This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Stephens, LeBlanc, Hebert, Clarke, Campbell in Vermilion Par, LA Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/0lJBAIB/3794.2.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Doug, Well, I do know there were Stephens/Stevens in Natchez. I'm not sure if Henry Stephens married Rose-Anne O Ferry in Natchez or not. But there is a Natchez connection. You know how cousins often wrote home about how good the opportunities were in the west. John Stephens was literate and I believe his father William was too. Family tradition says the family originated in England. I keep running into Clarks and Stephens in the Opalousas, Louisiana area. But the Mississippi river was the highway of it's day. Any possible avenues of research you might come of with would be helpful. Terry