232. Parrilee Tennessee STEWART
MARRIAGE: She never married but had three illegitimate children.
CENSUS: In the 1860 Census of Overton Co., TN. her name is spelled Parolee. Researcher Georgenia Stewart.
CENSUS: Thomas J. Stewart is in the 1880 Census of Smith Co., TN. He is (38), b. in TN., mother and father born in TN. Lists wife Octova (Octavia Hanks)(29), b. in TN, as well as parents; Sarah (9), Telula (7); and Lilla (3). Researcher Joyce Lindstrom.
DEATH: This date is the 4 or 6 May 1925
NOTES: Georgenia Stewart has in her possession a picture of the John Dillard Stewart family taken around 1905. An elderly Aunt of Melvin Franklin has identified several of the family members which has led to additional genealogical information. Also additional information furnished in a letter from J. T. Stewart, 300 Cornwell Ave., Watertown, TN 37184 (descendent of Jesse Stewart)
Additional people in picture that I have not been able to assign to a family are: Shirlie Stewart, Charles W. Stewart, Pearl Stewart Bennett, Esta Stewart and Maude Stewart. Researcher: Georgenia Stewart
Last name spelled Lee or Lea.
IGI: The IGI lists Dock Meyers as James H. Myers.
MARRIAGE: IGI says marriage about 1854, Hardin,Tenn.
MARRIAGE: Overton Co., Tn. Marriage Index 1867-1927 by Shawn Gray, p100. Melissa is spelled Malissa on marriage records. Researcher: Georgenia Stewart
Nancy May Stewart and husband Richard Johnson Poston moved to Collin County, Texas in the 1880's. Source: Mary Hillis, 1118 Windsong Lane, Longview, Texas 75604-2815, who descends through William Jefferson Stewart. Researcher: Georgenia Stewart
BIRTH: Joyce Lindstrom also lists 7 Sept 1853 as birth date of Nancy May Stewart.
Richard Johnson Poston and Nancy May Stewart moved to Collin Co., Texas about 1890.
BIRTH: Robert Lee Poston was 6 in the 1880 Census.
BIRTH: Charles Poston was 4 in the 1880 Census.
BIRTH: MARRIAGE: Charles Poston never married.
See notes on John F. Greer #1405.
MARRIAGE: Jesse Davis Poston never married.
257. Thomas Jefferson ELDRIDGE
BURIAL: Overton Co., TN Roll Call, Cemetery Records 1795-1975, by Shawn Gray, p. 331. Researcher: Georgenia Stewart
MARRIAGE: Overton Co., TN Marriage Index, 1867-1927, by Shawn Gray, p. 31. Marriage records Thomas C. Eldreg. Researcher: Georgenia Stewart
BURIAL: Overton Co., TN Roll Call, Cemetery Records 1795-1975, by Shawn Gray, p. 331. Researcher: Georgenia Stewart
BIOGRAPHY: "My People and Me" by Charles S. Eldridge states that Robert Ras Eldridge moved to Kansas and raised a family there. Nothing else is known about this family.
Researcher: Georgenia Stewart
BIRTH: and !DEATH: Overton Co., Tn Roll Call, Cemetery Records, by Gary Norris, p. 483. Researcher: Georgenia Stewart
BIRTH: David T. Mansker was 3 yrs. old in the 1850 Census.
NOTES: He moved to Little Rock, Arkansas. Researcher: Joyce Lindstrom
SOURCE: Records of Mary Ellen Stewart.
SOURCE: Mary Ellen Stewart.
SPOUSE: Louvina Anna Johnson.
SOURCE: Mary Ellen Stewart.
SPOUSE: Lawerence C. Mariger.
SOURCE: Mary Ellen Stewart.
SOURCE: Mary Ellen Stewart.
SPOUSE: Eliza Ann Lund, 7 Mar 1889.
811. Louisa Caroline FARNSWORTH
SOURCE: Mary Ellen Stewart.
SPOUSE: Ernest V. Hardy, 5 Sep 1884.
SOURCE: Mary Ellen Stewart.
SOURCE: Mary Ellen Stewart.
Our Pioneer Heritage, Vol. 1, p.298
John Clarence Stewart, my father, was the son of John Riley Stewart and Frances Ellen Van Hoosier who were married while crossing the plains to Utah in 1862.When John grew to manhood he went on a mission to New Zealand in the year 1883.
He kept a diary of his labors among the natives and was successful in converting many to the Latter-day Saint faith. From his diary we quote:September 6, 1884: The people threw away their English prayer books and asked for baptism. We went four miles to Tikikino for the baptism and about twenty followed us. We held a meeting and I had to talk in Maori again as the man who tried to interpret Bro. Newby was no good.
7th-Sunday. This was a day long to be remembered. Twenty three asked for baptism. Three children we blessed. 10:00 a.m. was set for the time. I let Elde Newby baptize them as he hadn't baptized any yet. After dinner was over they spread mats on the ground and the sacrament on boxes covered with white cloths. I spoke to them and they were confirmed.
