Andrew A. Stewart and Betsy Phelps

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Husband Andrew A. Stewart ^{1 2}

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           Born: 26 Jul 1825 - Cherrytree Twp, Venango Co, PA 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 29 Mar 1908 - Cherrytree Twp, Venango Co, PA 3
         Buried:  - Cherrytree, Venango Co, PA

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         Father: Charles Stewart (1802-1885) 1
         Mother: Margaret Ferry (      -1859) 1

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       Marriage: 

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   Other Spouse: Margaret Jane Jamison (1825/1826-1881) 3 - 6 Nov 1850 3

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Wife Betsy Phelps ³

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           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: Abt 1910
         Buried: 

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   Other Spouse: [Unk] Moses (      -      ) 3

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Children

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• They had no children.

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General Notes: Husband - Andrew A. Stewart

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During his early manhood he was engaged to some extent in lumbering and rafting to Pittsburgh, in 1848 purchasing the farm in Cherrytree Township, Venango County, five miles south of Titusville, where his son Wil-liam later lived, and where he was occupied in farming to the close of his life. He cleared about sixty acres from the woods, rid the soil of stones and other objectionable features, and continued the improvement of his property throughout his active years. In his earlier years he took an interest in an oil lease on the prop-erty, and commenced to drive a well. But the tools got stuck when they were within fifty feet of the oil sand and his partner decided to abandon the drilling. Mr. Stewart agreed, but the decision was no doubt unwise, for the next well brought in, in the same neighborhood, was one of the best producers of its day, making the owners rich. Some wells were afterward sunk on the farm, but they never proved profitable, Mr. Stewart's chief inter-est being always in agriculture.

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General Notes: Wife - Betsy Phelps

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from Rouseville, Venango Co, PA

1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 981.

2 E. O. Jameson, The Jamesons in America, 1647 - 1900 (Boston, MA: The Rumford Press, 1901), Pg 112.

3 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 982.