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Update to STEWART Book:
at
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REFERENCE to BOOK found:
in
State Library of Louisiana: (and others):

Blakemore, Mary Stewart, 1889-
"A narrative genealogy of the Stewarts of Sequatchie Valley,
Tennessee, and allied families."
# Subjects Stuart family.
Publisher:
Richmond, Dietz Press, 1960.
Call number:
G 929.2 Bla
Description:
xvi, 227 p. illus., ports., fold. map, coats of arms, facsims.,
geneal. table. 26 cm.
Notes:
Cover title: Stewarts of the Sequatchie Valley, Tennessee.
LCCN:
60001074
Copy/Holding information
Collection Call No. Volume Status
LA - 5th Floor G 929.2 Bla 0 Checked In Request Copy

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6-25-07 - received on Interlibrary loan from William and Mary College
 the whole book titled:  "A Narrative Genealogy of the Stewarts of
Sequatchie Valley, Tennesse..." by  Mary Stewart Blakemore."

It appears to be very well written and documented, with lots of photos.
Notes:  "Stewart's Lodge" now called
Glen Lodge," of County Carlow, Ireland, which has information from
"Mr. Alec Burns, Secretary of the Old Carlow Society"....
"They concluded there could be no doubt that our immigrant ancestor,
William Stewart, was born at "Stewart's Lodge," the son of William Stewart who settled
 there in 1752..."

A description is on page 36:
" Important Sale of Gentleman's Residence Standing on 136 Acres,
Glen Lodge, Leighlinbridge"
also
Carlow is about fifty miles (southeast) from Dublin.
 Stewart's Lodge," is about eight miles (south) from Carlow, the county seat."
Photos of "Old Leighlin Cathedral, Ballyknockan Church and graveyard, and the
ancient bridge."

Page 40:
"William Stewart, the Immigrant, and his Descendants"
    William Stewart was born in 1758 or 59, at "Stewart's Lodge," County Carlow
Ireland and died April 1, 1834 in Marion County, (now Sequatchie County) Tennessee.
   He was married first to Elizabeth Guyton on May 24, 1788 in Baltimore, and they had 8 children...
 [including Elizabeth Stewart who married William Rogers...
parents of Amanda Rogers).

After leaving Baltimore, he traveled down through Virginia....
Sometime in the spring of 1811 William Stewart, with his family,
traveled across the mountains to Sequatchie Valley, Tennessee,
where he made his final settlement. Here he qcquired considerable land four miles southwest
of where Dunlap now stands....
He died April 1, 1834 at the age of seventy-five and was buried beside his second wife
on a grassy hill overlooking the land he owned and loved.
Much of this land is still owned by three of his descendants who live there.
The year 1961 will round out one hundred and fifty years of continuous ownership by the Stewart family...."

Page 53:
"...numerous members of the Stewart family are buried in Chapel Hill Cemetery,
Sequatchie County, Tennessee, where a memorial service is held the third Sunday in May every year.
 Usually, there is a large attendance of the descendants."

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CHAPEL HILL CEMETERY,  (NW of Chattanooga)
Dunlap
Sequatchie County
Tennessee, USA

Findagrave.com has photos of markers for STEWART names:
at
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GScid=10398

Stewart, Charles A.
b. Dec. 6, 1867 d. Jul. 5, 1951

Stewart, Charles Hugh
b. Nov. 11, 1891
d. Jul. 24, 1962

Stewart, Joseph Barker (with photo of marker for both)
b. Jan. 10, 1900
d. 1985
and
Stewart, Marguerite Rogers
b. Jan. 10, 1900
d. May 1, 1993
Daughter of John Allen Rogers and Virginia (Pope) Rogers.
Married to Joseph Barker Stewart on November 12, 1924.

Stewart, Winnie Frances Deakins
b. May 8, 1895
d. Dec. 26, 1975
Chapel Hill Cemetery

map from Dunlap TN to Harrison TN
  51 minutes
Total Est. Distance: 42.25 miles

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WorldConnect
by JOHN WATKINS
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2232711&id=I118
# ID: I118
# Name: Amanda ROGERS
# Sex: F
# Birth: 15 DEC 1823 in Hamilton County (Sequachie Valley) Tennessee
# Death: 11 JUL 1896 in Hamilton County Tennessee
# Note:
   Married Joseph Casseville Elder
    born: 1819 Tennessee
    died: 1862 during the war

    Children:
    a) Joseph Elder:
    b) Mary Elder:
    born: 1842 Hamilton CO TN.
    married: 1st Mr. Snow
    2nd a Mr. Bottom
    c) John Silas Elder
    born: Jan 25th 1845 TN.
    died: Jun 5th 1913 Mt.Ida, Arkansas
    Married Cordalia Zylphia Whittington
    born: Nov 3rd 1848
    died: Feb 24th 1895 Mt. Ida, Arkansas
    Children: Elizabeth (Betty) Elder
    born: 1846 Hamilton CO. TN.
    Married: Mr. Arnold

Father: William (Uncle Bill) Watkins ROGERS b: Abt 1800
Mother: Elizabeth (Granny) STEWART b: Abt 1798
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STEWART TRACED TO SCOTLAND:
including:

# Name: Sir Alexander STEWART
# Prefix: Of Garlies
# Sex: M
# Death: 1500
# Note: Known as Alexander of Garlies which continues to be the chief title of the family
until they were made Earls of Galloway

Father: Sir William STEWART
Mother: Elizabeth

Marriage 1 Elizabeth DOUGLAS....
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