Sarah Rosalie Stephens

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SARAH ROSALIE7 HICKS (WILLIAM ABRAHAM6, NA-YE-HI5 CONRAD, JENNIE4 ANI'-WA'YA, OCONOSTOTA3, MOYTOY2, A-MA-DO-YA1) was born May 27, 1832 in Georgia, and died September 20, 1908 in Vinita, OK. She married SPENCER SEAGO STEPHENS September 26, 1858, son of JESS STEPHENS and MALINDA ROACH. He was born 1838 in Flint Dist, CNW, and died March 04, 1912 in Baptist, OK.

Notes for SARAH ROSALIE HICKS:

From a newspaper clipping attached to Miler ap#12686 for grand-niece Maud Hunter nee Williams; (Name of newspaper not provided) "Death of Mrs S S Stephens" Vinita, Okla., Sept 26, (Special); "The death here yesterday of Mrs Spencer S Stephens closes the life of a remarkable woman. She was 76 years old and was the youngest child of William and Sarah Hicks; was born in Georgia where her father had a large plantation, and was chief of the Cherokee Indians in 1826 and 1827. She was reared in luxury but left an orphan early in life. She was adopted into the home of Dr Worcester, then missionary to the Cherokee Indians, where she lived until she was married. She was the mother of ten children and had thirty-two grandchildren. She was one of the foremost instructors among the Indians for many years and lived her whole life among them."

More About SARAH ROSALIE HICKS:

• 1851 Drennan roll: Tahlequah, 532
• 1880 Census [CN]: Delaware, 2216 as Sarah Stephens
• 1890 Census [CN]: Delaware, 3213 as Sarah Stephens
• 1902-07 Dawes roll: card# 2220, roll# 5761 as Sarah R Stephens
• 1906-09 Miller roll: Lometa, IT, ap# 1953, roll# 25577 as Sarah Stephens
• Blood: 3/4 Cherokee
• Clan: Ani'-Wâ'di = Red Paint (Susie Gourd)
• Education: December 26, 1839, New Spring Place Mission School (Jay Hicks, gdn, brother)

Notes for SPENCER SEAGO STEPHENS:

1906 Miller application #2376; "I am the only child of Malinda Stephens [nee Roach] and Jess Stephens. John Harnage was my guardian after my parents died. He drew my emigrant money in 1851."

My note: Spencer was orphaned as a child and raised by John Griffith Harnage who had married Spencer's aunt Lucy. On the 1851 Drennen roll I find Spencer Stephens in Going Snake District, family# 429, along with a Sarah Williams. Family# 428 is Emily Harnage nee Mayfield and her children by this same John Griffith Harnage, Spencers' foster parents. I don't know who this Sarah Williams is, perhaps another foster child that the Harnages raised.

More About SPENCER SEAGO STEPHENS:

• 1851 Drennan roll: Going Snake, 429
• 1880 Census [CN]: Delaware, 2215
• 1890 Census [CN]: Delaware, 3212
• 1902-07 Dawes roll: card# 2220, roll# 5760
• 1906-09 Miller roll: Lometa, OK, ap# 2376, roll# 25576
• Blood: 1/2 Cherokee
• Burial: 1912, Officer's Circle, Nat'l Cem, Ft Gibson, OK
• Graduation: October 1856, Cherokee National Seminary
• Occupation: Bet. 1880 - 1890, School Teacher

Children of SARAH HICKS and SPENCER STEPHENS are:

i. DELIA ERMINA8 STEPHENS, b. July 01, 1859; d. April 23, 1863.

ii. WILLIAM P STEPHENS, b. March 01, 1861; d. March 03, 1861.

iii. CHESTER SEBASTIAN STEPHENS, b. February 01, 1862; d. July 23, 1863.

1416. iv. IDA LORENA STEPHENS, b. March 13, 1865, Ft Gibson, CNW; d. Aft. 1906.

1417. v. INDIANOLA MYRTLE STEPHENS, b. May 27, 1867; d. January 12, 1931.

1418. vi. SPENCER A STEPHENS, JR, b. May 12, 1868.

1419. vii. FLORENCE ISABELLE STEPHENS, b. August 20, 1870; d. Aft. 1906.

1420. viii. ERNEST L STEPHENS, SR, b. April 12, 1872; d. July 14, 1912.

ix. VINNIE REAM STEPHENS, b. February 23, 1874; d. August 17, 1878.

1421. x. WINONA PEARL JESSIE STEPHENS, b. March 07, 1876; d. December 14, 1964.