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The House of Stewart
The family of Catherine Stewart of Clark Co. KY
Submitted by Pauline and Dorris McKinney

Descendants of FLAAD Seneschal of Dol in Brittany:
Generation No. 1

1. FLAAD SENESCHAL OF DOL IN1 BRITTANY was born Abt. 1045.

Notes for FLAAD SENESCHAL OF DOL IN BRITTANY:
Lineage taken from the book"GENERAL A.P. STEWART" written by Marshall Wingfield, Former Commander-in-Chief and Former Historian-in-Chief Sons of Confederate Veterans, Member Executive Committee Tennessee Historical Commission.

The Story of the Stewarts by the Stewart Society
Family records
Researched by Pauline and Dorris McKinney

FROM THE STORY OF THE STEWARTS
by The Stewart Society
PRINTED FOR THE STEWART SOCIETY
EDINBURGH:
GEORGE STEWART & CO.
1901

The "Senescals of Dol" with whom we thus trace Alan Fits-Flaald's connection ore stated by the suthor of "The Norman People" to have been descended from the old Armorican Counts of Dol and Dinan, a race whose origin is lost in the mists of antiquity. They are generally believed to have been the descendants and representatives of the ancient patriarchal rulers of Armorica in the time of Julius Caesar. The suthor states that they were sovereigns rather than nagnates; that their principality embraced a tract of over 5000 square miles of country running from St. Malo on the coast, to the central hills of Brittany---and that numerous baarons were dependent on them.

Of the origin of this race, destined to give so many warriors, statesmen, and Kings to Scotland, and whose descendants are yet to be traced not only in the noblest families in this country and on the Continent, but in practically every reigning house in Europe, various accounts have been given, and over it much disputation has taken place.

For all practical purposes however, these accounts may be resolved into two, the old and the new---the former assigning to the Stewarts a native Scottish origin, and the latter a Norman or Breton one.

The ancient traditions of Scotland and all the older Scots historians confer on this family a purely native or Scottish origin, tracing their descent from Banquo, Shakespeaare's "Thane of Lochaber," and through him from the ancient Kings of Scotland.

According to these accounts, Banquo, Thane of Lochaber, was the son of Ferquhard, Thane of Lochaber, who, again, was the son of Kenneth III, King of Scots. Banquo flourished in the reign of King Duncan, and along with his sovereign was murdered by Macbeth in 1043, leaving an only son, Fleance, who, to escape a like fate, fled to the Court of Llewellin ap Griffith, Prince of Wales, only, however, to meet at other hands the doom he had sought to shun at home. He is said to have fallen a victim within a few years of his arrival 1045 or 1047 to the jealousy of some of the Welsh lords whose ill-will he had incurred by his success in the favours of the Princess Nesta, the daughter of the Welsh Prince.

Walter, the son of Fleance by this lady, spent his youth at his grandfather's court, but, as he grew up, the animosity which had taken the father's life extended to the son, and Walter in his turn had also to seek safety in a freign land. Travelling first to the Court of Edward the Confessor, and next to that of Alan "the Red," Earl of Brittany, he ultimately attached himself to that Prince, to whom his mother Nesta is said to have been distantly related. There, following the example of his father, he won the favour of his protector's daughter, whom he married, and by whom he had a son, Alan. Walter thereafter accompanied his father-in-law, the Earl of Brittany, to the invasion of England, but having for some reason incurred the displeasure of the Conqueror, he retired into Scotland, where he was received with favour by King Malcolm, who mad him his Steward or Cup-bearer. Walter is said to have died in 1093, and to have been succeeded by his son Alan, who, according to the same traditions, accompanied Godfrey de Bouillon to the Holy War, and was present at the capture of Jerusalem in 1099. Returning to Scotland in the reign of King Edgar, he was made Lord High Stewart, and dying in 1153, was succeeded by his son Walter, the first ancestor of the Stewarts who passes out of the region of tradition or hypothesis into the realm of sober and auhentic History.

Such, stated succinctly, is the origin and pedigree assigned to the House of Stewart by the traditions and early historians of Scotland, and generally believed and accepted as correct for centuries.

Child of FLAAD SENESCHAL OF DOL IN BRITTANY is:
2. i. ALAN2 STEWARD, b. Abt. 1070.

Generation No. 2

2. ALAN2 STEWARD (FLAAD SENESCHAL OF DOL IN1 BRITTANY) was born Abt. 1070. He married ADELIZA DE HESDING.

Notes for ALAN STEWARD:
FROM THE STORY OF THE STEWARTS
by the Stewart Society

Alan, the father of William Fitz-Alan (and who, from the records quoted, also clearly had another son called Walter), appears in English history as early as 1101, in which year he witnessed a Charter by Henry I to the Bishop of Norwhich, and another by the Bishop himself relative to the formation of a Cathedral Priory. The latter document is of further interest, however, as in it the Bishop confirms a grant previously made by Alan himself to the Priory, of the church and tithes of Langham in Norfolk, thereby proving that Alan muct have been settled, and possessed lands in Norfolk, prior to 1101.

In 1102 he was appointed Sheriff of Shropshire by HenryI, and from the same King he also received the Manor of Eaton, which, with Henry's sanction, he afterwards also conveyed to Norwich Priory. Prior to 1108 he witnessed other Charters by Henry relative to the establishment of Holy Trinity Priory, near York, as a cell of the Abbey of Marmoutier in Brittany.

HE founded Sporle Priory in Norfolk as a cell of the Church of St. Florent de Saumur sometime before 1122, granting the monks the Church of Sporle with its tithes, together with certain lands, twenty shillings of money yearly, wiid fir fure abd byukdubgm abd oastyrage every where for their flocks with his own.

He married Adeliza (otherwise Adelina or Avelina), sister of Ernulph de Hesding (Picardy), the gallant defender of Shrewsbury in a later reign, and one-third of whose lands, after his barbarous execution by Stephen in 1138, came to Alan's children in right of their mother. In the Charters granted or witnessed by him he calls himself Alan Fitz-Fladald or Flaald, a designation which, from the singularity of the name, joined to other circustances in the lives of himself and his descendants, naturally points him out as identical with tht Alan Fitz-Flaad of Brittany who, in 1098 granted to the Abbey of Marmoutier the Church of Guguan or Cuguen, situated in the neighbourhood of the great castle of the Viscounts of Dinan.

Children of ALAN STEWARD and ADELIZA DE HESDING are:
3. i. WALTER FITZ ALLEN 1ST. HIGH3 STEWARD, d. Abt. 1095.
ii. WILLIAM STEWARD.
4. iii. JORDAN STEWARD.
iv. SYBIL STEWARD.

Generation No. 3

3. WALTER FITZ ALLEN 1ST. HIGH3 STEWARD (ALAN2, FLAAD SENESCHAL OF DOL IN1 BRITTANY) died Abt. 1095.

Notes for WALTER FITZ ALLEN 1ST. HIGH STEWARD:
THE STORY OF THE STEWARTS
by The Stewart Society

William Fitz-Alan, was in 1126 appointed by Queen Adelais, second wife of Henry 1, her Sheriff or Viscount for the County of Shropshire which she had received from her husband. His descendants inherited, by marriage, the Earldom of Arundel, and changed their residence from Shropshire to Sussex and the direct line of this branch is now represented by the Duke of Norfolk, through the marriage of Mary, only child of Henry Fitz-Alan tenth Earl of Arundel, to Thomas, fourth Duke of Norfolk, who was executed by Queen Elizabeth in 1572 for supporting the claims of Mary Queen of Scots to the English throne.

The first "authentic appearance of the Stewarts on the page of history is to be found in the person of Walter the son of Alan, who witnesses many charters, chiefly those of David I." David I named Walter as Stewart of Scotland (the first to hold that office) and he possessed much land as a result of this title. In 1157, King Malcolm IV made the office of Stewart of Scotland hereditary in Walter's family; and Walter apparently gained more land in the process! Walter was a liberal benefactor of several monasteries. He married Eschina, gaining still more land. He died in 1177, leaving a son, Alan, and a daughter Margaret. Alan, much like his father, was a Stewart of Scotland, went to war, benefited the monasteries, and expanded the family's lands. His descendants carried on similarly.

Charts provide the line of descent of Stewarts from Walter, "the union of the two senior direct male lines of the Stewarts in the person of King James VI and their extinction in his descendants," and the "connection between the dynasties, past and present, of Britain and other European countries, with the High Stewarts of Scotland."

Children of WALTER FITZ ALLEN 1ST. HIGH STEWARD are:
5. i. ALAN (ALEXANDER) 2ND. HIGH4 STEWARD.
ii. MARGARET STEWARD.
4. JORDAN3 STEWARD (ALAN2, FLAAD SENESCHAL OF DOL IN1 BRITTANY) He married MARY.

Notes for JORDAN STEWARD:
Children of JORDAN STEWARD and MARY are:
i. JORDAN4 STEWARD.
ii. ALAN STEWARD.

Generation No. 4

5. ALAN (ALEXANDER) 2ND. HIGH4 STEWARD (WALTER FITZ ALLEN 1ST. HIGH3, ALAN2, FLAAD SENESCHAL OF DOL IN1 BRITTANY) He married EVA.

Children of ALAN STEWARD and EVA are:
6. i. WALTER FITZ ALLEN5 3RD, HIGH STEWARD, d. 1246.
ii. DAVID STEWART.

Generation No. 5

6. WALTER FITZ ALLEN5 3RD, HIGH STEWARD (ALAN (ALEXANDER) 2ND. HIGH4 STEWARD, WALTER FITZ ALLEN 1ST. HIGH3, ALAN2, FLAAD SENESCHAL OF DOL IN1 BRITTANY) died 1246. He married BEATRIX, daughter of GILCHRIST MAR and MARJORIE.

Notes for WALTER FITZ ALLEN 3RD, HIGH STEWARD:
Walter, the third hereditary Stewart of Scotland, high in favour with his sovereign, who employed him both in love and war. In his youth Walter is said to have been also engaged in the Crusades, and to have led a command to the Holy War. Returning to Scotland he was, in 1230 appointed by Alexander II, Justiciar of Scotland in addition to his hereditary office of Stewart. In his dual capacity of Stewart and Justiciar of Scotland, Walter must have been possessed of vast influence and power, which a semi-royal alliance tended to consolidate and increase. He married Beatrix, the daughter of Gilchrist Earl of Mar and of his wife Marjorie, daughter of Henry Prince of Scotland, brother of Kings Malcom 1V and William 1V. In the veins of Walter's descendants therefore, flowed the blood of the ancient Kings of Scotland, whose crown was destined, through another royal four generations later, to adorn the brows of the Stewart's heir.

Like his father and grandfather, Walter the Stewart was a liberal benefactor of the Church, not the least interesting of his benefactions being a gift of six chalders of meal annually to the monks of Paisley Abbey to support a Priest to pray for the soul of Robert de Brus, Lord of Annandale, who died in 1245--an early instance of the friendship and close association existing between the families of Brus and Stewart.

Children of WALTER 3RD and BEATRIX are:
7. i. ALEXANDER STEWART 4TH. HIGH6 STEWART, b. 1214; d. 1283.
ii. ELIZABETH STEWART, m. MAULDUIN EARL OF LENOX.
iii. CHRISTIAN EUPHEMIS STEWART, m. PATRICK EARL OF DUNBAR.
8. iv. MARGARET STEWART.
v. ROBERT STEWART.
vi. JOHN STEWART.
9. vii. WALTER STEWART.
viii. WILLIAM STEWART.

Generation No. 6

7. ALEXANDER STEWART 4TH. HIGH6 STEWART (WALTER FITZ ALLEN5 3RD, HIGH STEWARD, ALAN (ALEXANDER) 2ND. HIGH4 STEWARD, WALTER FITZ ALLEN 1ST. HIGH3, ALAN2, FLAAD SENESCHAL OF DOL IN1 BRITTANY) was born 1214, and died 1283. He married JEAN OF BUTE.

Notes for ALEXANDER STEWART 4TH. HIGH STEWART:

Alexander, fourth hereditary High Stewart of Scotland, was born in 1214. Along with his brothers John and Walter and the Earl of dunbar, his brother-in-law, he attended St. Louis of France to the Holy War, and after the death of the Earl of dunbar, commanded the Scots pilgrims.

On his return to Scotland he found the country broken up by faction consequent on the death of the king, Alexander II. The powerful family of the Comyns headed the so-called national party, and had seized the persons of the young king and queen, while two of theirlords, Robert de Ross and John de Baliol, had assumed the name of Regents. To counteract the treasonable practices of this confederacy, the Stewart and his brother Walter, Earl of Menteith; his brother-in-law Neil, Earl of Carrick; his nephew Patrick, Earl of Dunbar; and his friend Robert de Brus, Lord of Annandale, joined the party of Henry III of england, the Queen's father. In this they were supported by Alan Durward, Justiciar of Scotland, Malise Earl of Strathern, and other leading men, the object being ---- not to subserviate their country to Henry, but, with his support, to break the power and crush for ever the increasing strenght and importance of the Comyns. Such a powerful coalition proved too much even for the comyns, then by far the greatest family in Scotland, and in 1255 new Regents were appointed, among whom were Robert de Brus and the Stewart, and to them and other lords, King Henry undertook to deliver any Prince or Princell who might be born during the stay of his daughter Margaret, the young Queen of Scots, at his Court.

In 1263 Alexander the Stewart commanded the right wing of the Scottish army at the Battle of Largs---the left being under the leadership of his nephew Patrick, Earl of Dunbar. To that victory, in which the Norsemen under Haco were completely routed, the Stewart and his brother Walter, Earl of Menteith, contributed in no small degree, as after defeating the left wing of the Norse army, they fell upon the rear of the enemy's main body and materially assisted King Alexander to whom that part of the Danish army was immediately opposed. By the King's orders the Stewart and his brother pursued the enemy into the Western Isles and to the isle of Man, which they compelled them to surrender and evacuate, and which were then reannexed to the Scottish Crown. Thus the Battle of Largs, though unimportant as regards the actual numbers engaged, had a most important after effect on the history and affairs of Scotland, as the spirit engendered in the Scottish army by this success, influenced by the skill and valour of the Stewarts, was undoubtedly the means of establishing the supremacy of Scotland over the Western Isles. In the same year, and no doubt in recognition of these services, the Stewart received from Alexander III, a grant of the Barony of Garlies in Galloway, which lands, it may here be said, he conveyed to his second son, Sir John Stewart of Bonkyl, in whose family they still remain in the person of the Earl of Galloway, descended from this Alexander, High Stewart of Scotland, in an unbroken male line. During this year also (1263) Alexander III, sent the Stewart to the Court of Henry III of England to demand from that monarch the arrears of the dowry which Henry had promised to pay on his daughter's marriage with the King of Scots. In 1281 Alexander appears as one of the guarantors of the contract of marriage between the Princess Margaret of Scotland and Eric, King of Norway; and, as has already been said, his brother, the Earl of Menteith, was one of the Scots lords who accompanied the Princess to Norway, and witnessed her marriage and coronation.

