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John P. Stewart, farmer, was born near Dripping Springs, this county, January 22, 1850, and is a son of Jesse and Elizabeth (Stockhouse) Stewart. The father was born in Pennsylvania, there received a common-school education, and learned the carriage-maker’s trade, and when about grown went to Indiana, and after spending some years there and in Ohio, also engaged in distilling, he came to Crawford County, Ark., in 1835. He stopped at Van Buren, the place then only having a few houses, he at first being obliged to live in a tent. He soon erected a church. He lived here until his death. The mother was born in Crawfordsville, Hamilton Co., Ind., and was there reared and educated. She is now living in Crawford County, aged seventy-four. To her the following children were born: Francis M., Harriett, William H., Sarah, Melissa, Jesse, Nancy, John P., James I. and Taylor (deceased). Two of her sons were in the Confederate service. William was a Union man, served in the Sixth Kansas, and participated in the battle at Prairie Grove. Our subject remained at home until twenty-two, making his home with his mother, and then married Madeline A. Turner, daughter of William and Permelia Turner, natives of Tennessee. Mrs. Stewart was born in this county, where she received a good education, and when sixteen married Mr. Stewart, she having been born in 1856. After his marriage Mr. Stewart farmed upon the home place one year, and a few years later purchased his present home. In politics he is a Republican, and in religion his wife is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.