Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Arthur Raymond Stewart and Nola Marguerite Stright




Husband Arthur Raymond Stewart 1

           Born: 7 Nov 1891 - Mercer Co, PA 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 18 Sep 1963 - Greenville, Mercer Co, PA 1
         Buried:  - Greenville Cemetery, Mercer Co, PA


         Father: James Linus Stewart (1862-1928) 1
         Mother: Mary Lillian Jacobs (1869-1943) 1


       Marriage: 20 Jun 1923 - Greenville, Mercer Co, PA 1



Wife Nola Marguerite Stright 2

           Born: 23 Apr 1894 - Sheakleyville, Sandy Creek Twp, Mercer Co, PA 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 


         Father: Leonard Marcus Stright (1861-1938) 3
         Mother: Cora Ione Palm (1871-1940) 4




Children
1 M James Leonard Stewart 5

           Born: 5 Jan 1926 5
     Christened: 
           Died: 21 Jan 1926 5
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Did Not Marry


2 F Janet Lucille Stewart 5

           Born: 3 Oct 1927 - Greenville, Mercer Co, PA 5
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Wilfred Gerald Mears (1923-      ) 6
           Marr: 15 Aug 1950 - Greenville, Mercer Co, PA 6



General Notes: Husband - Arthur Raymond Stewart


He taught in the Greenville, Pennsylvania, High School for six years and served as principal from 1931 until his retirement in 1954.


General Notes: Wife - Nola Marguerite Stright


After graduating from the Greenville, Pennsylvania, High School in 1914 she attended the summer teacher training school at Grove City College. She taught two years at the Porter School north of Greenville, one year at Hartstown, Pennsylvania, and five years in the Greenville public schools. While at Grove City College she met her husband.
Following marriage, they lived in Alderson, West Virginia, where she taught the model school and served as Dean of Woman at Alderson-­Broadus Baptist Academy where her husband taught. Following their return to Greenville in 1925, they lived with her parents on a farm north of Greenville. They later moved to Greenville.
She was an active member of the First Baptist Church of Greenville, where she served on the Board of Trustees, as Sunday School Superintendent, president of the Women's Missionary Society, Superintendent of the Primary Department and first president of the Church's Board of Education. In the community she directed and taught in the Community Vacation Church School and in the Weekday Church School and was in the first graduat­ing class of the Community Teacher Training School. She was Greenville's first teacher of retarded children. She was president of the Columbia Parents and Teachers Association, for two years president of the Civic League, a branch of the National Federation of Women's Clubs, president of United Church Women and of the American Legion Auxiliary.

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Sources


1 Hayden Leroy Stright, A Stright Genealogy (Minneapolis, MN: The Brings Press, 1973), Pg 50.

2 Hayden Leroy Stright, A Stright Genealogy (Minneapolis, MN: The Brings Press, 1973), Pg 40.

3 Hayden Leroy Stright, A Stright Genealogy (Minneapolis, MN: The Brings Press, 1973), Pg 30.

4 Hayden Leroy Stright, A Stright Genealogy (Minneapolis, MN: The Brings Press, 1973), Pg 37.

5 Hayden Leroy Stright, A Stright Genealogy (Minneapolis, MN: The Brings Press, 1973), Pg 52.

6 Hayden Leroy Stright, A Stright Genealogy (Minneapolis, MN: The Brings Press, 1973), Pg 66.


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