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Alexander Newton Stewart This photograph was found among those of Ira Williams. Alex was Ira's guardian.

Alexander Newton STEWART
 b. 25 Apr 1849, AL
 d. 13 May 1935, Cedar Hill, Dallas County TX
 Vernoy Cemetery [pdf],
 unmarked grave, Dallas County TX

Alexander never married, though the 1920 Dallas County Census lists Ira Williams, an 8-year-old boy as his grandson. Ira was the grandson of his sister Louisiana Carolina, or Lucy. Ira's mother, Doma Arie Rabe Williams, died giving birth to him, and his father, Newton Commodore Williams, died a year later of cancer. Ira and his five siblings were sent to live with relatives. Lucy brought Ira to live with Alex and their sister Anna, and stayed for awhile. Alexander was 71, and his sister Anna, with whom he shared the house, was 73. Alexander was listed as 82 on the Dallas 1930 Census, living next door to Daniel Morrison Stewart's grandchildren and their children. He cared for his mother and father, his single and widowed sisters, working as a farmer until he retired. He lived in a little four-room house in Grand Prairie owned by Buck Robertson. Next door was a larger house that Buck owned. Later Eula Pool and Leonard Robertson lived in it.

I found three mentions of Alexander in the Dallas Morning News:

August 18, 1907
Maintenance of Convict Camp
County Commissioners Make Provision Out of General Funds. ...The court rejected the report of the jury of view appointed to lay out the Barker road, on the ground that the damages recommended for right of way, etc., were excessive. Fred Shutt, Dr. I. Bodine, J. Sylvannus, A.N. Stewart and Dr. Will Carroll were appointed a new jury of view to lay out and re-establish the line of the road. ...

July 19, 1905
TRIAL OF F. H. MANNING
Jury Completed, Evidence Submitted and Case Is with the Jury. The jury in the case of the State vs. F.H. Manning, the negro who is charged with murder, completed its work yesterday morning in the Criminal District Court. All the evidence had been heard by 5 p.m. and last night a session was held to hear the arguments of counsel. The case is now in the hands of the jury. The jurors are W.A.J. Mitchell, J.A. Frame, A.N. Stewart, C. Goforth, J.T. Holly, W.W. Collier, F.D. Summers, S.W. Cox, Joe Kimbrough, N.S. Packer, S.C. Drake and A.G. Shattuck.

Real Estate Transfers
A.N. Stewart to S.D. Hubbell. June 10, 1924, lots 1, 2, and 3, block 32, Grand Prairie
S.D. Hubbell to A.N. Stewart. June 25, 1924, lots 1 and 2, block 32, Grand Prairie.

According to Alex's official death certificate he died 13 MAY 1935. His address was Cedar Hill, Texas. He died of nephritis, a problem with the kidneys, and also suffered from endocarditis. He died at 4:00 PM. His father is listed as Daniel Stewart mother unknown. The informant signature looks like Arie Williams, at the same address. This could have been Ira Williams, his grand-nephew.

Charlene Pool says she heard poor uncle Alex coughing all night long, "as he fought for his breath," the night before he died, and remembers going to his funeral. She said the Stewarts were gentle, quiet people that never spoke unkindly to a child.

This photograph was contributed by Sarah Jean WILLIAMS MEADERS, from the collection of her father, Ira Vernon WILLIAMS. Ira, and his five older brothers and sisters, were orphaned by 1912 and sent to live with various relatives. Ira lived with Alexander Newton STEWART, in Cedar Hill, Texas, in Dallas County. It is highly likely that the elder man in this photograph is Alex STEWART, the son of Araminta COLEMAN and Daniel STEWART. I am not certain who the man standing next to him is, but suspect that he is a Stewart from his facial features.

The car that they are standing in front of is very close in appearance to a 1925 Packard Holbrook 2 Pass Coupe, so we can date this photo sometime close to 1925. Alex would have been about 76.

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