The Stevenson Family of Tennessee Chippendale Slant-Front Desk, Newport, Rhode Island, circa 1770

Major Vernon King Stevenson "Father of Tennessee Railroads” (1812-1884), m. Anna Louisa Eve Stevenson (1842-1917), Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee;

To their niece, Willie Duncan Eve Anderson (1882-1974), Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee;

To her daughter, Anna Lou Eve Anderson Clark (1905-1986) m. Sheffield Clark Jr. (1906-1988), Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee;

To their son, Sheffield Clark III (1929-2005), Franklin, Williamson County, Tennessee;

Descended in the Clark family until 1990;

Gail Kopcsak, Antiques Associates, Nashville, Tennessee.

Accompanied with a letter that states:

Descended in the family of Colonel V.K. Stevenson, known in Tennessee history as "the father of the railroad." He married a Nashville girl, Anna Lou Eve who was from a prominent family and noted for her beauty. Her parents opposed the marriage because of the age difference and the well known fact that he had many wives previously. Anna Lou was just nineteen years-old when they married. About 1870, they moved to the Stevenson estate, Hempsted, Long Island. V.K. Stevenson died at the age of seventy-two in 1884. Anna Lou never remarried and left the desk to her daughter, Willie Eve Anderson the grandmother of Sheffield Clark. Willie Eve Anderson left the desk to Anna Lou Anderson Clark, mother of Sheffield Clark. The desk remained in the Clark family until purchased in 1990.

The Stevensons, Eves and the Clarks were all prominent families in Nashville. There are many family portraits done by noted American artists in the family collection. The Clark family had the desk in their estate known as the Weakley House having been a land grant to a man named Weakley in 1802. It was in East Nashville though it too has been sold and the estate divided.