My Stephens ancestry hits a brick wall about the turn of the Nineteenth Century.

• A paper on the background and family of my great-great-great-grandfather Daniel Stephens (1793-1853) of South Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama who married Edith Murhree.  (See also the Murphree ancestry.)
• A paper on Daniel Stephens in the War of 1812

Jeremiah Ellis Stephens biographical statement published in 1889