Jordan Junction

Desendants of Lillian JONES and Pleaides STEVENSON

Lillian Mary JONES was born 3 January 1871 on a ranchg nine miles southeast of Longmont, Colorado. Father was a coal miner met his while working ther when I was only six months old. In a few years my mother married again. Then we moved to my step-father ranch near Erie, Colorado. I lived there with my sister and one brother until I was over 20 years old.

Then I met Peaides STEVENSON when I went to work for his mother who was keeping house for him and his brother Emmar on a big ranch three miles northeast of Longmont. While living there we were married 6 December 1893. To this union seven children were born. Four still living. ~ written by Lillian STEVENSON, 1942.

In 1902, tragedy struck the 3rd child when she drowned in an irrigation ditch at 3 1/2 years old.

[Picture inset is is of the other little girl, Laura STEVENSON, about 1912-13 sitting on the porch with a Denver Newspaper in her lap.]

Child (in order)	Birthdate	Deathdate	Married & Notes
Ivan Brackett STEVENSON	2 Sep 1894	7 Nov 1971	1922 to Inex SHORT
Roxanna Evelyn STEVENSON	1 Feb 1897	26 Mar 1946	1917 to Norton ZION
Alma STEVENSON	13 Oct 1898	3 Jun 1902	Died 3 1/2 years old
Pearl Lillian STEVENSON	30 Jul 1901	12 Feb 1975	1922 to Thomas William EMERSON
Hazel Matilda STEVENSON	8 Mar 1904	16 Aug 1992	1922 to Amasa Oscar NICHOLS
Wallace Arthur STEVENSON	25 Jun 1907	16 Feb 1965	To Frances (Fannie) RUOHONEN
Laura STEVENSON	8 Nov 1910	13 Nov 1914	Died 4 years old

University of Hard Knocks & Chicago Fire of 1871

Pleaides Brown Stevenson was born 9 January 1858 in Woodland Center, Barry Co., Michigan. He spent part of his early life at Woodland Center.
[picture inset is Pleaides as a boy, dated about 1868]
Newspaper article from "The Moffat County Mirror"
1942 Craig, Colorado Newspaper

Another "Grand Old Man" gone from Ranks of the homesteaders of Moffat County is the passing of P.B. STEVENSON of Jackrabbit Counninty, but more recently a resident of Craig. After a lingering illness of many months. Pleaides B. STEVENSON at the age of 84 years and 5 months passed away in Craig on may 28, 1942 at 8:20 pm.
At the age of thirteen (1871) he went to Chicago, Illinois to live with an uncle and attended school there. His education was interupted and ended with the disasterous Chicago fire of October 1871, which included the school building, where he attended school. Thus, this episode of his early life, and education left a lasting imprint on his memory.

In 1880 he started west, stopping in Kansas for a few years, but in 1886 he continued his trip west coming to Colorado, where for a number of years he engaged in prospecting and mining. Tiring of mining he located near Longmont, Colorado, and engaged in the farming industry.
It was at Longmont in 1893 that he met and was married to Lillian JONES. To this union seven children were born. Some years later, the STEVENSON family moved to a farm near Montrose, Colorado, and later to the Grand Valley.
In 1916, Mr. STEVENSON with his family moved to Moffat county locating in the Jackrabbit community and spent a number of years farming. About 1925, Mr & Mrs. STEVENSON moved to Craig where he has since made his home.
One who knew him best has told "The Mirror" that Pleaides B. STEVENSON was a colorful character of the old regime. Even though his education was not completed, by travel and experience he suplanted that knowledge.
He was one of the few very active men of the time; passing over the trivial things of life, enjoyed spending his time with people, where gained much of his self-made education. Even though handicapped, he was a great reader, and was up to the minute on all the news happenings of the day, both local and national.
Among his papers is found a little paragraph he wrote, which illustrates his way of life mor than columns could do. This paragraph follows: "I played all games according to my lights, as near as I knew how, and obeyed the Laws of God and man. Was educated at the University of Hard Knocks with the ninety-and-nine, and with very few exceptions, all people, I ever knew, were the good brothers and sisters." A good neighbor, a good friend he will long be remembered and missed by relatives and friends.