8th-After breakfast 2 couples were to be married. So at 11 a.m. we sang a hymn and had prayer, then I married them. The Saints all sang songs of praise and thanksgiving�that we had come to them and brought the Gospel. They talked till 11 p.m. and followed us for miles when we left.
11th-Went to Hastings and got letters from Pres. Stewart saying 89 more were baptized there where he was. He told me I was to come up where he was real soon
October 1- ... Finally a small boat took me to Warhur. I supposed the town called Wairia was only four miles away but found it 20 miles.
5th-The Maori people followed me and asked for a meeting. There were 50 present and had good order and I talked for about an hour. After dinner I went three miles to the next place and they welcomed me. They rang the bell and the people came. About 250 collected and I spoke for one hour. After we dismissed, the men started asking questions and I had to stay till 11 p.m., and was so tired I rolled up in a blanket and went to the corner to rest, but the Maoris talked al night. Not much rest as one blanket wasn't very soft.
[p.299] 6th-I came to Toha's (head Maori) and had a good sleep. Another crowd collected and I showed the pictures of the Prophets and Salt Lake.
16th-I left for Wai Whare 10 miles. About 16 Maori followed me ... Fifteen more Maori were baptized at 5:30.... As the meeting was about to close, Maoris brought their children to be blessed. Sixteen were blessed and fifteen were baptized....
Father's diary is filled with villages he labored in and the success which followed him throughout his missionary labors in this faraway island. There wer 144 baptisms recorded in this one year of his diary, also 220 mentioned in one of his letters to his mother, all on one island while he was there as presiding Elder.
When Elder Stewart returned he brought home with him a little Maori boy who had been given to him because of their great love for one another. His name was Piriki Whaanga. At that time he was about eight years of age. He lived only to his twenty-sixth year when he was fatally injured while riding a horse.
An English lady also came with him. Her name was Jane Rountree.Our Pioneer Heritage, Vol. 1, p.299
A few years later seven or eight Maori came to Kanab, Utah, the president of th branch lived there. His name was Hirini Whaanga, and he was said to be of royal descent. His wife, Mere Whaanga came with him and also Hirini's brother's wife, Abigail, who was Piriki's mother. There was also Piriki's little brother named Kanab for the town in which my father lived. Three teenagers, named Watni Smith Sydney Christi and Edna Pomeroy and others came. Hirini named my sister after his wife, and daughter, who had died.Mere Whaanga had her picture in the Deseret News on the 20th of February, 1943.
One picture showed her with Rufus K. Hardy and a near relative who was in the air force, Tame Hawaiki-range Waerea of Nuhaka, New Zealand. The other picture was at age ninety-five with a quilt she had made and given to President Grant o the Latter-day Saint Church. The article said she came to Utah with her husband Hirini in 1890. He was called back to New Zealand on a mission by President Smith and died soon after returning to Utah. She returned to New Zealand where she remained until she was ninety-five years old, then Rufus K. Hardy made arrangements for her to return to Utah so that she could be buried by the side of her husband when she passed away. While in New Zealand she fed and sheltered hundreds of missionaries and traveled all over the country in the interests of the Church. I went to see Mere shortly before her death. She was a great credit to her people.The following gifts were presented to Elder John Clarence Stewart by the Maori people on his return to Utah: One jade idol, to be worn tied on a string around the neck; one jade piece fashioned as a boomerang with boar's teeth tied to it; two straight pieces of jade to [p.300] be used similarly; one piece unfinished jade; one broken white bone ring and 1 pair of red and brown wool wristlets.
Before leaving New Zealand he gathered some beautiful articles for his bride to be, my mother, Editha Johnson. Among them was a clear glass rolling pin which he watched the natives blow, some seed bracelets and a small hand-fashioned bone cross. -Ellen S. Hemsley
SOURCE: Mary Ellen Stewart.
SOURCE: Mary Ellen Stewart.
FATHER: Edward Stevenson.
MOTHER: Nancy Areta Porter.
SOURCE: Mary Ellen Stewart.
SOURCE: Mary Ellen Stewart.
827. Ellen Areta STEVENSON twin
SOURCE: Mary Ellen Stewart.
SPOUSE: Levi S. Pearson.
828. Levi Edward STEVENSON twin
SOURCE: Mary Ellen Stewart.
SOURCE: Mary Ellen Stewart.
SOURCE: Mary Ellen Stewart.
SOURCE: Mary Ellen Stewart.
832. Minnie Josephine STEVENSON
SOURCE: Mary Ellen Stewart.
304. William Jackson Jr CASSADAY
DEATH: He died in the Kanab Fort fire on 14 Dec 1870.
ADOPTION: Levi married Artimacy Wilkerson after her husband abandoned her and her son, William Jackson Casidy. He adopted William.
833. William Jackson III CASSADAY
After the divorce of Artemacy Stewart and William Jackson Cassaday, she married Levi Stewart. Levi adopted William Jackson Cassaday Jr. William Cassaday Jr. married and had one child by the time he died in the fire of 1870. His widow married a Thompson and William Cassaday III took on the name of Thompson. Researcher: Georgenia Stewart