THE GREEN STEM FAMILY
Compiled from microfilm census records

The Green Stem family lived about a mile out the Whitus Road as late as the 1920's. The residence was near that later occupied by the Will Steagall family.

The 1900 census records reveal that the family consisted of Green Stem, born April 1858, and six children. No wife was listed and presumably was deceased. The children were: Massy Stem, born Sept 1882; Sallie Stem, born Sept 1884; Alf Stem, born 1886; Hugh Stem, born Oct 1890; Pearl Stem, born Feb 1893; Willie Stem, born Jan 1899.

Green Stem was a farmer and well known because of his name. Some recall him as being adept at splitting off white oak boards with a froe.