John Levi Stewart

Inscription: Indian Scout & Soilder, served in Territorial Senate of Florida. As one of the states first surveyors and establish state lines. Selected site for Beulah Church & Cemetery and was the first person to be buried in it.

1830 , HAMILTON, FL, JOHN L. STEWART, ,HAMILTON FL, FL173

1840 , HAMILTON, FL, JOHN L. STEWART, HAMILTON 087 NO TWP

1850 , MARION, FL, JOHN L. STEWART, 51 M FARMER&CO. COMM, GA

1860 MILLONVILLE,ORANGE,FL, JOHN L. STEWART, 60 GA, FARMER

!RESEARCHER: FAMILY GROUP RECORD OF OLLIE MARION ARD WHITEHURST. MARION'S SOURCES ARE: BIBLE OF JOHN LEVI STEWART, MCCALL COLLECTION, GEORGIA ARCHIVES, AND 1850 US CENCUS, MARION CO. FL.

!BIOGRAPHY: NATHANIEL YULEE BRYAN AND HIS FAMILY BY THEODORE WOODS, 1987. THIS SOURSE STATES JOHN LEVI STEWART AND LENORA JANE BRYANT WERE MARRIED IN COURT OF ORDINARY, WAYNE COUNTY, GA. SOURSE LISTED IS MARRIAGE RECORDS PUBLISHED IN GA GENEALOGICAL MAGAZINE, 1970. THIS SOURSE ALSO STATES. "JOHN LEVI STEWART SERVED AS A FIRST LIEUTENANT IN THE WAYNE COUNTY MILITIA IN 1820-1821. HE MOVED TO APPLING COUNTY, WHERE HE WAS COUNTY SURVEYOR IN 1824-1825. WHEN WARE COUNTY WAS ERECTED, HE WAS ELECTED A REPRESENTATIVE IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND A JUSTICE OF THE INFERIOR COURT. IN 1828, HE MOVED TO FLORIDA AS A SURVEYOR FOR THE US GOVERMENT. JOHN HELD VARIOUS OFFICES IN HAMILTON, MARION AND ORANGE COUNTIES. AFTER THE CIVIL WAR, HE MOVED TO POLK COUNTY WHERE HE DIED IN 24 JULY 1873. LENORA DIED DIED ON SEPTEMBER 1880 AND BOTH ARE BURIED AT BEULAH CHURCH IN POLK COUNTY. THEY HAD EIGHT CHILDREN , SURNAMED STEWART.

!BIOGRAPHY: HISTORY OF WARE COUNTY, GA, STATESON PAGE 147 AND 148: "THE FIRST SENSTOR FROM WARE COUNTY WAS PHILEMON BRYAN WHO SERVED FROM 1825 TO 1827 AND JOHN L. STEWART WAS ELECTED THE FIRST REPRESENTATIVE".

