West Virginia Family Groupsheet for John STEWART Family *********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgenweb.org/volunteers/copyright.html *********************************************** Submitted by: Margaret Robe Summitt Email address: csummitt@gte.net Husband: John STEWART Birthdate: about 1751 Birthplace: Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Death date: about 1795 Place of death: Monongalia County, Va/WVa Father: William STEWART Mother: Elizabeth GIVENS Marriage date: about 1779 Marriage place: Monongalia County, Va/WVa Wife: Mary ROBE Birthdate: about 1766 Birthplace: Death date: about 1810 Place of death: Monongalia County, Va/WVa Father: William ROBE, Sr. Mother: Sarah (BLAIR?) CHILDREN Child No. 1: Sarah STEWART Sex: F Birthdate: 4 Nov 1779 Birthplace: Stewart's Run,Monongalia County, Va/WVa Death date: 30 Aug 1831 Place of death: Monongalia County,Va/WVa Marriage date: 6 Oct 1804 Marriage place: Monongalia County,Va/WVa Spouse's name: Thomas CORDRAY Child No. 2: Agnes Nancy STEWART Sex: F Birthdate: about 1780 Birthplace: Stewart's Run,Monongalia County,Va/WVa Death date: Place of death: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Child No. 3: William STEWART Sex: M Birthdate: about 1781 Birthplace: Stewarttown,Monongalia County, Va/WVa Death date: 10 May 1855 Place of death: Monongalia County, Va/WVa Marriage date: 30 Jun 1801 Marriage place: Monongalia County,Va/WVa Spouse's name: Polly JENKINS Child No. 4: Elizabeth STEWART Sex: F Birthdate: about 1783 Birthplace: Stewart's Run,Monongalia County, Va/WVa Death date: 23 Dec 1848 Place of death: Monongalia County, Va/WVa Marriage date: 17 Feb 1813 Marriage place: Monongalia County, Va/WVa Spouse's name: Thomas HALL Child No. 5: David STEWART Sex: M Birthdate: about 1788 Birthplace: Stewart's Run,Monongalia County, Va/WVa Death date: Place of death: Richland County, Illinois Marriage date: 5 May 1812 Marriage place: Monongalia County, Va/WVa Spouse's name: Nancy BARKER Child No. 6: Samuel STEWART Sex: M Birthdate: 5 May 1790 Birthplace: Stewart's Run,Monongalia County,Va/WVa Death date: 8 Jan 1841 Place of death: McLean County, Illinois Marriage date: May 1816 Marriage place: Monongalia County, Va/WVa Spouse's name: Jane HANDLEY Child No. 7: Mary STEWART Sex: F Birthdate: about 1793 Birthplace: Stewart's Run,Monongalia County, Va/WVa Death date: Place of death: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Child No. 8: Sex: Birthdate: Birthplace: Death date: Place of death: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Child No. 9: Sex: Birthdate: Birthplace: Death date: Place of death: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Child No. 10: Sex: Birthdate: Birthplace: Death date: Place of death: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Child No. 11: Sex: Birthdate: Birthplace: Death date: Place of death: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Child No. 12: Sex: Birthdate: Birthplace: Death date: Place of death: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Child No. 13: Sex: Birthdate: Birthplace: Death date: Place of death: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Child No. 14: Sex: Birthdate: Birthplace: Death date: Place of death: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Child No. 15: Sex: Birthdate: Birthplace: Death date: Place of death: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Documentation: !Birth: Stewart Clan Magazine (monthly), Tome F, Sept. 1949, vol. 27 no. 3, p. 61 !Marriage: !Death: John Stewart died of yellow fever contracted at Cumberland, MD on a trip to buy supplies (Butcher, History of the Upper Monongahela, vol. 2). Mary Robe's Birth: in Robe Family History recorded by William Robe's great-granddaughter Sarah Robe (David Robe's granddaughter) in the "Descendants of Mary Elizabeth Currey Barker and John Baldwin," comp. by Carey Ross Alexander, 94 Grange Hall Road, Dayton, OH 45430 (513) 426- 3614. Salt Lake FHLC film #1035723, item 3. For brevity's sake I refer to this as the Currey-Barker-Baldwin Genealogy. !Marriage: noted in biographical sketch of David B. Stewart, in Callahan's History of the Upper Monongahela Valley, vol. 2, that John Stewart married Mary Robe. References in the Stewart Clan Magazine: Robe, Mary, m.John, PA 1778: Tome A (Vol. V, No.6 Dec 1926, pages 217 - 220) p. 217, Tome B (Vol .VII, No.5 Nov 1928 81 - 88) p. 88, Tome F (Vol. XXVII, No.3 Sep 1949 61 - 64) pp. 61,62. !Death: version given in Robe Family History of Sarah Robe (great- granddaughter of William Robe, granddaughter of David) in the Currey- Barker-Baldwin genealogy: "Mary married William [sic] Stewart, they raised a large family. She was found hung by the neck with a skein of yarn. It was never known whether she hung herself or was hung by some other person. She was not known to be insane and bore a good character, she died about the year 1810."