{"id":244,"date":"2012-06-23T00:47:51","date_gmt":"2012-06-23T05:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/?p=244"},"modified":"2012-06-23T00:47:51","modified_gmt":"2012-06-23T05:47:51","slug":"stevens-james-wharton-biography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/stevens-james-wharton-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"STEVENS, James Wharton (Biography)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Son of: James Charles Stevens (Jr.) and Amanda Melvina Ashley Stevens.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/JamesWhortonStevens.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-245\" title=\"JamesWhortonStevens\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/JamesWhortonStevens-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/JamesWhortonStevens-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/JamesWhortonStevens-744x1024.jpg 744w, https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/JamesWhortonStevens.jpg 774w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 85vw, 218px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Brother of: William George Stevens, Charles \u201cCharlie\u201d Richard Stevens, Emma Stevens, and Charles George Stevens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">1858, June 25, James Wharton Stevens was born in Nashville, Davidson County, TN.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/JamesWhortonStevens2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-246\" title=\"JamesWhortonStevens2\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/JamesWhortonStevens2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/JamesWhortonStevens2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/JamesWhortonStevens2-769x1024.jpg 769w, https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/JamesWhortonStevens2.jpg 920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">1860 Census, Nashville, Davidson, TN, 8th Ward of Nashville, D-5-171\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">James Charles Stevens, Jr. (34), machinist, b. England<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0\u00a0Amanda Melvina Ashley Stevens (33), wife, b. TN<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0James Wharton Stevens (2), b. TN<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0William George Stevens (2\/12), b. TN, April 1860\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">1870 Census, Davidson County, TN, 8th Ward, D-443, (584\/706)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">James Charles Stevens (Stephens), Jr. (43), railroad machinist, b. England\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Amanda Melvina Ashley Stevens (Stephens) (40), wife, b. TN\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">James Wharton Stevens (Stephens) (12), b. TN, attending school\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">William \u201cWillie\u201d George Stevens (Stephens) (10), b. TN, attending school\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Charles Stevens (Stephens) (7), b. TN, attending school\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Emma Stevens (Stephens) (6), b. TN\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Charles George Stevens (Stephens) (2), b. TN\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Certificate: 1876, January 28, United States Inspectors Certificate to Engineers, No. 117.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">This is to certify that James W. Stevens has been duly examined by the undersigned Local Inspectors of Steamboats for the District of Nashville, Tenn. as to his qualifications as an Engineer of Steam Vessels and found to be a competent and reliable person to be entrusted with the powers and duties of Engineer of \u201cSpecial Class\u201d on the Towing St. H. L. Hall and boats of her ? and he is therefore hereby Licensed to act as such for the term of one year from this date. Given under our hand this Twenty eight (28) day of January 1876. Signed by Inspector of Boilers and Inspector of Hulls. (can not read names)\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Cards: \u201cMemphis Temperance Pledge, January 1, 1877, with charity for all and malice toward none, I, the undersigned, DO PLEDGE, GOD HELPING ME, that I will forever abstain from the use of all Intoxicating Liquors as a beverage; and that I will, by all proper means, encourage others to abstain. Signed, James W. Stevens\u201d. (also, have same card signed by Miss Emma A. Williams.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">1879, February 23, James Wharton Stevens married Emma Ann Williams in Memphis, Shelby, TN by Thos. C. Holmes, Minister, M.E.Church, South. Marriage Bond was dated February 22, 1879, signed by James W. Stevens and Adolph R. Frey. Emma Ann Williams born Shaler Township, Allegheny County, PA, December 16, 1858 and died December 1, 1921, Chattanooga, TN. James Wharton Stevens was educated at Vanderbilt College, Nashville, TN.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">The children of James Wharton Stevens and Emma Ann Williams Stevens were:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0Emma Gertrude Stevens (Mrs. William S. Randolph, Sr.), b. January 7, 1880, Nashville, Davidson, TN, died September 17, 1957, Memphis, TN, buried Forest Hill Cemetery-Midtown, Memphis, TN.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Margaret Louise Stevens (Mrs. Robert Burgher Pirtle), b. August 15, 1882, Nashville, TN, died March 23, 1963, Memphis, TN, buried Memphis National Cemetery, side by side w\/Robert Burgher Pirtle.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Jimetta Stevens (Mrs. Eugene Johnson Bettis), b. July 7, 1884, Nashville, TN, died October 31, 1965, Memphis, TN, buried Forest Hill Cemetery-Midtown, Memphis, TN.