Like his predecessors, Alexander's gifts to the Church were many and liberal. He married Jean, heiress of James, Lord of Bute, and died in 1283, leaving two sons, James his successor, and John (known in histor a s Sir John Stewart of Bonkyl, and a daughter Elizabeth, married to Sir William Douglas of Lugton, near Dalkeith. Some writers say that he left a third son, Andrew, but of this there is no proof.

Children of ALEXANDER STEWART and JEAN BUTE are:
10. i. JAMES7 STEWART, b. Abt. 1243; d. 1309.
11. ii. JOHN STEWART.
iii. ELIZABETH STEWART, m. SIR WILLIAM DOUGLAS OF LUGTON.

8. MARGARET6 STEWART (WALTER FITZ ALLEN5 3RD, HIGH STEWARD, ALAN (ALEXANDER) 2ND. HIGH4 STEWARD, WALTER FITZ ALLEN 1ST. HIGH3, ALAN2, FLAAD SENESCHAL OF DOL IN1 BRITTANY) She married NEIL EARL OF CARRICK.

Child of MARGARET STEWART and NEIL CARRICK is:
12. i. MARJORY7 CARRICK.

9. WALTER6 STEWART (WALTER FITZ ALLEN5 3RD, HIGH STEWARD, ALAN (ALEXANDER) 2ND. HIGH4 STEWARD, WALTER FITZ ALLEN 1ST. HIGH3, ALAN2, FLAAD SENESCHAL OF DOL IN1 BRITTANY) He married MARY COMYN.

Notes for WALTER STEWART:
In his youth Walter Stewart, son of Walter, the third who held the hereditary office, accompanied his brothers Alexander and John and his brother-in-law the Earl of Dunbar, to the Holy War. On his return he married Mary Comyn, younger daughter of Walter Comyn, Earl of Menteith. Her elder sister, Isabella, had succeeded to the estates and honours of her father, but fell into disgrace, being suspected of poisoning her husband Sir William Comyn. Shortly after his death she, with indecent haste, married Sir John russell, described as an "ignoble English knight," and having failed to ask or obtain the consent of the Crown (of which she was a ward) to this marriage, she was imprisoned, stripped of her lands and dignities, and compelled to seek shelter in England. The Menteith honours and estates were thereupon claimed by Walter Stewart in right of his wife Mary, co-heiress with the banished Countess. The claim was allowed, adn Walter thereupon became Earl of Menteith in accordance with the old Scots law as to transmission of dignities in such cases.

The exiled Countess, however, succeeded in obtaining the sympathy of Rome, and in 1262 Pope Urban IV sent a Nuncio, Pontius, to York and arrogantly called on Walter Stewart for an explanation. The Pontiff's right to interfere in secular matters was however denied in the most spirited manner by King Alexander II, who declined to permit any such intervention in the affairs of his kingdom.

In 1271 he appears as Sheriff of Dumbarton, and two years later he was again called on to defend his title and lands from a new opponent in the person of John Comyn of Badenoch, the chief of the powerful house of Comyn, and who, as tutor and guardian for his son William who had married the daughter of the exiled Countess Isabella, now claimed the earldom of Menteith for his son and daughter-in-law. The controversy dragged on for twelve years, during which Comyn attempted to transfer the trial to the jurisdiction of England. King Alexander, however, once more displayed his resolution not to suffer any foreign interference in the affairs of Scotland, and Comyn's attempt failed. The case was at length settled by alexander and his Parliament dividing the lands between the rival claimants, but confirming the dignity of the earldom to Walter Stewart and his heirs.

In 1288 the Earl of Menteith and his Countess travelled to Norway in the suite of the Princess Margaret of Scotland, and attended her marriage with Eric, King of Norway and also her subsequent coronation. Returning to Scotland he again appears as Sheriff of dumbarton in 1289, and when, on the death of the Maid of Norway, Edward of England endeavoured to establish a title as Lord Paramount of Scotland, the Earl of Menteith, in common with all the other Scots Lords, recognised for the time being a claim which they were at the moment powerless to oppose.

According to the early writers, Walter Stewart, Earl of Menteith, was captured at dunbar in 1296, and executed by orders of King Edward. Later research,, however, points to his son Alexander as being the Earl of Menteith captured at Dunbar, and to Sir John Graham being the Earl of Menteith executed by orders of Edward---third of the name, however, instead of tfirst. This theory is further supported by the fact that in 1296 Walter Stewart, Earl of Menteith, would have been nearly eighty years of age---an unlikely age for the leading of raiders into England and the defence of Border castles, and equally unlikely to provoke Edward's resentment at leas to the extent of the penalty of death. the probability therefore is thatWalter, Earl of Menteith, died about 1294, predeceased by his Countess, and was buried in the Priory of Inchmahome, in the lake of Menteith, amid the ruins of which still stands theirtomb where---

"The steel clad Stewart, red cross knight
"Menteith, his countess fair and bright,
"Live her in sculptured stone."

The tomb displays the recumbent figures of the Earl and of his wife, whos arm encircles her husband's neck. The knight's legs are crossed, indicating the crusader, and his shield bears his paternal arms,--the "fesse Cheque," for Stewart, differenced with a label of five points as a cadet of the principal stem of Stewart.

Children of WALTER STEWART and MARY COMYN are:
i. ALEXANDER7 STEWART.
ii. JOHN STEWART.

Generation No. 7

10. JAMES7 STEWART (ALEXANDER STEWART 4TH. HIGH6, WALTER FITZ ALLEN5 3RD, HIGH STEWARD, ALAN (ALEXANDER) 2ND. HIGH4 STEWARD, WALTER FITZ ALLEN 1ST. HIGH3, ALAN2, FLAAD SENESCHAL OF DOL IN1 BRITTANY) was born Abt. 1243, and died 1309. He married CECILIA.

Notes for JAMES STEWART:
From James fifth High Stewart, descended the Royal Stewarts through the marriage of his son Walter with the princess Margery Brus, (i.e. Bruce) He was born about 1243, and is said to have joined the Earls of Carrick, Athole, and other Scots lords in an expedition to Palestine. At home he seems to have been entirely overshadowed by his father, as it is not until after the latter's death in 1283 that James takes any leading part in Scottish affairs.

In 1284 he was one of the great Scots Barons who undertook to preserve the succession of the Crown to the grandchild of Alexander III, and two years later, on that Prince;s death 1286, he was one of six joint Regents appointed by the Estates of Scotland. Within a few years however the Regency broke up. Of his colleagues, the Earl of Buchan had died, and Duncan Earl of Fife had been murdered by sir Patrick Abernethy and sir Walter Percy, at the instigation of sir william Abernethy; and in 1288, at Turnbery Castle, the Stewart, apparently distrusting the remaining Regents, entered into a bond of Association with several other Barons witha a view to securing, in certain contingencies, the descent of the Crown to his friend Brus. to this bond the other principal signatories were Robert de Brus, Lord of Annandale, his son Robert de Brus, Earl of Carrick, Patrick Earl of Dunbar and his three sons, cousins of the Stewart, Sir John Stewart of Bonkyl his brother, Walter Stewart Earl of Menteith, his uncle, and that Earl's two sons Sir Alexander and sir John Menteith.

in 1288 also, the Stewart succeeded Sir Andrew Moray as Sheriff of Ayr, and the following year his accounts are given in by his clerk and factor Reginald, for whose bona-fides Sir John Stewart of Bonkyl appears as surety. His name and that of his uncle, Walter Stewart Earl of Menteith, appear among the magnates present in the Parliament held at Brigham in 1289090, and 1292 the same lords, along with Sir John Stewart of Bonkyl, were nominated by Brus to act as three of his representatives or auditors at the trial by Edward I, of the Brus and Baliol claims to the Crown---another instance of the freindship between the House of Brus and that of Stewart.

He was present at the Battle of Stirling in 1297, in which the English were totally defeated by the Scots under Wallace, and along with the Earl of Lennox pursued and harassed the Earl of surrey in his retreat.

Children of JAMES STEWART and CECILIA are:
13. i. WALTER STEWART KING ROBERT I OF8 SCOTLAND, b. 1293; d. 1326.
ii. EGIDIA OR GILES STEWART.

11. JOHN7 STEWART (ALEXANDER STEWART 4TH. HIGH6, WALTER FITZ ALLEN5 3RD, HIGH STEWARD, ALAN (ALEXANDER) 2ND. HIGH4 STEWARD, WALTER FITZ ALLEN 1ST. HIGH3, ALAN2, FLAAD SENESCHAL OF DOL IN1 BRITTANY) He married MARGARET DE BONKYL in Berwickshire.

Notes for JOHN STEWART:
Known in history as Sir John Stewart of Bonkyl. Sir John Stewart married Margaret, the daughter and heiress of Sir Alexander de Bonkyl in Berwichshire, a family of rank and possessed of grea estates in the border counties both of Scotland and England. From this circumstance he is generally designated as "of bonkyl." As however sir Alexander de Bonkyl survived his son-in-law, Sir John Stewart if he ever actually owned the estate, can only have done so by resination of his father-in-law.
By his wife Margaret de bonkyl, Sir John Stewart left a family of seven sons and one daughter, Elizabeth, married to Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray and Lord of Mar. The sons were"

1. Sir Alexander Stewart, ancestor of the Stewart and Douglas Earls of Angus.
2. Sir alan Stewart of Dreghorn, ancestor of the Stuarts, Dukes and Earls of Lennox, Darnley, D'Aubigny, etc.; the Stewarts, Earls of Galloway, and other noble houses.
3. Sir Walter Stewart of Dalswinton, also ancestor of the Earls of Galloway, the Lords Blantyre, etc.
4. sir James Stewart of Perston and Warwickhill, ancestor of the Stewart Earls of Buchan, Earls of Athol, Earls of Traquair, Lords of Lorn, the Stewarts of appin, the stewarts of Grandtully, etc., and their cadets.
5. Sir John Stewart of Daldon
6. Sir Hugh Stewart
7. sir Robert Stewart, ancestor of the Steuarts of Allanton, Coltness, etc., and their cadets.

This goodly band of knights, inheriting their father's patriotism, afterwards, under Brus, formed part of that bulwark of Scottish independence, in the foundation of which their father sacrificed his life, and in the building up and strengthening of which no fewer than three of them---Sir Alan, Sir James, and Sir John "tres fratres inclites" in the language of Fordun in his "Scotishronicon"---also gave up theirs on the fatal field of Halidon Hill in 1333.

Children of JOHN STEWART and MARGARET DE BONKYL are:
i. SIR ALEXANDER8 STEWART.
ii. SIR ALAN STEWART STEWART.
iii. SIR WALTER STEWART.
iv. SIR JAMES STEWART.
v. OF DALDON SIR JOHN STEWART.
vi. SIR HUGH STEWART.
vii. SIR ROBERT STEWART.
viii. ELIZABETH STEWART, m. THOMAS RANDOLPH EARL OF MORAY AND LORD OF MARIS.

12. MARJORY7 CARRICK (MARGARET6 STEWART, WALTER FITZ ALLEN5 3RD, HIGH STEWARD, ALAN (ALEXANDER) 2ND. HIGH4 STEWARD, WALTER FITZ ALLEN 1ST. HIGH3, ALAN2, FLAAD SENESCHAL OF DOL IN1 BRITTANY) She married ROBERT DE BRUS, LORD OF ANNANDALE.

Child of MARJORY CARRICK and ROBERT DE BRUS is:
i. ROBERT8 DE BRUS, KING OF SCOTS.

Generation No. 8

13. WALTER STEWART KING ROBERT I OF8 SCOTLAND (JAMES7 STEWART, ALEXANDER STEWART 4TH. HIGH6, WALTER FITZ ALLEN5 3RD, HIGH STEWARD, ALAN (ALEXANDER) 2ND. HIGH4 STEWARD, WALTER FITZ ALLEN 1ST. HIGH3, ALAN2, FLAAD SENESCHAL OF DOL IN1 BRITTANY) was born 1293, and died 1326. He married (1) ALICE ERSKINE OF ERSKINE, daughter of SIR JOHN ERSKINE OF ERSKINE. He married (2) ISABEL OF ABERCORN. He married (3) MARJORIE BRUCE 1315, daughter of ROBERT SCOTLAND and ELIZABETH.

Notes for WALTER STEWART KING ROBERT I OF SCOTLAND:

Walter, the fourth of that name and sixth hereditary High Stewart, was born in 1293, and thus was only sixteen years old at the time of his father's death. On reaching majority he seems at once to have assumed command of his hereditary retainers, and at the "Muster of Torwood," prior to the Battle of Bannockburn, the young Stewart appeared on the field at the head of a noble body of men to assert the independence of his country and the title Brus to the throne. Barbour, in his poem "The Bruce," thus describes the Stewart and his forces:-----
"Valtir Stewart of Scotland syne
"That then wes bot ane berdless hyne
"Cam with a rout of nobill men
"That all be contynans micht ken."

Although only twenty-one, the third or centre division of the Scots army was entrusted to him and his cousin Sir James Douglas, a responsibility which his high rank and great feudal power entitled him to, and which the talents for war which he displayed not only at Bannockburn but during the whole of his short though glorious career fully justified. Barbour thus narrates the incident:--------
"And syne the thrid battale he gaf
"To Valtir Stewart for to leid
"And till Douglass douchty of deid
" Thai war cosyngis in neir degrie
"Therfor till hym betaucht* wes he.
"For he wes young, but nochtforthi
"I trow he sall so manlily
" Do his dewoir, and virk so weill
"That hym sall neyd no mair zeymseil."

