ALEXANDER STEWART
(ca 1755-1835)
by Anna Culton (Mrs. Abe) Thompson

Alexander Stewart was born about 1755 in Scotland.  He served in the Revolutionary 
War as a private in a company designated at various times as Capt. John Lewis and Capt. 
Machens Boswell’s Co., 2nd Virginia State Regiment, commanded by Gregory Smith.

He enlisted May 3, 1777, for three years and his name was last listed on Company 
payrolls for December 29, 1778.  His place of residence during the Revolution was 
Fincastle or Washington County, Virginia, which was later Lee County.  Alexander 
Stewart came from Powell’s Valley, Lee County Virginia to Knox County, Kentucky, 
about 1798.  He settled in the Cumberland River Valley between, Turkey Creek and 
Sinking Creek, a few miles west of Flat Lick Village.

In April 1801, he was appointed Justice of Peace in Knox County by James Garrard, 
Governor of the Commonwealth in December 1806; he bought a tract of 757 Acres in the 
valley of the aforementioned creeks.  In December 1807, he was appointed sheriff by the 
County Clerk.

He died in 1835, survived by his second wife, Catherine, and was said to have been 
buried in the uniform, which he wore in the Revolution.  His will, which was dated 
January 22, 1835, was probated at the April term of court that year.

His will lists the following children by his first wife, whose name is unknown:  Margaret, 
born 1777, married Benjamin Edwards,; Anna, married John Alsop, March 20, 1805; 
Euphemia, born about 1789 in Virginia, married John Culton, February 23, 1809; Mar 
married John Wyatt, Feb. 21, 1810; Elizabeth married Christopher Walker, Dec 2, 1813; 
William born 1793, married Mary Crank; Isaac, born 1782, married Elizabeth Wyatt, 
second marriage to Sally Hurst; and Charles married, September 21, 1801, to Susannah 
Arthur.

(The only members of the Jacob Flournoy Chapter, DAR who is descended from 
Alexander Stewart is Mrs. Abe Thompson and Miss Trudy Thompson)

Taken form “The Fulton Dailey Leader, Fulton, Kentucky, December 5, 1975