Obits: John David Stewart: Fayette Co., GA ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: John Rhett Dickinson jdickin385@aol.com January 5, 2003, 2:45 pm The Griffin Weekly News and Sun, February 2, 1894, reproduced at Fred R. Hartz and Emilie K. Hartz, Marriage and Death Notices From the Griffin (Georgia) Weekly News and The Griffin Weekly News and Sun, 1882-1896 (Vidalia, Georgia: The Gwendolyn Press), 270. John D. Stewart died Sunday evening at eight o'clock. After a prolonged illness of eight months from the terrible scourge Bright's disease, Judge Stewart's life passed peacefully and unconsciously away...He was insured for $13,000...Most, if not all, of the insurance goes to his wife...He was born in Fayette County, three miles south of Jonesboro, on August 2d, 1833. His ancestors came from North Carolina and settled in Georgia...He worked on his father's farm and attended what is known as the old field school until he was nineteen. At that age he entered Marshall College, a then noted institution in this city, and had the advantage of one year's college education. He taught school for one year and then read law and was admitted to practice in August, 1856...He was in the Confederate army for a short time and was 1st lieutant in a company in the 13th Georgia Regiment...Judge Stewart was married December 1855, to Miss Susan A. Dickenson, who has been his long faithful and loving companion. Three sons and two daughters blessed their union, all living in Griffin... File size: 1.8 Kb