Dallas County AlArchives Biographies.....Stewart, Horace Hezekiah December 1844 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   HORACE HEZEKIAH STEWART was born in Edgefield district, S. C., in December,
1844. His father, Jams Stewart, was born in South Carolina in 1805, and died
near Selma Ala., in the eighty-third year of his age. His mother, a Miss Ella
Wright, was born in Westmoreland county, Va., in 1825. She was early left an
orphan, and was reared by an uncle of means, in South Carolina. She lived to be
nearly sixty years of age. She was the mother of nine children, three only of
whom are living. Horace H. Stewart was brought by his parents to Alabama when he
was in his fifth year. He was reared in the country, mostly on his father's farm
in Dallas county, and aided his parents to manage the farm. He received a common
school education in what was known as the old field school house. For about two
years prior to the war he filled the place of a daily laborer, and at the same
time pursued a course of private study at night. At seventeen years of age he
volunteered as a private soldier and. went into drill camp. His company, not
being received, was disbanded. At eighteen years of age he joined a recruiting
band and rode on horse-back to Tennessee, where he joined a company of partisan
rangers, commanded by Capt., afterward Maj., S. H. Lewis, of Cahaba, Ala. He
served three years in the army, and at the close of the war he was color bearer
of a cavalry battalion. He received a severe wound at Lafayette, Ga., while
fighting under Gen. Pillow. After the war he entered a country dry goods store
as clerk in Athens, Ala., and studied bookkeeping, and also for a time French
and Latin as a private student. Leaving the country store, he served one year as
bookkeeper for Jeffries & Ware at Uniontown, Ala. About 1868 he removed to
Selma, Ala., and in August, that year, he married Miss Josephine Cabe, of Dallas
county, daughter of William Cabe. She was of Scottish ancestry. He was
bookkeeper and salesman in different leading establishments until 1875, when he
entered into business for himself, conducting a wholesale grocery store for
about three years. He failed in 1878, and in a short time afterward established
himself in the brokerage business, in which he is still engaged. In 1877, he was
elected a member of the city council and served eight years. During this time he
was one of three commissioners, appointed by the governor, to adjust the city
debt of Selma, W. B. Gibbs and E. Gilman being the other members. He served once
as a delegate to the county convention, in which he made a most favorable
impression as possessing political ability of a high order. In 1885, he was
defeated for the mayoralty by Hon. H. S. D. Mallory. He again stood for the same
office in 1887, but all the candidates in the convention were withdrawn, and S.
Maas, not in the race, was elected. In 1891, he again made the race for the
mayoralty, and carried every ward in the city. He has eight children, all
living. One son is employed in the bank, and one is employed by his father in
the brokerage business. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, south,
and was for a long time superintendent of the Sunday-school in Selma, and he is
now one of the board of stewards of his church, and a member of the executive
board of the Alabama Methodist orphanage at Summerfield, Ala. He is a gentleman
of modest bearing, courteous in manner toward all, and unostentatious and
unassuming in demeanor. He is one of the most highly respected citizens of Selma.



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 919-920
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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