LIVING

Father: LIVING
Mother: Arlene STEWART

Family 1: LIVING

  1.  LIVING
  2.  LIVING
  3.  LIVING
  4.  LIVING 
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|                  _Sumner Udall STEWART _
|_Arlene STEWART _|
                  |_Sarah Jane PARIS _____
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LIVING

Father: Martin Einor CHRISTOPHERSON
Mother: Naomi Dagmar MARIGER

Family 1: LIVING

  1.  LIVING
  2.  LIVING
  3.  LIVING 
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 _Martin Einor CHRISTOPHERSON _|
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|                               _Lawrence Christian MARIGER _
|_Naomi Dagmar MARIGER ________|
                               |_Sarah Lucretia STEWART _____
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LIVING

Father: LIVING
Mother: LIVING

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LIVING

Family 1: LIVING

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LIVING

Family 1: LIVING

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LIVING

Father: LIVING
Mother: LIVING

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|         _Charles Augustus JONES _____
|_LIVING_|
         |_Augusta Botildatine MADSEN _
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LIVING

Father: LIVING
Mother: Barabara HARRISON

Family 1:

  1.  Alasia Eloise BENNETT 
                      _Felton Hanson HICKMAN _
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|_Barabara HARRISON _|
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Joseph STEWART

Father: Samuel STEWART
Mother: Lydia HARRISON

Family 1: Sarah GILBERT
  1.  Nancy STEWART
  2.  Elizabeth STEWART
  3.  Sarah STEWART
  4. +Lydia STEWART
  5.  Benjamin STEWART
  6.  David STEWART
  7.  Jesse STEWART
  8.  John STEWART
  9. +William STEWART
  10.  Samuel P. STEWART
  11.  Joseph Jr. STEWART
  12.  Margaret "Patsy" STEWART 
                   _David STEWART ______
 _Samuel STEWART _|
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|_Lydia HARRISON _|
                  |_Elizabeth WRIGHT ___
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MARRIAGE: Bond dated 12/15/1768-Rowan Co.,NC

BIOGRAPHY: Joseph Stewart was born about 1740. He was the son of Samue l Stewart & Lydia Harrison Stewart. His father Samuel moved to Rowan Co. , N.C. in 1757. Sometime about 1761 he was married to Sarah Gilbert in Ro wan Co., N.C. Sarah was the daughter of William Gilbert & Lucy Conway. J oseph & Sarah were probably married in either Stokes Co. or Yadkin Co., N C. Stokes County is adjacent to Yadkin Co. Their 1st child, David, was b orn in Stokes Co. Joseph lived in Stokes Co., NC during 1750 and by 175 1 he had moved back to Yadkin Co. NC. By 1768 he and his family had move d to Rowan Co., NC & in 1780 he was living in what ultimately became Wash ington Co., TN. Before TN became a state, the entire area was part of NC . By 1781 the county lines had been changed and where he lived was the n in Overton Co., TN where his son Samuel was born on 3-15-1781. This ar ea of TN is in the central part of the state just south of the current Ke ntucky border.
Joseph was one of the county's earliest settlers. The earliest mention o f land ownership of Joseph in this area appears in a deed (E-415, Overto n Co.,) recorded where Jesse Stewart, his son , sold 25 acres of land o n the Roaring River to John Lea on 2-14-1824. The land was on Matthews C reek and described a follows: "Beginning at a hickory & red oak the NE c orner of Samuel Stewart's tract of 50 acres, running thence north...inclu ding the plantation where said Stewart formerly lived, which land was gra nted to Joseph Stewart, deceased by the State of TN, No. 421, dated 3-9-1 784, founded on warrant 360, & made over t Jesse Stewart by Will, all whi ch will appear reference being has to the origina grand & deed."
On 10-23-1782, Joseph received a grant for 285 acres in Washington Co., N C (now in TN). The price paid for the grant was 50 shillings for each 10 0 acres of th grant. On 9-20-1787, Joseph received a grant for 400 acre s in Green Co., NC , on the waters of Bent & Mulberry Creeks.
The earliest known name for this area was Watuga. In 1776, the people o f Wautaga Settlement petitioned to be annexed to the State of NC and th e Legislature established Washington Co., in 1777 & it included all of pr esent da Tennessee. The separate State of Tennessee was created in 179 6 & Overton Co. was ultimately created in 1806. The two above listed gra nts were to ultimately be in Overton Co. During the early 1800s the Cree k Indian War broke out & many of the pioneers of Overton Co. petitioned t he State Assemblly for the right to raise a force of 500 mounted men to f ight the various tribes of the Creeks. On 3-31-1813, 132 persons signe d this petition and forwarded it to the State Assembly. David Stewart, o ne of Joseph's sons, was the 90th person to sign the petition. Shortly t hereafter, David & a number of Overton mounted men from the County partic ipated in the Creek Indian War.
The area where Joseph and Sarah lived included a church & cemetery someti mes called Twelve Corners. Joseph's name appears in the minutes of the G reen River Assn. of Baptists which met at Dripping Springs Meeting Hous e in Barren Co., KY just to the north of Overton Co. as a messenger. Thi s meeting on Saturday, Jul 25, 1801, included the Roaring River Church an d messengers. The foundation of the old Roaring River Church can still b e seen near the Roaring River Cem. It is not known exactly when Joseph d ied, but it is known that he died sometime before 1824. This is known be cause in the land sale to John Lea in Feb. 1824, Joseph Stewart is said t o be deceased. When Jesse sold his father Joseph's lan to John Lea in 2- 1824, he states that he gained title by a Will but no such Wil has been f ound. The Will could have been destroyed during the Civil War as man rec ords were. It is presumed that Sarah also died in Overton Co., and bot h are buried in the Roaring River Cemetery .
Joseph's father in 1768 devised to him and his brother Benjamin the lan d he was living on. Benjamin sold 124 acres of this 508 acre tract to Ma tthew Brooks on 5/9/1775, leaving 384 acres. Four years later, 8/30/1779 , Joseph, Sarah, Benjamin and his wife Elizabeth sold the remaining 384 a cres to Brooks. Joseph and his family moved to TN, settling on Matthew s Creek, a branch of Roaring River, in what is now Overton Co. Jesse G . Stewart conveyed 2/14/1824, 25 acres, that had been granted to his fath er Joseph in 1784. SOURCE: Stewart Clan Magazine, Rowan Co., NC Wills, Bo ok A, Surry Co., NC Wills; 1759, 1761, 1768 taxables in Rowan Co., NC; De eds of Rowan & Surry Co., NC; Marriage Records of Rowan Co., NC, J.T. Ste wart and Joyce Lindstrom.

NOTES: Joseph and David May were witnesses to a deed by John Stewart, Jr . to Gabriel Turney, land in Surry Co.

NOTES: Thru extensive research, The Robertsons, the Boones and the Sevie rs kne each other at the Yadkin River, left together for the Holston Rive r and Wautaga for the French Lick, and the Illinois Country. They marrie d each other's children, they moved to Overton Co., TN and to Arkansas an d Texas together. Researcher: Lomagene Stewart Boehm, Joyce Lindstrom, a nd Mary Stewart Hicks

BIRTH: The 1759, 1761, and 1768 tax lists of Rowan Co., North Carolina a re use to determine the birth order of the children. The 1759 tax list r ecords Samuel with his two adult sons, David and John Stewart. The 176 1 tax list records Samuel with his sons; David, John, Samuel, Joseph an d Isaiah. The 1768 tax list records Samuel with David, John, Joseph, Isa iah and Benjamin, the baby in the family. Researcher: Joyce Lindstrom.

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