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Stewart Mercantile in Sullivan, Sullivan Co., IN. His store
is the only brick building on the North side of the square
at that time. It is the 4th buiilding from the left. He
built the store in 1842 & he sold it in 1861, two years
before he died. He was the first permanent mercantile store
in Sullivan, IN. He also built the National Hotel in
Sullivan in 1846.
Photo Courtesy: Arts Souvenir.
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Could this be Isaac? |
Isaac Stewart headstone,
located in Center Ridge Cemetery in Sullivan,
IN. Grave was hard to recognize due to weathering of the stone. Drive
straight in the main archway. Stewart family gravesites are on the right. |
Isaac received a deed to a farm, near Greenville, IN., from his father on
Nov. 27,1810. This is where he made his home with Susan C.W. Redman, his 1st
wife. This was the family plantation land of his mother & father in Clark Co.,
IN. Grant # 92 containing 88 acres. Isaac sells this tract of land to Abednego
Richardson on April 20, 1832. Deed Bk. 27 p. 452. More information on Isaac and
his influence on Greenville, IN. can be found in an Article on "Greenville
United Methodist Church, General History of the Settling of the Greenville
Township." This article can be found at the New Albany, IN. library. It states
he erected a frame building on Dec. 10, 1831 which contained a mercantile
business. The store carried a fair stock of all classes of goods and traded much
in produce as money was scarce. He also operated a tannery.
Isaac & Susan's Bible now in possession of the author, Laura J. Stewart .
Bought by their son, George Washington Stewart in 1826 with the first money he
earned and presented to his mother, Susan Chewksbury Winn Redman Stewart. This
was written in the Bible. This Bible was in a flooded basement in the Ohio
River Flood of 1884 in
New Albany, Indiana. This Bible was given to their son, Marion Clinton Stewart &
his new bride, in 1853. Isaac's two youngest sons are not listed in the Bible.
That is because the Bible was given to Marion before their births in 1854 &
1857.
Isaac Stewart was one of the pioneer settlers of New Albany and Greenville,
IN. Indiana Militita: 28th Regiment, Captian,Dec. 10, 1819; Major, June 4, 1821.
He was Major of the Home Guards in the first settlement of New Albany, IN. Floyd
Co., IN. was formed Jan. 1819 from Clark & Harrison Co's., IN. Isaac was a very
successful businessman, merchant, and politician also. He was known as "Major
Stewart". Commissioner's meeting Feb 9,1819, ordered that Isaac Stewart of
Greenville be appointed Lister of the County of Floyd for year 1819. He was a
member of the Indiana General Assembly as follows: 1828-29, 1838-39, 1839-40
from Floyd Co. From Jeffersonville Land Office tract books (State Land Office
and NN in Archives Div.) show W one-half SW 31, purchased by Isaac Stewart on
Nov. 20, 1828. Land just west of Greenville and in Greenville Twp. Isaac made
many land transactions. From "Abstracts of Entries of Government Lands in Floyd
Co., Ind." p. 5 Township 1, Sect. 31 Range 5 East Greenville Isaac Stewart
11-20-1828 W. 1/2 of S.W. 1/4 92.01 Ac. p. 106 Bk. 109 - 220 Certificate #1557.
On July 2, 1829 Isaac Stewart of Floyd Co., Ind. deposited in General Land
Office a certificate of Register of Land Office at Jeffersonville, full payment
made for West half of N.W. 1/4 of Sec. 31, Township 2, Range 5 East #1936831
Filed Dec. 22, 1842.
He was a pioneer in the town of Sullivan, IN. where he was a merchant. He
moved here after his first wife died & he remarried, Mary Murphy. She was the
daughter of Dr. James Murphy of Greenville, IN. On the 1846-51 Sullivan
Co., IN.
Assessment Book Isaac's total value of taxables was $950. From Sullivan Union
Dec. 24,1902 it states that the National Hotel was one of the oldest frame
buildings in the town. It was built about 1846 by Isaac Stewart who also built
other buildings on the north side. Mr. Stewart used to occupy the house. He was
a member of the Disciples of Christ. His will is on file in Sullivan Co., IN.
Will Bk. 1 p.212 rec. 8-18 -1863. Final estate settlement was filed July
27,1864. He is buried in Center Ridge Cemetery in Sullivan, IN. In Kentuckians
in Ohio & Indiana by Stuart Seely Sprague, Isaac is listed on p. 134; also BGAS
p. 372. Death notice in "New Albany Ledger" Aug. 13, 1863, p. 2, c. 1.; also in
"Sullivan Times".
1820 Indiana census, Floyd Co., p. 393; 1830 Indiana census, Floyd co., p.
688; 1840 Indiana census, Floyd Co.; 1850 Indiana census Sullivan Co., p. 243;
1860 Indiana census, Sullivan Co., p. 900.
His descendants are eligible for membership in Society
of Indiana Pioneers.
Documentation may be found in "History of Greene and Sullivan Counties 1884
pp.608-609, p.624, p.721.; History of the Ohio Falls Cities and their Counties
1882 p. 234 and 278, pp. 282-284, pp.295-297.; Executive proceedings of the
State of Indiana, 1816 to 1836, p. 120 & p.174." Isaac was member of the Masons.
A Masonic embem was on his tombstone.
Children of Isaac Stewart (pdf)
Notes from Isaac Stewart's Bible (pdf)
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