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The following is information I have gathered about John P. STEWART, my ggg-grandfather, and his descendants to the present day. I didn't include any persons after my grandfathers generation so that I wouldn't have anyone's info on the web who was still living. I have also included my mothers side of the family who were all european immigrants in the early part of this century.
I am trying to link this STEWART line into the larger STEWART family residing in Monongalia Co.,WV, which is where John P. turned 21 and was married. John P. would have been born around 1820 and died October 15, 1895 in Ritchie Co., WV. He married Rebecca NEELY in Monongalia Co. on March 9, 1848. When he turned 21 he was listed in the tax lists of Monongalia Co. living near John (Esq.) STEWART and John (Esq.)'s father William STEWART. Both of these STEWARTs are part of the larger STEWART family living in Monongalia County. John P. is not listed in William STEWART's will as either a son or grandson of William. John (Esq.) and his half-brother Milton are listed as selling land to John P.'s father-in-law John NEELY, who lived near John (Esq.) and Milton, which implies some close relationships between these families since John P. married John NEELY's daughter. In the 1850 US census of Monongalia Co. John P. and Rebecca were living near her father John NEELY and John (Esq.), Milton and William STEWART. Sometime after 1854 John P. and Rebecca moved to Ritchie Co., WV. In every census I have looked at (1850, 1860, 1870, 1880) John P. and Rebecca are listed as being born in Virginia (now West Virginia).
William STEWART mentioned above had two brothers who married in Monongalia Co. at the right time to be the father of John P. STEWART. There names were David and Samuel STEWART. I am concentrating on these brothers as the possible father of John P. because that would give a family relationship to William, John (Esq.), and John P. and would explain why John P. isn't listed in William's will. I have not been able to find David or Samuel in any census of Monongalia Co. They both seem to have disappeared after they were married. David's wife's name was Nancy BARKER and they were married in 1812. In the 1850 census of Monongalia Co. there is a Nancy STEWART living with the William STEWART mentioned above. She was 66 at the time. Could this have been David's widow, William's sister-in-law? It is hard to tell because William also had a sister named Nancy.
This is the point at which I am currently stuck. I am still trying to find David and Samuel somewhere.
I am still trying to link this family to the larger STEWART family of Monongalia Co. but I haven't been able to do so yet, but I am close.
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