Two Hundred Years of Our American Families

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Daniel Stewart > Daniel Morrison Stewart
Susan Wadsworth > Mary Lee Wells

Back L>R: Luna Oney Stewart, Delilah Mae Stewart Thompson, Effie Ada Stewart Stevenson, L.B. Stevenson, Thomas Newton Stewart Middle L>R: Unknown (perhaps Susan Wadsworth Wells?), Daniel Lee Stewart, Daniel Morrison Stewart, Mary Lee Wells Stewart Front: Maud Stewart & Abbie Thompson Circa 1900, Dallas County TX

Daniel Morrison STEWART
 b. 1 FEB 1852, AL
 m. Mary Lee WELLS, 29 MAR 1877,
 Dallas County TX,
 James Truss, Elder Officiating
 d. 1 Jan 1915, Grand Prairie,
 Dallas County TX
 Old Southland Cemetery, Section 6

Mary Lee WELLS
 b. 20 AUG 1862, AL
 m. Daniel Morrison STEWART,
 29 MAR 1877, Dallas County TX,
 James Truss, Elder Officiating
 d. 6 JUN 1930, Dallas County TX

Both of these photographs were scanned from very tiny, old tintypes from the collection of Marvin Stewart, Sr, D.M.'s grandson. The photo to the left was probably taken in the 1870s. It's likely that both are of the young Daniel Morrison Stewart. In the image to the right the man is wearing work clothes of some sort, and he has a blackened eye (his right) which appears more obvious in higher resolution. Tintypes are mirror images, unlike contemporary photographs. If you flip the image horizontally (mouse over image above), and compare it to Daniel Morrison Stewart in the image below, you can more easily see the resemblance. There seems to be a nick in the lip of each man, which may have been from a childhood injury.

CHILDREN

1. Delilah Mae STEWART
    b. 24 SEP 1878, Dallas County TX
    m. Vic THOMPSON
    d. 30 OCT 1918
   Old Southland Cemetery, Section 6
   
   
2. Thomas Newton STEWART
    b. 18 JUL 1881, Dallas County TX
    m. Mollie Jane ENGLAND, 25 DEC 1904, TX
    m. Dorothy Unknown
    m. Katie Florence MARTIN, ~1927
    d. 23 JAN 1954
   Old Southland Cemetery, Section 6
   
   
3. Effie Ada STEWART
    b. 19 NOV 1883, Dallas County TX
    m. Larken B. STEVENSON
    d. 10 NOV 1942, Kaufman County TX
   
   
4. Luna Oney STEWART
    b. 26 OCT 1887, Bell County TX
    m. John Thomas BRECKENRIDGE, 23 DEC 1906,
    Dallas County TX
    d. 7 MAY 1929
   Old Southland Cemetery Section 5, Dallas County TX
   
   
5. Modina Judson STEWART, Maud
    b. 5 OCT 1893, Bell County TX
    m. James Clay BRACKENRIDGE, 21 DEC 1913,
    Dallas County TX
    d. 28 APR 1976, Tarrant County TX
   
   
6. Daniel Lee STEWART
    b. 13 MAY 1898, Erath County TX
    m. Ara Mae HAMILTON, 23 NOV 1920
    d. 10 MAY 1936, Grand Prairie, Dallas County TX
    Old Southland Cemetery, Grand Prairie, Dallas County TX

Daniel Morrison Stewart Family Bible

Stewart Family circa 1916, Dallas County

Susan Wadsworth Wells Sorenson probably with Jesse Stevenson and Jeffie Stewart, circa 1905

A descendant of Daniel Morrison's son Thomas relates that Mary Lee Wells was 14-years-old when he married her, about 1877 or 1878 in Mississippi. They then traveled back to Florence Hill. This story might be confused with Thomas Newton's wife Mary Jane England who was from Mississippi. Mary Lee Wells was from Alabama, most likely the daughter of Susan Wadsworth and Lee Wells, whom I assume died in the Civil War. In 1870, Mary and Susan Wells are living with Thomas Wadsworth, the brother of Hogan Wadsworth - Mary Catharine Stewart's husband. Also living with them are Julian and James Wadsworth, and E. Wadsworth, a retired housekeeper. By 1880 James and Mary are living next to Florence Ranch - James married to Parthena Wade and Mary married to Daniel Morrison Stewart - a distant cousin. Mary's grandmother is Elizabeth Betsy Walker, the sister of Martha Walker, the wife of John Hicks Florence. The next link should help clarify these relationships.

the 1880 Dallas County Texas Census
Daniel Morrison Stewart is living next door to the Florence family, the Wade family, and the Wadsworth family, which includes his older sister Mariah Catharine.

1900 Dallas County Texas Census
James H. and Effa [Matilda] Posey are living six doors down from Daniel Morrison and his family. Delilah has married, an Unknown Thompson, and is now widowed with a six year old daughter. The name looks like Abbie. The previous census page lists Alexander, and 89-year-old Daniel Stewart, Mary C. Florence [Mariah Catharine Stewart] and Ann Dunlap [Anna Judson Stewart]. Both the sisters are listed as widowed. They all live one house away from the Posey's.

1910 Dallas County Texas Census Part I and Part II
Daniel Morrison Stewart and his family are living next door to his son, Thomas Newton and his wife Mollie. On the other side, Daniel Morrison Stewart's daughter Effie A. has married Unknown Stevenson. Delilah's 15-year-old daughter Abbie Thompson, lives with them. Next door to the Stevensons lives Alexander, and next door to him Mary C. Florence. One door down from her lives John H. and Cordelia Posey and their family, James H. and Effa's son. Eleven doors down from them lives James H. and Effa Matilda Posey. Three doors down from them lives Lem and Francis Breckenridge and their children. This son Clay will marry Daniel Morrison's daughter Maudine.

The 1920 and 1930 Dallas County Censuses list Mary L. Stewart, the mother of Thomas N. and Daniel Lee respectively. In these censuses her place of birth is Alabama as is her father's, and her mother's is listed as Georgia. Buried next to Daniel Morrison in the Old Southland Cemetery is:

Stovall M E	Row 9
Birth 16 Nov 1858	Death 14 June 1918
Spouse
Stovall G W	Row 9
Birth 7 May 1851	Death 22 Dec 1924
Spouse
Stovall Cora Mossie	Row 9
Birth 24 Nov 1894	Death 17 Oct 1901
Comment Daughter of G W & M E Stovall

A cousin believes these to be related to us. According to the 1900 Dallas Census these are George W. and Mary E. Mary's POBs are noted as TN AL TN. Perhaps George Washington and Mary Ellen?

* This date looks like a 1900 census birthdate. Thomas Newton Stewart descendants put her birth as 27 AUG 1855.

According to her death certificate, Mary Lee Wells Stewart died of "pernicious anaemia" with a secondary condition of nephritis, from which she'd suffered for 21 years. She died at home. Thomas Newton Stewart signed her death certificate.

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