Sixteenth Generation

8764. Clifton LeViers Stevens was born on 29 November 1898 in Summit, Pike Co., Mississippi, USA. He appeared in the census in 1900 in Pike Co., Mississippi, USA. He appeared in the census in 1930 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. Clifton died on 23 August 1934 at the age of 35 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. He was buried in Metairie Cmtry., New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. Find a Grave Memorial ID 174349631.
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According to his World War I draft registration, Clifton was of medium height and had brown hair and brown eyes. A boyhood accident crippled his left leg, for which he wore a leg brace.

The book, Stevens-Washburn with Related Lines, by Annie Stevens Jones (1945), with a later supplement (1973) by Frances U. Bittman, lists Clifton's middle name variously as "Lanier" and "LeViers". Clifton himself gave his middle name as "Lee". That is what shows on his WWI draft registration, which he signed as Clifton Lee Stevens, and on the birth certificate of my father Richard Milton Stevens, Clifton's second of three sons. The middle name LeViers appears on Clifton's tombstone.
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United States Census, 1930
Name: Clifton Stevens
Event Place: New Orleans (Districts 1-250), Orleans, Louisiana
Gender: Male
Age: 31
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Birth Year (Estimated): 1899
Birthplace: Mississippi
Father's Birthplace: Mississippi
Mother's Birthplace: Mississippi
Relationship to Head of Household: Head
Sheet Letter: A
Sheet Number: 25
Record Number: 23736
Household Role Sex Age Birthplace
Clifton Stevens Head M 31 Mississippi
Bama Stevens Wife F 24 Alabama
Olive Stevens Daughter F 5 Louisiana
Fay Stevens Daughter F 4 Louisiana
Clifton Stevens Son M 0 Louisiana

Clifton LeViers Stevens and Bama Louise Pierce were married on 5 June 1922. Bama Louise Pierce was born on 27 May 1905 in Bay Minette, Baldwin Co., Alabama, USA. She appeared in the census in 1930 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. She died on 11 January 1970 at the age of 64 in Gretna, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, USA. Bama was buried in Greenwood Cmtry., New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. Daughter of George (or William) Pierce and Lula McElroy.
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Burial Plot 37 Thistle Hawthorne Cedar
Find a Grave Memorial ID 89848081
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Her first husband was Clifton Lee Stevens (1898-1934), with whom she had all five of her children:
Olive Augusta Stevens (1924-1978)
Lois Fay Stevens (1925-2002)
Clifton L. Stevens II (1929-1993)
Richard M. Stevens (living)
James Wayne Stevens (1934-1999)

After Clifton's death, Bama married Edgar Jeunesse.

Clifton LeViers Stevens and Bama Louise Pierce had the following children: