Thomas Stewart and Alice A. Blank

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Husband Thomas Stewart ^{1 2}

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           Born: 9 Sep 1844 - Hickory Twp, Mercer Co, PA 2
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         Father: Josiah Stewart (      -      ) 2
         Mother: 

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       Marriage: 18 May 1866 - Warner, OH 3

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   Other Spouse: Mary A. Simonton (1854-      ) 3 - 1873 3

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Wife Alice A. Blank ³

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           Born: 1848 3
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           Died: 1870 3
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         Father: Aaron Blank (      -Bef 1888) 3 4
         Mother: Rebecca Stenger (      -Aft 1888) 3 4

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Children

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1 F Blanch Stewart ³

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           Born: 1867 3
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           Died: Abt 1888
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General Notes: Husband - Thomas Stewart

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He attended school until his sixteenth year, and shortly after leaving the schoolroom, in 1861, enlisted at Clarksville in Company C, Fifty-seventh Pennsylvania Infantry, for services in the Civil war. He was placed under Colonel Maxwell as a drummer boy and went into the ranks in 1862, participating in the battles of Williamsburg, Yorktown and in the seven days’ battle at Charles City Crossroads. He was wounded in the last named engagement and sent to the hospital at Annapolis, where his father found him and brought him home on transfer. Recovering after about two months of rest, he reported for duty at Alexandria, Virginia, and was on detached duty as orderly to Lieutenant Quinn, of Boston, later receiving an honorable discharge and returning home. Re-enlisting in December of 1863 at Harrisburg, he was transferred to Company B, of the same regiment, and was made drillmaster. At the battle of the Wilderness he was again wounded, this resulting in a maimed arm for life, and, being sent to a hospital, his father again found him and took him home on a furlough. He was later discharged at Pittsburg. At one time during his army career Mr. Stewart with others of his company were confined for four days in a box car at Harpers Ferry with only one day’s rations, with the result they were nearly starved to death. After the war had closed he returned to his father’s farm in Pymatuning Township and entered the stock-shipping business, using his large farm for stock-raising only, and he continued this occupation throughout the remainder of his active business life. In 1899 he was elected sheriff of Mercer County, and at the close of his term in that office moved to Greenville, still continuing his stock-shipping and farming interests. He often shipped as many as sixty-five double-deck carloads of sheep to New York and kept as many as two thousand head of stock on his farm. His homestead was formerly the old Blank and Phillips farms.

1 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 911.

2 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 705.

3 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 706.

4 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1160.