The two cousins were knighted by Brus on the field in accordance with the custom of the time. Walter acquitted himself with signal valour and ability, and with Douglas joined in the pursuit of the luckless Edwart to the Castle of Berwich. For his services he was appointed Warden of the Western Marches by Brus, who further rewarded him by a grant of Baliol's lands of Large.

Brus moreover conferred on him perhaps a still more signal mark of his esteem in appointing him his representative to receive on the borders of Scotland and England the persons of many Scots prisoners of high rank, who had long been confined in England, and whose freedom was part of the price which their captors had to pay for the Battle of Bannockburn. Chief among these prisoners were Brus's Queen, his daughter Marjory, and his sister Christian,Countess of Mar. Honours still flowed in on the young Stewart.

Having accompanied Brus in 1315 on an expedition for the reduction of the Western Isles, he was, on his return, rewarded with the hand of the King's only daughter, the Princess Marjory, along with whom he received large grants of land in the counties of Edinburgh, Linlithgow, and Stirling. By an Act of the Scots Parliament, Brus secured the succession to the throne to the descendants of Marjory, failing heirs male of his own body or of his brother Edward Brus. The possession of the Scottish throne was thus opened to the Stewarts.

Walter the Stewart, was thrice married: 1st, to Alice, daughter of Sir John Erskine of Erskine, of which marriage there was one daughter, Jean, married to Hugh, Earl of Ross; 2nd, to the Princess Marjory Brus, who, as has been indicated, survived her marriage less than a year, leaving an only son, afterwards King Robert II.; and 3rd, to Isabel, sister of Sir John Graham of Abercorn, by whom he had two sons, sir John Stewart and sir Andrew Stewart, and a daughter, Lady Egidia Stewart. This branch of the Stewarts is, throughout, designed of "Railstoun," whether actually in possession of the lands or not.

Walter the Stewart of Scotland, having died in 1426, left two sons, Sir Walter and and Sir John, and perhaps a third Robert, and three daughters, Marjory, Egidia, and Magaret.

Notes for MARJORIE BRUCE:
Princess Marjorie was expecting a child in the Spring of 1316. On 2 March 1316 when near her time, she was thrown from her horse and killed. The surgeons were sent for, conscious of the succession, at once cut open her abdomen and delivered her son. Crippled throughout his life from the injury of his birth at age 54, he became King of Scots as Robert II, the first of the royal line of the Stewarts.

The Princess Marjory, was King Robert the Bruce's only daughter. On Shrove Tuesday 1316, when returning from Paisley Abbey to the Castle of Renfrew, she was thrown from her horse and so seriously injured that she died in a few hours, after giving birth to a son subsequently known in history as Robert II, King of Scots. The Princess was interred in Paisley Abbey, the last resting-place of so many of her husband's ancestors and friends, and in the devotional spirit of the age, the land of Largs, which he (Walter) hadso recently received as a reward of his valour, were gifted by the Stewart to the Abbey, for prayers for the safety of the souls of Marjory Brus and Himself.

Child of WALTER SCOTLAND and ALICE ERSKINE is:
i. JEAN9 STEWART, m. HUGH EARL OF ROSS.

Children of WALTER SCOTLAND and ISABEL ABERCORN are:
ii. SIR JOHN9 STEWART.
iii. SIR ANDREW STEWART.
iv. LADY EGIDIA STEWART.

Child of WALTER SCOTLAND and MARJORIE BRUCE is:
14. v. KING ROBERT II KING OF9 SCOTLAND, b. 1316; d. 1390.

Generation No. 9

14. KING ROBERT II KING OF9 SCOTLAND (WALTER STEWART KING ROBERT I OF8, JAMES7 STEWART, ALEXANDER STEWART 4TH. HIGH6, WALTER FITZ ALLEN5 3RD, HIGH STEWARD, ALAN (ALEXANDER) 2ND. HIGH4 STEWARD, WALTER FITZ ALLEN 1ST. HIGH3, ALAN2, FLAAD SENESCHAL OF DOL IN1 BRITTANY) was born 1316, and died 1390. He married ELIZABETH MURE.

Notes for KING ROBERT II KING OF SCOTLAND:

At his father's death, Robert was only ten years of age, and three years later his grandfather, King Robert de Brus, after whom he was named, also died, leaving as heirs to the Crown of Scotland and its troubles, two boys---his son David Brus, aged six, and his grandson Robert Stewart, aged thirteen. He was appointed Regent of Scotland when about the age of 21 and, although his uncle David II reigned for about eighteen years, Robert was virtual ruler from about 1338 until his death in 1390. On his uncle's death in 1371, he ascended the throne as Robert II. he left sons, but there are now no legitimate descendants of any of the Stewart Kings. The direct male line failed with James V whose daughter Mary Queen of Scots, married Henry, Lord Darnley, senior male representative of the Bronkyl branch. Their son James VI, called "the wisest fool in Europe", was not only the heir male (through his father) of the High Stewarts of Scotland, but also heir-of-line (through his mother) of the same stem.

Male descendants again failed on the deaths of Prince Charlie and his brother the Duke of Your, and the male representative of the line is today uncertain. There are however, Queen Victoria's line of descent from the Scottish monarchs, and that of the Stewart family of Baltimore, Maryland.

Child of ROBERT SCOTLAND and ELIZABETH MURE is:
15. i. KING ROBERT III KING OF SCOTLAND ( JOHN10 STEWART).

Generation No. 10

15. KING ROBERT III KING OF SCOTLAND ( JOHN10 STEWART) (ROBERT II KING OF9 SCOTLAND, WALTER STEWART KING ROBERT I OF8, JAMES7 STEWART, ALEXANDER STEWART 4TH. HIGH6, WALTER FITZ ALLEN5 3RD, HIGH STEWARD, ALAN (ALEXANDER) 2ND. HIGH4 STEWARD, WALTER FITZ ALLEN 1ST. HIGH3, ALAN2, FLAAD SENESCHAL OF DOL IN1 BRITTANY) He married ANNABELLA DRUMMOND.

Child of ROBERT STEWART) and ANNABELLA DRUMMOND is:
16. i. KING JAMES I KING OF SCOTLAND (JAMES11 STEWART), b. July 1394; d. 20 February 1436/37, Perth.

Generation No. 11

16. KING JAMES I KING OF SCOTLAND (JAMES11 STEWART) (ROBERT III KING OF SCOTLAND ( JOHN10, ROBERT II KING OF9 SCOTLAND, WALTER STEWART KING ROBERT I OF8, JAMES7 STEWART, ALEXANDER STEWART 4TH. HIGH6, WALTER FITZ ALLEN5 3RD, HIGH STEWARD, ALAN (ALEXANDER) 2ND. HIGH4 STEWARD, WALTER FITZ ALLEN 1ST. HIGH3, ALAN2, FLAAD SENESCHAL OF DOL IN1 BRITTANY) was born July 1394, and died 20 February 1436/37 in Perth. He married JEAN BEAUFORT (JOAN).

Notes for KING JAMES I KING OF SCOTLAND (JAMES STEWART):
The name STEWART began when around 1292 a man named Walter was the Steward of King Robert the Bruce. A steward at that time was keeper of papers and affairs of the King, much like our secretaries.

This Walter became known as Walter Steward (because he had been the King's Steward) and he married Margery Bruce, daughter of King Robert the Bruce, also known as King Robert 1 of Scotland. Their son was:
Robert 11 (1316-1390) 1st. of the House of Stewart (Stuart), King of Scotland 1371-1390. His son was:
Robert 111 (1340-1406), King of Scotland 1390 to 1406. His son was:
King James 1 of Scotland who was murdered at Perth. His son was:
King King11 of Scotland (1430-1460), invaded England and was killed at the battle of Roxburgh. In all there were six King James in succession. But to get back to King James11-he had a son named Ninion (Ninian) Stewart. This Ninion (Ninian) Stewart was ancestor of the Baltimore, Maryland Stewarts, which is part of our line.

The following is taken from the National Encyclopedia, Volume 5, published by Colliers Publishing Co.

James 1 (1394 -1437), King of Scotland, was born at Dunfermline, Scotland, in July 1394, the son of Robert111. En route to France in 1406, he was captured by the English, and imprisoned in the Tower of London. Henry IV of England removed him to Nottingham Castle, where for 18 years he was an English hostage. During this period he wrote the KING'S QUHAIR and other verses. In 1425 Scotland paid 60,000 Marks ransom for his freedom, and James, after marrying Jane, daughter of the Earl of Somerset, entered Scotland and was crowned. During his reign of 13 years he introduced statute law into Scotland, and was the author of much progressive legislation. His vigorous attempts to curtail the power of the nobles and his cruelty to heretics having aroused the nobility, he was assassinated by Sir Robert Craham at Perth on February 20, 1437.

BIBLIOGRAPHY - P.H. Bran, History of Scotland, 1909-12

Children of JAMES STEWART) and JEAN (JOAN) are:
17. i. NINION12 STEWART.
ii. JAMES STEWART KING JAMES II OF SCOTLAND, b. 1420; d. 1460.

Generation No. 12

17. NINION12 STEWART (JAMES I KING OF SCOTLAND (JAMES11 STEWART), ROBERT III KING OF SCOTLAND ( JOHN10, ROBERT II KING OF9 SCOTLAND, WALTER STEWART KING ROBERT I OF8, JAMES7 STEWART, ALEXANDER STEWART 4TH. HIGH6, WALTER FITZ ALLEN5 3RD, HIGH STEWARD, ALAN (ALEXANDER) 2ND. HIGH4 STEWARD, WALTER FITZ ALLEN 1ST. HIGH3, ALAN2, FLAAD SENESCHAL OF DOL IN1 BRITTANY)

Notes for NINION STEWART:
From the book GENERAL ALEXANDER PETER STEWART - HIS LIFE AND LETTERS
by Marshall Wingfield

Ninion Stewart was the younger son of King James I of Scotland and brother of King James II.

Child of NINION STEWART is:
18. i. JAMES13 STEWART.

Generation No. 13

18. JAMES13 STEWART (NINION12, JAMES I KING OF SCOTLAND (JAMES11 STEWART), ROBERT III KING OF SCOTLAND ( JOHN10, ROBERT II KING OF9 SCOTLAND, WALTER STEWART KING ROBERT I OF8, JAMES7 STEWART, ALEXANDER STEWART 4TH. HIGH6, WALTER FITZ ALLEN5 3RD, HIGH STEWARD, ALAN (ALEXANDER) 2ND. HIGH4 STEWARD, WALTER FITZ ALLEN 1ST. HIGH3, ALAN2, FLAAD SENESCHAL OF DOL IN1 BRITTANY)

Child of JAMES STEWART is:
19. i. NINION II14 STEWART.

Generation No. 14

19. NINION II14 STEWART (JAMES13, NINION12, JAMES I KING OF SCOTLAND (JAMES11 STEWART), ROBERT III KING OF SCOTLAND ( JOHN10, ROBERT II KING OF9 SCOTLAND, WALTER STEWART KING ROBERT I OF8, JAMES7 STEWART, ALEXANDER STEWART 4TH. HIGH6, WALTER FITZ ALLEN5 3RD, HIGH STEWARD, ALAN (ALEXANDER) 2ND. HIGH4 STEWARD, WALTER FITZ ALLEN 1ST. HIGH3, ALAN2, FLAAD SENESCHAL OF DOL IN1 BRITTANY)

Child of NINION II STEWART is:
20. i. JAMES15 STEWART.

Generation No. 15

20. JAMES15 STEWART (NINION II14, JAMES13, NINION12, JAMES I KING OF SCOTLAND (JAMES11 STEWART), ROBERT III KING OF SCOTLAND ( JOHN10, ROBERT II KING OF9 SCOTLAND, WALTER STEWART KING ROBERT I OF8, JAMES7 STEWART, ALEXANDER STEWART 4TH. HIGH6, WALTER FITZ ALLEN5 3RD, HIGH STEWARD, ALAN (ALEXANDER) 2ND. HIGH4 STEWARD, WALTER FITZ ALLEN 1ST. HIGH3, ALAN2, FLAAD SENESCHAL OF DOL IN1 BRITTANY)

Child of JAMES STEWART is:
21. i. CHRISTIAN16 STEWART.

Generation No. 16

21. CHRISTIAN16 STEWART (JAMES15, NINION II14, JAMES13, NINION12, JAMES I KING OF SCOTLAND (JAMES11 STEWART), ROBERT III KING OF SCOTLAND ( JOHN10, ROBERT II KING OF9 SCOTLAND, WALTER STEWART KING ROBERT I OF8, JAMES7 STEWART, ALEXANDER STEWART 4TH. HIGH6, WALTER FITZ ALLEN5 3RD, HIGH STEWARD, ALAN (ALEXANDER) 2ND. HIGH4 STEWARD, WALTER FITZ ALLEN 1ST. HIGH3, ALAN2, FLAAD SENESCHAL OF DOL IN1 BRITTANY)

Child of CHRISTIAN STEWART is:
22. i. NINION III17 STEWART.

Generation No. 17

22. NINION III17 STEWART (CHRISTIAN16, JAMES15, NINION II14, JAMES13, NINION12, JAMES I KING OF SCOTLAND (JAMES11 STEWART), ROBERT III KING OF SCOTLAND ( JOHN10, ROBERT II KING OF9 SCOTLAND, WALTER STEWART KING ROBERT I OF8, JAMES7 STEWART, ALEXANDER STEWART 4TH. HIGH6, WALTER FITZ ALLEN5 3RD, HIGH STEWARD, ALAN (ALEXANDER) 2ND. HIGH4 STEWARD, WALTER FITZ ALLEN 1ST. HIGH3, ALAN2, FLAAD SENESCHAL OF DOL IN1 BRITTANY)

Child of NINION III STEWART is:
23. i. WILLIAM18 STEWART, b. County Tyrone, Ireland.

Generation No. 18

23. WILLIAM18 STEWART (NINION III17, CHRISTIAN16, JAMES15, NINION II14, JAMES13, NINION12, JAMES I KING OF SCOTLAND (JAMES11 STEWART), ROBERT III KING OF SCOTLAND ( JOHN10, ROBERT II KING OF9 SCOTLAND, WALTER STEWART KING ROBERT I OF8, JAMES7 STEWART, ALEXANDER STEWART 4TH. HIGH6, WALTER FITZ ALLEN5 3RD, HIGH STEWARD, ALAN (ALEXANDER) 2ND. HIGH4 STEWARD, WALTER FITZ ALLEN 1ST. HIGH3, ALAN2, FLAAD SENESCHAL OF DOL IN1 BRITTANY) was born in County Tyrone, Ireland.

