Family Group Sheet for General John STEWART

 

 
 
 
 
 

Name: General John STEWART
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Birth: 1760 Amherst, Co VA
Death: 23 Apr 1830 Cherry Hill, Baridstown, Oglethorpe Co. GA
Burial:  Oak Hill Cemetery, Ogelthorp, Co GA
Occupation: Brigadier General in the Revoulionary War / owner of plantation named Cherry Hill
Father: Captian John STEWART (1734-1829)
Mother: Ann HAW (1742-1830)
Marriage: 13 Apr 1784 Amherst County VA
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Spouse: Mourning Burford FLOYD
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Birth: 1769 Amherst, VA
Death: 10 Dec 1847 Oglethorpe Co GA
Burial:  Stephens Home, Ogelthorp, Co GA
Father: Colonel John FLOYD (1750-1783)
Mother: Matilda BURFORD (~1755-~1769)

Children:
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1 M: Floyd STEWART
Birth: 1787 Amherst County VA
Death: aft 1870
Spouse: Sarah DANIEL
Marriage: 1808 Oglethorpe Co GA
Spouse: Sarah BEASLEY
Marriage: 30 Dec 1824
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2 M: Lorenza R. STEWART
Birth: 1793 Amherst County VA
Spouse: Sarah ANDERSON
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3 F: Evalina (Emaline) STEWART
Birth: 1786 Amherst County VA
Spouse: Joseph TARPLEY
Marriage: 28 Oct 1817
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4 F: Matlida STEWART
Birth: 24 Dec 1795 Cherry Hill, Bairdstown, Oglethorpe Co GA
Death: 24 May 1836 Athens, Georgia
Spouse: Jacob PHINIZY
Marriage: 17 May 1813
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5 F: Sarah Floyd STEWART
Birth: 1797 Cherry Hill, Bairdstown, Oglethorpe Co GA
Death: 16 Nov 1826 Cherry Hill, Bairdstown, Oglethorpe Co GA
Spouse: Major John Martin STEPHENS
Marriage: 1798 Cherry Hill, Bairdstown, Oglethorpe Co GA
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6 F: Permelia (Pamela) STEWART
Birth: 1801 Amherst County VA
Death: 31 Mar 1879 Oglethorpe Co GA
Spouse: PERKINS
Marriage: abt 1788
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7 M: John Berrien STEWART
Birth: 1802
Death: 6 Aug 1826 Oglethorpe Co GA
Spouse: Pamula Ann WRAY
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8 M: Lorenzo Dow STEWART
Spouse: Sarah Ann ANDERSON

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Notes for General John STEWART
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Grave stone reads " John Stewart, 1760-1830 Capt. Va. Tr. 1776-1783,
Ge. Ga. Tr. 1812-1814, lies 1/4 mi. n. 70 degrees E"
Brigadier-General of the Third Brigade of GA Militiain the War of 1812
per Stewart Clan Magazine D-115
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Pauline Stewart Crosley, 1867-1955

Mrs. Crosley wrote to everyone in her decades- long effort to track her Stewart and Floyd ancestors. Pauline DeLauney Stewart, a great- great- granddaughter of General John Stewart of Ga., was the wife of Rear Admiral Walter Selwyn Crosley (1867-1939), a graduate of the Naval Academy, about 1888. Her letters -- and the replies to her-- turn up in many Stewart files, in the Stewart Clan Magazine, and in our own Stevens family files, where they were collected by Martha Bullard from letters written to various Stevens. Martha's collection of these letters matches, and is supplemented by, Terry Honan's file noted below. Pauline Crossley was an energetic, tireless searcher. She was frustrated by some of the same issues facing us today-- who was Anne Haw, the wife of John Stewart, who were John's parents (and was he born in Va.), and what were the vexatious references by Judge Floyd to diaries stolen in the war and to Mourning Floyd's brother, whom she did not think existed, for Mourning's mother died at her birth, and she was an only child. (Terry and I think, however, there was a brother by the same father, John Floyd, and Terry mentions that below.)

She probably wrote some thousands of letters in her search. All are in her bold, expressive hand, digging for the facts, yet courteous in the highest late Victorian manner. She must have been quite a lady. More on her is below:

Subject: Angela's Stewart box of letters
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 19:35:08 EST
From: Honan@aol.com
To: harrell@graceba.net, BHester237@aol.com

Angela: The notes you transcribed are from Pauline Stewart Crosley (1867-1955), who we
all refer to as PSC. She is the daughter of Lt. Eugene Goulding Stewart, the great-granddaughter of Floyd Stewart and the gr- gr-grandaughter of Gen. John Stewart. She spent most of her life working on genealogy. Several of us have a copy of her 68 typed pages of letters she compiled May 17, 1899. I actually have the original copy. You will find her mentioned a number of times in Stewart Clan Magazine.

