Maud A (Trotter) Steward (abt. 1874 - 1955)

Born about 5 Oct 1874 in Massachusetts, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Charles G Steward — married 18 Feb 1907 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States

Died 26 Oct 1955 at about age 81 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States

Biography

Maud (Trotter) Steward is a part of US Black heritage.

Maud A. Trotter was born in October^[1] about 1875 in Massachusetts. She was the child of Virginia Isaacs and Civil War veteran James Monroe Trotter of the 55th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. Her father's mother, Letitia, was an enslaved Black woman in Claiborne County, Mississippi and his father's father, Richard Monroe, was the White man who enslaved his grandmother. She was also a descendent of the Hemings family of Monticello on her mother's side.

She was the sister of and the sister of civil rights activist Monroe Trotter and worked as assistant editor of his newspaper, The Guardian. She then published it herself for twenty years after Trotter’s death. She attended Wellesley College, and was involved in many local civic organizations. She was one of the founders of the St. Mark’s Musical and Literary Union, and worked with the Women’s League and the Boston Equal Rights League. ^[2]

She married Dr. Charles Steward, a dentist, in Boston in 1907^[3]. They did not have any children.

She passed away in 1955 and is buried in Fairview Cemetery, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts^[4][5].

Occupations

• 1920: Dentist
• 1900: Clerk

Residences

• 1928-1931: 932 Tremont Rox, Boston, Massachusetts with her husband
• 1920: Tremont Street, Boston, Massachusetts with her husband
• 1910: 17 Wigglesworth Street, Boston, Massachusetts with her husband, and Gould cousins-in-law
• 1900: 16 West Cottage Street, Boston, Massachusetts with her widowed mother, sister Bessie, aunt Lizzie Dupree, and uncle William H. Dupree
• 1880: Hyde Park, Massachusetts with her parents and brother

Race

• 1920: Black
• 1880, 1910: Mulatto
• 1900: White

Sources

1. ↑ 1900 federal census
2. ↑ https://bwht.org/roxbury/
3. ↑ "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N46M-JGZ : 7 December 2017), Charles G Steward and Maude Trotter, 18 Feb 1907; citing Boston, , Massachusetts, United States, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 2,315,300
4. ↑ Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/210250252/maude-steward Find a Grave, database and images (www.findagrave.com/memorial/210250252/maude-steward : accessed 04 August 2021), memorial page for Maude Trotter Steward (1875–26 Oct 1955), Find a Grave Memorial ID 210250252, citing Fairview Cemetery, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by Franklyn A Allen III (contributor 47758405) .
5. ↑ [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/210250252/maude-steward Jet Magazine 17 Nov 1955, from FindAGrave

• 1880 United States Federal Census Year: 1880; Census Place: Hyde Park, Norfolk, Massachusetts; Roll: 548; Page: 641A; Enumeration District: 519; FamilySearch - account required: accessed 26 August 2017
• 1900 United States Federal Census Year: 1900; Census Place: Boston Ward 16, Suffolk, Massachusetts; Page: 1; Enumeration District: 1394; FHL microfilm: 1240683; FamilySearch - account required: accessed 1 February 2018 (as Maud A. Trotter)
• 1910 United States Federal Census Year: 1910; Census Place: Boston Ward 19, Suffolk, Massachusetts; Roll: T624_621; Page: 5B; Enumeration District: 1545; FHL microfilm: 1374634; FamilySearch - account required: accessed 1 February 2018 (as Maud T. Steward)
• 1920 United States Federal Census Year: 1920; Census Place: Boston Ward 13, Suffolk, Massachusetts; Roll: T625_735; Page: 16A; Enumeration District: 342; FamilySearch - account required: accessed 1 February 2018 (as Maud Steward)
• 1928, 1929, 1931 Boston, Massachusetts city directories
• "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N46M-JGZ : 7 December 2017), Charles G Steward and Maude Trotter, 18 Feb 1907; citing Boston, , Massachusetts, United States, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 2,315,300.
• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K4JR-M1H : accessed 1 February 2018), Maude T Stewart in household of Charles G Stewart, Ward 9, Boston, Boston City, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 15-340, sheet 2A, line 11, family 39, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 1667.