Notes for WILLIAM STEWART:
This last William Stewart had a son named James Stewart who lived in County Tyrone, Ireland. This was our Irish ancestor-he had two sons who came to America. (The Stewart were from Galloway in Scotland and had been moved to Ireland by King james who moved thousands of Scotch to Ireland to get land. They lived near Stewart's Town in Ireland.

By Myrtle Hammond

Child of WILLIAM STEWART is:
24. i. JAMES SR.19 STEWART, b. 1670, Augher, County Tyrone, Ireland; d. 1707.

Generation No. 19

24. JAMES SR.19 STEWART (WILLIAM18, NINION III17, CHRISTIAN16, JAMES15, NINION II14, JAMES13, NINION12, JAMES I KING OF SCOTLAND (JAMES11 STEWART), ROBERT III KING OF SCOTLAND ( JOHN10, ROBERT II KING OF9 SCOTLAND, WALTER STEWART KING ROBERT I OF8, JAMES7 STEWART, ALEXANDER STEWART 4TH. HIGH6, WALTER FITZ ALLEN5 3RD, HIGH STEWARD, ALAN (ALEXANDER) 2ND. HIGH4 STEWARD, WALTER FITZ ALLEN 1ST. HIGH3, ALAN2, FLAAD SENESCHAL OF DOL IN1 BRITTANY) was born 1670 in Augher, County Tyrone, Ireland, and died 1707. He married FLORENCE HERBERT, daughter of REVERAND ARCHIBALD HERBERT.

Notes for JAMES SR. STEWART:

James Stewart, Sr. was born about 1670, the son of William Stewart, lived in the village of Augher in the Clougher Valley, County Tyrone, Ireland. He had two sons, James Jr., and Samuel, a daughter and possibly other children.

Augher, is two miles north east of Clougher whis is on the Blackwater, 82 miles N.N.W. of Dublin, 7 miles west of Auchnacloy. "James Stewart from Scotland, time of James First of England, bought Cookstown, (County Tyrone) and land around it. He bought Killymorn in 1634. Cookstown is 5 miles W.N.W. of Stewartstown, County Tyrone, 7 miles N.N.E. of dungannon, ancient seat of O'Neil, and 11 miles N.N.W. of Armagh."

Children of JAMES STEWART and FLORENCE HERBERT are:
25. i. JAMES JR.20 STEWART, b. 1706, Augher, County Tyrone, Ireland; d. June 1788, Wilmington, Delaware.
ii. SAMUEL STEWART, b. 1707; d. 1773, Brandywine Hundred, Newcastle County, Delaware.

Notes for SAMUEL STEWART:
Samuel Stewart son of James Stewart, Sr., according to O'Hart was born in 1704; but, according to the inscription on his gravestone, he was born in 1707 in Augher, County Tyrone. In company with his brother James, Sr., he migrated in his youth to Brandywine Hundred, Newcastle County, Delaware, and died there in 1773. His will is recorded in Volume K-1, page 80, in the Newcastle County Courthouse of Wilmington, Delaware.

Generation No. 20

25. JAMES JR.20 STEWART (JAMES SR.19, WILLIAM18, NINION III17, CHRISTIAN16, JAMES15, NINION II14, JAMES13, NINION12, JAMES I KING OF SCOTLAND (JAMES11 STEWART), ROBERT III KING OF SCOTLAND ( JOHN10, ROBERT II KING OF9 SCOTLAND, WALTER STEWART KING ROBERT I OF8, JAMES7 STEWART, ALEXANDER STEWART 4TH. HIGH6, WALTER FITZ ALLEN5 3RD, HIGH STEWARD, ALAN (ALEXANDER) 2ND. HIGH4 STEWARD, WALTER FITZ ALLEN 1ST. HIGH3, ALAN2, FLAAD SENESCHAL OF DOL IN1 BRITTANY) was born 1706 in Augher, County Tyrone, Ireland, and died June 1788 in Wilmington, Delaware. He married ISABELLA STEWART.

Notes for JAMES JR. STEWART:
James Stewart, Jr., (1706-1788) son of James and Florence (Herbert Stewart was born in 1706 in Augher, County Tyrone, Ireland, and migrated to America in his youth, in company with his brother Samuel and their neighbor Nicholas Robinson, and settled in Brandywine Hundred, County Newcastle, Delaware. He married Isabella............who bore to him six or more children and outlived him. In May 1760, 240 acresof land in Brandywine Hundred were purchased by Samuel Stewart, and 94 acres by his brother James Stewart.

James Stewart, Jr., was a man of means as appears from items in his will. He and John McKinley were appointed by his brother Samuel Stewart as executors of the latter's will, July 31, 1773. James Stewart, Jr., may have been (as his son James Stewart III undoubtedly was) enrolled in the Continental Army. He is numbered among "Persons fifty years of age upwards in Captain Raulston's Company in the western district of Brandywine Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware on March 7, 1778.

James Stewart, Jr., died probably in June or July 1788 for his will was probated on July 5th. of that year. Amemorandum written by his great-grandson Joseph-James Stewart, Jr., states that the remains of James Stewart, Jr., were buried at the "S.E. corner of old Presbyterian Church in Wilmington, Delaware.

Here also was interred his brother Samuel, and between their graves was located that of James Jr's son, William, as stipulated in the latter's will. The will of James Stewart, Jr., mentioned in his will as being alive on October 19, 1787 were: Samuel, Isabella, James III,William, Robert. Children mentioned or referred to in the will of his son William Stewart are: Elizabeth who married a Mr. Dutton: a daughter who seems to have married a Mr. Campbell, though this daughter may have been Elizabeth, in which event Mr. Campbell was her second husband.

James was a farmer. He bought 94 acres of land from the Pennsylvania Land Co. of London for L106, which means he paid for it in English money. The land was in Rockland Manor in Brandywine Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware.

His brother Samuel also bought land in the same place. James lived there and raised his family of five children whose names were: Samuel, James, Isabella, William, and Robert.

James made his will in 1787. He willed his wife 2 featherbeds, furniture, one cow, one Negro wench. He gave his son Samuel 10 Shillings, his daughter Isabella was willed 10 shillings, he gave his son James all his real estate. HE left his son Robert 70 Pounds, and to William, he left 80 Pounds.
James and Samuel were very religious.

More About JAMES JR. STEWART:
Burial: June 1788, Wilmington, Delaware (Old Presbyterian Church)

Children of JAMES STEWART and ISABELLA STEWART are:
26. i. JAMES III21 STEWART, b. 1761, Brandywine Hundred, New Castle Co., Delaware; d. April 1843, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
ii. SAMUEL STEWART.
iii. WILLIAM STEWART, b. 1766; d. 1834.
iv. ROBERT STEWART.
v. ISABELLA STEWART.

Generation No. 21

26. JAMES III21 STEWART (JAMES JR.20, JAMES SR.19, WILLIAM18, NINION III17, CHRISTIAN16, JAMES15, NINION II14, JAMES13, NINION12, JAMES I KING OF SCOTLAND (JAMES11 STEWART), ROBERT III KING OF SCOTLAND ( JOHN10, ROBERT II KING OF9 SCOTLAND, WALTER STEWART KING ROBERT I OF8, JAMES7 STEWART, ALEXANDER STEWART 4TH. HIGH6, WALTER FITZ ALLEN5 3RD, HIGH STEWARD, ALAN (ALEXANDER) 2ND. HIGH4 STEWARD, WALTER FITZ ALLEN 1ST. HIGH3, ALAN2, FLAAD SENESCHAL OF DOL IN1 BRITTANY) was born 1761 in Brandywine Hundred, New Castle Co., Delaware, and died April 1843 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He married LYDIA MOREHEAD, daughter of ARCHIBALD MOREHEAD and JANE HOWARD.

Notes for JAMES III STEWART:
James Stewart III, son of James, Jr., and Isabella Stewart was born in 1761 in Brandywine Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware. A memorandum made by his grandson Joseph-James Stewart, Jr., and now belonging to the latter's daughter, Mrs. Martha Stewart Pennington of Baltimore, Maryland, states; My grandfather James Stewart, although a lad of but sixteen years of age, joined the American forces at the Battle of Brandywine, commanded by LaFayette, September 11, 1777, and carried a musket in that engagement." He married Miss Lydia Morehead, daughter of Archibald Morehead, a Presbyterian minister, whose wife's maiden name was Jane Howard. In Volume1, pages 399,400,401, of the Delaware Archives, James Stewart is listed as a private on the payroll of the Sixth Company (Captain John Learnmont's) of the Delaware Regiment of Foot, commanded by Colonel David Hall.

Letters written in February 1844449 by the wife of James Ryniger, a grandson of Jaames Stewart III, to William Alexander Stewart state that when her husband's grandfather, James Stewart III, was above 81 years of age he and his wife resided in Philadelphia with the Ryninger family; that on ethe death of James Stewart III, in april 1843, she (the writer) prepared the body for interment which took place on Palm Sunday, April 9, 1843.

James, who inherited land from his father James, was our gggrandfather. When he was 16 years old, he served in the Revolutionary War. He went home a few times without leave, but went back again. He was in the battle of Brandywine, September 11, 1777. General LaFayette was the commander under General Washington. James got paid about $6.00 a week as near as I can figure it. His land was in Brandywine Hundred (something like our townships). It was along the beautiful Brandywine River and was very rocky. It was only about 10 miles from Pennsylvania and about 30 miles from Philadelphia.

James had 12 children:
William A.
Joseph James
Charles
Louisa
Solomon
Mary
Margaret
Alexander
Lydia
Jane
Robert Bruce*
Samuel

Written by Myrtle (Burchett) Hammond

In Volume 1, pages 399, 400, 401 of the Delaware Archives, James Stewart is listed as a private on the payroll of the Sixth Company (Captain John Learnmont's) of the Delaware Regiment of Foot, commanded by Colonel David Hall.

Children of JAMES STEWART and LYDIA MOREHEAD are:
27. i. ALEXANDER22 STEWART, d. 1828, Alabama.
ii. JANE STEWART.
iii. JOSEPH JAMES STEWART, b. 1793; m. ELIZA BURGAN.

Notes for JOSEPH JAMES STEWART:
Copy of Baltimore Newspaper in 1880

Mr. Joseph James Stewart, Sr. died last night at the age of 87. He was a native of Brandywine, Hundred, near Wilmington, Delaware. He was born there in 1793. His grandfather who died before the Revolution was born in County Tyrone, Ireland. The genealogy of his ancestors traces back to James the 1st. of Scotland and King Robert the Bruce.

His father fought under La Fayette at the battle of Brandywine and Mr. Steward enlisted as a volunteer in 1814 at Poughkeepsie, New York. In 1816 he came to Baltimore and kept a grocery store for many years in the store now occupied by Henry Strauss. He was one of the oldest Odd Fellows and Masons in the city, a member of the Old Friendship Fire Co. of the Franklin Beneficial Society, the old Maryland Temperance Society and many other organizations. He was a member of the City Council when his old friend Elizah Stansbury was Mayor of the city. Mr. Stewart was formally a member of St. Andrews episcopal Church, but in late years has attended the church of the Holy Innocents in Madison Square.

He married Eliza Burgan of Baltimore county who survives him.....among whom are: Mr. William A. Stewart, late speaker of the House of Delegates, a well known lawyer of this city. Mr. Joseph James Stewart, United States Arbitrator in Spanish Claims Commission in Washington, and Walter H. Stewart, Superintendent of the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph.

General Alexander Peter Stewart, Chancellor of the University of Mississippi and late Lieutenant-General of the confederate States of America is his nephew, as were also Colonel Hawking, whose poems are so well known in the poetry of the south.

Mr. Stewart retired thirty years ago and has always been highly esteemed as an honest man and good citizen.

iv. LOUISA STEWART.
v. LYDIA STEWART.
vi. MARGARET STEWART.
vii. MARY STEWART.
viii. SAMUEL STEWART.
ix. SOLOMON STEWART.

Notes for SOLOMON STEWART:
Solomon Stewart, unmarried, was mayor of Hernando, Mississipi.

28. x. WILLIAM STEWART, b. 15 April 1791, Brandywine Hundred, New Castle Co., Delaware; d. August 1870, Winchester, Franklin Co., Tennessee.
xi. CHARLES STEWART, b. 1792; m. ELLEN DECHERD.
29. xii. ROBERT BRUCE STEWART, b. 19 April 1796, Brandywine Hundred, New Castle Co., Delaware; d. 1 September 1871, Modena, Mercer Co., Missouri.

Generation No. 22

27. ALEXANDER22 STEWART (JAMES III21, JAMES JR.20, JAMES SR.19, WILLIAM18, NINION III17, CHRISTIAN16, JAMES15, NINION II14, JAMES13, NINION12, JAMES I KING OF SCOTLAND (JAMES11 STEWART), ROBERT III KING OF SCOTLAND ( JOHN10, ROBERT II KING OF9 SCOTLAND, WALTER STEWART KING ROBERT I OF8, JAMES7 STEWART, ALEXANDER STEWART 4TH. HIGH6, WALTER FITZ ALLEN5 3RD, HIGH STEWARD, ALAN (ALEXANDER) 2ND. HIGH4 STEWARD, WALTER FITZ ALLEN 1ST. HIGH3, ALAN2, FLAAD SENESCHAL OF DOL IN1 BRITTANY) died 1828 in Alabama.

Child of ALEXANDER STEWART is:
30. i. CHARLES23 STEWART, d. Van Buren, Arkansas.

