 They had three daughters, Mary, Julia and Letitia, and a son, Lewis Stevenson.Letitia helped establish the Daughters of the American Revolution as a way of healing the divisions between the North and South after the Civil War, and succeeded the wife of Benjamin Harrison as the DAR's second president-general.In 1868, at the end of his term as district attorney, he entered law practice with his cousin, James S. Ewing, moving with his wife back to Bloomington, Illinois, and settling in a large house on Franklin Square.