Sarah Stewart

Brief Life History of Sarah

When Sarah Stewart was born on 15 January 1815, in Gallatin, Sumner, Tennessee, United States, her father, Samuel Stewart Jr, was 32 and her mother, Ann Wallace, was 28. She married Thomas Charles Davis Howell on 5 July 1835, in Gibson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons. She lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839. She died on 10 October 1886, in Clifton, Franklin, Idaho, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Clifton Cemetery, Clifton, Franklin, Idaho, United States.

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Family Time Line

Thomas Charles Davis Howell
1814–1902
Sarah Stewart
1815–1886
Marriage: 5 July 1835
Jason Elihu Howell
1837–1876
Henry Nelson Howell
1840–1929
William Jasper Howell
1842–1880
Charles David Howell
1853–1854
Thomas Anderson Howell
1855–1925

Sources (37)

  • Sarah Howell in household of Thos Howell, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Sarah Stewart, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
  • Sarah Stewart Howell, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1819 · Panic! of 1819

With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years. 

1827

Historical Boundaries: 1827: Hancock, Illinois, United States

1836 · Remember the Alamo

Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.

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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