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Note: Birth: Feb. 19, 1880 Death: Sep. 20, 1967
Cora Effie Bishop was the daughter of Napoleon Reed Foster and Emmeline Caledonia "Callie" Bishop. Her mother later married William Henry Tankersley.
Effie married on Henry Jerome Stephenson on August 18, 1896 in Eastland County, Texas. Henry was the son of William Starling Stephenson and Julia Ann Johnson.
Children were: Henry Lee Stephenson Nellie Stephenson Casler William Starling Stephenson George Milton Stephenson Albert Arthur Stephenson Thomas Dorsey Stephenson Vera Pauline Stephenson Kiker Vernia Thelma Stephenson Kelton Baby Boy Stephenson Ruby Fay Stephenson McReynolds Ray Jerome Stephenson Cora Francis Stephenson Hedges Lisenbee
---------------------------------------------------- 21 September 1967 Big Spring Daily Herald (Big Spring, Texas)
LAMESA (SC)-- Funeral Services for Mrs. Effie Stephenson, 87, will be held Friday morning at 10 a.m. in the First Baptist Church. Burial will be in Rising Star, with Branon-Phillips Funeral Home in charge. Mrs. Stephenson died Wednesday morning in the hospital in Andrews. She was born Feb. 19, 1880, in Eastland County, and moved to Lamesa in 1947. She is survived by five daughters: Mrs. Cora Lissenbee, Lamesa, Mrs. Vera Kelton and Mrs. Ruby McReynolds, both of Andrews, Mrs. Vera Kiker, Bogota; and Mrs. Nellie Casler, Weatherford; four sons: A. A. Stephenson, Lamesa, W. S. Stephenson, Weatherford, G. M. Stephenson, Rising Star, and T. D. Stephenson, Hamilton; one sister, one brother, 32 grandchildren, 48 great-grandchildren and one Great-great-grandchild.
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