The info in your letter comes from Addie Kelly (ABT 1810-Bef 1896), daughter of Thomas Kelly and Sarah Stewart. Sarah Stewart was the daughter of Floyd Stewart.

It also comes from Judge John Julius Floyd (1811-1883). Judge Floyd was the son of Major John Burford Floyd and Anne "Nancy" Stewart. Anne was the sister of Gen. John Stewart. It would take a long time to explain who Major John Burford Floyd was. Pat Stevens and I wrote back and forth on this issue for months last year. In summary we think he is the illegitimate half brother of
Mourning Floyd, Gen. Stewart's wife.

Both Addie Kelly and Judge Floyd have long letters in the PSC collection of letters.
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Mrs. Louise Phinizy Calhoun. DAR ID Number: 18354
Descendant of Col. John Floyd.
Daughter of Ferdinand Phinizy and Harriet Hays Bowdre, his wife.
Granddaughter of Jacob Phinizy and Matilda Stewart, his wife.
Gr.-granddaughter of Gen. John Stewart and Mourning Floyd (b. 1770), his wife.
Gr.-gr.-granddaughter of John Floyd and — Burfort, his first wife (m. 1769); (d. 1770).
John Floyd, (1751-1783), in 1774 was one of the earliest surveyors and pioneers of the Kentucky wilderness. In 1776, while commanding the privateer "Phoenix," he was captured and
taken prisoner to England. He escaped and returned to America in 1778, from which time till his death, his patriotic services as a soldier and organizer in Kentucky were invaluable, and it was in the discharge of those duties that he received his deathwound. He was born in Amherst Co., Va., and died in Floyd's Station, Ky.

General John Stewart was born in 1760,the eldest of 16 children of John and
Ann Haw Stewart of Amherst county,Virginia,and Kentucky.
Stewart served in the Revolution (Whites History of Georgia) and after the
Revolution moved to Richmond County,Georgia, thence to Oglethorpe County(then Probably Wilkes County).He established a home which he called Cherry Hill near what is now Bairdstown,and acquired much land some of which was by grant. He was appointed Brigadier General,2nd Brigade,3rd Division,Georgia troops in the War of 1812.He resigned October 14,1814 in a letter to the Governor which is
as follows:

Cherry Hill
Oct.14,1814

Sir, I take this opportunity of resigning my command of the second brigade of
the third divison,my advance stage of life makes it necessary for me to give
to some one else that may render their country more service. I shall continue to act till some one else is appointed. I have the honor to subscribe myself.
Your excellence most  Humble Servant
John Stewart
A copy of this letter is on file in the  Historical Archives of Georgia
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The British Mercantile claims: On June 15,th 1802, by account William Cunningham & Company "Daniel Buford Sr".,died in Amherst County Virginia 10 or 12 years ago ,his executor John Stewart moved to Georgia a few years ago, legatees need funds for debt.
The Virginia Genealogist,V6,p152,1962.
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Amherst County Virginia Marriage Bonds 1784

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that we John Stewart and Hugh Rose are held and firmly bound to the commonwealth of Virginia in the sum of Fifty Pounds Virginia Currency to which payment will and truly to be made to the said Commonwealth we bind ourselves and each of us and each of our heirs executors and adminstrators jointly and severally firmly by these presents. Sealed with our seals and dated this Thirteenth day of April, 1784. The condition of the above obligation is such that whereas there is a marriage shortly intended to be solemnized between the abovebound John Stewart Batchelor and Mourning Floyd, Spinster, if there be no lawful marriage to obstruct the said marriage, then the above obligation to be void and of none effect.
J. Stewart(SEAL)
Hugh Rose(SEAL)
Signed sealed and deld. in the presence of Wm. Loving, Jr.
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White's History of Georgia notes that after the Revolution he moved to Oglethorpe Co., Ga., where he built his home Cherry Hill. He acquired much land, the first of it by grant. He is buried at Cherry Hill.
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1804 Oglethorpe Co.Ga. Land Lottery List:
Alford Stewart ... .......... 2 draws
John Stewart ...........1 draw
Charles Stewart ............ 2 draws
George Steward ...... 2 draws
David Stewart ............. 1 draw
John Stewart .......... 1draw
William Stewart ........... 2 draws
Ann Stewart (widow) 2 draws
David Stewart ............. 1 draw
John Stewart, Jr. ..... 2 draws
John Stewart (General). 2 draws
Samuel Stewart ....... 1 draw
Sallie Stewart (widow). 2 draws
Graham Stewart ...... 1 draw
Robert Steward .......... 1 draw
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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF JOHN STEWART, DEC'D.
filed Oglethorpe Co., Wills, Book c, p 96, Year 1828

