This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Stevens, Bartlett, Pettons, Rockeffler Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0lJBAIB/3825 Message Board Post: From "History of Grant County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 981 - 982. TOWN OF CASSVILLE D. B. STEVENS, of the firm of Stevens & Bartlett, proprietors of steam saw-mill, Cassville; was born at Oxford, Me., Jan. 24, 1837; came to Wisconsin in 1856, when he arrived at Prairie du Chien, he only had 50 cents in cash; his trunk he took upon his shoulders to the store of Pettons; he then engaged in driving oxen in the spring; he then located in Bloomington, Grant Co., Wis.; worked at the trade of carpenter, teaching school in the winter; he then removed to Beetown in 1861, worked at his trade until 1865, when he bought the Cassville steam saw-mill. His wife, Mary Rockeffler, was born in Connecticut, in November, 1842; came to Wisconsin in 1855, with her parents, who now reside at Beetown. They married March 4, 1862; they have six children - George L., born Nov. 10, 1863, now attending the Normal School at Platteville; Willard L., born Sept. 10, 1865; Frank J., Aug. 17, 1869, now at school at Lancaster; Charles D., March 23, 1872; Mary B., Nov. 6, 1877; Lucy B., Oct. 1! 0, 1878. In religion, a Baptist, and to his constant and persistent efforts the Cassville Baptists are indebted for their neat little church; he is also the Superintendent of the Sunday school. In politics, a Republican; a member of Beetown Lodge of A., F. & A. M. The firm own 1,000 acres of land in Clayton Co., Iowa, and a fine residence in Cassville. [I am not related to this family. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]