Hon. Thomas [2] Stewart and Susanna Loffer

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Husband Hon. Thomas [2] Stewart ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1804 or 1812 - Clarion Co, PA 1 2
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           Died: 1881 or 1 Oct 1883 2
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         Father: William Stewart, Sr. (1779-1821/1825) 3 4
         Mother: Sarah McKibben (      -1819) 2 4

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       Marriage:  - Clarion Co, PA

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   Other Spouse: Jemima Clark (Abt 1813-1893) 5 - Abt 1865

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Wife Susanna Loffer ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1804 - Black Rock, near Buffalo, Erie Co, NY 1
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           Died: 9 Jun 1864 1
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         Father: John Loffer (      -1812) 2
         Mother: [Unk] Truby (      -      )

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Children

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1 M William Stewart ^{1 5 6}

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           Died: 1895 1
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         Spouse: Jane McCall (      -Aft 1898) 6

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2 M Milton Stewart ⁵

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           Died: Abt 1861-1865
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         Spouse: Susannah Benninger (      -      ) 5

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3 M Loffer Stewart ⁵

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         Spouse: Sarah Flick (      -      ) 5

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4 F Sarah Stewart ⁵

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           Born: 
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           Died: Bef 1898
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         Spouse: D. R. Summerville (      -Bef 1898) 1

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5 M Reuben Stewart ⁵

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         Spouse: Reufena Crick (      -      ) 5

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6 F Elizabeth Stewart ⁵

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           Died: 1860 1
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7 M Allen Stewart ⁵

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           Born: 1840 - Toby Twp, Clarion Co, PA 5
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           Died: 10 Jun 1912 - ? Clarion Co, PA 5
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         Spouse: Lydia Males (      -      ) 5
           Marr: 28 Dec 1865 5

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8 F Susan Stewart ^{5 7}

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           Born: 6 Sep 1842 - Toby Twp, Clarion Co, PA 1
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         Spouse: Henry Harrison Hartman (1835/1836-1901) 7 8
           Marr: 26 May 1868 - Callensburg, Licking Twp, Clarion Co, PA 7

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9 M William Ramsey ⁵

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         Status: Adopted

         Spouse: Rebecca Sipler (      -      ) 5

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General Notes: Husband - Hon. Thomas [2] Stewart

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He was reared and educated in Clarion County, Pennsylvania, and after reaching his legal majority entered a tract of one hundred and forty acres of government land, for which he paid one dollar per acre. This land was situated in Toby township and was entirely covered with timber, which he gradually cleared off. He erected substantial log buildings on his land and devoted his attention to farming pursuits until his demise.

The American Stewarts have almost all been members of the Presbyterian church, a number of them having been connected with Concord, which was the first church of that denomination in Clarion County, Pennsylvania, having been established in 1807. Once upon a time some of the members of Concord said they could not send their children to Sabbath school because they were too poor to buy shoes for them. The next Sabbath the superintendent, Thomas Stewart, went to Sabbath school in his bare feet, thereby setting an example and fashion that the very poorest could easily follow.

Thomas Stewart was the incumbent of the office of associate judge of Clarion County for a number of years.

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General Notes: Wife - Susanna Loffer

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“During the war of 1812 John Loffer, a gunsmith, was killed by Indians near his home at Black Rock, New York. His wife buried him there where the mighty falls of Niagara have been singing his requiem ever since, and then with her five children she made her way across to the headwaters of the Alle­gheny river, constructed a rude raft and float­ed down the river to where Catfish now stands. There they were welcomed and cared for by her brother and sister, Christopher and Sus­anna Truby, after the most perilous voyage ever made on the Allegheny river. When rest­ed and refreshed they floated on down the river and settled in the state of Ohio; the two sons afterward moved to Iowa. At the earn­est request of the uncle and aunt, Truby, the nine-year-old daughter, Susanna, namesake of Aunt Susie, was left with them.” There she grew to womanhood and was married.

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1475.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 547.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1422.

4 Estella B. Keefer, The Keefer Family: Jacob & Catharina 1791 - 1976 (Franklin, PA: Privately Published, 1976), Pg 60.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 548.

6 Estella B. Keefer, The Keefer Family: Jacob & Catharina 1791 - 1976 (Franklin, PA: Privately Published, 1976), Pg 59.

7 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1474.

8 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 548, 944.