This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AmJBAIB/7280.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Donna, this family is in the Stewart Clan Magazine, page F47-48 (Tome F., Vol. XXVI, No. 12, June 1949), in an article about Stewarts in Old Ninety-Six District, SC, subtitled Stewart Families in Abbeville County. It is a paragraph on John and Elizabeth-- Stewart; here is what is written for him. No parents for him, unfortunately. Be careful of the "we presume". By the time the editor got to Tome F, which was issued between July 1948 and June 1953, he was very fond of trying to make rather large jumps in order to tidy up some of the many families he had unearthed with no links, though this assumption seems to be supported by the other Drennan names mentioned. "John Stewart married Elizabeth--. We presume she was Elizabeth Drennan and that he was the John Stewart spoken of in Goodspeed's 'History of Lincoln County, Tennessee', page 913. The history said that John and Elizabeth were born in the Emerald Isle and came to the United States, and John participated in the Revolutionary war, serving the entire time. They were living in Newberry district, SC in1809, when their son William was born. John died in 1826, the history continued, and the widow went to Tennessee with her children in 1827, dying near Molino, Lincoln County, in 1844. They were the parents of severnteen children. The records of Abbeville county show that John Stewart died late in 1826, his will being dated 4 Nov 1826, and probated 1 Jan 1827. The witnesses were Robert Drennan, James Wiley and John Coughran. Stewart named as executors his son Joseph and his much respected friend Charles Drennan. He named his wife Elizabeth and children John, Elizabeth, Robert! , Agnes, James, Jane, Archibald D., Joseph, Anne, Willliam, Fanny, Mary and Alexander Irvin Stewart and also his granddaughter Elizabeth Morrow, who was young and was living in his household. The records of Lincoln county, Tennessee, show that on 21 July 1828 Joseph, Robert and James Stewart had made a deed of 159 acres of land in South Carolina to Dewey E. Lifford, and on the same day Robert and James were made guardians of William and Alexander E. Stewart, their bondsmen being Hugh Parkinson and Robert Drennan. Fourteen of the children of John and Elizabeth were: daughter, m. -- Morrow; had daughter Elizabeth John, b. ca 1786 Elizabeth Robert, b. ca 1790, living in Lincoln Co. TN in 1828 Agnes James, c. 1794, living in Lincoln Co. TN in 1828, 1840 Jane Ann Joseph [mb. 28 Feb 1839 Martha Williamson, Lincoln Co.] Mary Archibald D. Frances William, 9 Feb 1809; m. 12 Oct 1831 Nancy McClain; doctor at Molina, TN Alexander Erwin/Irwin" None of the other Stewarts in Abbeville district have been linked to this family.