Barbour County AlArchives Biographies.....Charles F. Stewart March 15 1836 - 
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
CHARLES F. STEWART.-Few families of southeastern Alabama are as well known as
the Stewarts, who for over half a century have exerted a most noted and
wholesome influence in certain localities in Barbour
county. The progenitors of the American branch of the family were two
brothers, John and Charles Stewart, natives of Scotland, who came to the United
States many years ago and settled in Newberry district, S. C. The former was an
accomplished civil engineer and his services were extensively utilized during
the early years of Alabama in subdividing the state into counties, townships and
other divisions. He settled in Barbour county, late in the twenties, served with
distinction in the Indian war of 1836, and died in the year 1852. His son,
Norman Stewart, born in North Carolina about 1806, married Jane, daughter of the
above mentioned Charles Stewart, and moved to Alabama in 1849, settling in the
neighborhood where his descendants now reside. Norman Stewart was reared to
manhood near Fayetteville, N. C., and the marriage referred to was consummated
in Newberry district, S. C., about the year 1827. Mr. Stewart died May 26, 1854;
his widow still survives and makes her home at this time with her son Charles,
whose name appears at the head of the caption. Norman and Jane Stewart reared a
family of twelve children., whose names are as follows: Mary, widow of James
Bowden; J. N., who died in Texas; Celia, wife of M. S. Smith; Charles F.;
Carrie, unmarried and living with Charles F.; John L.; Fannie, wife of W. N.
Cain; J. H., died in Texas; A. J., was thrown from a mule and killed; D. D.;
Archie, and Margaret, wife of W. H. Snipes.

   Charles F. Stewart, second child and eldast son of the above parents, was
born in Newberry district, S. C., March 15, 1836. He was a lad of thirteen when
the family migrated to Alabama and he can distinctly recall the incidents of the
long and tiresome journey, which was made through a rough and in many places
wild and unbroken country in wagons. When sixteen years of age he suffered an
irreparable loss in the death of his father, and from that time forward until
after the war he remained with his mother and other members of the family, all
of whom remained together on the home place, and contributed his share toward
their maintenance and comfort. Four brothers entered the army and did valiant
service in the Confederate cause. Charles F. enlisted, in 1861, in Kolb's light
artillery with which he served until the command surrendered at Augusta, Ga., at
the close of the war during which period he participated in the battles of
Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, the bloody Atlanta campaign and Franklin, Tenn. The
close of the struggle found Stewart in reduced financial circumstances; in fact,
his earthly possessions had all been swept away and his first earnings after
coming home was a small amount of money and a quantity of tobacco paid him by a
refugee for moving the latter's family. As soon as the necessary implements
could be procured, Mr. Stewart began farming, and his efforts in that useful
calling has been most marked and successful until he now owns a large plantation
of some 3,000 acres, the greater part of which is tilled by tenants. He also is
interested in a cotton factory at Eufaula, and at this time is serving as
commissioner of Barbour county. Charles F. Stewart has reached his present
position of usefulness and affluence without any assistance worthy of mention;
impelled only by an innate force which no obstacle could resist. Through great
industry, good judgment, and fine business tact, he has accumulated a
comfortable competence and no one in the country bears a better reputation for
sterling worth and other qualities essential to true manhood. He is an elder in
the Presbyterian church, belongs to the Masonic fraternity, and has always been
a supporter of the principles laid down by the democratic party. His wife, whose
maiden name was Catherine A. McLeod, and whom he married on the 7th day of July,
1868, has borne him two children: John F., born September 18, 1869 and Willie
J., whose birth occurred July 21st, 1871, both living with their parents.




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from "Memorial Record of Alabama" Vol I, p. 460-461

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