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Stevens – HB Stevens Home From The War

This is my father, Henry Burl Stevens, and his mother, Georgia Mary Coakley Stevens. Dad was just home on 30 day leave upon his return from Europe after the war in 1945. All three of Georgia’s boys served in the … Continue reading

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Stevens – Small World – Cary Stevens

My husband, Jack, is researching his family at the same time that I’m researching mine. He has just found that his grandfather, Robert Henry Wormworth, was in the Spanish American War serving in the Phillipines in 1900. My great-grandfather, Cary … Continue reading

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Stevens – Why didn’t Cary Stevens and Minnie Blanche Shipp raise Henry Burl Sr. ?

Carrie Stevens and Minnie Bell Shipp were married in 1899. Carrie joined the U.S. Army for a three year term in 1900 when Minnie Blanche was pregnant with their first and only son Henry Burl. Carrie was shipped out to the … Continue reading

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Stevens – H.B. Stevens Jr. sets out on his own

This is Henry Burl Stevens Jr. He used to get mad when he got into trouble with his mother and always packed his little bag and threatened to run away. One day his mother set him and his suitcase outside … Continue reading

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