My Genealogy Hound

JAMES W. STEWART, farmer, post office Library, was born Jan. 29, 1843, on the farm where he now resides, a son of William and Frances (Rowland) Stewart. His father was born on the same farm in 1793, and on reaching maturity started a gristmill, which he operated about fifty years personally, afterward employing a miller. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and died at his home at the age of seventy-six years. His wife, Frances, was born at Castle Shannon in 1810, and died in February, 1888. James W. received his education in the common schools here and at Bethel Academy, and graduated from Duff’s College, Pittsburgh, Feb. 3, 1865. He married, Dec. 23, 1869, Sarah, daughter of Joseph and Abigal (Hanna) Woods, and born in Snowden (now Bethel) township. She was a granddaughter of Rev. William Woods, of Snowden township. Her father was a native of Bethel township and her mother of Bridgeville, this county. The father of our subject bought land here when it was worth about ten to thirty dollars per acre, securing about four hundred acres. After his marriage, in 1869, James W. began farming for himself, and has since carried on the old place with good success. Six children have been born to them, as follows: Willis Woods, William Joseph, Sarah Frances, Birdie A., Edna E. and James Lester. All the family save the three last named are members of the Baptist Church. Mr. Stewart’s uncle on his mother’s side, James Rowland, was a minister, and died at Mansfield, Ohio. Another uncle, Varner Rowland, was treasurer of Allegheny
county.

Mr. Stewart had seven brothers and sisters, he being next to the youngest. The eldest, Fannie, died at the age of three years; Jordan graduated at Washington College and at the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, practiced medicine near Pittsburgh and Norristown, then in Western New York, returned home in 1860, and shortly after died, at the age of thirty-four years; Rowland graduated at Jefferson College, Cannonsburg, Pa., about 1848, went to Natchez, Miss., became a teacher in the public schools, and died of yellow fever in 1850, at the age of twenty-one years; Elizabeth G. was the wife of the late Alfred C. Wilson, of Hazelwood, this county; Marie L. married Frederick W. Cooper, and died about 1864; Caroline died in 1869; Josephine resides in Allegheny, and Willis Fremont died at Pittsburgh in 1871.