Greenbrier County, West Virginia    Biography: Andrew STUART

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Transcribed and submitted by Valerie Crook, <vfcrook @earthlink.net>, 1998.
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ANDREW STUART - has the following family record since the first of his line 
settled in Greenbrier County: Col. John STUART came to the county first to select
lands, and afterward made his home here, marring Agatha FROGG, who had one 
child by a pervious marriage. They settled on the farm on which Fort Spring 
was built, and their children were: Margaret Lynn STUART, who married Andrew 
LEWIS, of Mason County, (then) Virginia; Jane, married Major Robert CROCKETT;
Charles, married Elizabeth ROBINSON, of Augusta County, Virginia.  The children 
of Lewis and Sallie (LEWIS) STUART were: Elizabeth, who died aged eleven years;
Jane, who married Samuel PRICE; Agnes, married Charles PEYTON, of Albemarle 
County, Virginia (he belonged to the JEFFERSON family); John, who died aged twenty; 
Rachel married Gen. A. W. G. DAVIS, of Kentucky; Charles, lives in Texas,
Lewis died in Texas; Margaret, who married Col. James W. DAVIS; Henry,
resides in this county; Andrew, subject of this sketch, who married Sallie 
CABELL, and owns the STUART homestead.  It is a handsome property, the 
substantial stone residence, built by Col. John STUART, presenting that
solid and imposing appearance so rarely seen in an American home, and so 
characteristic of the combined firmness and fortitude of its builder. 
Andrew STUART's address is Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia.

Source:  Hardesty, Henry H.  Hardesty's Historical and Geographical
Encyclopedia.  New York: H.H. Hardesty and Company, 1884.
Rpt. in West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia.  Ed. Jim Comstock.
Richwood: Comstock, 1974.