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TombstoneTuesday   Stephen Paul was born in Robeson, North Carolina around 1836 to parents John H. and Mary (Wise) Paul.  John and Mary had both been born in North Carolina and after they married in 1825 they produced a large family.  By 1850 there were thirteen children enumerated, ranging from William (25) down to Catherine (3) – in the middle of the pack was Stephen, age 14.

It’s likely that the Paul family had departed North Carolina sometime between 1848 and 1850, settling in Henry County, Tennessee where they were enumerated in 1850.  Around the age of twenty, young Stephen Paul was married to fourteen year-old Narcissa Ann Gresham (spelled Grissum on their marriage record) in Carter County, Missouri, where the Paul family had migrated to following the 1850 census.

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