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Temperance Susan (Penrod) Stephens

Posted 2009-08-13 by Sharla
Temperance Susan Penrod 1862-1945

Temperance Susan, fourth child of William and Polly Penrod was born in Midway, Utah, on January 19, 1862.

She was seventeen years old at the time of her arrival in Arizona in Dec 1878.

On September 25, 1879 she married William Adam Stephens at the Willis Ranch near Show Low. After 1887 they made their home in Pinetop.

Mr. Stephens freighted from Pinetop to Albuquerque and later from Ft. Apache to Holbrook.

William and Susan were parents of eleven children, six girls and five boys: Arty Pollyanna, Temperance May, William Mitchel, George Walter, Mary Emeline, Elnora Dorothy, Wilmer, Geneva, Chloa, Fredrick Jeffrey, and Vonna Hazel. Susan passed away September 22, 1945, at her home in Pinetop, having reached the age of eighty-three.

Author: Delbert Adair Jr.


See Also: Find A Grave




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