28. WILLIAM22 STEWART (JAMES III21, JAMES JR.20, JAMES SR.19, WILLIAM18, NINION III17, CHRISTIAN16, JAMES15, NINION II14, JAMES13, NINION12, JAMES I KING OF SCOTLAND (JAMES11 STEWART), ROBERT III KING OF SCOTLAND ( JOHN10, ROBERT II KING OF9 SCOTLAND, WALTER STEWART KING ROBERT I OF8, JAMES7 STEWART, ALEXANDER STEWART 4TH. HIGH6, WALTER FITZ ALLEN5 3RD, HIGH STEWARD, ALAN (ALEXANDER) 2ND. HIGH4 STEWARD, WALTER FITZ ALLEN 1ST. HIGH3, ALAN2, FLAAD SENESCHAL OF DOL IN1 BRITTANY) was born 15 April 1791 in Brandywine Hundred, New Castle Co., Delaware, and died August 1870 in Winchester, Franklin Co., Tennessee. He married ELIZABETH DECHERD, daughter of MICHAEL DECHARD and ELIZBETH SPYKER. She was born 2 October 1796 in Abingdon, Virginia, and died 18 October 1847 in Winchester, Franklin Co., Tennessee.

Notes for WILLIAM STEWART:
Data taken from the Book :
General Alexander Peter Stewart - His life and Letters
by: Marshall Wingfield

William and Elizabeth (Decherd) Stewart lived in Blountville, Tennessee, 1816-1818, and here their first two children were born. They lived in Rogersville 1819-1830, and here their nest seven children were born with the exception of Leonidas who was born in Abingdon, Virginia. Seven other children were born to them after their removal from Rogersville to Winchester in 1831.

William and Elizabeth lived in Tennessee near Rogersville. William sent nine sons into the Civil War on the side of the south. One was Lt. Gen. A. P. Stewart, who was also a mathematics teacher at West Point Military Academy. General Stewart has a chapel named as his memoria. He was in school at West Point with General Sherman, General Grant, and others, including Abner Doubleday who "invented" baseball.

Written by Myrtle Hammond

More About WILLIAM STEWART:
Burial: August 1870, Winchester, Franklin Co., Tennessee

Notes for ELIZABETH DECHERD:
A fourtheenth child (a son) of William and Elizabeth (Decherd) Stewart, was born in Winchester, Tennessee, in 1839, died in infancy unnamed.

A fifteenth child of William and Elizabeth (Decherd) Stewart was born in Winchester, Tennessee, in 1841, and died in infancy. She was named Ellen for her maternal aunt, Mrs. Ellen (Decherd) Stewart.

A sixteenth child of William and Elizabeth (Dechard) Stewart was born in Winchester, Tennessee, in 1842, and died in infancy. She was named Mary Adelaide.

More About ELIZABETH DECHERD:
Burial: October 1847, Winchester, Franklin Co., Tennessee

Children of WILLIAM STEWART and ELIZABETH DECHERD are:
31. i. CATHERINE23 STEWART, b. 29 May 1816, Blountville, Sullivan County, Tennessee.; d. 28 March 1898, Memphis, Tennessee.
ii. ALBANUS STEWART, b. 1817, Blountville, Tennessee; d. 1818, Rogersville, Tennessee.
iii. JAMES DECHERD STEWART, b. 19 October 1819, Rogersville, Tennessee; d. 16 December 1854, New Orleans, Louisiana; m. ELLA DUNCAN, 5 August 1851, Nashville, Tennessee.

More About JAMES DECHERD STEWART:
Burial: December 1854, New Orleans, Louisiana Odd Fellows Cemetery

32. iv. ALEXANDER PETER STEWART, b. 2 October 1821, Rogersville, Tennessee; d. 30 August 1908, Biloxi, Mississippi.
33. v. CHARLES SPYKER STEWART, b. 19 April 1825, Rogersville, Tennessee.
vi. JOHN WILLIAM STEWART, b. 1826.
34. vii. LEONIDAS HEADING STEWART, b. 12 June 1827, Abingdon,Virginia; d. 12 May 1900, Milan, Tennessee.
35. viii. OSCAR WILKINSON STEWART, b. 21 February 1829, Rogersville, Tennessee; d. 22 September 1873, Memphis, Tennessee.
ix. SAMUEL MOREHEAD STEWART, b. 12 October 1830, Rogersville, Tennessee; d. September 1853, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Notes for SAMUEL MOREHEAD STEWART:
Samuel Morehead Stewart ninth child of William and Elizabeth (Decherd) Stewart, was born October 12, 1830 in Rogersville, Tennessee. His middle name derived from his great grandfather Archibald Morehead. Samuel Morehead Stewart became a protege of Dr. H. N. McTyeire, founder of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and entered the ministry of the Methodist Church. He never married. His sister, Mrs. Catherine Stewart Jones writing on January 13, 1897 states: "Samuel Morehead, ninth of my parents' children, was the handsomest of their sons. He died of yellow fever in New Orleans, Louisiana, September 1853, and was buried there in the cemetery bearing the name of Odd Fellows Rest, where subsequently his brother James Decherd and his sister Julia were interred beside him."

More About SAMUEL MOREHEAD STEWART:
Burial: September 1853, New Orleans, Louisiana

36. x. JONATHAN DECHERD STEWART, b. 1831, Winchester, Tennessee; d. 26 August 1879, Memphis, Tennessee.
xi. JULIA FRANCES ELIZABETH STEWART, b. 1833; d. October 1867, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Notes for JULIA FRANCES ELIZABETH STEWART:
Julia Frances Elizabeth Stewart eleventh child of William and Elizabeth (Decherd) Stewart, was born in Winchester, Tennessee, in 1833. She was teaching school in Amite City, Louisiana at the end of the Civil War. She died unmarried of yellow fever in October 1867 and was buried by the side of her brothers James and Samuel in Odd Fellows Rest, New Orleans.

More About JULIA FRANCES ELIZABETH STEWART:
Burial: 1868, New Orleans, Louisiana Odd Fellows Cemetery

37. xii. SARAH BELL STEWART, b. 4 March 1834, Winchester, Tennessee; d. August 1858, Liberty, Missouri.
xiii. BENJAMIN DECHERD STEWART, b. 1837, Winchester, Tennessee.

Notes for BENJAMIN DECHERD STEWART:
Benjamin Decherd Stewart, thirteenth child of William and Elizabeth (Decherd) Stewart, was born in Winchester, Tennessee, in 1837. He was named for his maternal uncle Benjamin Spyker Decherd. He became a student at Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee, and died in Winchester, Tennessee, from "throat trouble" in 1859, about the time he should have graduated from Cumberland.

xiv. SON (UNNAMED) STEWART, b. 1839.
xv. ELLEN STEWART, b. 1841.
xvi. MARY ADELAIDE STEWART, b. 1842.

29. ROBERT BRUCE22 STEWART (JAMES III21, JAMES JR.20, JAMES SR.19, WILLIAM18, NINION III17, CHRISTIAN16, JAMES15, NINION II14, JAMES13, NINION12, JAMES I KING OF SCOTLAND (JAMES11 STEWART), ROBERT III KING OF SCOTLAND ( JOHN10, ROBERT II KING OF9 SCOTLAND, WALTER STEWART KING ROBERT I OF8, JAMES7 STEWART, ALEXANDER STEWART 4TH. HIGH6, WALTER FITZ ALLEN5 3RD, HIGH STEWARD, ALAN (ALEXANDER) 2ND. HIGH4 STEWARD, WALTER FITZ ALLEN 1ST. HIGH3, ALAN2, FLAAD SENESCHAL OF DOL IN1 BRITTANY) was born 19 April 1796 in Brandywine Hundred, New Castle Co., Delaware, and died 1 September 1871 in Modena, Mercer Co., Missouri. He married AMY K IRELAND in Tennessee, daughter of JOHN IRELAND and SARAH VANDERPOOL. She was born 6 March 1806, and died 1 December 1868 in Modena, Missouri.

Notes for ROBERT BRUCE STEWART:
Robert Bruce Stewart was apprenticed to a millwright and always gave his profession as a millwright even after mills like that were not used. In 1850 he gave his occupation as a Millwright. We don't know anything of him until 1820 when he turned up near Knoxville, Tennessee. He is said to have been in the Seige of Ft. McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland in 1814 where the Star Spangled Banner was written. I'd be real proud of that if I knew it was true, though I believe it is. This was the Naval War of 1812-1814 with the British.

Robert helped run the Mormons out of Missouri in 1837 and so was, I suppose, in the Militia. In 1846 he went with Col. Doniphon of Missouri to take possession of Santa Fe, New Mexico, at the close of the Mexican War. That took men. He was not a soldier as far as I can find, but was a teamster. For that trip the government gave him land in Ray Co., Missouri. About 1850 he moved to Mercer County, Missouri where he was a Home Guard during the Civil War, being too old to be a soldier. He sent two, maybe three sons to the Civil War. They were William Alexander (our Grandfather], John Harris, and James Ireland.

Robert Bruce is buried at Modena, Missouri, in Union Cemetery beside his wife , Amy K. Ireland, and their son, John Harris who died February 3, 1862 from wounds suffered in the Civil War.

Robert Bruce was also a ship builder and cabinet maker. He helped build and later made his first ocean trip on the historical ship "Old Iron sides".

He is buried in the Old Union Cemetery in Mercer Co., Missouri. He died September 01 1871 and fought in the war of 1812 and joined the Union Army after his son John Harris was killed.

Written by Myrtle (Burchett) Hammond
Sources:
Family History

1830 Monroe Co., Census shows Robert and William Stewart also a Jonathan Ireland
1850 Ray County Census
1860 Mercer Co., Mo., Census
1870 Mercer Co., Mo., Census
Mercer Co., Mo. Cemetery Records (DAR)
Ray Co., Missouri marriage records

Records of the Cherokee Indian Agency in Tennessee in the years 1801-1816 shows intruders in Sim's Settlement May 27th 1809 and Robert Stewart is on the list.

Robert Bruce Stewart was born in New Castle Co., Delaware on 04-19-1796, the son of James and Lydia Moorhead Stewart. His father served in the Revolutionary War under General Lafayette at the "Battle of Brandywine". Robert Bruce Stewart moved to Tennessee and met and married Amy Kinman Ireland, the daughter of John and Sarah Vanderpool Ireland. Amy was born in Hawkins Co., Tennessee on 03-06-1806 and in 1822 they married and moved to Ray Co., Missouri. They lived there for 18 years and then moved to Modena, Missouri in Mercer Co., Missouri. Robert was a Veteran of the War of 1812 and the Civil War. They had several children of which one was John Harris Stewart. John Harris Stewart served in the Civil War and died in 1862 before the birth of his daughter Harriet. Harriet married Robert Miller on 11-21-1879 in Modena Missouri. Robert Bruce and Amy Stewart are buried at Union Cemetery and so is John Harris Stewart.

Submitted by Carol Albrecht descendant of John Harris Stewart

More About ROBERT BRUCE STEWART:
Burial: 2 September 1871, Modena, Mercer Co., Missouri Old Union Cemetary

More About AMY K IRELAND:
Burial: 2 December 1868, Modena, Missouri Union Cemetary

Children of ROBERT STEWART and AMY IRELAND are:
38. i. WILLIAM ALEXANDER23 STEWART, b. 20 January 1823, Monroe Co., Tenn; d. 16 November 1898, Princeton, Mercer Co., Missouri.
39. ii. JOHN HARRIS STEWART, b. 24 September 1828, Monroe Co., Tennessee; d. 3 February 1862, Utica, Missouri.
iii. JAMES IRELAND STEWART, b. 1830.
iv. CHARLES HOLLAND STEWART, b. 25 July 1839, Tennessee; d. 14 June 1906, Mercer Co., Missouri.

Notes for CHARLES HOLLAND STEWART:
Charles Holland Stewart was a Civil War Sargent Co. E 2nd. Regiment Missouri Cavalry. He enlisted on 17 September 1861 and served until 22 march 1862. National Archives military record shows that he mustered out because of suffering from Chronic diarrhea, measles, and piles contracted in the army.

More About CHARLES HOLLAND STEWART:
Burial: June 1906, Mercer Co., Missouri Brummett Cemetery

v. GEORGE WASHINGTON STEWART, b. 16 May 1833, Mercer Co., Missouri; m. MARIA STREET; b. June 1838; d. 13 December 1859, Mercer Co., Missouri.

Notes for GEORGE WASHINGTON STEWART:
GEORGE WASHINGTON STEWART served in the Civil War . He enlisted from Mill Grove, Mercer Co., Missouri on 30 September 1863 and served until 12 August 1865. He was a private in K Co.
1st. Missouri Calvary. Service record in National Archives lists his death as being incurred from Dropsy of the heart.

More About MARIA STREET:
Burial: December 1859, Mercer Co., Missouri old Union Cemetery

vi. LOUISA STEWART, b. 22 July 1842.

Generation No. 23

30. CHARLES23 STEWART (ALEXANDER22, JAMES III21, JAMES JR.20, JAMES SR.19, WILLIAM18, NINION III17, CHRISTIAN16, JAMES15, NINION II14, JAMES13, NINION12, JAMES I KING OF SCOTLAND (JAMES11 STEWART), ROBERT III KING OF SCOTLAND ( JOHN10, ROBERT II KING OF9 SCOTLAND, WALTER STEWART KING ROBERT I OF8, JAMES7 STEWART, ALEXANDER STEWART 4TH. HIGH6, WALTER FITZ ALLEN5 3RD, HIGH STEWARD, ALAN (ALEXANDER) 2ND. HIGH4 STEWARD, WALTER FITZ ALLEN 1ST. HIGH3, ALAN2, FLAAD SENESCHAL OF DOL IN1 BRITTANY) died in Van Buren, Arkansas.

Child of CHARLES STEWART is:
i. JULIA A.24 STEWART.

31. CATHERINE23 STEWART (WILLIAM22, JAMES III21, JAMES JR.20, JAMES SR.19, WILLIAM18, NINION III17, CHRISTIAN16, JAMES15, NINION II14, JAMES13, NINION12, JAMES I KING OF SCOTLAND (JAMES11 STEWART), ROBERT III KING OF SCOTLAND ( JOHN10, ROBERT II KING OF9 SCOTLAND, WALTER STEWART KING ROBERT I OF8, JAMES7 STEWART, ALEXANDER STEWART 4TH. HIGH6, WALTER FITZ ALLEN5 3RD, HIGH STEWARD, ALAN (ALEXANDER) 2ND. HIGH4 STEWARD, WALTER FITZ ALLEN 1ST. HIGH3, ALAN2, FLAAD SENESCHAL OF DOL IN1 BRITTANY) was born 29 May 1816 in Blountville, Sullivan County, Tennessee., and died 28 March 1898 in Memphis, Tennessee. She married (1) JUDGE ROBERT Z. HAWKINS 1836 in Triana, Alabama. He was born in Maryland, and died 1875 in Nashville, Tennessee. She married (2) ALEXANDER BRIGGS 1840. She married (3) REV. SANDY ELROD JONES Abt. 1848. He was born 7 December 1804 in Clay County, Kentucky, and died 1878 in Houstonville, Kentucky.

