The Family Bible of 

   George Washington Steward

Pages 3-4, 

Births and Deaths

 

 

 

Births from column 1.

Mary Caroline Egger, the daughter of J. T. Egger and Mary Oct 26th 1852
Ada Josephene Steward March 18 1873 daughter of W and M Steward
Jane Steward January 31st 1877 Freestone Texas

Births from column 2.

Washington Worth Steward Nov the 23rd 1867

Pleasant Alexander Steward December the 11th 1868

Jerry T. Steward Jr, Sept 1, 1862

Charles Burt Steward, Aug 15 1876

*Note, written the right hand margin beside these last 3 children is:  Son of J. T. Steward
There are notes in the left margin of the following page detailing the cause of death.  I have included them in parenthesis following each person.

Deaths from column 1. 

George W Steward December 7th 1861 at Hopkinsville Kentucky, Private in Capt. Mosby Company  (measles and pneumonia)
Sarah Steward July 8th 1862 age 48 yrs 10 months 12 days (measles)
Margaret Malinda Keel Aug 17th 1862 (measles and pneumonia)
Huett B. Steward April 16th 1862 Departed this life at Camp Douglas Chicago Ilinois (died from fever)
W. R. Steward Oct 14th 1863 (consumption)
J. T. Stewart, jun. Departed this life August the 29 1864 (notation on cause of death is illegible)
Pleasant Alexander Steward Sept 12th 1869
(notation on cause of death is illegible)

Francis Marion, 3-21-1921 (note this is written in a completely different hand, and suspect it was added in recent times and is not in the original)

 Deaths from column 2.

 Rebecca Jane Steward wife of Washington Steward departed this life Dec 9th 1871 of cronic ulcer of the bowels
 Sarah Rebecca Lake
 Nancy V. Wells Sept. 8, 1906


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