John Steuart was my great great grandfather, born in Scotland, was in the US in Pennsylvania by 1850..in the Census. He married Mary Johnson whose parents came from Scotland in Pennsylvania. They had several children and my great grandmother Kathleen (Granny Kate) was my buddy when I was growing up. She was born in about 1853 in Pennsylvania. By 1860 they were in IL and he was still working as a coal miner. I can't remember the children's names and I am 1100 miles from home. Granny Kate married an S.Lawrence and had one daughter who died by 1874 and apparently her husband did too. I have found the record of their marriage in IL. She remarried Urban Bernard Kennedy, son of William Kennedy (Scottish not Irish) and Sarah Wright. They had three children: Dr. Walter Urban Kennedy (1877-1970) who married my grandmother Sada Amelia Vertrees. They had one son, my father Donald Vertrees Kennedy. I am an only child. Helen Kennedy (called Nellie) born about 1880. She married Jessie French Jr. They had 4 children. John Preston Kennedy--who died in about 1949 in CA. Granny Kate was 4 foot 9 inches tall, a redhead, who knew Clara Barton, went into Cuba during the Spanish American War. Granny Kate would tell me stories, and I have since found that many were quite true. I have learned about cousins who had heard about Granny Kate... Granny Kate literally traveled much of the world, and then described life as it has changed from the time she was born until she died in 1947..AFTER a trip from IL to Indianapolis, to New Castle, IN and back home..she fell in the back yard and got pneumonia and died..just before Christmas. I had been with her at Thanksgiving. Some people have changed the spelling to Stewart..but all census records do show STEUART.