Who is the incredible pioneer matriarch Mrs. Stevens of Centre and Clearfield County, Pennsylvania?

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Any help in identifying and connecting this remarkable woman would be appreciated, all I have are two death notices reproduced in her profile:

The Adams Sentinel, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Monday, May 24, 1841, p.3.

Died, recently, on Sinnemahoning creek, Clearfield county, Pennsylvania, Mrs. Stevens, at the advanced age of 107 or 108 years. The deceased moved into that county when it was almost a perfect wilderness, from Centre county, at which time she was thought to be an old woman. No one could tell the hardships and sufferings which this woman has undergone—much less would they be believed. She leaves her third husband a widower—and her posterity are unprecedentedly numerous—extending, as we have been informed, even down to the sixth or seventh generation. [Dem Banner.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Wednesday, May 26, 1841, p.2.

Mrs. Stevens died recently on Sinnemahoning creek, Clearfield county, in this State, at the advanced age of 107 years. She moved into that county when it was almost a perfect wilderness, from Centre county.—National Gazette.

Checking the 1840 census in Clearfield County for a Stevens household or 1850 in case her third widower survived that long has come up negative, as have some searches for burials or death records.

Presumably all (or at least most) of her many descendants were from her previous two marriages rather than with Mr. Stevens.

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in Genealogy Help by Nathan Kennedy G2G6 Mach 3 (39.6k points)

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