Mary Claire and Doc had two sons and four daughters, all educated in Eagleville, except for Walter who finished high school at Central High School in Murfreesboro. He went there so he could play football. Each of the children except one, Holly who died young, went to college to further their education. Doc died in 1949 and Mary Claire died in 1975. Children:

George Hughes Stephenson was born December 12, 1917. He graduated from the University of Tennessee, majoring in Agriculture. He served as a county agent in Benton Co. and Greene Co. Being told he would be drafted in the army in WWII, he resigned from his job and volunteered into the Navy. Much of his time was served in the Mediterranean Sea during many bad battles. When the war was over, he came home to enroll in dental school at the University of TN, Memphis. When George was in Knoxville, going to school, he had a blind date with Flo Irwin. When he went to Memphis to U.T. Dental School, he met Flo again. She was a dietitian at John Gaston Hospital. George and Flo married in 1948 in Memphis and after he finished dental school, they came back to Middle Tennessee to live and work. George set up his dental office in Murfreesboro , and Flo was a dietitian at the Alvin C. York Veterans Administration Hospital in Murfreesboro. George died March 30, 1984. They had two daughters: Kitty Claire and Mary George.

Elizabeth Holland (Holly) Stephenson was born May 7, 1920 and died August, 1922 when she was only two years old. It was said that every store in Eagleville closed and everyone went to her funeral.

Walter Henning “Bub” Stephenson born April 23, 1922 and died in 1991. He didn’t want to go to college so he went to Lockheed Air Craft Plant in California and worked there about a year before he found out he was going to be drafted into the army, so he volunteered in the Air Force in June of 1943 and soon was sent to Saipan and Iwo Jima. He was in many battles and while in service he decided that getting an education was very important. He enrolled in U.T. Jr. College in Martin, TN in pre-med. After he finished medical school, he came back to Middle TN and practiced medicine in Cross Plains and Gallatin. After many years of practicing medicine he took a leave of absence from his medical practice and in 1978-79 he and his wife, Walter Mai Bell Stephenson, daughter of James Walter and Manor Little Bell, (another Eagleville family), who got her education in Eagleville and M.T.S.U., went to Liberia, Africa through the United Methodist Church Globel Ministry, as a medical missionary and a schoolteacher. Walter and Walter Mai had 3 children: Walter Henning Stephenson II, (Steve), James Epps Stephenson (Jim) and Betty Holland Stephenson (Holly).

Ethel Virginia (Sis) Stephenson was born July 24,1924 and was never married. She went to U.T. Jr. College at Martin, TN for two years, finishing the other two years at Knoxville with a degree in Home Economics. She went from Knoxville to Yale University to enroll in nursing. She finished nursing and worked in New Haven, Conn. for several years. While there it was discovered that she had a blood deficiency (aplastic anemia). She came back to Tennessee so she would be close to her family and got a teaching job on the faculty at U.T. Nursing School in Memphis. She was a very devout Christian and belonged to the Methodist Church in Memphis. Her boyfriend was the pastor of the church. She would not marry him because she knew she had an incurable condition. When Sis died in 1956, he preached her funeral.

Pauline “Paul” Stephenson was born August 21,1926 and also went to U. T. Jr. College in Martin, TN to get her pre-nursing courses. After finishing there she was accepted and enrolled in Vanderbilt Univ. School of Nursing. While in school she and her husband, Allen Pollard Crick, who grew up in the Rover Area, lived in Eagleville with her mother, Mary Claire. After both Pauline and Pollard finished their college requirements, they moved to Manchester TN where Pauline worked as a registered nurse and also supervising nurse. She worked as the Middle TN Regional Supervisor of Health Occupation for several years. During this time she also received her masters degree of nursing from U. T. Knoxville. She was very devoted to her profession. Pollard, her husband, also got his education in Eagleville and on to U.T. Jr. College in Martin, TN. He finished U.T. at Knoxville with a degree in engineering. He worked at Arnold Engineering Space Center at Tullahoma, TN. They lived in Manchester TN. Pauline’s died in 1980. They have 3 children: Paula Jo, Michael Allen and Lee Ann.

Mary Jane Stephenson, who was born December 1, 1928, didn’t want to go to college at all but her dad and mom said she had to. Walter and Pauline were both at U.T. Martin, so she decided to go there also. Jane went the summer and fall quarters of 1946. After Christmas break, she was told that if she would be happier at M.T.S.C in Murfreesboro, she could stay at home, but Jane decided to go back to Martin. By the time she had gotten to Martin, Jane wished she had stayed at home. Now she was in Martin, so she and some friends went to the movie. As soon as they got back from the movie, she packed her trunk and suitcases and called the train depot for the train schedule to Nashville. When arriving in Nashville, she called her parents and was on her way to M.T.S.C. the next day. Her father,Dr. Stephenson died in July of 1949, so she dropped out of school and taught the second grade in Eagleville for two years while staying at home with her mother. In the summer of 1951, Jane went back to finish college. She wanted to finish now because her parents had wanted her to so badly. She got her degree in Health & Physical Education. Jane actually got two degrees that week. She received her B.S. degree and also her MRS. Degree. She and Milton Simpson married the day after she finished college. Teaching at Rockvale School was the first position that Jane had after getting her degree. The next two years she taught at Chapel Hill. At both schools she coached Jr. High girls’ basketball teams and taught at the Jr. High level. Leaving Chapel Hill, Jane came to Eagleville to teach the second grade, her favorite of all, and taught that grade until she retired after 31 years of teaching. Milton also got his high school education in Eagleville. When he and Jane married, he was engaged full time in farming. He farmed until the early 70s and at that time he changed to construction and part time farming. Milton and Jane have two daughters, Suzanne and Rita Jane.

Suzanne married John Stanley McClaran, son of J. W. and Dorothy Gillespie McClaran and have a son, John Davy who teaches and coaches at Chapel Hill, TN. He married Melissa Daughrity and they have a son, John Ryley, born in 2002 and a daughter, Catherine Grace (b. & d. 1-24-2005).

Rita married George Edward Boyd, son of Sam and Sally Boyd of Rockvale, TN. Their daughter, Gretchen, married James Lucas Thompson, son of Jim and Billie Jo Owen Thompson. They have a daughter, Elizabeth Rose “Lizzie” (b. 9- 25- 2002).