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David Stewart is the first known progenitor of our Jefferson County, Indiana Stewarts. He was born in Virginia in 1720. He married a lady of Scottish birth whose first name was Elizabeth. David was a farmer and he and Elizabeth are said to have had a large family; however only four names have been documented:
Levi, a powder maker was killed in an explosion.
David, a distiller was drowned.
Benjamin, a farmer like his father.
Isaiah, the youngest known child
David and his family moved to Kentucky during the early migrations, settling near Mt. Sterling, Montgomery County.

THE ABOVE INFORMATION COMES FROM THE PAPERS OF EDNA LANHAM; HOWEVER, I’M INCLINED TO BELIEVE THAT THERE IS A GENERATION MISSING. ISAIAH, LISTED AS THE YOUNGEST CHILD, WAS BORN IN 1797 WHEN THIS DAVID WOULD HAVE BEEN 77 YEARS OLD. MUCH MORE RESEARCH NEEDS TO BE DONE HERE.

Isaiah was born February 24, 1797. He married the first time to probably Jane McCullough about 1811. Four children were born to this union:
John, born April 20, 1813
David, born May 20, 1815
Cynthia, born June 20, 1817. She married a Mr. Short
William, born June 25, 1819. (At the death of his mother, William was sent to live with Jacob Stewart and moved with that family to Jackson County, Missouri.)

Isaiah first settle in Switzerland County when he migrated to Indiana. His first home there was the Alex Harper farm at Pleasant.
On March 24, 1821, he married Mary (Benefiel) McCarty, a widow with two children: William James, Jr., born August 6, 1816, and Lydia A., born March 22, 1819. Mary was the daughter of George and Mary (Buchanan) Benefiel.

Isaiah and Mary had ten children, seven sons and three daughters.
Those born in Switzerland County are:
Mary J., born December 31, 182, married Joseph Howard a police officer in Madison, IN.
James M., born February 10, 1824, married Mariah Means in 1847.
George W. H., born November 5, 1826, married Fannie Hayes and moved to Missouri.
Levi W., born October 15, 1828, married Harriet Cotton.
Edith Lucinda, born October 17, 1830, married George Hayes lived in Jay, Indiana.
Robert Frank, born October 20, 1832, married Lucinda Sullivan Smitha.

Those born in Jefferson County are:
Samuel H., born January 29, 1838, married Mattie McCoy and always lived on his parents farm.
Benjamin A., born January 20, 1840, married Anna Gans and moved to Rush County, Indiana
Joseph, born September 10, 1842, never married.
Eliza B., born March 18,1855, married W. T. Johnston, eventually moving to Marion County, Indiana.
This Stewart family was of the Baptist faith and supported the Republican in politics. In 1868, at the age of 77, Isaiah died following a long illness. Mary followed him in 1882, age 85, of complications from a broken thigh.

Benjamin A. Stewart served during the Civil War. He mustered in on 30 August 1862 at Camp Emerson as a Corpl. in Co. C 82nd Regt. of the Indiana Infantry. He was given a disability discharge at Gallatin, Tennessee on 30 January 1863.
He married Anna Maria Gans on 19 December 1867 in Jefferson Co., Indiana. Anna was the daugther of John Gans (born in PA) and Sarah (Tomlinson) Gans (born in New Jersey). He and Anna moved to Rush County, Indiana with their family and, eventually, settled in Carthage. They had three children, all born in Jefferson County:
Gertrude, born in 1869
Charles Sumner, born March 28, 1870
Edward J., born in 1872,
Benjamin died of a heart attack on June 11, 1914 in Carthage. Anna died June 18, 1928 of chronic valvular heart disease in Mays, Indiana.

My grandfather Charles Sumner Stewart was born in Jefferson County, Indiana on 03/28/1870. He was the middle child of Benjamin A. and Anna Marie (Gans) Stewart.

Charles married Clara Elizabeth (Emay) in Rush County, Indiana on 09/10/1902.

Charles and Lizzie (she was always known as Lizzie) had five children all born in Rush County, IN:

Chase Emay: b. 09/11/1903 d. 11/20/1918 in Mays, IN
Ruby: b. 08/18/1906 d. 02/04/1987 in Plymouth, IN
Mabel Irene: b. 09/29/1910 d. 05/14/1991 in Centerville, IN
Earl Robert Stewart: b. 10/03/1915 d. 09/11/1994 in Steamwood, IL
Charles Wayne: b. 04/28/1920 d. 04/19/1967 in Altadena, CA

Charles died February 4, 1945 in Mays, Indiana from a cerebral hemorrhage and is buried in the Center Cemetery just outside of Rushville, Indiana. Lizzie (Clara Elizabeth Emay Stewart) died March 14, 1956 died of cerebral thrombosis and is also buried at Center Cemetery.

Earl Robert Stewart married Gladys Emma Miller on 10/28/1936 in Kentucky.

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