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• Emmalissa was the daughter of Isaac Mullinax and Rachel Lowery.  She is attested in the genealogies of many family lineages, with reports of her birth and death information from the grave in Talking Rock Cemetery, near Jasper, Pickens County, Georgia where her family had lived.  Genealogies say she had married Dr Benjamin Stephens only two years before her death in 1851.  They are recorded in the 1850 census, in Subdivision 33 of Gilmer County, Georgia.
  
  1850 Federal Census, Gilmer County, Georgia, 4 October, Subdivision 33, p 772 (no scan #), Hse/Fam #531
  Benjamin Stephens 21 M Farmer $No Real Estate b Georgia [born abt 1829]
  Emmalissa Stephens 20 F North Carolina [born abt 1830]
  
  Her parents are enumerated on the next page a few houses away.
  
  1850 Federal Census, Gilmer County, Georgia, 5 October, Subdivision 33, p 773(scan 387), Hse/Fam #526
  Isaac Mullinax 59 M Farmer $700 Real Estate b South Carolina [born abt 1791]
  Rachel Mullinax 57 F South Carolina [born abt 1793]
  Sarah Lowery 87 F Unknown [born abt 1763]
  
  Her sister Sarah is between Emmalissa and their parents, with Sarah's husband, Marick (or Merrick) West.  Marick's brother Benjamin is on the previous page, as well as their father George West.
  
  In genealogies and record sources, her name is generally spelled Emmalissa, but on her gravestones it is Emmalisa.  But also note that her name is spelled two different ways on this stone.  In the information about her daughter, her name is spelled Emalysa.
  
  Gravestone of Emmalissa Mullinax Stephens, Antioch Cemetery, Pickens County, Georgia
  In Memory of
  Emmalisa [sic] Stephens
  wife of
  B M Stephens
  and daughter of
  Rachel & Isaac Mullinax
  Died Nov 28, 1854
  aged 23 years and
  2 months
  and Missouran Stephens
  daughter of
  Emelysa and B M Stephens
  Died June June 29, 1853
  aged 2 years, 7 months, 12 days
  
  Emmalisa Mullinax Stephens
  Birth 1831
  Death Nov. 28, 1854
  Inscription Emmalisa Stephens
  Note: Wife of B.M. Stephens
  Burial Antioch Cemetery, Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia
  Created by Gerald Lynn Mullinax May 06, 2007
  --  Find A Grave Memorial #19255258, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=STEP&GSpartial=1&GSbyrel=all&GSst=12&GScntry=4&GSsr=1041&GRid=19255258&&ftm=1

Sources

• 1. World Family Tree Vol. 4
  • WFT Pedigree #3377
• 2. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
• 3. 1850 Federal Census, Gilmer County, Georgia
  • 4 October, Subdivision 33, p 772 (no scan #), Hse/Fam #531
• 4. World Family Tree Vol. 147
  • Pedigree #323
• 5. Gravestone of Emmalissa Mullinax Stephens, Antioch Cemetery, Pickens County, Georgia