In the name of God, Amen, I John Stewart, being aged and infirm of body, but in perfect sense and memory do constitute and ordain this to be my last will and testament in manner and form following, that is to say, I give my soul to the Almighty God beseeching his acceptance thereof. Respecting my worldly estate--
ITEM. I give my whole estate, both real and personal to be equally divided, after all my just debts are paid, to my beloved wife, Mourning Stewart, and my daughter, Parmelia Stewart, and my son  Lorenzo R. Stewart, except a Muckle, John Phelly, previously to Parmelia Stewart to be equally divided between them. My son Floyd Stewart and my daughter Sarah Stevens and my daughter Evalina Tarpley and my daughter Matilda Phinizy having received as much of my estate as I was able to give.
Lastly, I nominate and appoint my wife and my daughter Parmelia Stewart and my son Lorenzo R. Stewart my executors to this my last will and testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this 28th of August, 1828. John Stewart (Seal)
In presence of us. GEORGIA, Oglethorpe County.

Personally came into open court Joseph H. Lumpkin, who, being duly sworn, saith on oath, that he is  acquainted with the handwriting of the testator, John Stewart, dec'd, and that he believes the body of the within instrument as well as the signature of the name to be written by said dec'd.
Signed Joseph Henry Lumpkin
Sworn to and subscribed in open court.
W. H. Smith, C.M.
Recorded 7 July, 1830 W.H. Smith, C.C.O.
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Notes for Mourning Burford FLOYD
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She was the sister of Governor John Floyd of Virginia and aunt of Governor John B.Floyd of Virginia.
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Mourning was named in memory of her mother Matilda who died in childbirth, leaving the infant Mourning. She was raised by her mother's relatives, generally believed to be the Burfords, as Daniel Burford signed her marriage release as her guardian. In additon, an Amherst County record (see notes under John Stewart) in which she is identified as Mourning Burford (Floyd), at a time when she was already married to John. So I believe she was called Mourning Burford Floyd, preserving her parent's name as her middle name.
Mourning may have had a twin brother. However, there may well have been a half-brother born within a year of Mourning. The John Burford Floyd who married John Stewart's sister Anne is almost certainly the natural son of John Floyd, and Mourning's half-brother.
John (senior) Mornings Father left about 1772 for Kentucky and later went on to captain his privateer, the Phoenix, and to his subsequent capture and imprisonment, he may not have known for some years that Virginia was pregnant with a son. This boy John was raised as John Floyd Burford, later adopting his well-known father's name, and, being close to Mourning's age, may have later been identified as her twin,
although I doubt he or Mourning did so. I do believe they may have privately acknowledged their relation, but without detailing the circumstances of the birth. Certainly Judge Floyd (see elsewhere) was clear when he stated that John Floyd was Mourning's brother. Interestingly, this makes the children of General Stewart and Mourning the double first cousins of Judge John J. Floyd, the child of Ann Stewart and John Burford Floyd.
The basis for these speculations are listed in the notes under Daniel Burford, and come from theStewart Clan papers. Also, letters from John Burford Floyd's son note his father as a brother to Mourning.

Mourning lived for almost twenty years after her husband John died. Her daughter Permelia remained unmarried during that period and lived with her mother. Afterwards, Permelia married a Mr. Perkins. She is buried in the Stevens cemetery.
She was quite a celebrity with the Stevens children as they grew up at Oak Hill. There were many tales of her debates with Patrick, her nephew, and repeated times of their "burying the hatchet."
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OGLETHORPE COUNTY WILL BOOK D Page 228, Year 1833-1866
The Last Will and Testament of Mourning Stewart.
I Mourning Stewart of the County and State aforesaid Considering the uncertainty of this mortal life and being weak and feeble in body but of sound mind and memory, do make and publish this my last will and testament in manner and form following.
Item 1st I give and bequeath to my son Floyd Stewart one yoke of oxen and one cow and calf as his full share of all my estate and effects.
Item 2nd I give and bequeath to my beloved daughter Parmelia Perkins my tract of land lying in the State of Kentucky also the pension due to me as the widow of a Revolutionary Soldier, now in the bank of Savannah-- and I further give and bequeath to my daughter Permelia (after my debts are  discharged) all my effects viz. negroes household and kitchen furniture, carriage, stock of all kinds and everything whereof I am possessed. And I hereby appoint her the said Permelia Perkins my sole executrix of this my last will and testament. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the 26th day of September in the year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Forty Four.
Mourning (her mark x) Stewart
signed, sealed published and declared in the presence of
D.P. Parham, W. H. C. Cone, C. L. Tarpley

COURT OF THE ORDINARY JANUARY ADJOURNED TERM, JANUARY 24TH, 1848.Having been duly proven at this adjourned term in the open court upon the oath of Wm. H. C. Cone one of the subscribing witnesses to the same, and ordered to be laid over until the regular term of the court for record.
Recorded the 5th day of April, 1848 Henry Britain, CCS
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