William Henry Stuart

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Name William Henry Stuart
Birth 21 Nov 1841, Winslow, Stephenson County, Ill.114,115,116
Death 10 Jul 1913, Riparia, Whitman County, Wash.
Burial Colfax, Wash., Cemetery
Occupation hotel owner; postmaster117,3,118
Education Clover Nook School, Merced County, Calif.119
Father Stuart
Mother UNNAMED
Spouses
1 Mary Jane Startin
Birth 13 Aug 1857, Wood County, Ohio114,116
Death 28 Jan 1944, Lake Grove, Ore.
Burial Colfax, Wash., Cemetery120
Father Thomas Startin (1821-1902)
Mother Mary Ann Saunders (1835-1915)
Marriage 3 Oct 1877, Visalia, Tulare County, Calif.121,122
Children Alice Blanche (1879-1962)
Stella Irene (1881-1966)
Minnie Winefred (1882->1968)
Henry Io (1885-1967)
Laura Valeda (1897-1968)
Child (Died as Infant)
Notes for William Henry Stuart
116In the 1900 Washington census, he apparently had 17 people living in his household: His wife, Mary; daughters Minnie and Laura; son Io; daughter Alice Simmons; her children Maggie, Mary and Henry; "and 9 unrelated persons"

Source: 1900 Washington census, Vol. 21, E.D. 102, Sheet 5, Line 33. Whitman County, Texas Pct.

He owned the Stuart Hotel in Riparia, Wash. (aka Texas Ferry). There were two hotels: a wood building that burned and a brick building built afterward, in 1908. The 1910 census lists him as the manager of the hotel.123

Mary Alice Brunner remembers that William Henry Stuart and his wife, Mary Jane Startin, lived in California before they moved north. They stopped in Portland, where their first daughter, Alice Blanche Stuart, was born. She was born downtown, near where the Meier & Frank store is today.

They were married in California.

124On 4 May 1894, William H Stuart purchased 160 acres from the land office in Walla Walla, on the southeast quarter of Section 2, Township 13N, Range 37E.
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