Our Stewart Family
A Portrait
First Generation
1. Benjamin STEWART [scrapbook] 1 was born 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 on 10 Apr 1795 in Jessamine Co, KY. He died on 19 May 1856 in Hillsboro, Washington, OR and was buried in Stewart Cemetery, Hillsboro, Washington, OR.
BENJAMIN STEWART
Benjamin Stewart was born in Kentucky (April 10, 1795), where he married Miss Elizabeth Wood, a native of Virginia. They had a family of six children, and in 1846 crossed the plains to Oregon, three of the children then being married, and they with their wives and children joined the party. They came to Polk county where the father (Benjamin Stewart), purchased land and settled on the Dove donation claim, on the Rickreall. He had
640 acres of land, and after remaining upon this one year, he came to Oregon and worked at his trade of blacksmith, on the Clackamas River. At this time he removed to a farm of 640 acres of timber land, three miles East of Oregon City, and in 1849 removed to the Hazelwitch farm in Washington county, where he resided until the time of his death which occurred May 19, 1856, when he was in his seventy-seventh year.
He was an honest Democrat, a good Baptist, and a hard-working honest man.Note: Benjamin Stewart was actually 61 years old at the time of his death. It is unknown if the reference to his seventy-seventh year was due to a typographical error by the editor of the biography or if his son Charles Stewart made the error in his writing of the biography.
Sources: 1. The biography of Benjamin Stewart: written by Charles Stewart and Published in 1895 in the book, ' A History of Oregon ' .
2. ' A History of Oregon ' published in 1895.
Benjamin married 3 Elizabeth WOOD 1, 2, daughter of WOOD, on 25 Jul 1816 in Jessamine Co, KY. Elizabeth was born 4, 5 on 3 Mar 1790 in VA. She died on 27 Oct 1864 in Hillsboro, Washington Co, OR and was buried in Stewart Cemetery, Hillsboro, Washington, OR.
They had the following children:
+ 2 M i Charles James STEWART + 3 M ii Thomas John STEWART 4 M iii Holman Rice STEWART 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 was born in 1822 in Callaway Co, MO. He died in 1865 in Washington Co, OR and was buried in Washington Co, OR.
CENSUS: 1860 Washington Co, MO pg 638
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Holman Stuart 38 M Farmer 800/787 MO
Elizabeth 71 F VA
Marcus Bucy 19 M Laborer 800 MO
Henry Brickles 27 M Laborer TN
Elizabeth Hollands 17 F MO
CHILDREN: It is unknown if Holman Rice Stewart married. There is an entry in the Bible of Alfred Stewart noting the death of a child named Charles Stewart on January 17, 1857. Since none of the family Bibles record the birth of a Charles Stewart between 1850 and 1860 and since there is no 1850 census record of a Charles Stewart, (child), it is possible he was a child of Holman Rice Stewart. At this point no concrete evidence has been discovered to verify the parentage of the child, Charles Stewart.
+ 5 F iv Nancy Wood STEWART + 6 M v Alfred Richard STEWART + 7 M vi Albert STEWART
