STEWART, J. T., Alabama then St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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J. T. STEWART, OPELOUSAS.--Mr. Stewart, an enterprising citizen and
lumber merchant of Opelousas, was born in Alabama, November 4, 1854. 
His father, A. Stewart, is a native of North Carolina.  His mother,
Martha Bass, was a native of South Carolina.  While young they moved to
Alabama, where their children were born, six in number, all of whom now
reside in Louisiana.  They subsequently moved to Mississippi in 1864. 
They now are residents of Chicot, Louisiana.

J. T. Stewart was reared partly in Alabama and partly in Mississippi. 
He a limited education, but has always kept himself well informed.  He
gave his attention to saw-milling until 1881, when he located in
Opelousas, and opened the business in which he is now engaged.  Mr.
Stewart was one of the pioneer citizens of the new and growing town of
Crowley, Acadia parish, Louisiana, in which he owns considerable
property.  After residing there two years he moved back to Opelousas and
began his present business.  He is a man of good judgment and has met
with success.

He married Miss Amanda Sunerlin, also a native of Alabama.  They are the
parents of two children:  Jimmie,  Willie, and they are rearing them
with every possible advantage.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section,
pp. 74-75.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The
Gulf Publishing Company.