The Annual Stuart Reunion will be June 13, 2010 at Old Pearl River Baptist Church in NW Neshoba County, Mississippi. This is a reunion for the descendants of William Davis Stuart and Hannah Jones Stuart. Friends and neighbors are welcome too. Bring a favorite dish and join us for an old timey "dinner on the grounds". The fellowship hall will be open for us starting about 10:00 AM Sunday. You are invited to attend the Church service (11 - 12) on the same grounds that your ancestors worshiped. We will have the meal immediately following the morning worship service. Then we have the afternoon to visit. We will update everyone on our DNA research results. Some of us have submitted DNA to 23andMe in addition to the FTDNA Surname Project. The Y-DNA results connect us to the James Stewart and Ann Lafferty family who settled in old Augusta Co., VA in the mid 1700s. One of our 23andMe participants matches with a lady in Scotland who has Stewart and Lafferty in her ancestry. The McCown side also matches (in their DNA study) with Francis McCown and Margaret Patterson of old Augusta. William Davis Stuart was born 1823 in Alabama according to census records. He first appears by name on the 1850 Winston County, Mississippi census. After that he was always in Neshoba County. His wife Hannah Jones was also born in Alabama in 1833. Her Grandfather John Stainton named her parents (Dudley Jones and Hannah Stainton) in his will filed in Monroe County, Alabama in 1852. The 1850 census listed their first born child as 6 months old and born in Alabama so we assume they had just moved to Winston Co., MS in time for the census. Their children were: Mary Lodocia Ann "Polly" Stuart (Jan 1850, AL/1902, MS) who married John Thomas "Jack" Talbert (some of their descendants changed the spelling to Tolbert); Hannah Elizabeth Stuart (1852, MS/bef. 1933) married William A. "Bill" Rowe; Josephine "Jodie" Stuart (1853, MS/1911, MS) married John King Talley; William M. "Bud" Stuart (1856, MS/1931, MS) married Texanna Marshall; Sarah Georgina Stuart (1857, MS/1894, TX) married William Arthur Talbert (brother to John Thomas Talbert); George W. Stuart (1859, MS/1944, MS) never married; Missouri Stuart (about 1860, MS/about 1878, MS) never married; John Leroy Stuart (1861, MS/1935, MS) married Martha Elizabeth Tindol; James Monroe Stuart (1863, MS/1947, TX) married Nancy Emma Musgrove; twin Dr. Henry Newton Stuart (1867, MS/1929, MS) married Cora Mae McKay; twin Dr. Jasper Marion Stuart (1867, MS/1917, AR) married Alice Marie Hyde; Elizabeth Lenora Stuart (Feb. 1870, MS/about 1888); Thomas Franklin Stuart (1875, MS/1933, MS) married Anna Ethel Stokes. Many of these descendants moved into Winston, Attala, Leake, Lauderdale and Newton Counties by the late 1800s/early 1900s. Besides the surnames mentioned many married into other area families like: Agent, Alford, Atkins, Beall, Breazeale, Byars, Coghlan, Darby, Dunn, Duett, Eubanks, Ferguson, Gamblin, Goodin, Habour, Hill, Hisaw, Lampkin, Melton, McCown, Murphy, Nowell, Sharpe, Perry, Ryals, Warren, and many others. Anyone wanting more information please contact George Stuart at [email protected]