Greenbrier County, West Virginia    Biography: Augustus Bradford STUART

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Transcribed and submitted by Valerie Crook, <vfcrook @earthlink.net>, 1998.
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AUGUSTUS BRADFORD STUART - is a descendant of Col. John STUART, whose record is 
elsewhere given in this book as the first settler in the now populous region of 
Greenbrier County.  William Robinson STUART, born in Augusta County, Virginia, 
in 1813, and Lucy Ann (BRADFORD) STUART, born in Madison County, Virginia, were
the parents of Augustus Bradford STUART, and he was born in Richlands, Greenbrier
County, July 14, 1851.  His mother died June 30, 1864. Charles A. and William R. 
STUART, his brothers, were soldiers of the Confederate army during the years of 
the war between the States, and both returned home uninjured.  July 14, 1875, in 
Greenbrier county, Rev. W. K. WILLIAMS officiating at the marriage rite, Augustus
B. STUART was joined in wedlock with Laura Jane WILLIAMS, and their children are 
one son and one daughter: Lucy Bradford, born July 20, 1876; James Williams, August
13, 1877.  The wife of Mr. STUART was born on Culbertson Creek, Lewisburg District,
Greenbrier County, February 6, 1855, a daughter of S. B. and Margaret R. (BURR) 
WILLIAMS.  Her father was born on Culbertson Creek, August 26, 1830, her mother
on Sinking Creek, this district, December 1, 1830, and they now residing on the 
waters of Sinking Creek, where her father is farming.  Mrs. STURAT is descended 
from Thomas WILLIAMS, who was murdered by Indians in 1763.  Augustus B. STUART 
is farming in Lewisburg district, with post office address at Richlands, 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.