This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part0_921092438_boundary Content-ID: <0_921092438@inet_out.mail.aol.com.1> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII A relative sent me this after finding it at her Mother's house. It was informative and thought the rest of the group might find it interesting. Marie --part0_921092438_boundary Content-ID: <0_921092438@inet_out.mail.aol.com.2> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline From: LYNCAL31@aol.com Return-path: <LYNCAL31@aol.com> To: RMEBULL@aol.com Subject: Re: Stewarts Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 10:11:39 EST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit NEILL SHAW STEWART, ESQ. A BIOGRAPHICAL STUDY 1820 - 1889 AVERASBORO, NC BY COLIE E. ROCK ERWIN, NC Pages 10 and 11 Neill Shaw Stewart was born May 23, 1820, in Cumberland County, NC. He was the only son of Hector Stewart and Mary Shaw Stewart. His great-grandfather migrated to this country from Scotland in 1735, and settled about twelve miles north of Fayetteville on the Northeast side of the Cape Fear River near the present site of Old Bluff Presbyterian Church in Cumberland County. It was here that Neill Shaw Stewart spent his boyhood and early manhood. Hector Stewart (Neill S. Stewart's father) first married Mary McNeill. To them were born three sons and one daughter. The sons (Tom, Mack, and Robert) traveled west to Texas as young men and settled there. The daughter, Mary Jane, Married John L. Atkins and settled in Harnett County. Mary MacNeill Stewart died and Hector Stewart married a second time. Hector Stewart married Mary Shaw as his second wife. To this union were born five children--four daughters and one son. The daughters were Negelena, married to Mr. Clements and moved to Texas; Grissella, married to Mr. Murphy and also moved to Texas; Margaret, married to Mr. Atkinson and lived in Cumberland County, and Annie Jane, married to Mr. Yarborough with residence unknown to this writer. The only son, Neill Shaw Stewart, married Eliza Armstrong in 1850 and moved to Averasboro, NC, where they established a lifelong residence. Mr. Stewart is described for pardon as a man who had "...fair complexion, dark hair, and black eyes, is 6 feet____inches high..." Pages 14 and 15 In the census of 1860 Neill S. Stewart listed his occupation as "Farmer" and the value of his real estate at $9000.00 plus a personal estate of $10,000.00. There is no record of his listing in the 1870 census but the 1880 census records him as a "Farmer" and in addition to his family members were listed the following as residing in his household: Claud Atkinson, a twenty- five year old female niece: Loucendy Turner a sixteen-year old female black servant; and George McLeon, a twenty-one year old black male servant. Neill S. and H. Eliza A. Stewart were parents of four children--three daughters and one son. The son, Neill M., died while still a young man leaving no descendants to carry on the family name. The daughters were (1) Mary Shaw who married Mr. Green and established residence on the North side of the Stewart plantation. (Their descendants still reside in our area today in the persons of Mrs. Mary Ballentine of Erwin and Misses Cornelia and Louise McLaughlin of Lillington. These ladies are the great-granddaughters of Neill S. and Eliza A. Stewart); (2) Ellen W. who married Mr. Whitaker and established residence in Raleigh, NC; (3) Negelena (probably a namesake for her fathers's sister) married late in life to Mr. H. V. Moulton and they resided in the Neill S. Stewart home which she inherited. There were no children from this marriage. .......... Read about silver service gift page 99, page 5 in They Passed this Way. Neill S. Stewart b. May 23, 1820 d. January 25, 1889 H. Eliza b. October 18,1819 d. June 13, 1903 Both buried at Old Bluff Church. A lot of the writers research was done at Campbell U. --part0_921092438_boundary--