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Arrabelle Stevens (Mrs. Tommy G. Tucker), b. November 20, 1887, Memphis, TN, died December 13, 1973, Memphis, TN, buried Forest Hill Cemetery-Midtown, Memphis, TN\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">1880 Census, Nashville, Davidson, TN, 10th District, E.D. 70, page 12 (133)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">James (Jos.) Charles Stevens, Jr. (55), machinist, b. England, parents b. England\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Amanda (A.M. Mrs.) Melvina Ashley Stevens (53), wife, b. TN, parents b. TN\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">William George Stevens (20), son, apprentice, b. TN\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Charles George Stevens (11), son, b. TN\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">James Wharton Stevens (22), son, machinist, b. TN\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Emma Ann Williams Stevens (24), wife of James Wharton Stevens, b. PA\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Emma Gertrude Stevens (5\/12), their baby b. July 1879 in TN<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">1880, January 7, Nashville, TN, the child of James Wharton Stevens and Emma Ann Williams Stevens, Emma Gertrude Stevens was born.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">1882, August 15, Nashville, TN, the child of James Wharton Stevens and Emma Ann Williams Stevens, Margaret Louise Stevens was born.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">1884, July 7, Nashville, TN, the child of James Wharton Stevens and Emma Ann Williams Stevens, Jimetta Stevens was born.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">1887, November 20, Memphis, TN, the child of James Wharton Stevens and Emma Ann Williams Stevens, Arrabelle Stevens was born.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">1910 Census, Memphis, Shelby, TN, E.D. 240, page 211:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">James Wharton Stevens (51), traveling salesman, mill supplies, b. TN, father b. England, mother, b. TN\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Emma Ann Williams Stevens (53), wife, b. PA, father b. Wales, mother b. NY\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Arrabelle Stevens (22), daughter, single, b. TN, father b. TN, mother b. PA\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Charles George Stevens (42), brother of JWS, single, engineer fiber plant\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Robert Burgher Pirtle (29), son-in-law, salesman grocery store, b. TN, parents TN\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Margaret Louise Stevens Pirtle (27), daughter, b. TN, father b. TN, mother b. PA\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Eva R Pirtle (7), stepdaughter, parents b. TN<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">1920 Census, Chattanooga, Hamilton, TN, E.D. 194, sheet # 21A, part of Ward 11\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Robert Burgher Pirtle (39), clerk, Southern Express, b. TN, parents b. TN\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Margaret Louise Stevens Pirtle (37), wife, b. TN, father b. TN, mother b. PA\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Eva R Pirtle (17), b. TN, parents b. TN\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Emma Ann Williams Stevens (62), mother-in-law, b. PA, father b. Wales, mother b. PA\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">James Wharton Stevens (62), father-in-law, traveling salesman, mill supplies, b. TN, father b. England, mother b. TN<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">1921, December 1, Emma Ann Williams Stevens died in Chattanooga, Hamilton, TN and was buried in Forest Hill Cemetery-Midtown, Memphis, Shelby, TN.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">1930, January 16, James Wharton Stevens died in Memphis, Shelby, TN at age 71 and is buried in Forest Hill Cemetery-Midtown, Memphis, TN, Section 10, S \u00bd, Lot 20, burial no. 8827, lot book 1, page 8, date of burial January 17, 1930.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">State of Tennessee, Certificate of Death, file # 3597, registered no. 154, filed January 17, 1930, J. W. Stevens, age 71, male, white, married (to Lula Stevens, 285 N. McLean), occupation-engineer, b. TN, father, James C. Stevens, b. England, mother, Amanda Ashley, b. England (s\/b Nashville, TN).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Obit for James Wharton Stevens: Stevens-At St. Joseph\u2019s Hospital, Thursday afternoon, January 16, 1930 at 1:40 o\u2019clock, James W. Stevens, husband of Lula Stevens, father of Mrs. W. M. (S.) Randolph, Mrs. E. J. Bettis, and Mrs. T. G. Tucker of this city and Mrs. R. B. Pirtle of Chattanooga, Tenn, brother of W. G. Stevens, aged 71 years. Funeral will take place from residence of daughter, Mrs. T. G. Tucker at 285 North McLean Boulevard, this (Friday) afternoon at 3:30 o\u2019clock, services conducted by Rev. Geo. H. Martin. Interment in Forest Hill Cemetery. Arrangements by Collins Funeral Home.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">1930, February,<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> The International Engineer,<\/span> Volume LVII, No. 2, page 158.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Article from Local Union No. 92, Memphis, Tenn. \u201cBro. J. B. Barry announced the death of J. W. Stevens, brother-in-law to the Local\u2019s business manager. Jim Stevens was conceded to be the best oil-mill Superintendent in the oil-mill district. He was educated at Vanderbilt College, Nashville, Tennessee. For twenty years he had traveled for the well-known mill-supply firm of Reed and Duecker of Memphis.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Son of: James Charles Stevens (Jr.) and Amanda Melvina Ashley Stevens.\u00a0 &nbsp; Brother of: William George Stevens, Charles \u201cCharlie\u201d Richard Stevens, Emma Stevens, and Charles George Stevens. 1858, June 25, James Wharton Stevens was born in Nashville, Davidson County, TN.\u00a0 \u00a0 &nbsp; &nbsp; 1860 Census, Nashville, Davidson, TN, 8th Ward of Nashville, D-5-171\u00a0 James Charles &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/stevens-james-wharton-biography\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;STEVENS, James Wharton (Biography)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[33,75,74,72,71,73,16],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","tag-allen","tag-barry","tag-bettis","tag-pirtle","tag-stevens","tag-tucker","tag-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}