{"id":3327,"date":"2022-01-10T17:32:15","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T23:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3327"},"modified":"2022-01-10T17:32:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T23:32:15","slug":"steward-john-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/steward-john-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Steward, John I."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>John I. Steward<\/strong>, one of Lauderdale&#8217;s substantial farmers, was born in North<br \/>\nCarolina January 21, 1827, and came with his parents to Tennessee in 1834, and<br \/>\nsettled in McNairy County. He is the second of a family of seven sons and two<br \/>\ndaughters born to Spencer and Elizabeth (Hurley) Stewart. The father was<br \/>\nborn in North Carolina and came to Tennessee when about thirty-five years of<br \/>\nage, and died in McNairy County September 5, 1845. The mother was born in the<br \/>\nsame State, and died in Arkansas. Our subject has always been a farmer. He<br \/>\nmarried in McNairy County August 19, 1847, Miss Elizabeth Dillon, a daughter<br \/>\nof Andrew Dillon, a farmer. Of the nine children born to this marriage seven<br \/>\nare living: Andrew N., Rebecca A., John A., Rachel O., Iverson L., Byron C.,<br \/>\nand Joseph H. The mother of this family was born in North Carolina and died<br \/>\nin Lauderdale County, July 7, 1885. Mr. Stewart was again married, in this<br \/>\ncounty, July 21, 1886, to Mrs. Ella Jordan, who was born in Lauderdale County<br \/>\nJuly 28, 1856. He is a Democrat and adheres strictly to the old Jeffersonian<br \/>\nprinciples, and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. He<br \/>\nenlisted in the Confederate Army, belonging to the Sixteenth Tennessee<br \/>\nCavalry, under Col. Wilson; was in several battles in Mississippi and in<br \/>\nHood&#8217;s campaign in Tennessee, but owing to a wound received in Giles County,<br \/>\nat Campbellsville, was left on the way. He was wounded prior to this at<br \/>\nOkolona, Miss., and the battle of Harrisburg, Miss, from a piece of exploded<br \/>\nshell. The wound received at Campbellsville disabled him from active service.<br \/>\nMr. Stewart owns 262 acres of land, on which he raises cotton and stock, but<br \/>\nmakes grain his chief market product. The farm is only one and a half miles<br \/>\nnorth of Ripley, and is a valuable place. Mr. Stewart is widely known and<br \/>\ngreatly esteemed.<\/p>\n<p><em>Goodspeed&#8217;s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John I. Steward, one of Lauderdale&#8217;s substantial farmers, was born in North Carolina January 21, 1827, and came with his parents to Tennessee in 1834, and settled in McNairy County. He is the second of a family of seven sons <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/steward-john-i\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[139],"class_list":["post-3327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","tag-steward"],"modified_by":"Jim Daniel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3335,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3327\/revisions\/3335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}