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From: "Gregg A. Kinney" <>
Subject: Stewart MontgomeryCo,KY>IN 1833
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 10:22:11 -0500


I am still trying to track down ancestors/family of William A. Stewart (b.
?, d. c. 1842 Clark Co, IL) who married the widow Eliza B. (Yocum) Smith,
d/o Jacob Yocum and Nancy Keeton, (b. 11 Nov 1804 Montgomery Co, KY, d. 10
Aug 1884 Fulton Co, IL). Several generous people have been able to send me
some clues which have led to the compilation of the following information:

Eliza's first husband, George Washington Smith, died of cholera in July
1833, probably near Mt. Sterling, Montgomery Co, KY. Their children were:

William Ashley Smith, (b. 1831-died 1862 Vicksburg, MS, buried
Vicksburg, MS);
Benjamin F. Smith, (b. 15 Jan 1833-d. 23 Dec 1912 New Philadelphia, IL)

Apparently shortly after or during the 1833 cholera epidemic in
Montgomery Co, KY a bunch of the Yocum & Stewart families moved from
Montgomery Co, KY to Clay Co, IN.

Eliza B. (Yocum) Stewart probably married William Stewart sometime
before 1839 when their 3 children were born near Brazil, Clay Co, IN:

Samuel A. Stewart, (b. 1 Jun 1839-d. 6 Feb 1910 New Philadelphia, IL);
Jacob Preston Stewart, (b. 3 Jun 1840-d. 15 Jun 1916 Wyaconda, MO);
Nancy Adeline Stewart, (b. 20 Jan 1842-d. 20 Dec 1915 Adair, McDonough
Co, IL)-my ancestor!

William & Eliza B. Stewart and the children moved from Clay Co, IN to
Clark Co, IL where William A. Stewart died in 1842. The widow and her 5
children moved back to Clay Co, IN. In 1849 she and her 5 children moved to
McDonough Co, IL and then in 1853 she married widower Daniel Baughman in
1853 in Fulton Co, IL. She remained in Fulton Co, IL the rest of her life.

I ran across the 1884 Historical and Biographical for Counties of Clay
and Owen, Indiana at the Denver Public Library. [They don't have much on
Clay Co.] In the book it mentions Francis B. Yocum, b. 6 Dec 1807
Montgomery Co, KY, "the sixth and one living of twelve children of William
and Sarah (Stewart) Yocum, the father emigrating to Clay County, Ind., in
1833..."

Sally (or Sarah) Stewart (25 Oct 1778-Oct 1837) is buried at Billtown
Cem, Posey Twp, Clay Co, IN. William and Sarah had a daughter who also
married a Stewart, and a son, John Stewart Yocum, who married Elizabeth
Stewart.

[The same book also has a biographical sketch on Levi G. S. Stewart, b.
21 Oct 1821 in Orange Co, IN as one of 9 children of John and Sarah
(Sample) Stewart. Levi married an Elizabeth Yocum of KY. Samuel M. Stewart,
a brother of Levi, is also listed.]

The 1840 census for Clay Co, IN shows that Francis B. Yocum, John S.
Yocum (it is difficult to read and might be "Wm"), and a William Stewart
were all in Posey Twp, Clay Co, OH. James Stewart, John Stewart, Sarah
Stewart, and Charles Stewart were in Lewis Twp, Clay Co, IN.

Do you happen to have anything that might help clarify the
relationship between these folks? I suspect that they are all related.
Sally (Sarah) Stewart/and or some of these other Stewart folk may be
related to my William Stewart. (Hoping!)

Eliza B. (Yocum) Smith Stewart Baughman's father, Jacob Yocum, d. 1833
in Montgomery Co, KY from cholera. [H.C. Brown's book on the Yocum families
says he died in Clay Co, IN in 1847.]

Eliza B.'s mother, Nancy (Keeton) Yocum, died in 1857 in IL.

Jacob Yocum's father, John Yocum, died in 4 Sep 1839 in Clay Co, IN.

Any help locating the parents/family of William A. Stewart would be
greatly appreciated! I am also looking for the place/date of the marriage
of William A. Stewart and Eliza B. (Yocum) Smith.

Also, who were the ancestors/parents of Sally (Sarah) Stewart who
married Francis B. Yocum?

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Regards,

Gregg A. Kinney

Researching Kinney, Dove, Hadley, Barrick, Baughman, Stewart, Smith,
Yocum,
Barker, O'Bryant, Covalt, Pendleton, Blackford, Kellogg, Reed, Compton,
Husted, Surface, Marshall, and a host of others. Visit my searchable
homepage at <http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/greggkinney>;.

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