Jane Eliza Stewart

Notes:

Zechariah G. Stewart was born and reared at New Alexandria, Pennsylvania. He
studied medicine and settled to practice at Murrayville, where he was living in
1830 when he married Jane Laird. Dr. Stewart lived in Murraysville until 1857,
when he removed with his family to Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania, to educate his
children. He died there in 1863 from typhoid fever contracted while acting as
a volunteer surgeon on the Gettysburg battlefield in the Civil War.

After his marriage in 1879 John continued farming for about two years. From
1883 until 1885 he was in Front Royal, Virginia, where he engaged in the
manufacture of molasses "from sorghum by means of sulfurous acid." Then he
spent two years in Onargo, Illinois, in the hardware business with his brother
Will, and six years selling sewing machines in Burlington, Iowa. When his wife
died in 1893 after a long bout with consumption, John L. was himself just
recovering from typhoid fever. Weak, exhausted and miserably discouraged by a
succession of commercial misadventures, he was neverless firmly convinced "that
God had for me yet some special work to do for Him."
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Reference:
McTeer - Mateer Families of Cumberland County Pennsylvania, Frances Davis
McTeer, 1975, p 112.

Jane married John Lowrie Mateer 23 Dec 1879, Murraysville, Pennsylvania. John (son of John Mateer and Mary Nelson Diven) was born 16 Apr 1848, , Adams, Pennsylvania; died 23 Apr 1900, Peking, China. [Group Sheet]