Mary Catherine Stewart

Brief Life History of Mary Catherine

When Mary Catherine Stewart was born on 16 May 1849, in Hardy, West Virginia, United States, her father, Lorenzo Dow Stewart, was 29 and her mother, Sarah E. Chrisman, was 22. She married Amos B. Shumaker in 1873, in Hardy, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in West Virginia, United States in 1870 and Lost River, Hardy, West Virginia, United States in 1900. She died on 5 April 1904, in Lost City, Hardy, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 54, and was buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery, Lost City, Hardy, West Virginia, United States.

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Family Time Line

Amos B. Shumaker
1849–1932
Mary Catherine Stewart
1849–1904
Marriage: 1873
Annie Magdeline Garrett
1871–1949
William Henry Shoemaker
1876–1955
Amanda Elizabeth Shoemaker
1876–1945
Randolph Hayden Shumaker
1879–1962
Hezekiah Norton Shoemaker
1882–1970
Benjamin Frank Shoemaker
1884–1963

Sources (25)

  • Mary C Stewart in household of Lorenzo Stewart, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Mary Stewart, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
  • Mary Catherine Stewart Shumaker, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1861 · The Battle of Manassas

The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run. 

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1864 · Arlington Cemetery

Arlington Cemetery is a military cemetery. It was originally a plantation owned by George Washington Parke Custis. This is the location of Robert E. Lee, 16,000 Civil War soldiers, William Howard Taft, John, Jackie, Robert, and Edward Kennedy. The tomb of the unknown soldier is also located here it was dedicated on November 11, 1921. It contains the remains of those soldiers unknown from WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam.

Name Meaning

Scottish (Lanarkshire) and English: originally an occupational name for an administrative official of an estate, from Middle English stiward, Old English stigweard, stīweard, a compound of stig ‘house(hold)’ + weard ‘guardian’. In the Anglo-Saxon period this title was used of an officer controlling the domestic affairs of a household, especially of the royal household; after the Norman Conquest it was also used more widely as the native equivalent of Seneschal, for the steward of a manor or manager of an estate. In Scotland the term was also used of a magistrate originally appointed by the king to administer crown lands, forming a stewartry.

History: Stuart or Stewart is the surname of one of the great families of Scotland, the royal family of Scotland from the 14th century, and of England from 1603, when James VI of Scotland acceded to the English throne as James I. There were many minor branches of the family left in Britain after the flight of James II in 1688, but not every bearer of the surname can claim relationship with the royal house, even in Scotland. Every great house in medieval England and Scotland had its steward, and in many cases the office gave rise to a hereditary surname. The fall of the house of Stuart in Britain, conversely, led to the establishment of several highly placed branches bearing this surname in continental Europe, which are in most cases related to the old Scottish royal family.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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