Andrew Jackson Stewart (1823 - 1895)

Born 16 Oct 1823 in Monroe, Georgia, USA

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Died 30 Jul 1895 at age 71 in Pulaski, Scott, Mississippi, USA

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Biography

Andrew Stewart is a member of Clan Stewart.

This profile is part of the Stewart Name Study.

Andrew was born in 1823 in Georgia. He was the son of William Stewart and Sarah Cottle.

He married a woman named Elizabeth Matthews, daughter of of John Matthews and Mary Rogers Matthews. They had at least five children: Sarah, Amanda, William, Henry and Adin or Ada.^[1] In 1850, they apparently were living in Rankin County, Mississippi.^[2] The household included:

• A J Stewart Male 26 Georgia
• Elizabeth Stewart Female 26 Georgia
• Nancy Stewart Female 3 Mississippi
• Amanda Stewart Female 1 Mississippi

By 1870, they were in Scott County, Mississippi.^[3] The household then included:

• Pa J Stewart Male 46 Georgia
• Eliza Stewart Female 46 Georgia
• Amanda Stewart Female 21 Mississippi
• William Stewart Male 20 Mississippi
• Henry Stewart Male 16 Mississippi
• Sally Stewart Female 10 Mississippi
• Adis Stewart Female 4 Mississippi
• J T Alfred Male 9 Mississippi

They were still there in 1880.^[4] The household included:

• Andrew J Stewart Self Male 56 Georgia, United States
• Elizabeth Stewart Wife Female 56 Georgia, United States
• Sallie Stewart Daughter Female 20 Mississippi, United States
• Ada Stewart Daughter Female 13 Mississippi, United States
• Charley Stewart Grandson Male 10 Mississippi, United States

Andrew passed away in 1895 in Mississippi, and was buried in Brassell Cemetery Pulaski in Scott County, Mississippi.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Information from John Brittian Stuart, Stewart/Stuart family historian, June 1998.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4LF-LYG : 9 November 2014), A J Stewart, Rankin county, Rankin, Mississippi, United States; citing family 353, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFSR-W49 : 17 October 2014), Pa J Stewart, Mississippi, United States; citing p. 33, family 233, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,247.
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4PS-Z4G : accessed 22 April 2016), Andrew J Stewart, Beat 3, Scott, Mississippi, United States; citing enumeration district ED 81, sheet 51D, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0663; FHL microfilm 1,254,663.
5. ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVD-X43X : 13 December 2015), A. J. Stuart, 1895; Burial, Pulaski, Scott, Mississippi, United States of America, Brassel Cemetery; citing record ID 16218512, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.