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remaining Chickasaw titles east of the Mississippi. Much of the cededland became various present day North Mississippi Counties. Itawamba wasone such county, It was between 1835-37 that Northern Mississippiexperienced the greatest land boom in its history. Nearly half of theland area in the State of Mississippi was offered at Public Sales in theyears 1837-38. According to the 1830 Federal Census of Alabama, Zachariah Stephens hadarrived in Blount County. Apparently he lived there for the next severalyears and then migrated by 1840 to what is now Tuscaloosa County,Alabama. Mr. Elmer Stephens, a descendent, stated that Zachariah, son ofJohn Stephens, and his five sons lived about three miles from the presentday city of Tuscaloosa at the forks of the Warrior River. ApparentlyZachariah and his sons enjoyed hunting very much, because as more andmore settlers encroached upon their hunting lands in Tuscaloosa County,this family migrated around 1844 to newly formed Itawamba County wheregame and land were abundant. (In Misssissippi)Zachariah Stephens homesteaded several hundred acres ofland lying between present day Fulton and 20-Mile Bottom on the oldFulton-Jacinto Road. According to numerous personal interviews withelderly descendants of this family in Itawamba County, Zachariah wasaccompanied by his wife, Tabitha, born in South Carolina in 1799 and hisfive sons, Abel, Green Sheldon, James Milton, John R. and Redden Byrd.The settlement around which they settled became known as Stephens Townand is still known by this name by many of the Stephens descendants ofthat area. Zachariah Stephens was born February 8, 1787 in South Carolina accordingto the 1880 and 1860 Federal Census of Itawamba County. He died October2. 1881, in Itawamba County and is buried there in the Stephens Cemetery,which he founded. by the side of his wife, Tabitha. Abel, John R., andJames M. Stephens also are buried in the Stephens Cemetery. ZackariahStephens had one known sister (according to Mr. Kirksey, descendent ofTupelo), who was Elizabeth Stephens born in South Carolina in 1780.Elizabeth was living in 1880 in the home of Abel Stephens. In the lateryears of Old Zachariah's life, he lived with his son, John R. Stephens. aveteran of the Civil War having fought in Company one 12th MississippiCavalry in the grade of Lt.
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