Image Courtesy of David Seibert

Year Erected: 1955

Marker Text:  "Little Alec", Vice-President of the Confederacy was born nearby in a log cabin on Feb. 11, 1812 to Andrew B. & Margaret Grier Stephens, a poor farm family. At his parents' death he was educated by an uncle, Gen. A. W. Grier, at Washington and at Franklin College (U. of Ga.), and was admitted to the Bar in 1834. He served as state legislator & senator from '36 to '42 and as Congressman from '43 to '49, and again in '55. After the War he was elected U. S. Senator but was not allowed to take his seat. He served in Congress from '73 until '82 and was Governor of Georgia at his death in 1883. "He was strong by his moral intrepidity."