year he lived with his brother Frederick, two of Frederick's children and five of Cousin Ruth's were attending the school. At the time "the Chariton River is so high that the mills are stopt and there is not much chance for meal but we can make hominy and we have plenty of milk." He did not know how he would do for a winter coat as the old one was getting pretty ragged. After marriage to Sarah Conger, his fortunes and his outlook changed. Brother Miller's wife, Delight Byington, was sick with Tuberlocus all of her short married life, and at her death in 1858, his brother Rufus Miller, who was returning to Canada, offered his bedding and sheets to Delorma. Did this bedding effect the health of Delorma's family? Delorma had married May 30, 1852 in Putnam County, Missouri, Miss Sarah Anne Conger who was born 17 February 1833 in Pennsylvania, the daughter of Moses Conger and Elizabeth Powell. In a letter to his mother dated June 17, 1852, telling her of his marriage two weeks earlier, he said: "...before that I wanted nothing but a wife but since then I find that I want everything but a wife. I live about a quarter from Adolphuis (his brother) on a place he bought last winter. I must tell you that we have nothing to commence with. I have not father or mother to run to when I want something as others have done. My wants are so many that I will not attempt to list them." In the same letter he tells brother Miller "...I have taught school 14 months since I have been in this country: 3 months of the time I got ten dollars a month and 12 for the rest of the time. I am working on a farm this season but it looks to me now that if I raise enough to eat I will do well for the crops look weakly. I intend to put up a brick kiln after harvest." On the 14 of November of 1852..."I put in about nine acres of corn which I think will make our bread if we do not eat too much nor waste any. And I raised 40 bu. of buckwheat from one peck of seed so that we will have some pancakes if we can get grease to cook them in and molasses to put on them and some beans also and some other vegetable... Tell mother that Sarah has not got any flannel dress for the winter nor have I any stuff for any kind for a jacket." Sometimes he would teach school, sometimes return to farming, but the weather and the crops were unpredictable. He stayed on at his brother's farm for four years when he planned to move perhaps to Nebraska or Kansas, but he did not move for a few more years. On October 1, 1856, he bought 40 acres of Government land in Putnam County, Missouri. The Land Patent Document number was 8399. On December 9, 1860, he wrote from Caldwell in Appanouse County, Iowa - "...we are always complaining about the hard times, but for me, I am glad they are no worse. We have plenty of corn this year and hogs enough to make our meat out of...I hardly know what we are going to do without some winter clothes for we cannot get them without money and I have not got that. Hogs is bringing a very good price but I do not have any to spare...I must tell you we have another boy. He was born the 6th day of August. He has not been very harty since he was born but he is getting some better of late. We call him Franklin...The State of religion - It seems to be a cold time in these parts. Politics has taken control of the mind so much so that nothing else is thought of when preachers get up in the pulpit..." In spite of the above, on 10 December 1860, he purchased another 40 acres of Government land (Patent # 4652 for cash) in Putnam County which adjoins the land he bought in 1856. From Caldwell on February 21, 1864 he wrote: "We had a very severe winter here. Chickens, hogs, cattle and even people froze to death. The snow was very deep in some places, higher than the fences. We have had very pleasant weather, though, for the last three weeks. Most of the people are making sugar now have camps were they make the sugar. Some have made over two-hundredweight already. Times continue to be hard. Nothing can be purchased except at high prices. It is a good time for merchants to enrich themselves..."{it was during the Civil War). In a letter to his brother Rufus Miller in Canada, on April 12, 1868 he wrote: "It is very hard for me to know how I am to make the trip as I did not raise much of a crop last year. I have to buy all of my feed and bread until I can raise it and I have nothing to buy with...I was at a Methodist Quarterly Meeting today and heard a very good sermon.... The prices of stock and grain are good - horses $125 to $175, cows from 25 to 35, hogs 5 cents a pound, no demand for fat hogs, seed wheat $2 per bu., whiskey $2.00 a gallon. ...Sarah says that she is not a going to meeting any more because she has no cloths fit to wear to meeting. Your namesake has no shoes and to tell the truth we are hard run indeed! Times were still bad December 18, 1869. "...It takes me hard scratching to make the ends meet. I do not know whether I can get the children clothed so they can go to school...I am afraid of losing my land if I don't make a raise some way...As for the state of religion, it is a cold as the weather. We have preaching once a month in our church." In the summer of 1870, D. T. and family had moved back to Iowa and llived on a farm in the Caldwell Township. In 1880, D. T. and Sarah were living on a farm in the Cunningham Township of Chariton County, Missouri. Living with them were their sons Frank and Rufus. In 1883, Delorma got started with a homestead near Pampa, Whitman County. He, his wife and three of his sons went west to Pampa, Whitman County, in Washington Territory along with Cousin Ruth Ayers Shaw and family. On December 14, 1885 he wrote, "...We have wandered off to Washington Territory. I like this country very well. So far it is a new country and it has many inconveniences but I think it will get better in a short time. Railroads are being build close to us..." On January 17, 1886, Frank Stevens, son of Delorma, wrote to Canada: "...father can't get up or dress himself.... We are having a rough time of it for mother is sick and has been for some time..." Delorma wrote from Pampa on September 23, 1886: "...As a general thing it is very healthy in this country. We have had a very dry season in these parts this season...our crops were Very light. We did not have over one fourth of a crop and we cut some of our wheat for hay and some did not cut it - it would not pay to cut it. ...I do not know how it will turn out for with me. My preemption runs out in January next. If I can not prove up on it I can homestead it if I do it before the Preemption runs out and if I stay on it for five years form the time I preempted it, it will be mine and it takes $22.00 to homestead a quarter section. So if Cousin George can send me the $50.00 he owes me by December it will save me.... Every citizen in entitled to three rites - one homestead rite, one preemption rite, and one timber culture rite. To homestead one must make it his permanent home for five years and pay the filing price of $22.00 and the officer's fee of $2.50. For a timber rite, ten acres must be for ten years in timber trees not over four feet apart and there must be two witnesses. A Preemption rite must have improvements made on it and is bought at $2.50 an acre." (Preemption is a claim started by another then abandoned.) Delorma died August 11, 1888 at Dayton a year after receiving the Legacy of $200 from his mother's Will. His brother Miller was the Executor of their mother's considerable estate. Delorma had been surprised to learn that his mother--who was blind-- had lived so long. Sarah was able to obtain title to the land, then sold it and returned to Chariton County, Missouri to live with her brother. Delorma is buried in the Old Section of the City Cemetery of Dayton, Columbia County, in Washington State. The cemetery grounds are mowed and kept clean. The cemetery has many large shade trees and it is in a quiet area overlooking the town. The cemetery on just off 4th Street on the Eckler Mountain Road but within the city limits. The cemetery records are housed at the Dayton City Library. Sarah was ill a great deal of the time. Delorma found it difficult coping with illness in the family. But she outlived her husband who died at age 64. She died 23 Feb 1913 at age 80 in the Cunningham Township of Chariton County, Missouri. She is buried in the Lakewood Cemetery at Sumner, Missouri.

