Delores, Your kind and generous offer to check for something on John Stewart of Pendleton's Twelve Mile Creek area while he was working in his gun shop is accepted. I do not know how much of the previous postings on John Stewart and Stewart land transactions you followed. I believe that he is my immigrant ancestor in the Stewart line. Many individuals have e-mailed me on Stewarts, Stuarts, and Stewards for that period in that area, but none of the information is documented and none seemed to be aware of that particular Stewart. I know this much from family records, deeds, wills, sessional records, and censuses. Someone fathered the following Stewarts: John Stewart who married Ann Partain. I have neve succeeded in getting a birthdate for him, but he survived until 5 September 1865. He married a 2d time to what is believed to have been a widow by the name of Hewins, Huens, Hughens, or some variation. By his 2d wife he had two sons, whose names are not known to me nor were they known to descendants of his union with Ann Partain. Ann Partain Stewart is buried at Generostee ARP cemetery near Iva and Star in Anderson Co., SC, in 1856 in her 60th year. In the late 60's and early 70's I made two trips to the area and read the inscription for myself. I was told by a man living in the area that there was an older cemetery that the Generostee one. Name of it is unknown and location is unknown.....possibly it was flooded when Hartwell dam was constructed. The John Stewart who married Ann Partain and thier children are pretty well documented by their descendants and were thirty years ago. One of the descendants was the late Mrs. Edgar Ellis Strong (nee Julian Elizabeth Stewart) whose husband wad a Presbyterian minister. Julia is buried at Due West, where she lived out her latter days in the home of a son who was superintendant of schools at Due West. John who married Ann Partain had two brothers and two sisters. One brother James G. Stewart who married and had family before he moved to Tippah Co., MS in time to be in the 1850 census. His first wife's name is unknown to me, but his 2d wife was Mary Ann McKinney. She was not much older than his older children by his first wife. One of his daughters, Catherine Berthira Stewart (born after the 1850 census) married my g grandmother Mary Catherine Harrison Snell's younger half-brother, Thomas Caldwell Harrison....both Harrisons were from Mecklenburg Co., NC James died in 1855 and his family I have pretty well documented. The other brother of John who married Ann Partain was Samuel Stewart (12 Feb. 1801-6 July 1875). Born in Pendleton District, SC, he and his brother James G. Stewart moved to Tippah Co. together circa 1845; first locating temporarily in Tishimingo Co., MS and then settling permanently in Tippah Co. MS. The two sisters of these three Stewart brothers were Nancy who married John Sherrard, a brother to Alexander Sherrard. I knew that John and Nancy Stewart Sherrard moved to "near Atlanta". I found them in the 1850 census of Cobb Co., where Nancy is reported as age 60 (hence born circa 1790) and birthplace is reported as Ireland Ann Stewart who married Francis Cunningham I have never located in a census. Perhaps she was dead by the time of the 1850 census, so finding her is unlikely unless some of their descendants are into genealogy. I know that a John Stewart brought land from Andrew and Jean Liddell (sometimes mis-spelled Liddle)...it appears both ways in the deed. Samuel Stewart (1801-1875) my gg grandfather had a daughter Esther Jane who married a younger Moses Liddell and they, too came to MS in the "mass migration." My Samuel Stewart;s next to youngest child was Ebenezer Pressly Stewart who was a school teacher and Presbyterian minister, without title of Reverend because he was not a seminary graduate.) He appears in the Centennial History of the ARP church (circa 1900). At that time he was living near Altus, Oklahoma and pastoring a church near Blair and teaching school at the time. I have some of Ebenezer's children and descendants. I have gone to more than great length to explain my desire to investigate the murder of John Stewart as reported in the Pendleton Messenger. Since it was a capital crime and the Governor offered a reward, it is possible that all papers relating to the prosecution and punishment of the perpetrator of the crime was handled at a court that today we would probably call a district court. No papers are on file in Anderson Co., relating to his death or dispostion of his estate. I have always been somewhat amused that Brent Holcomb never latched on to this story. I have seen much of his work, but I have never seen a reference by him to the case. When my gg grandfather Samuel Stewart died, his obituary was carried by the ARP church paper, which was published at that time in Due West. A Pendleton paper picked up the obituary from the ARP account and reported his death.....this 30 years or so after he removed from Pendleton to MS. My g. grandfather Wm. S. Patterson Stewart was born in Pendleton District in 1827-1910. He was for 37 years the sessional recording secretary for Tippah, an elder, but I have no papers from his estate that mentions what I believe to have been his grandfather and the nature of his death. Ebenezer Pressly Stewart's ( son of Samuel and Rebecca S.Elizabth Patterson Stewart) little biography in the ARP history says that he was born "within the bounds of Pendleton Courthouse." I know that this is far more about Stewarts than you wanted to know. I just want to get the record straight. I may never know the truth, but I do not want anyone's "canned" genealogy, which I am afraid is what is happening to some of the newer people to genealogical research. Too often they buy into a genealogy that when scrutinized offers no logic or documentation. The internet is a wonderful tool, but it is only that.....the research is basic. Thanks again and if any of your Pendleton area books should be able to shed some light on this John Stewart, I will be forever in your debt. Cordelia Snell Holem Austin, TX I go to the Arhives here in Austin regularly. If you would like me to do any research for you there, I would be more than happy to do so.