Marion Clinton Stewart With wife, Nancy Ann Strickland Their wedding picture :March 17, 1853

 He is listed on 1850 Greene Co., IN. census, Eel River township. He was listed as merchant living with William Ravenscroff family. Eel River Township existed from 1828 to about 1880. It is now part of Jefferson Township. Eel River Township included the land between the Eel and White Rivers, North to the Owen County line. Point Commerce, a thriving commercial settlement from 1820's to 1850's, at the confluence of White & Eel Rivers was the primary settlement. After Point Commerce was ravaged by Cholera epidemics in the 1850s, most of the population left and moved to Worthington, just across the Eel River to the Southwest in Jefferson Twp. This became the predominant settlement.
     This is where he met "Annie" Strickland. Her family lived in this township. On Jan. 2, 1856, Marion & Annie sell lot # 34 in the town of Sullivan, IN. to his father, Isaac. Recorded Sullivan Co. Deed book M-12 p. 316. On 1860 census he was living in New Albany, Floyd Co., IN. Marion, Anna, William & Mary Eddy are listed on this census. Mary Eddy was his wife's niece.  She probably died & they took Mary in. The census was taken June 27, 1860 (1 month before Marion died). He died of Typhoid Fever. New Albany Daily Tribune Sat. July 21,1860 has his obituary: FUNERAL NOTICE. MEMBERS of New Albany Lodge, A. Y. M. are hereby notified to attend the funeral of our late Brother M. C. Stuart to-day, 3 1/2 o'clock P. M. All members in good standing are requested to attend. By order of Lodge. T. T. WEIR, Sec'y. He was a Mason and had a Masonic funeral.
      Administrators and Executors Book of Floyd Co., IN. has Annie being appointed administrator of her husband's estate on Sept. 8,1860. Attorneys are Smith & Kern. He and his wife were buried in Fairview Cemetery in New Albany, IN.  Lot  # 3523 B & 3652 B. (This is his father's plot.) Annie's body was brought back from Greencastle, IN. for burial. Marion & Annie do not have a grave marker. I wonder if Marion or Annie attended DePauw Univ. in Greencastle, IN. Need to check this.