James 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:

James Stewart:
    a son of Col. George Stewart, was born in Lancaster County, Pa., in about 1787.  Came with his father to now Hancock County, West Virginia in 
1790, and settled in Grant District, near the Pennsylvania line.  Married to 
Miss Catherine Fibbs.  Shortly after their union they located on a tract of 
land now in the possession of his son Samuel Stewart, where he lived, 
following farming until his death.  He was the father of nine children, 
namely:  Mary Ann,  Eliza Jane,  Harriet,  Margaret E.,  George,  John,  
Charles,  William,  Robert and Samuel.  Eliza and Margaret are dead.  Our 
subject's life went out in 1869, and in 1871 his wife followed him.