Madison and a sister of Edward Coles, who served as Governor of Illinois. She died in 1848. In 1849, he married for the third and final time to Mary Schaff. Death and legacy Stevenson died at his Blenheim estate on January 25, 1857. He was buried at Enniscorthy Cemetery in Keene, Virginia. His firstborn son, John White Stevenson, followed his father's career path into law and politics, serving as Congressman during his father's lifetime, then as Governor of Kentucky following the American Civil War and later as U.S. Senator. Stevenson's manor house, Blenheim, remains today, having been listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. Notes References Bibliography External links 1784 births 1857 deaths 19th-century American diplomats 19th-century American politicians Ambassadors of the United States to the United Kingdom American slave owners College of William & Mary alumni Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia Jacksonian members of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia People from Culpeper County, Virginia Speakers of the United States House of Representatives Speakers of the Virginia House of Delegates Democratic Party members of the Virginia House of Delegates