!BIOGRAPHY: TWO SHEETS FROM A GENEALOGY RECORD FURNISHED BY OLLIE MARION ARD WHITEHURST WHICH STATE: "..BY MARY SMITH HOWELL FROM HANDWRITTEN PAGES OF HISTORY BY AUNT SARA LENORA "LEE" PURVIS MCCRACKEN IN 1937. THEY WERE GIVEN TO UNCLE TOM LEE SMITH AND HE PASSED THEM ON TO MARY SMITH HOWELL IN DEC 1966. IN MAR 1979 NELDA SMITH SWEAT HAS TRIED TO BEGIN WHERE AUNT LEE LEFT OFF IN COMPLETING THE LINE OF DESCENT AND HISTORY OF HAWTHORNES." THE PAGE ON JOHN LEVI STEWART READS: "DIED 22 JUL 1873 - BURIED BEULAH CEMETERY. THIS SECOND SON OF JOHN STEWART AND MARY KNIGHT HUNTER WAS A HIGHLY EDUCATED GENTLEMAN. [I AM LOOKING AT HIS WRITING AS I PEND THIS AND MORE PERFECT PENMANSHIP I HAVE NEVER BEHELD. ]" "JOHN LEVI STEWART MARRIED A SOUTHERN LADY, LINORA BRYAN, WHEN HE WAS 21 YEARS OF AGE. FROM BOYHOOD HE WAS TRAINED TO FIGHT INDIANS. HE SERVED IN THE GEORGIA LEGISLATURE AND THE TERRITORIAL SENATE OF FLORIDA. HE HE FOUGHT THE INDIANS FROM 1835 TO 1839. HE ASSISTED IN ESTABLISHING THE STATE'S BOUNDARY LINES AND WAS WITH THE FIRST SURVEYORS OF THE STATE. FOR THIS HE WAS PAID A BIG SALARY, WHICH HE INVESTED IN SLAVES. HE BOUGHT HIS SLAVES AT THE SLAVE MARKET IN SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. HE SAW HILLSBOROUGH AND POLK COUNTIES BEFORE THE WHITE MAN MARRED ITS PRIMEVAL BEAUTY. HE FELL IN LOVE WITH THESE UNMARRED AREAS." "IN THE EARLIEST DAYS OF THE PURCHASE HE BROUGHT HIS FAMILY TO HAMILTON COUNTY WHERE MARY ANN [HIS DAUGHTER] WAS BORN 9 AUG 1841. WHEN SHE WAS ABOUT 2 YEARS OF AGE, HE MOVED TO SILVER SPRINGS. THEY LIVED THERE 8 YEARS AND THEN MOVED TO PAYNE'S PRAIRIE IN ALACHUA COUNTY. AFTER 2 YEARS RESIDENCE, MOVED WITH SLAVES, CHATTELS AND EVERYTHING TO APOPKA CITY, FLORIDA. THEY HELPED IN THE EARLY CIVILIZATION OF THE COUNTY. DURING THE BITTER POLITICAL CAMPAIGN OF THE 1860'S,STEWART AND HIS FIVE SONS VOTED FOR THESTATE TO STAY WITH THE UNION. GRANDFATHER WAS ILL BUT HE HAD THEM CARRY HIM ON A BED TO THE POLLS TO VOTE. WHEN THE STATE SECEDED, JAMES R., JOHN J., PHILAMON BRYAN AND JONATHAN C. ENLISTED. GRANDFATHER BOUGHT UNCLE MATTHEW A GRIST MILL SO HE COULD STAY HOME AND HELP WITH THE OTHER FAMILIES." "JOHN L. ENLISTED AS A PRIVATE IN THE WAR OF 1856. HE WAS THEN 56 YEARS OLD." "TO BE AWAY FROM "FREE" NEGROES AND YANKEE MAURAUDERS, JOHN LEVI TOOK HIS SON'S FAMILIES AND HIS OWN , ALL THE SLAVES AND LEFT APOPKA. HE MOVED TO WHERE ST. CLOUD NOW IS, CLEARED LANDS, BUILT HOMES AND REMAINED IN PEACE DURING THE CIVIL WAR. HE WAS OLD . IT WAS HERE, 11 JAN 1863, THAT KEDAR HAWTHORNE WAS BORN." "THE WAR OVER, STEWART PICKED UP HIS REMNANT OF WIDOWED DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, HALF ORPHAN GRANDCHILDREN AND MOVED BACK TO APOPKA. IN 1869 HE DESCRIBED THE TALL TIMBERS OF EASTERN HILLSBOROUGH SO VIVIDLY THAT J. R. AND WILLIAM PURVIS RODE WITH HIM TO LOOK OVER THE SITUATION. HE DISMOUNTED RIGHT WHERE EDISON JUNCTION IS NOW AND TOLD MY FATHER TO CUT INTO A TREE STANDING THERE 'AS HIGH AS YOU CAN REACH' AND THERE THEY FOUND HIS SURVEYOR'S BLAZES MADE IN THE EARLY DAYS. HE SAID THEN 'NOW I HAVE MY LINES.' HE THEN STEPPED OFF 2 HOMESTEADS OF 160 ACRES EACH FOR UNCLE RICHARD AND FATHER. HE ALSO LAID HIS LAND WARRANT ON 80 ACRES THAT LAY OVER IN POLK COUNTY [THIS IS THE MCDANIEL PLACE.]."

!RESEARCHER: OLLIE MARION ARD WHITEHURST SAID SHE HAS DICOVERED THAT JOHN WAS NOT A PRIVATE AS SHE HAD THOUGHT BUT A LIEUTENANT. SHE IS PRESENTLY WORKING ON PROOF OF THIS.

!CENCUS: 1850 US CENCUS OF MARION COUNTY, FL, HOUSE NO. 93, LISTS: JOHN L. STEWART 51 FARMER AND COUNTY COMMISSIONER b. GA,LENORA 46 NC, RICHARD 23 LABORER FL, P. BRYAN 17 LABORER FL, JOHN J. 14 FL, MILES M. J. 12 FL, MARY ANN 9 FL.

