William Stewart

1851 - UNKNOWN

• Name	William Stewart  [1]
  Born	1851	Mississippi, USA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1860	St Francisville, West Feliciana, Louisiana, USA   [1]
  Residence	1880	Beat 1, Washington, Mississippi, USA   [2]
  Died	UNKNOWN
  Person ID	I24005	Brown Genealogy
  Last Modified	19 Sep 2024

  
  

  Father	Pvt. William Nolen Stewart, (Planter),   b. 29 Oct 1826, Wilkinson County, Mississippi, USA ,   d. 17 Jun 1863  (Age 36 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Mary Jane Reneau,   b. Abt 1829, Mississippi, USA ,   d. UNKNOWN
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F8212	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Isabella Riggs,   b. 1853, Evansville, Vanderburgh, Indiana, USA ,   d. UNKNOWN
  Married	24 Oct 1873	Indiana, USA   [3, 4]
  Children	1. James Riggs Stewart,   b. Aug Abt 1880, Mississippi, USA ,   d. UNKNOWN  [natural]   2. Noland Stewart,   b. Abt 1882,   d. UNKNOWN  [natural]   3. Foster Stewart,   b. Abt 1885,   d. UNKNOWN  [natural]   4. Unknown Stewart,   b. Abt 1888,   d. UNKNOWN  [natural]
  Last Modified	19 Sep 2024
  Family ID	F8199	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  William Stewart, a native of Mississippi, was born in 1851 to Noland and Mary Jane (Reneau) Stewart, who were also Mississippians. The father came to Louisiana in 1856 and began planting in the parish of West Feliciana, in which business he was quite successful. In 1862 he enlisted in the Fourth Louisiana infantry as an independent private, and after a few months’ service was discharged on account of ill health. He was afterward commissioned first lieutenant of an independent company and was a participant in the engagement at Baton Rouge. William Stewart had very poor advantages in his youth, but after the war was for some time a student in Centenary college (some two years) and after a short time spent in Mobile, Alabama, returned to that school which he attended for another year. Immediately following this he engaged in planting in Mississippi, then kept books for the firm of Worthington Brothers for eight years, after which he embarked in the same business from himself in Mississippi. He was then travelling agent for the Refuge Oil Mill of Vicksburg for four years, but since 1881 has been a cotton planter in Louisiana. He is managing a tract of land comprising 2,200 acres, about three-fourths of which is under the plow and a part of which was formerly the Erin plantation. He handles about 300 bales of cotton annually, and on this property has a good steam cotton-gin and gristmill and a plantation store. He takes considerable interest in local politics and is now a candidate for the position of parish sheriff, and should he be elected will without doubt make a faithful and efficient officer. Socially he is a member of the K. of P. and the IOOF. He was married in 1878 to Miss Riggs of Evansville, Indiana, by whom he is the father of four children: Riggs, Noland, Foster and an infant. Mrs. Stewart is quiet and unassuming in demeanor and is very social and amiable in disposition, his many worthy traits of character winning him many friends. (Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 407. Published by the Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.)

  
  

• Sources

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