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Jane Eliza Stewart

Female 1848 - 1893  (44 years)


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  1. 1.  Jane Eliza Stewart was born 25 Oct 1848; died 1 Apr 1893, Burlington, Iowa.

    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]