--part1_ca.ca7514cb.25ad5be6_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi. Can anyone help this person? I don't know the answer to her questions. Please reply to Gloria at <Si2am@cs.com> Jackie --part1_ca.ca7514cb.25ad5be6_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: Si2am@cs.com From: Si2am@cs.com Full-name: Si2am Message-ID: <76.76c2ba78.25a7f86c@cs.com> Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 21:18:20 EST Subject: Stewart To: Socrmom901@aol.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: CompuServe 2000 32-bit sub 67 Hi Jackie, I have been trying to find my great uncle, my grandfather's brother, Duncan STEWART born about 1851 in Perthshire SCT Emmigrated to US in about 1871, married to Frances HOOVER b. in Indiana about 1854. They lived in Iowa probaby until about 1890 and then appear on the 1910 census for Spencer NC on Godhin or Yodkin St. between Fifth and Sixth St. (married 38 years at the time.) They apparently had 8 children but only 3 were alive in 1910. On the 1920 census, Duncan STEWART is 70 years old and living with his son Andrew STEWART b. in Iowa in 1885 and Andrew's wife Fannie (Duncan's wife must have died between 1910 and 1920) living on Gredell St. in Spencer NC. In 1938 on the death of my grandfather, Duncan STEWART was included in the obituary as if he was still alive, making him 88 years old. However this is far from conclusive information. On the 1920 census, I found another offspring of Duncan, Bessie (Stewart) ALLWELL, b.1879 in Iowa married to Harris ALLWELL on Gredell St. in Spencer NC The men of the family all worked for the railway co. Southern Railroad ? in Spencer, probably from the time the shops opened there, as machinists. I even saw a book on Rowan Co. with a picture of workers, not identified, and a chap in the front row sitting looked very much like my grandfather and could easily be my great uncle. Are their directories available for that area of NC that indicate workers, address, occupation? I have seen these for other areas but have not been able to identify if North Carolina has such directories. Are the newspaper obituaries for the area archived in any way, indexed in any way? I wish to get death certificates for Duncan, his wife Francis and his son Andrew. Could you advise me how to proceed? I have downloaded the form for more recent deaths from the vital statistics site, but I understand the earlier ones are archived and I have to send for them separately with a fee of $8 for each search. I have my request all ready to go, but I am so unclear as to the death dates of these 3 target people that it may be beyond the scope of workers in the records office to pin down. I hope to visit Spencer at some point and find the grave sites for the 3 target people. Our family has been putting markers on unmarked graves for the older family members, as a project. We hope to confirm that the 3 people Duncan, wife Francis and son Andrew are suitably identified. My grandfather Andrew was an inventor as well and we have a working model 1 foot high of a steam engine prototype he developed in about 1890. He came from Scotland to Spencer in about 1910 to find work and ending up staying in North America as well. The model engine may be of some interest to the museum of the Spencer area. Any help you can give would be appreciated. Gloria Beek nee Stewart St. Petersburg FL --part1_ca.ca7514cb.25ad5be6_boundary--