Hi Iris, and Anne, 1. Iris, sorry about the confusion re Bridges and Corley. Memory is not always friendly, nor is personal / genealogical paper organization an attribute I can claim. 2. Iris, Depending on their religious denomination, they were probably obeying the civil rules that one must get a license. Then they probably proceeded to a church wedding officiated by a Minister of the Gospel (you'll see MG in many of the marriage records accumulated by genealogists). Whether or not they, or the MG, ever got the marriage confirmed back to the civil authority, or whether or not the civil authority ever followed up, is a whole new set of questions. 3. In the case of my Mary H. Stewart marrying Allan Avery, it appears that Solomon and troops were in Scooba, Kemper County, Mississippi, no later than 1834, and possibly as early as 1832 / 1833, all depending possibly on the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek. It's possible that Mary and Allan got married as they were loading the wagons. The 1840 census in Mississippi on them should help pinpoint the year of marriage, assuming the age / birth of the first child was valid. If it's valid for 1831, I would be so bold as to assume the same for Isaiah. 4. As for Isaiah and wife, my bet is that they indeed got married, didn't bother with the returns to the civil authority, but then what? I don't know if this is your Isaiah or not (probably not?), but I'm here to tell ya, I believe this Isaiah, my Solomon, and Anne Wise's Jehu, and possibly others, are all connected, at least in time, and in place (county), and probably in blood one way or another. 5. Only problem with your Jehu, Anne, is that he doesn't show up in Lincoln County TN like all the rest of my gaggle (Solomon, Reuben, Benjamin, Larkin, Charles, William, possibly a Thomas and a James, and possibly a second Reuben or Charles, depending on how one tries to read in to this stuff). Him coming out of Dickson County, TN, is troublesome for me. 6. However, the birthing of Jehu's children is very consistent in time with Solomon, Reuben, and William. I don't recall for the others, but they were all pretty much living out their lives in Alabama: Marion/Fayette Counties, Green or Marengo Counties, and in the case of Solomon, Marion/Fayette, Tuscaloosa, and Perry Counties. 7. THEORY: I have a theory, relatively unfounded, but an idea nevertheless (listers: please feel free to shoot at it): Solomon may have moved to Perry because he or his wife inherited land there, or he pre-knew the area from roadbuilding, or he knew other Stewarts there (such as Isaiah or Jehu or other?). He left Perry for Mississippi seemingly just as soon as the 1832 indian treaty cleared the way for land buying. Appears that the Allan Avery / Mary H. Stewart family went as well. a. 1830 Tuscaloosa census: Solomon is not there. He had been in Tuscaloosa since about 1823/1824, and lo, he's not there anymore. My aunt rooted around the LDS data on the neighboring counties and found Solomon in Perry County. Why did he move? Why did he buy land up in northern Perry County. b. 1830 Tuscaloosa census: Benjamin, a purported brother of Solomon, and to whom Solomon sells / transfers land (up in the Northport area I believe), Benjamin, who married a Nancy Pullam (others spell it Pullun, and I believe her middle initial may have been W.; and she was not able to sign her name as a co-seller on a land sale of Benjamin's), well, as I noted in an earlier email this month, Benjamin had an elderly female living with him. This presumably would be granny Pullam or granny Stewart (or remotely possible: granny Hogins/Hogan... Solomon's wife's mom). c. 1830 Perry census: As I recall, the data on Solomon and his family matched very well. d. I don't have the data handy on the land buy that Solomon did, but I want to say it was in 1829 or so, and I believe it plotted out in northern Perry County, almost a stone's throw to the backside of Tuscaloosa, and I at one time considered the road coming out of Tuscaloosa called Hargraves/Hargrove Road, that I wanted to say ran over to Perry County. e. SUMMARY OF THEORY: I wish to believe that Solomon wound of buying or inheriting land either because of death of his dad, or the death of his wife's dad. My spinoff / derivative of this theory is that perhaps Solomon pre-knew the area, perhaps maybe he was involved in building the Hargraves/Hargrove road. When I plotted the land for Solomon in Tuscaloosa, it being "the land upon which said Solomon Stewart currently resides", I was actually in Tuscaloosa at the time, and it plotted out on the Hargrave/Hargrove Road. If he had been involved in roadbuilding they were usually required to help by providing their 'hands' (slaves) to build the road near or next to their land / plantation. I never saw any Tuscaloosa mini-court records that showed that, though. 7. (Benjamin, by the way, appears to have been in Bibb County for whatever reasons in 1818, and was assisting in roadbuilding toward the north, as I recall from the records I researched. He seems to show up, however, with the rest of his brothers by 1823 in Fayette County, buying land and/or residing there.) Over to you guys for reactions, Best Regards, Dick Stewart Colorado Springs ----- Original Message ----- From: "Iris Brown" <ancestrynana@yahoo.com> To: <STEWART-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 7:34 PM Subject: [STEWART] Re Isaiah Stewart > Dick, > I don't have subscription for anything but census records, but I checked Perry Co. at Genweb. They have him listed but it says license only, and it is for Susan Corley instead of Eliz. Bridges. > > Isaiah Stewart / Susan Corley 18 Jan 1831 under the marriage date it says (License only) It is the same for Mary Stewart and Allen Avery. That is all I could find. Does that mean they didn't get married or what? > > Iris > =================================================== Hi Dick, Sorry to barge in here, but have you found out any more about where Isaiah might have come from before Perry Co., AL? I remember corresponding with you about the Perry Co. Stewarts. Do you have a birthdate for Isaiah? This is a long shot, but the 1830 census record of my ancestor, Jehu Stuart in Perry Co., AL has some mysterious unknown people on it. I do not have an 1820 census record for Jehu, because I believe he was on the move that year from Dickson Co. TN to Perry Co.,AL. A deed record selling his land in Dickson Co.,TN in 1820 shows that he was already in Perry Co., AL at that time, probably just missed the census taker. Here is the breakdown of Jehu Stuart's 1830 census record as best as I can figure: 1830 Perry Co.,AL pg. 45 Jehu Stewart 2 males under 5 -- Manuel L. Stuart and Thomas B. Stuart 1 male 10-15 -- Andrew Jackson Stuart b. abt. 1814 1 male 20-30 -- UNKNOWN 1 male 30-40 -- UNKNOWN 1 male 50-60 -- Jehu Stuart b. 1770-1780 1 female under 5 -- Possibly Catherine Stuart b/d unknown 1 female 10-15 -- Emily Stuart b. abt. 1814 1 female 40-50 -- Rosanna ??? b. 1778 I have no ideas who these unknown males are. I have no marriage record for Rosanna and Jehu Stuart. Do you have record of Isaiah in 1830? Any ideas who these males might be? There is no mention of any other males in Jehu's family in his will or in a family bible so these 2 young men are a mystery. Sincerely, Anne S. Wise mwise@cox-internet.com