Hello. I received a copy of a letter from a cousin that gave some information about the Stewarts. I am sending along the parts of the letter that pertain to that family. I do hope this helps someone out there. Is the "home" place mentioned in the last sentence still there? Stephanie Colorado >From here on I am quoting from the letter. The author quotes from some notebooks thus the double quotation marks. "My grandmother Elizabeth Stewart was the daughter of Alexander Stewart and Matilda Grimes of Adams County, Ohio. Matilda Grimes was the daughter of Samuel Ellis Grimes and Sallie Brookover born on April 19, 1804 at Manchester, Ohio and died Sept. 2, 1891. On Nov. 13, 1802 Nathan Ellis deeded 40 acres of land lying in Adams County on the waters of the Ohio to Joseph Stewart, my great-great grandfather. 'The first Stewart that came to America was in 1636, only 16 years after the settlement at Jamestown, Va. Our ancestors arrived in Virginia about the year 1730, and came from Glasgow, Scotland. After the Revolutionary War, the Commonwealth of Virginia offered inducements to her veterans of the War to settle in the Ohio Valley by giving concessions on farmland. Bear in mind that what are now the states of Ohio and Kentucky were territory belonging to Virginia. Our ancestors living in what was then Passiac (?) County, Virginia in the year 1789 joined a company of five families, who with their stock and household goods travelled to what is now called Braddock, Pennsylvania, only a few miles up the Monongahela river from Pittsburgh. They raised a crop and constructed what was known as a keelboat. It must have been a large boat to hold the five families, their horses, cows, pigs, farming equipment, household goods, and, of course, children. They were to help to make the future farmers, merchants, doctors, lawyers, etc. Early in the spring of 1790, the five families loaded their belongings in the crude boat and embarked on the Ohio, floating down the beautiful river to the mouth of Limestone Creek, where Maysville, Ky. is now located. It was an uneventful trip. My grandfather Stewart was then four years old. He was born in Virginia on May 1, 1786. The Indians were more troublesome on the Ohio side of the river; so they moved south of the river three miles where there were quite a number of settlers. The town of Washington is now located there. The following Spring our little company moved to the Ohio side of the river, and settled around what is now the little town of Aberdeen. The Stewarts located on the hill at the head of a small creek called 'Fishing Gut,' one mile from the Brookover home. Grandfather had 2 brothers and 3 sisters: Susie, Lavina, Jane, Joseph, James, and John Stewart. Uncle James and Aunt Susie were never married. Aunt Susie died in 1884, and was 95 years old. Aunt Lavina's married name was West. She had three children, William, Joseph, and Ellen. [She actually had more children than three.] Joseph preached at my grandfather's funeral. William West moved to Port Huron, Michigan, and one of his daughters and her brother is the founder of the 'Lady Maccabees' there. Ellen married Pickerell - her daughter lives near Georgetown, Ohio. Grandfather Stewart was in the War of 1812 and was mustered out in 1813, and drew a pension until he died. He married Elizabeth Rains in 1814. To them were born: Jane 1816 Sallie Ann 1818 William (Billy) 1819 John 1823 Alexander 1825 (my father) married Matilda Grimes Nancy 1827 Lavina 1830 Joseph 1832' I know this is confusing to read, but I am copying it from a notebook that I found in my mother's possessions when she died in 1970. Since my grandmother died in 1941, I don't know when she wrote it. A lot of it pertains to the Stewarts and Grimes . . . . In reading this over, I failed to put the names of the children born to Alexander and Matilda Grimes Stewart. Elizabeth born Dec. 4, 1862 married (1) L. T. Cole (2) Marion Stockwell Park Alexander Jan. 29, 1864 Aseal Grimes Mar. 30, 1866 Sallie July 12, 1868 married Marshall Hanover Louise Feb. 5, 1875 married Homer kimball Samuel Joseph Jan. 17, 1878 My second cousin Hilda Brown, daughter of Aseal Grimes is living in the 'home' place on the Ohio river, between Aberdeen and Manchester."