Notes for CATHERINE STEWART:
Catherine Stewart was thrice married and bore one child to each of her husbands. Her first Marriage, in 1836, was to Judge Robert Z. Hawkins, a native of Maryland and a widower with two young daughters by a previous marriage. He lived in Triana, Alabama. On October, 2, 1837, Catherine bore to him, in Triana, William Stewart Hawkins who became a coloned in the Confederate States Army. He died in 1875 in Nashville, Tennessee. Judge Hawkins died in August 1838, and his widow returned to her former home, Winchester, Tennessee.

Her second marriage in 1840, was to Alexander Briggs, graduate of Dublin (Ireland) University and wholesale grocer of Russellville, Alabama. Prior to July 1843, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Briggs removed to Tuscumbia, Alabama, where Mr. Briggs edited The Tuscumbia Herald. Here was born to them, July 19, 1843, a son Wallace Stewart Briggs who became a soldier in the Confederate States Army and died in Winchester, Kentucky in 1867.

After the death of her second husand, Mrs. Catherine Stewart Briggs was married about 1848 to the Rev. Sandy Elrod Jones, a widower with four children. He was born December 7, 1804, in Clay County, Kentucky, and became a minister of the Christian (Disciples) Church. They resided in Nashville, Tennessee, and here was born to them on September 14, 1849, Wharton Stewart Jones who became superintendent of public education in Memphis, Tennessee. On August 66, 1858, the family was still residing in Nashville, as evidenced by a letter written on that date by her brother Alexander Peter Stewart, who, then residing in Lebanon, addressed her at Minerva College in Nashville.

More About CATHERINE STEWART:
Burial: March 1898, Memphis, Tennessee Elmwood Cemetery of Memphis

Child of CATHERINE STEWART and JUDGE HAWKINS is:
i. WILLIAM STEWART24 HAWKINS, b. 2 October 1837.

Child of CATHERINE STEWART and ALEXANDER BRIGGS is:
ii. WALLACE STEWART24 BRIGGS, b. 19 July 1843, Tuscumbia, Alabama; d. 1867, Winchester, Clark County, Kentucky.

Child of CATHERINE STEWART and REV. JONES is:
iii. WHARTON STEWART24 JONES, b. 14 September 1849.

32. ALEXANDER PETER23 STEWART (WILLIAM22, JAMES III21, JAMES JR.20, JAMES SR.19, WILLIAM18, NINION III17, CHRISTIAN16, JAMES15, NINION II14, JAMES13, NINION12, JAMES I KING OF SCOTLAND (JAMES11 STEWART), ROBERT III KING OF SCOTLAND ( JOHN10, ROBERT II KING OF9 SCOTLAND, WALTER STEWART KING ROBERT I OF8, JAMES7 STEWART, ALEXANDER STEWART 4TH. HIGH6, WALTER FITZ ALLEN5 3RD, HIGH STEWARD, ALAN (ALEXANDER) 2ND. HIGH4 STEWARD, WALTER FITZ ALLEN 1ST. HIGH3, ALAN2, FLAAD SENESCHAL OF DOL IN1 BRITTANY) was born 2 October 1821 in Rogersville, Tennessee, and died 30 August 1908 in Biloxi, Mississippi. He married HARRIET BYRON CHASE 1845 in Warren, Ohio. She died 4 January 1898 in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Notes for ALEXANDER PETER STEWART:
The Stewart family of which General Alexander Peter Stewart was a member, is commonly known as the Baltimore Stewarts" from the circumstance that its more prominent members have lived near Baltimore for Generations.

Clipping from Biloxi, Mississippi Newspaper

SOUTHERN LEADER ENDS LAST FIGHT
One of Two Lieutenant Generals Left Dies Suddenly in Mississippi

Had Spent Great Part of Life as Educator and Writer.

BILOXI, Miss., Aug. 30, 1908----Alexander P. Stewart, one of the last two surviving lieutenant generals of the confederate army, died at his home here today. Although he was in his eighty-seventh year and suffering from the infirmities of age, Gen. Stewart's death came as a distinct shock to his relatives and friends.

General Stewart was born at Rogersville, Hawkins county, Tennessee, Oct. 2, 1821, and received his early education in that state. Later he was appointed to the uUnited States military academy at West Point, and graduated with honors from that institution in June, 1842. Following his graduation at West Point he was made a second lieutenant of the Third United States artillery, and later was transferred to West point, where he served as on of the assistants to the professor of mathematicsd.

Resigning from the army in 1845, Gen. Stewart accepted the chair of mathematics and natural philosphy in Cumberland university, Tennessee. At the outbreak of the civil war he was commissioned as a brigadier general in the confederate army, made a major general in 1863, and received his commission as a lieutenant general one year later. The close of the war found him in command of the army of Tennessee.

Gen. Stewart served from 1874 to 1886 as chancellor of the University of Mississippi. In 1890 he was appointed one of the commissioners of the Chickamauga national park, and from that time until he moved to Biloxi he made his home at Chattanooga, Tenn. Gen. Stewart spent the last years of his life largely in literary work.

Gen. Stewart married at Warren, Ohio, in 1845, Miss Harriet B. Chase. She died in 1898.

They are both buried in St. Louis Missiouri

More About ALEXANDER PETER STEWART:
Burial: September 1908, St. Louis, St. Louis co., Missouri Bellefontaine Cemetery

Notes for HARRIET BYRON CHASE:
Harriet died on the morning of January 4, 1898 at the home of Mrs. Euclid Waterhouse, 451 Oak Street, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She died of a brain hemorrhage.

More About HARRIET BYRON CHASE:
Burial: January 1898, St. Louis, St. Louis Co., Missouri Bellefontaine Cemetery

Children of ALEXANDER STEWART and HARRIET CHASE are:
i. ROBERT CARUTHERS24 STEWART, b. 14 June 1846.
40. ii. ALPHONSO CHASE STEWART, b. 27 August 1848.
iii. ALEXANDER PETER JR. STEWART, b. 20 February 1859.
iv. GUSTAVUS WOODSON SMITH STEWART, b. 25 February 1861.

33. CHARLES SPYKER23 STEWART (WILLIAM22, JAMES III21, JAMES JR.20, JAMES SR.19, WILLIAM18, NINION III17, CHRISTIAN16, JAMES15, NINION II14, JAMES13, NINION12, JAMES I KING OF SCOTLAND (JAMES11 STEWART), ROBERT III KING OF SCOTLAND ( JOHN10, ROBERT II KING OF9 SCOTLAND, WALTER STEWART KING ROBERT I OF8, JAMES7 STEWART, ALEXANDER STEWART 4TH. HIGH6, WALTER FITZ ALLEN5 3RD, HIGH STEWARD, ALAN (ALEXANDER) 2ND. HIGH4 STEWARD, WALTER FITZ ALLEN 1ST. HIGH3, ALAN2, FLAAD SENESCHAL OF DOL IN1 BRITTANY) was born 19 April 1825 in Rogersville, Tennessee. He married MARY WRIGHT HUDDLESTON 12 March 1848 in Columbus, Mississippi.

Children of CHARLES STEWART and MARY HUDDLESTON are:
i. SARAH ELIZABETH24 STEWART, b. 4 April 1853, Amite City, Louisiana.
ii. JOHN WILLIAM STEWART, b. 9 June 1855, Amite City, Louisiana.
iii. MARY NETTIE STEWART, b. 26 December 1857, Amite City, Louisiana.
iv. CHARLES SPYKER JR. STEWART, b. 6 July 1860, Amite City, Louisiana; d. 22 October 1883, Amite City, Louisiana.
v. KATIE LOU STEWART, b. 12 May 1863, Amite City, Louisiana.
vi. ALEXANDER POLK STEWART, b. 17 August 1865, Amite City, Louisiana.

34. LEONIDAS HEADING23 STEWART (WILLIAM22, JAMES III21, JAMES JR.20, JAMES SR.19, WILLIAM18, NINION III17, CHRISTIAN16, JAMES15, NINION II14, JAMES13, NINION12, JAMES I KING OF SCOTLAND (JAMES11 STEWART), ROBERT III KING OF SCOTLAND ( JOHN10, ROBERT II KING OF9 SCOTLAND, WALTER STEWART KING ROBERT I OF8, JAMES7 STEWART, ALEXANDER STEWART 4TH. HIGH6, WALTER FITZ ALLEN5 3RD, HIGH STEWARD, ALAN (ALEXANDER) 2ND. HIGH4 STEWARD, WALTER FITZ ALLEN 1ST. HIGH3, ALAN2, FLAAD SENESCHAL OF DOL IN1 BRITTANY) was born 12 June 1827 in Abingdon,Virginia, and died 12 May 1900 in Milan, Tennessee. He married (1) MARTHA CLARISSA POPE 7 November 1849 in Russelville Alabama. She was born 8 May 1832 in Tuscumbia, Alabama, and died in Winchester, Tennessee. He married (2) SALLIE VIOLA BRYAN 6 October 1868 in Memphis, Tennessee. She was born 9 June 1843 in Oakland, Mississippi, and died 23 August 1905 in Memphis TN.

Notes for LEONIDAS HEADING STEWART:
Leonidas Heading Stewart seventh child of William and Elizabeth (Deschard) Stewart was born June 12, 1827, in Abingdon, virginia, although at that time the home of his parents was in Rogersville, Tennessee. On November 7, 1849, he was married at russellville, Alabama, to Miss Martha Clarissa Pope who was born May 8, 1832, in Tuscumbia, Alabama. They first lived in russellville where their children were born, William Harvey on july 12, 1850, and Mary elizabeth on August 8, 1852. Leonidas H. Stewart became a colonel in the Confederate Army, and, while serving under Generals Gray and Braxton Bragg, was captured by the enemy in May 1862. A letter written from Savannah, Georgia, on April 26, 1864, by his sister-in=law, Jrs. Alexander P. Stewart, states that at that time Leonidas Heading Stewart's relatives were uninformed as to where he was. Upon his release at the end of the war, he located in Memphis, Tennessee, and spent the rest of his life there. His first wife died in Winchester, Tennessee in 18?, and on October 6, 1868, he was married in Memphis to Miss Sarah Viola Bryan, who was born June 9, 1843, at Oakland, Mississippi.

More About LEONIDAS HEADING STEWART:
Burial: May 1900, Memphis TN Elmwood Cemetery

More About SALLIE VIOLA BRYAN:
Burial: August 1905, Memphis TN Elmwood Cemetery

Children of LEONIDAS STEWART and MARTHA POPE are:
i. WILLIAM HARVEY24 STEWART, b. 12 July 1850.
ii. MARY ELIZABETH STEWART, b. 8 August 1852.

Children of LEONIDAS STEWART and SALLIE BRYAN are:
iii. MARTHA LEE24 STEWART, b. 7 March 1870.
iv. CHARLES BRYAN STEWART STEWART, b. 4 July 1872.
v. THOMAS BRYAN STEWART, b. 30 January 1875.
vi. JAMES WALTER STEWART, b. 6 December 1877.

35. OSCAR WILKINSON23 STEWART (WILLIAM22, JAMES III21, JAMES JR.20, JAMES SR.19, WILLIAM18, NINION III17, CHRISTIAN16, JAMES15, NINION II14, JAMES13, NINION12, JAMES I KING OF SCOTLAND (JAMES11 STEWART), ROBERT III KING OF SCOTLAND ( JOHN10, ROBERT II KING OF9 SCOTLAND, WALTER STEWART KING ROBERT I OF8, JAMES7 STEWART, ALEXANDER STEWART 4TH. HIGH6, WALTER FITZ ALLEN5 3RD, HIGH STEWARD, ALAN (ALEXANDER) 2ND. HIGH4 STEWARD, WALTER FITZ ALLEN 1ST. HIGH3, ALAN2, FLAAD SENESCHAL OF DOL IN1 BRITTANY) was born 21 February 1829 in Rogersville, Tennessee, and died 22 September 1873 in Memphis, Tennessee. He married MARY ANN POPE 2 June 1853 in Falcon, Nevada County, Arkansas. She died 25 November 1904 in Gadsen, Alabama.

Notes for OSCAR WILKINSON STEWART:
FROM THE BOOK GENERAL A.P. STEWART
by Marshall Wingfield

Oscar Wilkinson Stewart eighth child of William and Elizabeth (Decherd) Stewart, was born February 21, 1829, in Rogersville, Tennessee. In 1849 he taught school at Salem in Marshall County, Tennessee, at a salary of five hundred dollars per year. In 1853 he had become a physician and was practicing in the village of Falcon, in Nevada County, Arkansas, where on June 2, 1853 , he married Miss Mary Ann Pope. Dr. and Mrs. O. W. Stewart resided in Falcon until 1857 and two sons were born to them there. A third child, John Pope, was born March 28, 1857 in Frankfort, Alabama, and their fourth, Martha Bell, was born November 17, 1858, in Itawamba County, Mississippi. Early in 1861, Dr. and Mrs. O. W. Stewart took residence in Winchester, Tennessee, where their fifth child, Benjamin Lee, was born, July 20, 1861. During the Civil War Dr. Stewart served as surgeon in the Confederate States Army. From 1861 to 1864, his family moved from place to place as the exigencies of the time required. A son, Oscar William, was born in Barton County, Gerogia, on November 6, 1863. By the spring of 1864 the family had established a home in Auburn, Alabama. A daughter, Willie Mai, was born there on September 7, 1866. This daughter and her sister Martha married brothers, Andrew Jackson Coates, and Daniel Hoke Coates. Her father and his brother Leonidas H. Stewart had married sisters, Mary Ann Pope and Martha Clarissa Pope. Her grandfather William Stewart and his brother Charles had married sisters, Elizabeth Decherd and Ellen Decherd. Dr. Stewart and his family continued their itinerant life after the war. A son, Charles Edward, was born to Dr. and Mrs. Stewart in Etowah County, Alabama, on April 29, 1870. Soon thereafter the family removed to Memphis, Tennessee, where they remained until the death of Dr. Stewart from yellow fever on September 22, 1873. His widow then lived in Gadsen, Alabama, with her daughter, Mrs. Andrew Jackson Coates. Mrs. O. W. Stewart died on November 25, 1904.

