PVT Reuben Stevens
1796 – 1876
USAR
War of 1812
Reuben Stevens was born about 1796 in New York.
In 1814, he enlisted as a soldier in the War of 1812 in Brooklyn, NY.
He married Phebe Hunt; they had at least four children.
Stevens farmed in Massachusetts and Oswego, New York, where he was pensioned for his service in 1857. About 1860, he and his wife co-located with his son, and he worked as a wheelwright. By the mid-1860’s this son was living in Cuba Township, Illinois, but Stevens was working as a wagon maker in Iowa.
PVT Reuben Stevens died in 1876, and is buried in Barrington’s Evergreen Cemetery.
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Courtesy of Signal Hill Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution
