Amanda Smith Stewart Letter

Amanda Smith Stewart is my 3rd great mother. Amanda married Ira Stewart, my 3rd great father in 1811. Her father Hubbard Smith married Ira's sister Seviah Stewart and lived in Harpersfield,Delaware,NY. 

Amanda mentions that she wrote this from memory and for Hiram Stewart, her grandson and son of John Wilcox Stewart, to correct some of her mistakes.  Amanda was 75 at the time of the letter and had an excellent memory.  She only made a couple of name mistakes. Mary Hubbard's father is Jeremiah Hubbard not Asa Hubbard. David Smith was Lt. David Smith in the French and Indian war.  Daniel Stewart's grandfather was Alexander Stewart not Charles and Daniel's first wife was Phebe Lee Chapman.  Phebe Stewart moved to New Hampshire and not Vermont. Her husband's name is Perley Buck not Parley. This letter is amazing for the fact that Amanda didn't have benefits of the Internet to fact check.  This letter is also posted on my Ancestry account along with the transcribed version.

 

Saga of the Hocking Photo Collection

To row from left to right, Homes built by Daniel Stewart now standing. 1) Built 1815-17 at Stewart, caption below read The Ancient Stewart Home at Stewart. 2) Copeland home at Stewart built 1836. 3) The Halbirt-Grover Sutton home built near Canaanville, built about 1814 as a wedding gift for his son, William.  William married Julia Hulbert who died in 1823. William married for his second wife Julia Ann Carpenter. In 1840, William moved his family to the Iowa Territory and settled in Fort Madison. 4) Graves of Ruth and Daniel Stewart. Interestingly Daniel's third wife Lovisa Williard Stewart is not listed in the West Side Cemetery. 5) Etchings from a portrait. 6) Hocking river in flood. Enterprise launched here. 7) Grave of Nathaniel Sawyer, Pioneer Cemetery on Federal Creek. Nathaniel's wife is Lydia Porter. After Nathaniel's death, Lydia married our 4th great uncle Archelaus Stewart. Lydia Porter Stewart died in 1849 and is also buried in West Side Cemetery.  In 1850, Archelaus moved to Adams County,IL and he died there in 1854. Archelaus Stewart is buried in Camp Point, Adams County,IL.  8) John Stewart and fly leaf of "Highways and Hedges". 9) Judge Hatch's log cabin built in 1810. 11) Mother Stewart author of "The Crusade".  Eliza Daniel Stewart was a leader in the Women's Temperance Crusade.  During the civil war she serves the wounded soldiers as well as standing guard while on picket duty protecting against the threat of Morgan's Raiders in 1863. 12-14) Sons and daughters of Daniel Stewart from portraits, photographs and tine types 1831-1871. None of the photos are identified. Sadly we've all encountered this problem. This generation believed that there would always be someone living who could identify the person in the photo.  There is a note indicating to see Vol II.