Class of 1871

Birth: 18 May 1861, Cabarrus County, North Carolina
Death: 18 Feb 1914, Albemarle, Stanly County, North Carolina

Parents:
Martin Luther Bost (1826-1903)
Rosetta Crowell Bost (1834-1898)

Spouse: John Howard Stevens (1855-1895)
Marriage: 25 Mar 1880, Cabarrus County, North Carolina

Children:
Lenna Lee Stevens Barrier (1881-1960)
John Farrel Stevens (1890-1976)
Etta Belle Stevens Johnston (1891-1966)
Albert Franklin Stevens, Sr. (1893-1962)

Burial: Old Albemarle Cemetery, Albemarle, Stanly County, North Carolina
Source: www.findagrave.com, #28461821.

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Abstracts of the Lutheran Visitor 1866-1868 and 1870-1888
(http://www.genealogytrails.com/scar/lutheran_visitor/news_luthvisitor2_1866-88.htm)

Miss Fannie R. Bost delivered the Valedictory at closing exercises of Mt. Pleasant College, Lutheran Visitor 6/9/1871, page 2

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The Stanly News and Press (Albemarle, NC), 19 Feb 1914, p. 1.

A Well Known Lady of Albemarle Dies Wednesday Morning.

Mrs. Fannie R. Stevens died at her home in Albemarle Wednesday morning about 6 o’clock. She will be buried today at 2 o’clock.

Before her marriage Mrs. Stevens was Miss Fannie Bost. Her husband died a few years ago in Monroe. She has been living in Albemarle for a number of years, and a host of friends and relatives are deeply grieved at her death.

Mrs. Stevens leaves two daughters, Misses Lenna and Etta Belle, and two sons, Farrel and Albert. Her sisters are Mrs. J. W. Cannon, Concord; Mrs. Thomas E. Landquist, Winston-Salem; Mrs. S. G. Daniel, Littleton. Her brothers are Thompson Bost of Bost’s Mills and Robert Bost of Concord.