Barbour County AlArchives Biographies.....John L. Stewart 1840 - after 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    JOHN L. STEWART, son of Norman and Jane Stewart, was born in Newberry
district, S. C., in the year 1840, and came to Barbour county with his parents
in 1849. Like the majority of the country's substantial men he passed the years
of his youth and early manhood on a farm and attended, at intervals, the common
schools, in which he obtained a practical English education. In the spring of
1862, he entered the southern army, enlisting in company B., Thirty-ninth
Alabama infantry, which formed a part of the western corps and participated in
the battles of Chickamauga, and Mission Ridge. After the latter engagement, Mr.
Stewart succeeded in being transferred to the artillery service, joining Kolb's
battery, with which he served throughout the Atlanta, campaign and Hood's
Tennessee raid, taking part in the battle of Franklin, after which his command
was ordered to Duck river, consequently he did not participate in the Nashville
engagement. He surrendered at Augusta, Ga., in 1865, and returning home, engaged
in farming, which he still carries on very successfully in Barbour county. Mr.
Stewert was married February 13, 1868 to Cornelia, daughter of James P. Norton,
who moved to Alabama from South Carolina and settled in Barbour county, where
Mrs. Stewart was born and reared. She is the youngest of a large family of
nineteen children, nearly all of whom reached the years of maturity, and became
well known. Mr. Stewart is a deacon in the Presbyterian church and is a man of
strong and well defined religious views. He belongs to that large and
respectable element which, in a quiet and unobtrusive way, contributes in such
an eminent degree toward the moral and material prosperity of the community. He
is a thoroughly practical man, careful and judicious in his dealings, and his
judgment, dictated by good common sense, has made him a valuable and most useful
citizen. His plantation, one of the best in Barbour county, consists of 1,000
acres of fine well improved land, upon whisk are many substantial and valuable
improvements.

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from "Memorial Record of Alabama" Vol I, p. 462

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