More About OSCAR WILKINSON STEWART:
Burial: September 1873, Memphis, Tennessee

More About MARY ANN POPE:
Burial: November 1904, Gadsen, Alabama

Children of OSCAR STEWART and MARY POPE are:
i. JOHN POPE24 STEWART, b. 28 March 1857.
ii. MARTHA BELL STEWART, b. 17 November 1858.
iii. BENJAMIN LEE STEWART, b. 20 July 1861.
iv. OSCAR WILLIAM STEWART, b. 6 November 1863.
v. WILLIE MAI STEWART, b. 7 September 1866.
vi. CHARLES EDWARD STEWART, b. 29 April 1870.

36. JONATHAN DECHERD23 STEWART (WILLIAM22, JAMES III21, JAMES JR.20, JAMES SR.19, WILLIAM18, NINION III17, CHRISTIAN16, JAMES15, NINION II14, JAMES13, NINION12, JAMES I KING OF SCOTLAND (JAMES11 STEWART), ROBERT III KING OF SCOTLAND ( JOHN10, ROBERT II KING OF9 SCOTLAND, WALTER STEWART KING ROBERT I OF8, JAMES7 STEWART, ALEXANDER STEWART 4TH. HIGH6, WALTER FITZ ALLEN5 3RD, HIGH STEWARD, ALAN (ALEXANDER) 2ND. HIGH4 STEWARD, WALTER FITZ ALLEN 1ST. HIGH3, ALAN2, FLAAD SENESCHAL OF DOL IN1 BRITTANY) was born 1831 in Winchester, Tennessee, and died 26 August 1879 in Memphis, Tennessee. He married NANCY MARIA TAYLOR Abt. 1862 in Memphis, Tennessee.

Notes for JONATHAN DECHERD STEWART:
Johathan Decherd Stewart tenth child of William and Elizabeth (Decherd) Stewart, was born in 1831 in Winchester, Tennessee, and was named for his maternal uncle Jonathan Uriah Decherd. Although reared in the Presbyterian faith he became a Methodist clergyman. In December 1858, he was preaching and teaching school in Florence, Alabama. By 1860 he had located in Memphis, Tennessee, and about that time he married Miss Nancy Maria Taylor of Catskill, New York. At the time of their marriage she was a teacher of painting and art-needwork in the State Female College at Memphis. She bore him three children, and died in Memphis of yellow fever in August 1878. She and her sister-in-law Mrs. Leonidas H. Stewart were devoted friends. The Rev. Jonathan Decherd Stewart married as his second wife, a Mrs. Wood of Mississippi who bore to him one child who died in infancy. The Rev. Mr. Stewart died before the birth of this child. He was pastor of a Methodist congregation in Memphis in 1873. In February 1878, he was tutor to his nephew Charles Spyker Stewart, Jr., who was then attending a school in Memphis. On August 26, 1879, the Rev. Jonathan Decherd Stewart died of yellow fever in Memphis. His widow died in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. His children by his first wife: Ella Marie Stewart, born September 18, 1862; Mary Elizabeth Stewart, born April 4, 1864; and Caroline Taylor Stewart, born February 22, 1871.

More About JONATHAN DECHERD STEWART:
Burial: August 1879, Memphis, Tennessee

Children of JONATHAN STEWART and NANCY TAYLOR are:
i. ELLA MARIE24 STEWART, b. 18 September 1862.
ii. MARY ELIZABETH STEWART, b. 4 April 1864.
iii. CAROLINE TAYLOR STEWART, b. 22 February 1871.

37. SARAH BELL23 STEWART (WILLIAM22, JAMES III21, JAMES JR.20, JAMES SR.19, WILLIAM18, NINION III17, CHRISTIAN16, JAMES15, NINION II14, JAMES13, NINION12, JAMES I KING OF SCOTLAND (JAMES11 STEWART), ROBERT III KING OF SCOTLAND ( JOHN10, ROBERT II KING OF9 SCOTLAND, WALTER STEWART KING ROBERT I OF8, JAMES7 STEWART, ALEXANDER STEWART 4TH. HIGH6, WALTER FITZ ALLEN5 3RD, HIGH STEWARD, ALAN (ALEXANDER) 2ND. HIGH4 STEWARD, WALTER FITZ ALLEN 1ST. HIGH3, ALAN2, FLAAD SENESCHAL OF DOL IN1 BRITTANY) was born 4 March 1834 in Winchester, Tennessee, and died August 1858 in Liberty, Missouri. She married REV. ALLEN BAILEY JONES 15 July 1857 in Lexington, Kentucky. He was born 5 January 1832 in Middletown, Montgomery County, Missouri, and died 26 December 1920 in Liberty, Missouri.

Notes for SARAH BELL STEWART:
Sarah Bell Stewart, twelfth child of William and Elizabeth (Decherd) Stewart, was born March 4, 1834, in Winchester, Tennessee. When she was thirteen years of age her mother died, and she was reared in the home of her eldest sister, Mrs. Catherine S. Jones. On July 15, 1857, Sarah Bell Stewart married the Rev. Allen Bailey Jones, a step-son of her sister Catherine and at that time pastor of the Main street Christian (Disciples) Church in Lexington, Kentucky. In 1858, they removed to Liberty, Missouri, where the Rev. Mr. Jones became pastor and where she bore to him a daughter on June 17, 1858, whom they named Mattie Bell. Two months after the birth of this child, the mother died of typhoid fever.

More About SARAH BELL STEWART:
Burial: August 1858, Liberty, Missouri

Notes for REV. ALLEN BAILEY JONES:
The Reverend Allen Bailey Jones was a stepson of Mrs. Catherine (Stewart) Jones. He married Sarah Bell Stewart on July 15, 1857. At that time he was pastor of the Main Street Christian (Disciples) Church in Lexington, Kentucky. In 1858, they removed to Liberty, Missouri, where the Rev. Mr. Jones became pastor and where she bore to him a daughter on June 17, 1858, whom they named Mattie Bell. Two months after the birth of this child, the mother died of typhoid fever. Her husband continued to reside in Liberty until his death on December 16, 1920. The December 18, 1920, issure of the Kansas city (Missouri) STAR contained the following:

The Rev. A. B. Jones, 89 years old, a widely known writer, educator and minister, a pastor emeritus of the Liberty Christian church, died at his home here at 10:30 o'clock last night. He had been in failing health ofr more than a year. He leaves three children, Mrs. Mattie Bell Burris of the home address, Mrs. Clifton George of El Paso, Texas, and James Wharton Jones of Los Angeles.

Mr. Jones was born in Middletown, Montgomery County, Missouri, January 5, 1832. in 1854, he was ordained a minister of the gospel and called to the pastorate of the Old Main Street Church in Lexington, Kentucky. in 1857 he married to Miss Sarah B. Stewart, a sister of General Alexander P. Stewart of the Confederate Army. She died the following year and he was married again in 1860, to Katherine M. Gordon of Clay County. Fifteen years of his life he spent in conducting girls' seminaries, four years in Platte City, Missouri; six years in Richmond, Kentucky; and five years in Liberty. Some of the foremost women in Missouri and Kentucky received their education under his supervision. For six years prior to 1882, he was corresponding secretary to the Missouri state board of missions, traveling extensively over the state. In 1870, in connection with Alexander Proctor, George W. Longan and Thomas P. Haley, he assisted in establishing and editing a church paper called the Christian, which was first published in Kansas City. It was moved to St. Louis, combined with other Journals, and became THE CHRISTIAN EVANGELIST. He was one of the founders of William Woods college at Fulton, Missouri.

More About REV. ALLEN BAILEY JONES:
Burial: December 1920, Liberty, Missouri

Child of SARAH STEWART and REV. JONES is:
i. MATTIE BELL24 JONES, b. 17 June 1858.

38. WILLIAM ALEXANDER23 STEWART (ROBERT BRUCE22, JAMES III21, JAMES JR.20, JAMES SR.19, WILLIAM18, NINION III17, CHRISTIAN16, JAMES15, NINION II14, JAMES13, NINION12, JAMES I KING OF SCOTLAND (JAMES11 STEWART), ROBERT III KING OF SCOTLAND ( JOHN10, ROBERT II KING OF9 SCOTLAND, WALTER STEWART KING ROBERT I OF8, JAMES7 STEWART, ALEXANDER STEWART 4TH. HIGH6, WALTER FITZ ALLEN5 3RD, HIGH STEWARD, ALAN (ALEXANDER) 2ND. HIGH4 STEWARD, WALTER FITZ ALLEN 1ST. HIGH3, ALAN2, FLAAD SENESCHAL OF DOL IN1 BRITTANY) was born 20 January 1823 in Monroe Co., Tenn, and died 16 November 1898 in Princeton, Mercer Co., Missouri. He married DELPHIA CAROLINE SMITH 22 April 1844 in Ray County Missouri. She was born 12 January 1827 in Campbell Co., Tenn., and died 26 September 1891 in Princeton, Mercer Co., Missouri.

Notes for WILLIAM ALEXANDER STEWART:
William A Stewart served in the Civil War, as did his eldest son, George Mason. George Mason was barely old enough to get in. Granddad William A. was a Corporal. This is the record I have:

William A. Stewart - Civil War Union Forces
Enlisted 13 August 1861, in Co. K 1st. Cavalry Regiment,
State Militia at Mercer County, Missouri
Rank - Private - 39 years of age
Mustered into service13 August 1861, from Princeton, Missouri
Transferred to Co. M on March 25, 1865
Promoted to Corporal on April 12, 1864
Mustered out by reason of expiration of term of service (3 Years) on May 27, 1865. National Archive military records show that he was mustered out because of rheumatism and heart disease.

William A. Stewart was a school teacher. He was killed in 1898 while walking to Princeton, Missouri, on a railroad bridge. Being somewhat deaf, he didn't hear an approaching train. He and his wife, Delphia Caroline , are buried in Salem Cemetery near Princeton, Missouri. He was a lecturer for Masonic Lodges. He enlisted and served 3 years and 9 months in the Civil War, also served in the Mexican war. and was wounded in the arm which disabled him for life.

Written by Myrtle (Burchett) Hammond

Sources:

Family History
1850 Ray County Census
1860 Mercer Co., Missouri Census
1870 Mercer Co., Missouri Census
1880 Mercer Co., Missouri Census
Mercer Co., Missouri Cemetery Records
Ray County Marriage Records
National Archive Surviving Soldiers, Sailor, and Marines, and Widows, etc. records

More About WILLIAM ALEXANDER STEWART:
Burial: 17 November 1898, Princeton, Mercer Co., Missouri Salem Cemetary

More About DELPHIA CAROLINE SMITH:
Burial: 27 September 1891, Princeton, Mercer Co., Missouri Salem Cemetary

Children of WILLIAM STEWART and DELPHIA SMITH are:
i. ANDREW JACKSON24 STEWART.
ii. CHARLES HARRIS STEWART, b. 24 June 1852.
iii. EMILY JAME STEWART.
iv. FRANCIL MARION STEWART, b. 9 November 1859.
v. HENRY WINFIELD STEWART.
vi. JAMES MADISON STEWART, b. 1854.
vii. JOHN WILLIAM STEWART, b. 1849, Ray County, Missouri.
viii. MARY FRANCES STEWART, b. 9 November 1859; d. 17 November 1873, Modena, Mercer Co., Missouri.

More About MARY FRANCES STEWART:
Burial: November 1873, Modena, Mercer Co., Missouri Old Union Cemetary

ix. SARAH VICTORIA STEWART, b. 1862.
x. SHERMAN STANTON STEWART.
xi. VERGIL ELWARD STEWART, b. 1856.
xii. GEORGE MASON STEWART, b. 6 July 1846.
41. xiii. ELNORA STEWART, b. 24 December 1870, Mercer Co., Missouri; d. 14 May 1945, Seiling, Dewey Co., Oklahoma.
xiv. EMILY JANE STEWART, b. 1847, Ray County Missouri.
xv. MARY P. STEWART, b. 8 December 1866.

39. JOHN HARRIS23 STEWART (ROBERT BRUCE22, JAMES III21, JAMES JR.20, JAMES SR.19, WILLIAM18, NINION III17, CHRISTIAN16, JAMES15, NINION II14, JAMES13, NINION12, JAMES I KING OF SCOTLAND (JAMES11 STEWART), ROBERT III KING OF SCOTLAND ( JOHN10, ROBERT II KING OF9 SCOTLAND, WALTER STEWART KING ROBERT I OF8, JAMES7 STEWART, ALEXANDER STEWART 4TH. HIGH6, WALTER FITZ ALLEN5 3RD, HIGH STEWARD, ALAN (ALEXANDER) 2ND. HIGH4 STEWARD, WALTER FITZ ALLEN 1ST. HIGH3, ALAN2, FLAAD SENESCHAL OF DOL IN1 BRITTANY) was born 24 September 1828 in Monroe Co., Tennessee, and died 3 February 1862 in Utica, Missouri. He married SARAH ANN AKERS. She was born in Ohio.

Notes for JOHN HARRIS STEWART:
John Harris Stewart died while in service to the Union Army as 1st. Sargent in Co. F., Mercer Co., Mo.

He is buried in the Old Union Cemetery in Mercer Co., Mo. He was a school teacher by profession.

1950 Ray County, Missouri Census.

More About JOHN HARRIS STEWART:
Burial: February 1862, Modena, Mercer Co., Missouri Old Union Cemetery

Children of JOHN STEWART and SARAH AKERS are:
i. JOHN R.24 STEWART, b. 1849, Ray County, Missouri.
ii. HARRIET STEWART, b. 1862.

Generation No. 24

40. ALPHONSO CHASE24 STEWART (ALEXANDER PETER23, WILLIAM22, JAMES III21, JAMES JR.20, JAMES SR.19, WILLIAM18, NINION III17, CHRISTIAN16, JAMES15, NINION II14, JAMES13, NINION12, JAMES I KING OF SCOTLAND (JAMES11 STEWART), ROBERT III KING OF SCOTLAND ( JOHN10, ROBERT II KING OF9 SCOTLAND, WALTER STEWART KING ROBERT I OF8, JAMES7 STEWART, ALEXANDER STEWART 4TH. HIGH6, WALTER FITZ ALLEN5 3RD, HIGH STEWARD, ALAN (ALEXANDER) 2ND. HIGH4 STEWARD, WALTER FITZ ALLEN 1ST. HIGH3, ALAN2, FLAAD SENESCHAL OF DOL IN1 BRITTANY) was born 27 August 1848.

