Orleans County VT Archives Obituaries.....Stewart, John W. May 10, 1882 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/vt/vtfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Candace (Teal) Gravelle tealtree@comcast.net and Valerie (Johnson) Freeman http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00009.html#0002248 April 9, 2007, 11:27 pm "The Carroll County Times" Carrollton, Carroll Co., Georgia NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, APRIL 28, 1882 LOCAL News Last Saturday morning, Mr. Wiley Stewart went to Cincinnati after his father Mr. John W. Stewart, returning with him Monday evening. Late Tuesday evening, Mr. Stewart, who has been taking more than usual exercise about his place during the day, had an apopletic attack while in the yard. He was immediately moved into the house and for awhile his life was despaired of, as a number of severe convulsions followed. Runners were sent over in a hurry to town for Drs. Fitts, Watkins and Juhan, who went at once to his relief. The convulsions continued for two or three hours after the first attack, leaving him paralyzed and for some time he was unconscious and unable to speak. At the time we go to press, the paralysis seems to be disappearing and we are glad to report that is condition is much better, with hopes being entertained for his recovery. - - - NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, MAY 5, 1882 LOCAL News Mr. John W. Stewart is still very low. It was thought on Wednesday that he would not live till morning, but Thursday morning, just as we go to press, his condition was considered improved, though the general impression seems to be that he cannot survive long. ---- NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, MAY 12, 1882 DEATHS Mr. J. W. Stewart, mention of whose serious illness appeared in this paper two weeks since, died Wednesday evening about five o'clock. He was one of our most influential and highly respected citizens and had been in the mercantile business here for a long time. The family of the deceased have the sympathy of the entire community in their sad bereavement. His remains will be interred at the new cemetery in this place, this morning, Friday, at half past nine o'clock. ----- NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, MAY 19, 1882 IN MEMORIAM OF JOHN W. STEWART Died at this place on the evening of the 10th inst., Mr. John W. Stewart, aged nearly 57 years. The deceased was BORN IN DERBY, VERMONT on the 18th day of October 1825. In 1842 he came to Carrollton and commenced the mercantile business as a clerk in the employ of his brother-in-law, Mr. A. Mandeville. His energy, industry and the remarkable adaptation which he developed for his chosen avocation rapidly promoted him until he was partner in the firm, which was dissolved in a few years by the retirement of the senior member, leaving him at the head of a large business which he managed most successfully. When the War came, it found him with an ample competence of this world's goods, a young family in a pleasant home, where he had settled down to rest and enjoy his remaining days. But after four years of desolation he found the bulk of his property was gone and that he must enter active business anew. Nothing daunted, he resumed his former profession with all his youthful zeal and perseverance, backed by a judgment and discretion almost unerring, and fortune smiled upon him more magnficently than before. Again he had surrounded himself with all that makes life desirable and was making arrangements to retire to the peace and comfort found in a luxurious home in the bosom of a loving family. But again his hopes were blasted and the hard won prize of life denied him. Death had marked him for his own. About a year ago, his health failed and though every possible remedy was tried, all proved unavailing and here in his adopted home, amid weeping friends and family, he quietly paid the last great debt of Nature. Of his public life we would make no comment. It belongs to the public where he was so long and so favorably known and many are the hearts that will bear witness to how often he has aided them in times of need and distress. In private life, his virtues shone brightest. He was the perfection of husband and father, kind, loving, affectionate, alive to every want, indulgent to every wish. All who knew him, partners, customers, employees and associates, can testify to his honesty, intregity and gentility of character. About six years ago, he joined the M.E. church of this place, in which faith he died. No one perhaps has ever lived in Carroll more widely known, no one has ever been taken from us whose loss will be more widely felt. Carrollton, Ga. May 14, 1882 ------- NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, MAY 26, 1882 TRIBUTE OF RESPECT FOR JOHN W. STEWART Carrollton Lodge No. 69, F. & A.M. May 20, 1882 Whereas, in the inscrutable providence of Almighty God, our worthy brother John W. Stewart has been taken from our Lodge and his labors on earth, and we trustfully believe to the Grand Lodge above, to the better employment of the just made perfect in the realms of bliss. Therefore, Resolved; that in the death of brother Stewart, Carrollton Lodge No. 69, F. & A.M. has lost an honored member; the community in which he lived a good and useful citizen; a ready and willing neighbor, filling all the relations of life as an honest, upright and useful man; his wife, an affectionate husband, and his children, a kind and indulgent father, loving his household and in return, being loved by them. Resolved; that we tender to the grief stricken widow and children our heartfelt sympathy and condolence in this their sad and irreparable loss, trusting that He who has seen fit to remove our brother from his labors on earth, will comfort the bereaved family with the gracious assurance of a happy reunion in another state of exisitence. Resolved; that a copy of these resolutions be entered on the minutes of our Lodge; and that the Lodge be draped in mourning and that the members wear the usual badge of same, for thirty days; also that a copy be sent to the family of our deceased brother, and another to The Times for publication. Jesse R. Griffin H.W. Long W.W. Ragan, Committee Additional Comments: Buried in the Magnolia Section of Carrollton City Cemetery Carrollton, Carroll Co., Georgia John Stewart March 3, 1781 - Sept 9, 1857 John W. Stewart October 18, 1825 - May 10, 1882 Missouri L. Stewart Jan. 2, 1837 - June 4, 1901 Wife of John W. Stewart This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/vtfiles/ File size: 6.8 Kb