Col. James Duncan Stewart, (Planter)
1824 - 1905 (~ 80 years)
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Name James Duncan Stewart [1] Title Col. Suffix (Planter) Born Aug 1824 Wilkinson County, Mississippi, USA 
Gender Male Probate Wilkinson, Mississippi, USA [1] Residence 1850 Wilkinson, Mississippi, USA [2] Residence 1860 Jackson, Jackson, Hinds, Mississippi, USA [3] Residence 1870 Jackson, Jackson, Hinds, Mississippi, USA [4] Residence 1880 Jackson, Hinds, Mississippi, USA [5] Residence 1 Jul 1887 Jackson, Miss [6] Residence 1900 White Castle, Iberville, Louisiana, USA [7] Died 27 Jun 1905 Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, USA [8] Buried Jackson, Hinds, Mississippi, USA [8] Person ID I24021 Brown Genealogy Last Modified 19 Sep 2024
Father William Stewart, (Planter), b. 1793, Montgomery County, Tennessee, USA , d. 15 Sep 1835, Woodville, Wilkinson, Mississippi, USA (Age 42 years) Relationship natural Mother Frances Matilda Smith, b. 1798, Wilkinson County, Mississippi, USA , d. 1877, Wilkinson County, Mississippi, USA (Age 79 years) Relationship natural Married 8 May 1818 Wilkinson County, Mississippi, USA [9, 10, 11] Family ID F8211 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Amanda Jane Yerger, b. 28 Sep 1831, Tennessee, USA , d. 26 Aug 1873, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, USA (Age 41 years) Married 7 Nov 1850 Warren, Mississippi, USA [12] Children 1. Fulton A. Stewart, b. 3 Oct 1857, Jackson, Hinds, Mississippi, USA , d. 23 Jul 1879, Washington County, Mississippi, USA (Age 21 years) [natural]2. Warren A. Stewart, b. 13 Apr 1855, Jackson, Hinds, Mississippi, USA , d. 1 Feb 1889, Arcola, Washington, Mississippi, USA (Age 33 years) [natural]3. Amanda Yerger Stewart, b. Mar 1869, Jackson, Hinds, Mississippi, USA , d. 15 Oct 1917, Bogalusa, Washington, Louisiana, USA (Age ~ 48 years) [natural]4. James Duncan Stewart, b. 8 Sep 1861, Jackson, Hinds, Mississippi, USA , d. 26 Sep 1863, Jackson, Hinds, Mississippi, USA (Age 2 years) [natural]5. Colesworth Pinckney Stewart, b. 25 Apr 1871, Jackson, Hinds, Mississippi, USA , d. Sep 1871 (Age 0 years) [natural]6. Dr. George Yerger Stewart, Pharm.D., b. Feb 1852, Vicksburg, Warren, Mississippi, USA , d. Dec 1914, Silver Creek, Lawrence, Mississippi, USA (Age ~ 62 years) [natural]7. Dr. William Nolan Stewart, M.D., b. 16 May 1853, Jackson, Hinds, Mississippi, USA , d. 13 Jun 1923, El Paso, El Paso, Texas, USA (Age 70 years) [natural]8. Dr. Nolan Stewart, M.D., b. 25 Sep 1866, Jackson, Hinds, Mississippi, USA , d. 17 Dec 1926, Gulfport, Harrison, Mississippi, USA (Age 60 years) [natural]9. Ida Stewart, b. 16 Sep 1859, Jackson, Hinds, Mississippi, USA , d. Jan 1939 (Age 79 years) [natural]Last Modified 19 Sep 2024 Family ID F8202 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 Martha Elizabeth Betty Lindsey, b. Jun 1825, Hinds County, Mississippi, USA , d. 20 Oct 1915, White Castle, Iberville, Louisiana, USA (Age ~ 90 years) Married 1875 [7, 13] Last Modified 19 Sep 2024 Family ID F8201 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - The following biography is excerpted from a longer biography of James' son, Dr. William Nolan Stewart.
"Col. James D. Stewart was born in Mississippi in 1824 and was educated in the University of Virginia, graduating from this institution in 1844, after which he began the study of law at Cambridge. Upon returning to Mississippi, he began the battle of life as a planter of Wilkinson county, and in 1850 was married to Miss Amanda Yerger, a daughter of George S. Yerger, and about 1852 moved to Hinds county. Three years later he took up his abode in Jackson and practiced law for some time. In 1863 he entered the confederate army as chief of ordnance for Mississippi, receiving his appointment from the governor, and held this position until the close of the war. He is a veteran of the Mexican war also, having served during the conflict in Company B, Jefferson Davis' regiment.
"Although the Colonel has never been an officer seeker, yet he has been prominent in the affairs of his section, and the people of Wilkinson county early showed their appreciation of his ability by electing him to the lower house of the state legislature, in which body he was an active member during 1849. In 1879 he was elected to the state senate from Hinds county, discharging his duties in 1880, and during that year he introduced bills which became laws, one being an act to prevent prize fighting, and another for the prevention of cruelty to animals, both of which were wise and humane measures. In 1878 he was elected president of the Howard association, soon after the organization of that society, and was one of its most useful members during the yellow-fever epidemic of 1878. In 1885 he was appointed registrar of the United States land office at Jackson, which position he ably filled for four years.
He is the father of nine children, five of whom are living:
George Yerger, a druggist;
William N., our subject;
Nolan, who was physician for the Indians of Arizona, having received his appointment from the government and is now assistant physician of the insane asylum at Jackson, Miss., and
Ida, who is the wife of Percy Lemly, of Jackson;
Warren was assassinated at Arcola, Washington county, Miss., in 1889;
Fulton died in 1879;
Amanda is with her father in Jackson;
two sons died in infancy.
"Colonel Stewart lives in a beautiful residence on Fortification street in Jackson, Miss., and although he has reached the allotted age of three-score years and ten, he shows little of the ravages of time and is remarkably well preserved."
[Excerpt from the biography of Dr. William Nolan Stewart, son of Col. James D. Stewart, as published in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Louisiana; Chicago; The Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1892; transcribed by Kim Mohler]
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James D. Stewart (born 1824) planter, of Jackson, Mississippi. State Representative and Senator, and United States Registrar of Public Lands during President Cleveland's first administration.
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From the Vicksburg Herald, June 28, 1905, p. 1: Jackson, Miss.
Funeral services over the remains of the late Col. James D. Stewart, for many years one of the foremost and highly respected citizens of Jackson, took place this afternoon at 4 o’clock at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Percy Lemly, on North President street.
Col. Stewart died yesterday at Little Rock after an illness of several weeks. He had been in feeble health for many months and the end was not unexpected. The remains reached here from Little Rock, via Memphis, this morning at 6:30 o’clock and were conveyed to the Lemly residence. During the forenoon many old friends called to pay their last sad tribute to his memory.
The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Walter C. Whittaker, rector of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, of which deceased was a lifelong member. The Pearl Lodge No. 23, A.F. & A.M. conducted the Masonic ritual at the cemetery. The following acted as pall-bearers:
Honorary-Messrs. George C. Eyrich, Dr. T. J. Mitchell, S. Livingston, R. J. Harding, J. H. Morris and S. Green.
Active-Messrs S. Virden, D. O. M. Turner, Wirt Adams, D. E. Adkison, John W. Robinson, Dr. E. H. Galloway, D. H. Holder and W. F. Wilcox.
- The following biography is excerpted from a longer biography of James' son, Dr. William Nolan Stewart.
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