Child of ALPHONSO CHASE STEWART is:
i. HARRIET25 STEWART.

41. ELNORA24 STEWART (WILLIAM ALEXANDER23, ROBERT BRUCE22, JAMES III21, JAMES JR.20, JAMES SR.19, WILLIAM18, NINION III17, CHRISTIAN16, JAMES15, NINION II14, JAMES13, NINION12, JAMES I KING OF SCOTLAND (JAMES11 STEWART), ROBERT III KING OF SCOTLAND ( JOHN10, ROBERT II KING OF9 SCOTLAND, WALTER STEWART KING ROBERT I OF8, JAMES7 STEWART, ALEXANDER STEWART 4TH. HIGH6, WALTER FITZ ALLEN5 3RD, HIGH STEWARD, ALAN (ALEXANDER) 2ND. HIGH4 STEWARD, WALTER FITZ ALLEN 1ST. HIGH3, ALAN2, FLAAD SENESCHAL OF DOL IN1 BRITTANY) was born 24 December 1870 in Mercer Co., Missouri, and died 14 May 1945 in Seiling, Dewey Co., Oklahoma. She married ALFRED BURCHETT 24 August 1890 in Mercer Co., Missouri, son of THEODRICK BURCHETT and POLLY KINCADE. He was born 1 July 1871 in Harrison Co., Missouri, and died 9 May 1945 in Seiling, Dewey Co., Oklahoma.

More About ELNORA STEWART:
Burial: 16 May 1945, Seiling, Dewey Co., Oklahoma (Brumfield Cemetary)

Notes for ALFRED BURCHETT:
Information by Myrtle Burchett (Hammond) daughter of Alfred Burchett and Elnora Stewart Burchett

Alfred, born 01 July 1871 in Harrison County, Missouri near Mt. Moriah, was married to Elnora Stewart of Mercer County, Missouri on August 24, 1890. Elnora was the youngest of thirteen children born to William A. Stewart and Delphia Caroline Smith. Elnora was born near Princeton, Mercer County, Missouri on December 24, 1870.

To Alfred and Elnora Burchett were born ten children. Six were born in Missouri: Myrtle, Roy, Dott (May), Grace, Ray, and Teddy. Four were born in Oklahoma. They moved to Oklahoma in 1903 after being flooded out of several homes in Missouri. They came to Oklahoma by covered wagon and moved along with a family by the name of Bailey. They had to wait at St. Joseph, Missouri 2 or 3 weeks before they could cross the flooded Missouri River. They stayed with Theodrick and Polly when they first arrived in Oklahoma. It was here in Woodward county, Oklahoma at her grandparents that Ruth was born 4 February 1904, shortly after her parents arrived in Oklahoma. They lived there until Alfred could file on land nearby and make them a home. Tom was born in their new home there in Woodward County, Oklahoma. They moved to Dewey county, across the river before the twins, Leslie and Lillian were born. They farmed west and southwest of Sieling and Alfred made most of the tools and implements he used in planting and harvesting his crops. He was very ingenious. He could make anything and make it work. Today he would probably be classed as a genius (says Aunt Ruth). One thing he made was a combine. He built a combination of a threshing machine and the platform of a wheat header and made a combine. He was also a good carpenter and built two houses in the town of Seiling. They moved into one of them during their last years. Bruce McKinney recalls that his grandfather was working on a house at the time of his death. He passed away on May 9, 1945 and his wife passed away five days later on May 14, 1945. They are both buried at the Brumfield Cemetery at Seiling, Dewey County, Oklahoma.

The Burchetts were musical, also noted for their high tempers.)

The Burchetts were known to be good with their hands as far back as the French Revolution. They were listed as brick layers, architects and contractors who helped rebuild Paris after the Revolution. The Burchetts were in England as far back as 1200-1300 A.D. Opinion is that they came to England, Ireland, and Wales with William the Conqueror (He defeated King Harold at Hastings in 1066). William was the illegitimate son of the King. He was a duke, and Baron, and later King of England, Ireland and Wales. If this is true, the Burchetts w3ere Normans from Normandy, France.

I would like to thank Aunt Ruth (Burchett) Hand, and her son Kenny Hand, Aunt Vera and Aunt Elda for all their information and clues that helped me to get this far with my research. Without them it would have been almost impossible.

by Pauline McKinney

More About ALFRED BURCHETT:
Burial: 11 May 1945, Seiling, Dewey Co., Oklahoma (Brumfield Cemetary)

Children of ELNORA STEWART and ALFRED BURCHETT are:
i. MYRTLE25 BURCHETT, b. 22 May 1891; m. JOHN HAMMOND.
ii. ROY BURCHETT, b. 7 January 1893, Mercer county, Missouri; m. (1) LOUISE SANDERS; m. (2) VESTA SANDERS.
iii. MAY (MARY) DOTT BURCHETT, b. 27 August 1894, Mercer County, Missouri; d. 25 April 1945, Albuquerque, Bernalillo Co., New Mexico; m. EDWARD SAMPLE MCKINNEY, 29 March 1913, Woodward, Woodward Co., Oklahoma; b. 3 October 1887, Medicine Lodge, Barber Co., Kansas; d. 6 February 1969, Albuquerque, Bernalillo Co., New Mexico.

Notes for MAY (MARY) DOTT BURCHETT:
MAY (MARY) DOTT BURCHETT MCKINNEY was born august 27, 1894 near Princeton, Mercer co., Missouri. She was the third child born to Alfred Burchett and Elnora Stewart Burchett. Her sisters, Myrtle and brother Roy preceded her in birth. there were 3 sisters and 4 brothers to follow: Grace, Ray, Teddy, Ruth, Tom, and twins Leslie and Lillian. (Her name was listed as May in the Burchett Family Bible). One of her sisters referred to her as Dorothy Mae. Her family moved to the Oklahoma Territory when she was but a girl of about 7 years. What an awesome adventure that must have been to travel by covered wagon into the area of the nation specifically designated by the government as the Indian Territory. She grew to womanhood along the Little Canadian River in Northwest Oklahoma, Woodward and Dewey counties.

It is thought she was baptized in Deep Creek near Seiling, Oklahoma. Her family attended the Christian Church. It was at church that she became acquainted with Susan Ann (Payne) McKinney. She was hired to help Mrs. McKinney in the summer and fall with her canning. The first time Ed McKinney saw her, she was riding a horse. She had to ford the river to reach the McKinney farm.

She brought into this world six sons and two daughters: James, Wayne, Shirley, Steve, Dave, Stata, Bruce and Larry. The two oldest, James and Wayne, were born in Oklahoma. In 1915 or 16 the McKinneys moved to the Morena Valley of Northeast New Mexico. The rest of the children, with the exception of Larry, were born in the Morena Valley. Larry was born at Miami, New Mexico near Springer

Dott was a small woman, strong but gentle, with the spirit of a pioneer woman. She saw much hardship, but remained close to her God. She always looked for the good in people and tried to teach her children not to be judgmental of others. She spent many years among the Mexican and Native Americans and loved the little dark skinned, black eyed children. She was a friend of the famous pottery maker "Maria", a Santa Clara native. She lived next door to Maria and her family, and would baby sit for Maria and her husband while they were making pottery. In return for baby sitting, Maria would give her pottery. Two early black, and one red pots are still in the family.

Dott was living with her family near Espanola, New Mexico in 1946 when she became ill with cancer. Ed took her to Albuquerque for treatment. He bought the home on Barcelona Drive in southwest Albuquerque while she was in the hospital. She never got to see the lovely little house, as she never left the hospital where she passed away on April 25, 1946.

She had lent four of her sons to Uncle Sam during World War II. They all returned home and in time to see their mother before she left them for good.

She is buried in Sunset Memorial Park just off Menaul Blvd. in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

From her Husband Ed and daughter Shirley, and written by Pauline McKinney

More About MAY (MARY) DOTT BURCHETT:
Burial: 28 April 1945, Albuquerque, Bernalillo Co., New Mexico Sunset Memorial

Notes for EDWARD SAMPLE MCKINNEY:
Federal Census 8-10-11 January 1920 Elizabethtown, Colfax Co., New Mexico

From Albuquerque Journal

Funeral services for E. S. McKinney, who moved to New Mexico in a covered wagon in 1915, will be held at 2:00 pm today at Strong -Thorne Mortuary.

McKinney, 81, died early Thursday after a short illness. A resident of Albuquerque for 23 years, he experienced the frontier days of the Oklahoma territory and northern New Mexico.

Born in Medicine Lodge, Kansas, in 1887, his family moved to Oklahoma's Indian Territory in 1893. He moved to the Eagle Nest area in a covered wagon in 1916.
Until recently he was active in stock raising and trucking.

He lived at 3005 Barcelona SW and is survived by five sons, James, Wayne and Larry of Albuquerque, David of Littleton, Colorado, and Bruce of Farmington, New Mexico; two daughters, Mrs. Shirley Smith of Seattle, Washington and Mrs Dale Swarts of Albuquerque; two brothers, Dave of El Paso, Texas and Tom of Albuquerque, 14 grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.

Interment will be in Sunset Memorial Park. Pallbearers will be James M. McKinney, Bruce R. McKinney, David H. McKinney, A. Wayne McKinney, Larry A. McKinney, and James M. McKinney Jr..

Honary Pallbearer is David H. McKinney.
Ed and his brother Tom were twins.

Federal Census 8-10-11 January 1920 Elizabethtown, Colfax Co., New Mexico

More About EDWARD SAMPLE MCKINNEY:
Burial: 9 February 1969, Albuquerque, Bernalillo Co., New Mexico Sunset Memorial

iv. GRACE BURCHETT, b. 18 August 1896, Mercer county, Missouri; m. W. O. MCKILVEY.
v. TEDDY BURCHETT, b. 21 December 1902, Mercer county, Missouri.
vi. RUTH BURCHETT, b. 4 February 1904, Woodward Co., Oklahoma; m. EARL DEE HAND; b. 1902, Oklahoma.
vii. THOMAS DAVENPORT BURCHETT, b. 22 April 1907, Woodward Co., Oklahoma; m. NEOMA LORD.
viii. LESLIE DENEAN BURCHETT, b. 16 January 1912, Dewey County, Oklahoma; m. ELDA PERKINS.
ix. LILLIAN IRENE BURCHETT, b. 16 January 1912, Dewey County, Oklahoma; m. DEAN BARTELL.
x. RAPAEL (RAY) STACY BURCHETT, b. 18 January 1899, Harrison Missouri; m. 22 March 1925, Seiling, Oklahoma.

Notes for RAPAEL (RAY) STACY BURCHETT:
[Rodney-Whitelaw.FTW]
from newspaper clipping Oklahoma
BURCHETT'S CELEBRATE 50TH. ANNIVERSARY

Mr. and Mrs. Ray S. Burchett were honored March 29, 1975 when their children and grandchildren entertained for their Golden Wedding Anniversary.

A family was served at the Christian Church dining room at the noon hour for the relatives.

The reception was at their home from 2 to 5 where over 200 guests signed the guest book.

The reception table was covered with a lace table cloth over gold colored cloth with a 3 tiered gold and white wedding cake and a gold and white center piece. Phillis (Burchett) Fenimore, Beth (Burchett) Jackson, Caroline Burchett and Sue Burchett presided at the table.
Debbie Burchett Heard and Jeanice Fenimore Stewart, granddaughters kept the guest book. The guests were greeted at the door by Wendell, Stuart and Steve.

Ray and Bera were married March 22, 1925 at her parent's Mr. and Mrs. Shad Jackson southwest of Seiling. Ralph and Abbie Riley were their attendants.

They are the parents of five children, Mrs. Harry (Phyllis) Fenimore of Woodward, Wendell of Boulder, Stuart of Weatherford, Steve of Albuquerque, Two daughter-in-laws, Caroline and Sue and two son-in-laws, Harry Fenimore and Bill Jackson. They have eleven grandchildren and one wasn't able to be there.

Relatives and friends from Fairview, Woodward, Canton, Taloga, Waukomus, Vici, Chester, Mutual, Waynoka, Ponca City, Okeene, Boulder, Colorado, San Diego, California, Portales, New Mexico, Wichita, Kansas, Chanute, Kansas, Nevada, Texas, Stillwell and Velma, Oklahoma attended.[New FTW Family File.ftw]

from newspaper clipping Oklahoma
BURCHETT'S CELEBRATE 50TH. ANNIVERSARY
Mr. and Mrs. Ray S. Burchett were honored March 29, 1975 when their children and grandchildren entertained for their Golden Wedding Anniversary.

A family was served at the Christian Church dining room at the noon hour for the relatives.

The reception was at their home from 2 to 5 where over 200 guests signed the guest book.

The reception table was covered with a lace table cloth over gold colored cloth with a 3 tiered gold and white wedding cake and a gold and white center piece. Phillis (Burchett) Fenimore, Beth (Burchett) Jackson, Caroline Burchett and Sue Burchett presided at the table.

Debbie Burchett Heard and Jeanice Fenimore Stewart, granddaughters kept the guest book. The guests were greeted at the door by Wendell, Stuart and Steve.

Ray and Bera were married March 22, 1925 at her parent's Mr. and Mrs. Shad Jackson southwest of Seiling. Ralph and Abbie Riley were their attendants.

They are the parents of five children, Mrs. Harry (Phyllis) Fenimore of Woodward, Wendell of Boulder, Stuart of Weatherford, Steve of Albuquerque, Two daughter-in-laws, Caroline and Sue and two son-in-laws, Harry Fenimore and Bill Jackson. They have eleven grandchildren and one wasn't able to be there.

Relatives and friends from Fairview, Woodward, Canton, Taloga, Waukomus, Vici, Chester, Mutual, Waynoka, Ponca City, Okeene, Boulder, Colorado, San Diego, California, Portales, New Mexico, Wichita, Kansas, Chanute, Kansas, Nevada, Texas, Stillwell and Velma, Oklahoma attended.

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