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Jeremiah Terry “Jerry” Steward

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Jeremiah Terry “Jerry” Steward

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Monroe County, Mississippi, USA
Death
2 Sep 1894 (aged 59)
Stewards Mill, Freestone County, Texas, USA
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Stewards Mill, Freestone County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - September 5, 1894 – Page 6

MORTUARY
J. T. STEWARD

Fairfield, Freestone Co., Tex., Sept. 2 – J. T. Steward of Steward's Mill, eight miles west of here, died this morning.

Jerry Steward came from Mississippi to Falls County, Texas with his father in the fall of 1850 from Monroe Co., MS. In 1852 the family was in Freestone County, Texas and had built a grist and flour mill in a place soon called Stewards Mill. He was his father's right-hand-man and the last of the three sons to enlist in the Confederate Army. On December 20, 1860, Jeremiah Terry Steward married Eliza Jane Whitaker, daughter of Major Pleasant C. Whitaker and Rebecca Jane Hinton. After the war's end, he returned to Stewards Mill and resumed farming. In 1867, in partnership with his father and Dr. James I. Bonner, he constructed the Stewards Mil Store. He was appointed postmaster at Stewards Mill in 1872. His home was on a slight rise across the road from the store, church, and cemetery. He sold his interest in the Stewards Mill Store to his brother-in-law, A. T. Watson. At the time of his death in 1894, he owned 1,200 acres of land as well as the grist and flour mill and a cotton gin.
Children of Jeremiah Terry Steward and Eliza Jane Whitaker:
Jeremiah Terry Steward, Jr. 1862-1864; Infant daughter 18645; Washington Worth Steward 1867-1946; Pleasant Alexander Steward 1868-1869; Charles Burt Steward 1876-1946.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - September 5, 1894 – Page 6

MORTUARY
J. T. STEWARD

Fairfield, Freestone Co., Tex., Sept. 2 – J. T. Steward of Steward's Mill, eight miles west of here, died this morning.

Jerry Steward came from Mississippi to Falls County, Texas with his father in the fall of 1850 from Monroe Co., MS. In 1852 the family was in Freestone County, Texas and had built a grist and flour mill in a place soon called Stewards Mill. He was his father's right-hand-man and the last of the three sons to enlist in the Confederate Army. On December 20, 1860, Jeremiah Terry Steward married Eliza Jane Whitaker, daughter of Major Pleasant C. Whitaker and Rebecca Jane Hinton. After the war's end, he returned to Stewards Mill and resumed farming. In 1867, in partnership with his father and Dr. James I. Bonner, he constructed the Stewards Mil Store. He was appointed postmaster at Stewards Mill in 1872. His home was on a slight rise across the road from the store, church, and cemetery. He sold his interest in the Stewards Mill Store to his brother-in-law, A. T. Watson. At the time of his death in 1894, he owned 1,200 acres of land as well as the grist and flour mill and a cotton gin.
Children of Jeremiah Terry Steward and Eliza Jane Whitaker:
Jeremiah Terry Steward, Jr. 1862-1864; Infant daughter 18645; Washington Worth Steward 1867-1946; Pleasant Alexander Steward 1868-1869; Charles Burt Steward 1876-1946.

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SGT CO H 28th TX Cav (CSA)

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