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Subject: Re: [STEWART] Kentucky Stewart's
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 14:38:47 EST
I am giving you info directly from our site...
Regards, Phyllis
This is from an email that Maggie sent me regarding William Sanderson
Stewart's Civil War record. It seems that the Eli F. Stewart version of the story may
need some revising! William Sanderson Stewart may be found in the 1880 Census
MO Scotland Jefferson ED 86 P 183 L 24, no first name listed! I was able to
identify the record with the information Maggie supplied on William's wife and
son.
I had been looking for William Sanderson Stewart in the 1880 Scotland Co, Mo
census, but never found it. This was years ago. I didn't persue it because I
knew his children's names and had their birthdates. I am elated. I knew he was
in Scotland Co, because he had applied for a pension there in March 1880. In
his war records, he stated that after the war, he lived at home from 1864-1866,
then left home. I don't know if he went to Missouri and then back to Indiana,
but I do know he married Leatha McDaniels in Martinsville, Morgan Co,
Indiana, I believe in Sept 28, 1871. In his war records he said the 18th of Sept,
1871,in Martinsville, Owens Co, Ind., but I have his marriage license and it is
the 28th. He wasn't with his mother thought in the 1870 Wash. Co, Indiana
census and I haven't found him in the 1870 census anywhere. You can find William
and Leatha in the 1900 & 1910 census of Schyler Co, Missouri. They had moved to
Greentop by then. When he died, they were living in Greentop, Mo, and that's
when Eli, Elisha R., Enoch and C.A. Stewart, signed statements for Leatha
Stewart, stating that he had not been married before. I also noticed on one of the
documents that it was witnessed by Lottie Stewart. (Was this his blind sister
I wondered?) I had always wondered who Lottie Stewart was.
Yes, Jessie Monroe Stewart is in the 1910, 1920, 1930 Putnam Co, Missouri
census. They all pretty well stayed in Putnam County, Missouri. Schyler Co., is
just a short distance from where they lived. William Sanderson Stewart and one
of his daughter's were the only one's buried in the Greentop Cemetery. Nora
his daughter died young. Leatha Stewart is listed on the 1920 Schyler Co, Mo
census, living in Greentop. She died in 1924.
The only reason I knew you had the wrong William Stewart was when I got his
war record and saw the documents signed by his full brothers Enoch and C.A.
Stewart. William and Leatha Stewart must have keep in contact with the family
someway or she wouldn't have been able to get them to sign the documents. This
was I believe in 1914. ( I'll write more later have to go now) Thanks, Maggie
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