Wilmer Stewart operated a store in Indiana that seems to have sold everything. Ads in the papers mention wagons & buggies - 1918, spark plugs - 1917, nonskid tires - 1918, wine and Ford Roadsters & trucks - 1916, Straw hats - 1916, horse blankets - 1916, Brookville road wagons - 1916, team harness - 1917, baled hay - 1917. He sold the store in 1919, to J. S. Hileman. 24 Jun 1920 - Indiana Weekly Messenger - WlLMER STEWART RETURNS. WILMER STEWART, well known auto and implement dealer, a former resident of Indiana, but who has recently conducted an auto exchange garage in Pittsburgh, recently sold out his business there and removes this week to J. M. Hileman farm at Reed station, two miles south of Indiana, which he recently purchased. Mr. Stewart Is ... of the house, barn and other buildings painted and is making other repairs to make the farm up-to-date in every particular. This farm is one of the best in this section of the county and Stewart intends to keep it up to its already high standard. Ads from the 1923 show that he ran an auto dealer auto accessory business on the farm at Reed station. The phone number was Bell 249. 2 Mar 1935 - Indiana Evening Gazette - This morning Constable Robert Kerr walked into WILMER STEWART's office and placed him under arrest on a warrant sworn out by Godfrey Marshall, a harness dealer of Indiana, who claimed Stewart had violated the law by selling harness at his auction Saturday. According to Stewart he had been "bluffed" by Marshall at a former sale and this time he had his attorneys look up the law. which says very plainly that any dealer paying a mercantile license who has been *der in the retail business for at least six months, can hold an auction to reduce stock. 7 Mar 1936 - Indiana Evening Gazette - Returns From California Mrs. Wallace Cunningham. returned home this week after -spending the past three months visiting her brother, Wilmer Stewart and family of Glendale, California. Mr. and Mrs. Cunningham have as their guests at present, Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Croot and son, Lloyd ... Looks like Wilmer move to California or could it be a son? Then the question is did he return to Indiana because there is a notice that in 1941 he opened a gasoline service station on Wayne avenue. I have not yet found an obit and I still have not answered you question as to if he is related to the Alex Stewarts.

Thanks so much, Roger. This is a wealth of info for us, even though we still do not know the relationship to Alex, if any. Yvonne At 10:05 AM 7/28/2004 -0500, you wrote: >Wilmer Stewart operated a store in Indiana that seems to have sold >everything. Ads in the papers mention wagons & buggies - 1918, spark >plugs - 1917, nonskid tires - 1918, wine and Ford Roadsters & trucks - >1916, Straw hats - 1916, horse blankets - 1916, Brookville road wagons - >1916, team harness - 1917, baled hay - 1917. > >He sold the store in 1919, to J. S. Hileman. > >24 Jun 1920 - Indiana Weekly Messenger - WlLMER STEWART RETURNS. WILMER >STEWART, well known auto and implement dealer, a former resident of >Indiana, but who has recently conducted an auto exchange garage in >Pittsburgh, recently sold out his business there and removes this week >to J. M. Hileman farm at Reed station, two miles south of Indiana, which >he recently purchased. Mr. Stewart Is ... of the house, barn and other >buildings painted and is making other repairs to make the farm >up-to-date in every particular. This farm is one of the best in this >section of the county and Stewart intends to keep it up to its already >high standard. > >Ads from the 1923 show that he ran an auto dealer auto accessory >business on the farm at Reed station. The phone number was Bell 249. > >2 Mar 1935 - Indiana Evening Gazette - This morning Constable Robert >Kerr walked into WILMER STEWART's office and placed him under arrest on >a warrant sworn out by Godfrey Marshall, a harness dealer of Indiana, >who claimed Stewart had violated the law by selling harness at his >auction Saturday. According to Stewart he had been "bluffed" by >Marshall at a former sale and this time he had his attorneys look up the >law. which says very plainly that any dealer paying a mercantile license >who has been *der in the retail business for at least six months, can >hold an auction to reduce stock. > >7 Mar 1936 - Indiana Evening Gazette - Returns From California Mrs. >Wallace Cunningham. returned home this week after -spending the past >three months visiting her brother, Wilmer Stewart and family of >Glendale, California. Mr. and Mrs. Cunningham have as their guests at >present, Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Croot and son, Lloyd ... > >Looks like Wilmer move to California or could it be a son? Then the >question is did he return to Indiana because there is a notice that in >1941 he opened a gasoline service station on Wayne avenue. > >I have not yet found an obit and I still have not answered you question >as to if he is related to the Alex Stewarts. > > >==== PAINDIAN Mailing List ==== >Having trouble unsubbing? Send a message with the word >"unsubscribe" (no quotation marks) in the body of the message to: ><PAINDIAN-L-request@rootsweb.com> or ><PAINDIAN-D-request@rootsweb.com> > >--- >[This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus]