William E. Stewart Family

William E Stewart, born in Ireland, moved from Scotland to Canada to Clayton County, Iowa.  Served with the Union Army, moved to Kansas, and then into Oklahoma.
Special Schedule of Surviving Soldiers, 1890, shows William E Stewart living in Seward, Ok

William Stewart. A special place of honor in the annals of this country is reserved for the heroes of the Civil war—those who placed their lives and all personal ambitions and plans on the alter of their beloved land. The army record of William Stewart is of such character that he and his posterity may well be proud of it, and in the quiet walks of private life he ever has endeavored to perform his entire duty as a citizen.
His fathr, John Stewart, as his name plainly indicates, came from the stalwart old Scottish stock, and his birth occured in the land of thistle and heather. He was employed as a salesman for a large linen merchant for several years, and, in the course of his travels, came to this continent. He met, and married, a lady in Canada. Miss Ann Glower, a native of that dominion, and later took her to Ireland, whither his business affairs called him. Subsequently they went to Scotland, and then to Canada, and finally, they became permanent residents of Clayton county, Iowa. The father bought a small farm there and devoted his attention to its cultivation during the remainder of his life, which came to an end in 1866.
William Stewart was born November 28, 1840, during his parents residence in Befast, Ireland, but was quite young when they re-crossed the Atlantic, and here he grew to manhood. He was sixteen years old when his family located in Iowa, and there he mastered the essential features of agriculture and gained a practical education. In the fall of 1861 he enlisted in Company B, Fourth Regiment of Iowa Cavalry, and was assigned to duty in Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama. He saw a great deal of service in many of the most important campaigns of the war, and though he took part in numerous battles never was wounded nor significantly ill to be assigned to a general hospital, a few days at a time in the regimental hospital comprising the sum of his absence from the post of duty. He verteranized and returned to the ranks, and served, altogether, about four years, receiving the commendation of his superior officers.
When the clouds of war were rolling away William Stewart resumed his former labors in Iowa, and also ran a threshing machine during the season. In 1869 he went to Butler county, Kansas, where he pre-empted a homestead and proceeded to improve the property. It was not until the spring of 1889 that he came to Oklahoma, and at the same time he located his present farm on the Southwest quarter of section 11, township 15, range 3 west. For a period he resided in a tent and later in a box-house served as a shelter for two years, this being superseded by a substantial log house of the present. Many good improvements have been instituted by the owner of the place, which now is accounted a valuable tract of land.
In Butler county Mr. Stewart was married July 3, 1872, to harriet E. Reed, a native of Noble county, ind., and daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Skidgel) Reed, who located in Kansas in 1870. The elsdest-born of Mr. and Mrs. Stewart is Mrs. Jeannette Aaron, who is other of three children. She nad her sister, Mrs. Zoe Bennett, who has two children, are residents of Sedgewick county, Kansas. Mrs. Jemmie Crosley, whose home is in Seward, has one child. ida and Walter Scott are yet at home with their parents.
In 1864 Mr. Stewart voted for Lincoln, and in 1868 cast his ballot for Seymour, and for Peter Cooper. Later, when a candidate, he voted for ______, and of late years has been identified with the Populists. Fraternally he is a member of William Watts Post nNo. 40, G.A. R., of Seward, and has occupied several offices in the same. He was appointed Township clerk in 1890 and served in that capacity acceptably.

b. 28 Nov 1839  Ireland
d. 28 Apr 1920 Seward, Logan, Ok

b. 29 Mar 1854 Noble Co, Indiana
d. 07 Nov 1905 Seward, Logan, Ok

b. 16 Dec 1873, Butler County, Kansas

d. 11 Aug 1916, Beaver County, Oklahoma

Married Simon Andrew Aaron in 1900 in Sedgwick, County, Kansas

b. 20 Nov 1869, Norwich, Marion County, Kansas

d. 11 Aug 1916, Beaver County, Oklahoma.

b. 1876 Kansas

b. Mar 1877 Kansas
d. 17 May 1934 Ralston, Pawnee, Ok

married Oliver P. Bennett

b. 11 Jan 1879 Augusta, Butler, Kansas
d. 04 Nov 1967 Seward, Logan, Ok

married Frank W. Crosley

b. 1883 Kansas