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Leah Steffy Stewart

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Plains Mill, Rockingham County, Virginia, USA
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(In order to create a memorial herein, the deceased was arbitrarily associated with Falling Spring Cemetery, an old cemetery in Covington where she was last documented).

Leah's age fluctuates somewhat in the Census, but 1806 fits between the ages of her other sisters. It may not be coincidence that the next child the following year was Rachel, the latter being the younger sister of Leah in the book of Genesis on which grounds Laban forced Jacob to marry both of them. The Censuses even leave room for a possibility that Philip Stephy's Leah and Rachel were twins.

Leah's father was and Leah's husband would eventually be bootmakers and shoemakers by trade, and it is just possible that Leah met Fielding Stewart while the latter was (hypothetically) apprenticed to Stephy c.1820. Their marriage bond at Rockingham Courthouse is dated Aug. 15, 1826 (Forbes, "At the sign of the swan", p.52).

Fielding and Leah are last documented on the 1860 Census, and their gravesites are unknown. A son, also trained in his father's and grandfather's trade, was killed at First Manassas in 1861. The three girls alive as of the 1860 Census have not been traced.

(In order to create a memorial herein, the deceased was arbitrarily associated with Falling Spring Cemetery, an old cemetery in Covington where she was last documented).

Leah's age fluctuates somewhat in the Census, but 1806 fits between the ages of her other sisters. It may not be coincidence that the next child the following year was Rachel, the latter being the younger sister of Leah in the book of Genesis on which grounds Laban forced Jacob to marry both of them. The Censuses even leave room for a possibility that Philip Stephy's Leah and Rachel were twins.

Leah's father was and Leah's husband would eventually be bootmakers and shoemakers by trade, and it is just possible that Leah met Fielding Stewart while the latter was (hypothetically) apprenticed to Stephy c.1820. Their marriage bond at Rockingham Courthouse is dated Aug. 15, 1826 (Forbes, "At the sign of the swan", p.52).

Fielding and Leah are last documented on the 1860 Census, and their gravesites are unknown. A son, also trained in his father's and grandfather's trade, was killed at First Manassas in 1861. The three girls alive as of the 1860 Census have not been traced.

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