I started posting on rootsweb back shortly after they began. I am on a number of lists.. Steuart has been one of my more disappointing ones, because of the spelling. BUT...this has been the spelling for my great grandmother, Kathleen Steuart, who was born in PA in about 1852 to John Steuart (immigrated from Scotland..don’t know where) to Mary Johnson in PA. They had a houseful of children and by 1860 the census has them in IL where he was a coal miner. I knew my Granny Kate as she died in 1947, and she had just left Indianapolis and New Castle, IN after a Thanksgiving trip there as her daughter, Helen (Helen Kennedy French) and son (Dr. Walter Urban Kennedy..my grandfather) and her youngest son John Steuart (from CA) were all there. I was living with my grandparents and Granny Kate and I were great buddies..all 4 foot 9 inches of her (and her still red hair..now colored I have a feeling). She went back to Winchester, IL to her own home, and two weeks later, fell in the back yard and laid there for several hours in a cold rain. She died of pneumonia a few days later. Granny Kate told me stories of riding horseback across the fields when she was a kid in IL; she watched Lincoln’s funeral train return to Springfield on a cold, rainy day, and her description has never left me. She told about going into Cuba with Clara Barton (my mother talked about Granny Kate’s wild imagination), and now I have the proof she did. She was a member of the Illinois Red Cross and a member of the Provisional Red Cross of Cuba and she DID help Clara Barton set up hospitals in Cuba during the Spanish American War and then she helped establish an ‘industrial orphanage’ for about 1400 hundred kids in Matanzas Province in Cuba. I knew she traveled all over the world; her 1910 census showed carnival promoter..hmmm.. Well, a cousin, who found me on this list, told me the ‘rest of the story’. The ‘Carnival Promoter’ turned out to be the lead person in setting up trade expositions for American manufactured goods in different places around the world. Explains how my father was given a black diamond by her, which she brought back from from South Africa. He had it in a ring; I was 17 when he died, and I designed it in a necklace which I usually wear. She survived three husbands; her first one was a S.?. Lawrence and they had one child. I have heard stories but no proof of who he was. She married my great grandfather (Urban Bernard Kennedy) in about 1874 and had three children, my grandfather Walter, his sister Helen (I called her Aunt Nellie as did everyone else)who married Jesse French, and my uncle John Preston Kennedy, who along with my grandfather was in WWI. Uncle John died in 1949 in CA. BUT..the mystery is still Steuart and even on her gravestone it is STEUART... Donna Nichols