Lt.Col. Mills Stephenson-- Part 3: Born in Delaware, Lived in Ohio and Died in Arkansas

From the Roots Web of the Latham Whelan Family Tree.

Mills Stephenson was born in 1769 in Sussex County, Delaware.  he died 16 June 1822 in Helena, Arkansas and is buried in Helena.

He and his brother James married two sisters whose father was killed by Indians while he was on a flat boat on the Ohio River near Maysville, Kentucky.

The History of Brown County, Ohio, says Col. Mills Stephenson fought in the Indian Wars and was an officer in the War of 1812.  Fort Stephenson in Fremont, Ohio, was named after him.

--Brock-Perry