Mary Johnson Fort
Abt 1795 - UNKNOWN
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Name Mary Johnson Fort [1, 2] Birth Abt 1780 Born Abt 1795 Mississippi, USA 
Gender Female Death UNKNOWN Woodville, Wilkinson, Mississippi, USA Probate Wilkinson, Mississippi, USA [2] Died UNKNOWN Woodville, Wilkinson, Mississippi, USA Buried Saint Francisville, West Feliciana, Louisiana, USA [1] Person ID I25376 Brown Genealogy Last Modified 12 Feb 2025
Family 1 William Fort, b. 1760, Edgecombe, Edgecombe, North Carolina, USA , d. 1819, West Feliciana, Louisiana, USA (Age 59 years) Children 1. William Johnson Fort, (Planter), b. 6 May 1819, Woodville, Wilkinson, Mississippi, USA , d. 23 Feb 1862, Saint Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, USA (Age 42 years) [natural]Last Modified 12 Feb 2025 Family ID F8644 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 Justice Charles Stewart, Jr. (Planter), b. 26 May 1773, Wake County, North Carolina, USA , d. 15 Mar 1835, Woodville, Wilkinson, Mississippi, USA (Age 61 years) Married 1820 Married 1820 Children 1. Son Stewart, b. Abt Apr 1822, Woodville, Wilkinson, Mississippi, USA , d. Abt Aug 1822, Woodville, Wilkinson, Mississippi, USA (Age 0 years) [natural]Last Modified 12 Feb 2025 Family ID F8643 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - Mary Johnson was married firstly to William Fort who died in 1819. She married secondly in 1820 to Judge Charles Stewart. They had one known son who died in infancy. She is buried in Stewart 3 Cemetery in Woodville, Wilkinson, Mississippi, USA, with her second husband and their infanct son. There are no visible dates on her stone.
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WILLIAM FORT, the oldest son, was born about 1760. He and his two brothers sold their inherited land in Edgecombe in February, 1797 and headed west in that year or 1798. He was in the territory of Mississippi in 1803. By 1806 he was in West Feliciana Parish where he undertook a joint farming operation with his brother John. William married Mary Johnston. His succession papers in Louisiana were recorded in 1827, but he died much earlier, in 1819. Mary in 1820 married Charles Stewart and moved with him to a plantation in Wilkinson County, Miss. She had no children by him. She died in 1839. William and Mary had one son: WILLIAM JOHNSTON FORT
(A Family Called Fort - The Descendants of Elias Fort of Virginia, by Homer T. Fort, Jr. and Drucilla Stovall Jones, West Texas Printing Company, Midland, Texas, 1970 https://www.seekingmyroots.com/members/files/G002302.pdf )
- Mary Johnson was married firstly to William Fort who died in 1819. She married secondly in 1820 to Judge Charles Stewart. They had one known son who died in infancy. She is buried in Stewart 3 Cemetery in Woodville, Wilkinson, Mississippi, USA, with her second husband and their infanct son. There are no visible dates on her stone.
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Sources - [S222] U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;).
- [S2444] Mississippi, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1780-1982, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2015;), Will Records; Author: Wilkinson County (Mississippi). Chancery Clerk; Probate Place: Wilkinson, Mississippi.
- [S222] U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;).