Calvin S. Stephens (1821 - 1890)

Born 5 Mar 1821 in Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States

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Died 3 Nov 1890 at age 69 in Pauline, Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States

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Biography

Calvin Stephens served in the United States Civil War.
Side: CSA
Regiment(s): Hampton's Legion, South Carolina; Palmetto Sharpshooters Regiment, South Carolina (Jenkins')

MILITARY RECORD

Stephens, Calvin

Was born 5 March 1821 in Spartanburg, SC. By the beginning of the war in April of 1861, Calvin was 40 years old and had 10 children who were born between 1858 and 1876. He was considered too old for the first conscription but by March of 1862 the Confederacy eased their age limit. He had just turned 42 and on 19 March 1862 enlisted in the Palmetto Sharpshooters. On June 30 1862, while his Company K was involved with charging a battery of cannon at Frayser's Farm was wounded by canister and spent the next year in different hospitals. In 1863 Calvin was transferred to Hampton's Legion Infantry and by the summer of 1864, he was discharged from the Confederacy. Calvin Stephens is my Great Great Grandfather and I am a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans under him. Ron Giamongo

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ALTERNATE NAME:C./Stephens

FILM NUMBER:M381 roll 30

NOTES: Original filed under C./Stephens^[1]

Birth

Date: Mar. 5, 1821

Place: Spartanburg County, SC

Death

Date:Nov. 3, 1890

Place: Pauline, Spartanburg County, SC

Marriage

Spouse: Frances Lawson

Date: Before 1862

Place: Unknown

Children:

1. Susan Anita Stephens (1858-unknown)
2. Adah L. Stephens (1860-1932)
3. Harriet A. Stephens (1862-1921)
4. Agnes Stephens (1863-unknown)
5. James Edward Stephens (1866 - 1955)
6. Oliver Roscoe Stephens (1868 - 1937)

Robert M. Stephens (1868-unknown)

1. Tucker Bonepart Stephens (1872 - 1941)
2. Victor A. Stephens (1875 - 1947)

William Stephens (1876-unknown)

Buried

Date: November, 1890

Place:Philadelphia Baptist Church Cemetery, Pauline, Spartanburg County, South Carolina, USA^[2][3]

Inscription: Co K PALMETTO SOUTH CAROLINA SHARP SHOOTERS CSA

Sources

1. ↑ NPS Soldier Database.
2. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #78640716
3. ↑ "United States Headstone Applications for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1949", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VHZF-7WK : 17 May 2016), Calvin Stephens, .

See also:

• South Carolina Civil War Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XGBB-NT1 : 12 December 2014), Calvin Stephens, 1863; from "Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of South Carolina," database, Fold3.com (http://www.fold3.com : n.d.); citing military unit Hampton Legion S-Th, NARA microfilm publication M267 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1959), roll 370.

• "South Carolina Deaths, 1915-1965," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FGBK-DXK : 18 April 2016), Calvin Stephens in entry for James Edward Stephens, 20 Jul 1955; citing , Stephens, James Edward, 1955, Department of Archives and History, State Records Center, Columbia; FHL microfilm 2,404,188.

• "South Carolina Deaths, 1915-1965," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N966-C4V : 18 April 2016), Calvin Stephens in entry for Hattie O. Kirby, 14 Aug 1921; citing , Kirby, Hattie O., 1921, Department of Archives and History, State Records Center, Columbia; FHL microfilm 1,913,604.

• South Carolina Deaths, 1915-1965," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N9JZ-NZN : 18 April 2016), Calvin Stephens in entry for Ada Smith, 19 Mar 1932; citing , Smith, Ada, 1932, Department of Archives and History, State Records Center, Columbia; FHL microfilm 1,943,777.

• "South Carolina Deaths, 1915-1965," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FG1V-1NM : 18 April 2016), Calvin Stephens in entry for Victor A. Stephens, 12 Oct 1947; citing , Stephens, Victor A., 1947, Department of Archives and History, State Records Center, Columbia; FHL microfilm 2,396,201.

• "South Carolina Deaths, 1915-1965," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N9VP-7GS : 18 April 2016), Calvin Stephens in entry for Tuck Stephens, 17 Apr 1941; citing , Stephens, Tuck, 1941, Department of Archives and History, State Records Center, Columbia; FHL microfilm 1,943,894.