Penelope Stewart

1828 - 1897  (69 years)

• Name	Penelope Stewart  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  Born	1828	Mississippi, USA   [1, 2, 3, 4, 6]
  Gender	Female
  Residence	1850	West Feliciana, Louisiana, USA   [4]
  Residence	1860	St Francisville, West Feliciana, Louisiana, USA   [2]
  Residence	1870	Ward 3, West Feliciana, Louisiana, USA   [3]
  	Residence Post Office: Saint Francisville
  Died	23 Oct 1897	Saint Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, USA   [1]
  Buried	Saint Francisville, West Feliciana, Louisiana, USA   [1]
  Person ID	I23805	Brown Genealogy
  Last Modified	19 Sep 2024

  
  

  Father	Tignal Jones Stewart, (Planter),   b. 20 Apr 1800, Clarksville, Montgomery County, Tennessee, USA ,   d. 20 Mar 1855, Wilkinson County, Mississippi, USA  (Age 54 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Sarah Ann Randolph,   b. 30 Sep 1809, Nottoway County, Virginia, USA ,   d. 23 Jan 1892, West Feliciana, Louisiana, USA  (Age 82 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Married	16 Jun 1825	Wilkinson, Mississippi, USA   [7]
  Family ID	F8133	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Justice Charles Lewis Mathews,   b. 1824, Mississippi, USA ,   d. 1864, Louisiana, USA  (Age 40 years)
  Children	1. George Mathews,   b. 1849, Saint Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, USA ,   d. 1859, Saint Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, USA  (Age 10 years)  [natural]   2. Annie Chase Mathews,   b. 1854, Saint Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, USA ,   d. 1854, Saint Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, USA  (Age 0 years)  [natural]   3. Charles Stewart Mathews, of Georgia Plantation (Planter),   b. 25 May 1854, Saint Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, USA ,   d. 23 Nov 1923  (Age 69 years)  [natural]   4. Harriet Mathews,   b. 30 Mar 1856, Saint Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, USA ,   d. 27 Feb 1927  (Age 70 years)  [natural]   5. Sarah Stewart Mathews,   b. 24 Feb 1859, Saint Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, USA ,   d. 13 Mar 1934  (Age 75 years)  [natural]   6. George Mathews, of Greenwood Plantation (Planter),   b. 1860, Saint Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, USA ,   d. 9 Dec 1907, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, USA  (Age 47 years)  [natural]   7. William Fort Mathews,   b. 1862, Saint Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, USA ,   d. 1881, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, USA  (Age 19 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	19 Sep 2024
  Family ID	F8148	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Married	27 Apr 1848	Wilkinson, Mississippi   [5]
  Last Modified	19 Sep 2024
  Family ID	F8658	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Penelope Stewart At Greenwood plantation, her residence in West Feliciana parish, La., on Monday, Oct. 23, 1897, at 11 A.M. Mrs. Penelope Stewart widow of Chas. L. Mathews, aged 68 yrs, 11 mos, and 11 days. A native of Wilkinson County, Miss. Interment in Grace Church cemetery. Mrs. Mathews had not been in good health for several years, but there was no reason to apprehend any immediate danger and the final summons came as a great shock to her family and friends. She was taken ill suddenly in the night, and her physician, Dr. W. H. Taylor sent for, but before he arrived she had breathed her last. The cause of death was disease of the heart. Mrs. Mathews belonged both by birth and marriage to the most distinguished families of the parish, and in her sphere wielded a happy influence as a noble Christian woman. She was a double first cousin of Hon. Duncan Stewart, Mrs. J. B. McGehee and the others of that branch of the Stewart family. Herself a native of Wilkinson County, Miss., she had resided here ever since her marriage which was nearly half a century ago, and was identified with West Feliciana by every to of interest and affection. She became a widow in 1864, and though early called upon to face the cares and responsibilities which such a position entails, at a time, too, when civil war added to the gravity, yet admirably did she sustain it - caring for her property and rearing her children. She was the mother of seven children, four of whom are living: Messrs. Chas and George Mathews, Mrs. S. McC. Lawrason and Miss Sallie Mathews. These, the group of devoted grand-children of the Lawrason family, and one sister, Mrs. S. J. Fort, compose the members of her immediate family. They will mourn most deeply her departure hence the loss of one infinitely beloved. "They who go Feel not the pang of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer." The sad days, the long nights, troubled at first by the realization that a mother's tender love is removed from earth - so far - but bye and bye, to be comforted by the thought that the life beyond is made the richer and the more alluring to the dear ones by her presence there. [The True Democrat - Bayou Sara, LA - October 30, 1897 - Transcribed by D. Donlon]

  
  

• Sources

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