Biography |
Isaac Thomas Stevenson was born Mar 13, 1839, in Tennessee, son of Benjamin Franklin Stevenson and Elizabeth Willis. He married Zilpha Ann Sledge in Ringgold, Bienville Parish, Louisiana on Mar 25, 1866, and after her death in 1878, he married Sarah Slaughter on Feb 8, 1894. He died in Crossroads Community, Bienville Parish, Louisiana on Oct 24, 1898, and is buried in a small cemetery there. His grave was located by a deer hunter who jotted down the names and other info in the tiny little cemetery and sent them into the local genealogy column in the Shreveport Times. He is buried next to Zilpha and other members of their family. There are markers on six of the graves and others are unmarked. Tom was a farmer and also a Civil War veteran. He served in the Confederate Army and was a private, Co. E 4th LA Cav. He was a prisoner of war and was paroled at Natchitoches, LA. |