This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Dd.2ADI/1291.3 Message Board Post: A sketch of William can be found in "Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II." (Southern Historical Association.) William Stephens was reared as a farmer, attended schools and taught in the log houses of those times; he remained in Jasper County and worked on the farm until 1825, when the family moved to Upson County. There he bought a farm and settled. In 1836 William participated in the Creek Indian War. In 1869, he went into the merchandise business at The Rock, Georgia, which he continued until 1881, when he sold out and confined himself to his farming interest until his death.