Belmont-Guernsey-Noble County OhArchives News.....Stewart Family Re-union June 29, 1876
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Belmont Chronicle June 29, 1876
Belmont Chronicle, June 29, 1876, page 3.
A Happy Re-union.
  Wednesday, of last week, at the homestead east of St. Clairsville, for the 
first time in fifteen years brought around a most pleasant re-union of the 
family of John Stewart.  The family is composed of the father, seventy years 
of age, and mother, aged sixty-three, and seven children – four boys and three 
girls and their children; three sons-in-law, Dr. D.R. Johnson of Ossiout, 
Egypt, husband of Maggie J.; Rev. N.E. Wade of Allegheny, Pa., husband of 
Annie R.; and J.M. Miller, Esq. of Cannonsburg, Pa.., husband of Mamie B.; two 
daughter-in-law – Mary J., wife of John E., and daughter of C. Hinkle, Esq. 
and Katie, wife of J.A., and daughter of Dr. J.B. Johnston.   The descendants 
of this household are numerous, and so completely have the covenanted promises 
and blessings been fulfilled that no one, in all the large and multiplied 
families, has brought any kind of reproach upon the name which he bears, but 
on the contrary all of them have reflected honor upon their parentage.  Three 
of the sons and two of the sons-in-law served with honor in the Union army in 
terms of from three months to five years.  Dr. Johnston and wife have been 
missionaries to Egypt for the past eight years, and soon return to their field 
of labor.  Of the boys John E. and J.A. are prosperous farmer located three 
miles east of St. Clairsville.  Rev. R.B. is pastor of a congregation near 
Pittsburgh, Pa., and D.C. for the past three years has been engaged in the 
Banking business at Red Oak, Iowa.  Besides the immediate family there were 
also present John B. Stewart, wife and son, of Springfield, Ohio, and Mattie 
Bell, sister of Mrs. John Stewart.
  The gathering of this family to the old root tree, was like the gathering of 
the tribes of Israel to the Temple.  They come gladly, full of joy and radiant 
with expectation, knowing that a hearty welcome awaits them.  All of them 
gathered around the family board laden with choice edibles, and the day was 
spent amidst continuous social intercourse, and religious exercises.
  On the next day the entire party visited the old homestead near Wheeling 
Valley, now the residence of Wm. R. McCune, where all of the children were 
born, and spent the day in greetings, congratulations, innocent amusements and 
in visiting their old friends, Grand-mother Robinson, W.E. Dysart and Thomas 
Duff, and in the evening dispersed, bearing with them the most pleasant 
memories of the occasion and wishing long continued life and all temporal and 
spiritual blessings for Mr. and Mrs. Stewart.  “Lo! Children are an heritage 
of the Lord!”  “As arrows are in the hands of a mighty man, so are the 
children of his youth.”
  John Stewart was born near Cadiz, seventy years ago, on what is now the 
Johnson Craig farm, and in 1810 his father removed to the place near East 
Richland, now known as the “Morrison Nursery,” since which time Mr. Stewart 
has been a resident and one of the staunchest citizens of Belmont county; he 
has been a subscriber to the Chronicle ever since it was established.  May 
this family live to enjoy many such re-unions and at last join each other on 
the shores of the Beautiful River.


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