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Where is Delorma Theodore Stevens's memorial?
Delorma Theodore Stevens's memorial is located at: Nobe Cemetery, Nobe, Calhoun County, USA.
When did Delorma Theodore Stevens death?
Delorma Theodore Stevens death on 11 Aug 1888 in Dayton, Columbia County, Washington, USA
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Latitude: 38.9813000
Longitude: -81.0380300

Family Members:

Parent

Spouse

Sarah Conger Stevens

(1833 - 1913)

Siblings

Children

Eli Gafford Stevens

(1854 - 1927)

William Murry Stevens

(1855 - 1938)

Franklin Alexander “F. A.” Stevens

(1860 - 1922)

Rufus Miller Stevens

(1862 - 1950)

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Nearby Cemetories:

1. Nobe Cemetery
Nobe, Calhoun County, USA
Coordinate: 38.9813000, -81.0380300

2. Big Springs Cemetery
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Coordinate: 38.9850006, -81.0708008

3. Trace Fork United Methodist Church Cemetery
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Coordinate: 38.9743580, -81.0005560

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Coordinate: 38.9894000, -81.0800000

5. Pleasant Hill Cemetery
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Coordinate: 38.9508018, -81.0627975

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Coordinate: 38.9668999, -81.0911026

7. Ayers Cemetery
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Coordinate: 38.9422222, -81.0058333

8. Fluharty Cemetery
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Coordinate: 39.0147018, -81.0982971

9. Chestnut Grove Baptist Church Cemetery
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Coordinate: 38.9340420, -80.9885860

10. Yoak Cemetery
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Coordinate: 38.9703865, -81.1154938

11. Cloverleaf Cemetery
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Coordinate: 39.0022011, -81.1121979

12. Gainer Cemetery
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Coordinate: 39.0019900, -81.1126800

13. Fox Cemetery
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Coordinate: 39.0271988, -81.0931015

14. Norman Ridge United Methodist Church Cemetery
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Coordinate: 38.9687900, -81.1175100

15. Taylor Cemetery
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Coordinate: 38.9801760, -81.1199320

16. Mount Liberty Cemetery
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Coordinate: 39.0086390, -80.9616440

17. Tanner Baptist Church Cemetery
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Coordinate: 38.9814310, -80.9480630

18. Hunt Cemetery
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Coordinate: 38.9573700, -81.1239100

19. Goff Cemetery
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Coordinate: 39.0361530, -80.9774200

20. Good Shepherd Catholic Cemetery
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Coordinate: 38.9811830, -80.9447050

21. N.H. Frederick Cemetery
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Coordinate: 39.0525520, -81.0169120

22. Three Poplar Cemetery
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Coordinate: 38.9628600, -80.9445500

23. Roseville Church Cemetery
Gilmer County, USA
Coordinate: 39.0207880, -80.9547600

24. Burnt House United Methodist Church Cemetery
Burnt House, Ritchie County, USA
Coordinate: 39.0487301, -80.9904470