On the 1800 census Rueben had 2 boys under 10 and 3 girls under 10 years of age. He and Nancy had no children in 1790.
COURT RECORDS: Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, Court of Common Pleas, 1779, C260; R260, pg. 79: "David Stevenson, an orphan, aged 15 years, bound to Robert McDowell to learn the wheel wright trade. The master agrees to give his said apprentice a horse, saddle and briddle worth 13 pounds AD 1773, and lawful dues."
He served during the Revolutionary War.
His name is sometimes found as Stephenson.
She never married.
She never married.
He died young.
He was buried next to his father.
PROBATE RECORDS: Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
His WILL, was written 24 Jan 1807 and probated in Court Term April 1807. Mentions wife Barbara, sons: Gideon, William, Allen, Charles, daus: Nancy Wagstaff, Sarah, Susannah Garmon, children of my first wife. Children of my present wife daus: Jemina and Peggy, son: Isham.
PROBATE RECORDS: Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
His WILL, was written 24 Jan 1807 and probated in Court Term April 1807. Mentions wife Barbara, sons: Gideon, William, Allen, Charles, daus: Nancy Wagstaff, Sarah, Susannah Garmon, children of my first wife. Children of my present wife daus: Jemina and Peggy, son: Isham.