Category Archives: Stevens

Stevens – Mark, Tim, Dave, Don, and Jerry Stevens

Posted on September 17, 2013 by renebaron

These are five of my thirteen cousins. They are the children of Bill and Patty Stevens. Bill is my father’s (Henry Burl Stevens Jr) brother. He and his family lived in Indiana and we lived in California. Every time we … Continue reading →

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Stevens – Harry S. Truman

Posted on July 17, 2013 by renebaron

I appears that my new found cousin was correct, I am distantly related to Harry S Truman. You don’t have to go very far back to find Shipps in my family. My Grandfather Stevens’ mother was Minnie Blanch Shipp. That … Continue reading →

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Stevens – Henry Burl Stevens Sr.

Posted on April 15, 2013 by renebaron

This is my father’s father. At this age, he would have been living with his father, Cary Stevens, and his mother, Minnie Bell Shipp Stevens at the home of her father, William Henry Shipp and four of her sisters in … Continue reading →

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Stevens – Tank or Motorcycle?

Posted on March 21, 2013 by renebaron

I finally received the information I requested from the National Archives on my father’s military service. There wasn’t much because it appears that his files were burned in a fire in the Archives in 1973. They pieced together what little … Continue reading →

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Stevens – Henry Burl Stevens Jr-Military

Posted on March 13, 2013 by renebaron

I always knew my father served in WWII and drove a tank but I never knew much about what he had done and where he had served. Now that I am very interested, my father is gone and I can’t … Continue reading →

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Stevens – Barbara Mary Stevens McKay

Posted on March 8, 2013 by renebaron

This is my Aunt Barbara, my father’s sister. She was born on 27 June 1931 in Indiana to Georgia Mary Coakley Stevens and Henry Burl Stevens Sr. She was 7 years younger than my dad. He thought the sun rose … Continue reading →

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Stevens – A tough looking gang

Posted on March 8, 2013 by renebaron

You might think that this is a tough looking gang of “thugs”. But, a closer looks reveals these thugs to be Henry Burl Stevens Jr, Tom, Bill and dad, Henry Burl Stevens Sr. sitting on the front porch of their … Continue reading →

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Stevens – HB Stevens Home From The War

Posted on March 6, 2013 by renebaron

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

Posted on March 6, 2013 by renebaron

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. ?

Posted on February 26, 2013 by renebaron

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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