Vernon K. Stevenson

Birth Date

1812-08-22

Death Date

1884-10-16

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Nashville, Tennessee, clerk, railroad owner and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Elizabeth Childers Stevenson in Davidson County, Tennessee, on June 28, 1834. Father of Matilda Stevenson and Vernon Stevenson. Married M. S. Bass Stevenson in Davidson County on November 1, 1854. Married Anna L. Eve Stevenson in Davidson County on December 9, 1861. Clerk in Nashville c1828. Founded Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad in 1848. Merchant in Nashville in 1850. Railroad owner in Nashville in 1860. Served as Quartermaster General of the Western Military Department (C.S.A.) until an injury at the Battle of Shiloh in April 1862.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Davidson County, Nashville, p. 255.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Davidson County, Nashville, p. 405.
Tennessee, Marriage Records, 1780-2002, Davidson County, Marriage Record, 448. Tennessee, Marriage Records, 1780-2002, Davidson County, Marriage Record, 154. Tennessee, Marriage Records, 1780-2002, Davidson County, Marriage Record, 361. Find A Grave, "Vernon King Stevenson (June 22, 1812 -October 16, 1884)," Memorial #9539576, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9539576 (accessed January 11, 2020). "The Washington Standard, 1884-11-28," Newspapers.com, https://www.newspapers.com/image/337457255/terms=%22Vernon%2BK.%2BStevenson%22 (accessed January 11, 2020).

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