Benjamin Stewart Biography   Hancock County, WV
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Copied from " History of the Panhandle, being Historical Collections of the 
Counties of Ohio, Brooke, Marshall and Hancock, West Virginia".  
Compiled and Written by:
J.H. Newton,  G.G. Nichols, and A.G. Sprankle
Published by:
J.A. Caldwell, 1879, Wheeling, W. VA.

                Biographical Sketches of Hancock County:

Benjamin Stewart:
    a son of William Stewart, was born in now Hancock County, West Virginia, 
in 1814.  He married Mary Ann Warwic, of Beaver County, Pennsylvania, in 
1842.  They settled on the farm where his companion is now living.  He 
deceased in October 1878.  They reared a family of seven children -- five 
sons and two daughters.  One of the sons is deceased.  He has followed 
farming as his vocation.  His son William served seventeen months in the war 
of 1861, in company I, Twelfth Virginia Regiment.