!BIOGRAPHY: HISTORY OF APOPKA AND NORTHWEST ORANGE COUNTY, FL., BY JERRELL H. SHOFNER, 1982, APOPKA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, PAGE 7, UNDER CHAPTER, ORIGINS OF THE APOPKA COMMUNITY 1845-1877, IT STATES, "IN JULY 1843, JOHN L. STEWART AND HIS TWO SONS JONATHON AND MATTHEW, ALL RECEIVED PERMITS FOR HOMESTEADS UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE ARMED OCCUPATION ACT ...THEIR LANDS WERE LOCATED AT LAKE OKAHUMPKA, SEVERAL MILES WEST OF LAKE APOPKA." FOOT NOTE SOURSE: THOMAS C. COCHRAN, NEW AMERICAN STATE PAPERS [WILMINGTON, 1973], VOL. 8, ABSTRACT OF PERMITS FOLLOWING PAGE 315, PERMITS 646,647, 648. THIS SOURSE ALSO STATES "IN 1882 MATHEW STEWART PURCHASED LAND WARRANT 13279 WHICH HAD BEEN ISSUED TO JESSE DUPREE IN 1855 AND ADDED THE PROPERTY TO HIS HOMESTEAD WHICH HE ACQUIRED IN 1855. AT VARIOUS TIMES HE AND HIS BROTHER, JONATHAN C. STEWART, PURCHASED OTHER LAND FROM THE US LAND OFFICES IN TAMPA, ST. AUGUSTINE AND GAINESVILLE." FOOT NOTE IS ORANGE COUNTY MISC. RECORDS, NO. 3, UNIDENTIFIABLE MISC. FILES, BOTH ON MICROFILM AT THE UNIV. OF CENTRAL FL LIBRARY; AND ORANGE COUNTY, DEED RECORD BOOK D. p. 252. THIS SOURSE IS A MUST FOR DESCENDANTS OF THE STEWART FAMILY TO READ. IT CONTAINS MUCH INFO ABOUT HOW VARIOUS STEWART FAMILY ASSISTED IN DEVELOPING THE AREA OF WHAT IS TODAY, APOPKA, ORANGE COUNTY, FL. PAGE 9 STATES, "THE 1855 TAX ROLLS SHOW JOHN L., MATTHEW A., JONATHAN C., SAMUEL W., PHILEMON BRYAN, AND JAMES R. STEWART AS LANDOWNERS, BETWEEN THEM THEY OWNED FOURTEEN SLAVES." " JOHN L. STEWART WAS COUNTY SURVEYOR IN 1854."

!SUMMERY: 1828 MOVED TO HAMILTON COUNTY, FL

1841 DAUGHTER IS BORN, HAMILTON COUNTY, FL

1843 MOVED TO SILVER SPRINGS, MARION COUNTY, FL

1851 MOVED TO ORANGE COUNTY, FL

1853 MOVED TO APOPKA CITY, ORANGE COUNTY, FL

1861 MOVED TO ST CLOUD, OSCEOLA COUNTY, FL

1865 MOVED TO APOPKA, ORANGE COUNTY, FL

1869 MOVED TO POLK COUNTY, FL

1873 DIED 24 JUL 1873, BURIED BEULAH CEMETERY, POLK COUNTY, FL

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!CENCUS:

1830 , HAMILTON, FL, JOHN L. STEWART, ,HAMILTON FL, FL173

1840 , HAMILTON, FL, JOHN L. STEWART, HAMILTON 087 NO TWP

1850 , MARION, FL, JOHN L. STEWART, 51 M FARMER & COUNTY. COMM, GA

1860 MILLONVILLE,ORANGE,FL, JOHN L. STEWART, 60 GA, FARMER; FL p556, LINE6

1850 ,MARION, FL LISTED WITH JOHN L,; RICHARD STEWART, 23 FL, LABORER

!RESEARCHER: FAMILY GROUP RECORD OF OLLIE MARION ARD WHITEHURST. MARION'S

SOURCES ARE: BIBLE OF JOHN LEVI STEWART, MCCALL COLLECTION, GEORGIA ARCHIVES, AND 1850 US CENCUS, MARION CO. FL.

!BIOGRAPHY: NATHANIEL YULEE BRYAN AND HIS FAMILY BY THEODORE WOODS, 1987. THIS SOURSE STATES JOHN LEVI STEWART AND LENORA JANE BRYANT WERE MARRIED IN COURT OF ORDINARY, WAYNE COUNTY, GA. SOURSE LISTED IS MARRIAGE RECORDS PUBLISHED IN GA GENEALOGICAL MAGAZINE, 1970. THIS SOURSE ALSO STATES.

"JOHN LEVI STEWART SERVED AS A FIRST LIEUTENANT IN THE WAYNE COUNTY MILITIA IN 1820-1821. HE MOVED TO APPLING COUNTY, WHERE HE WAS COUNTY SURVEYOR IN 1824-1825. WHEN WARE COUNTY WAS ERECTED, HE WAS ELECTED A REPRESENTATIVE IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND A JUSTICE OF THE INFERIOR COURT. IN 1828, HE MOVED TO FLORIDA AS A SURVEYOR FOR THE US GOVERMENT. JOHN HELD VARIOUS OFFICES IN HAMILTON, MARION AND ORANGE COUNTIES. AFTER THE CIVIL WAR, HE MOVED TO POLK COUNTY WHERE HE DIED IN 24 JULY 1873. LENORA DIED DIED ON SEPTEMBER 1880 AND BOTH ARE BURIED AT BEULAH CHURCH IN POLK COUNTY. THEY HAD EIGHT CHILDREN , SURNAMED STEWART.

!BIOGRAPHY: HISTORY OF WARE COUNTY, GA, STATESON PAGE 147 AND 148:

"THE FIRST SENATOR FROM WARE COUNTY WAS PHILEMON BRYAN WHO SERVED FROM 1825 TO 1827 AND JOHN L. STEWART WAS ELECTED THE FIRST REPRESENTATIVE".

!BIOGRAPHY: TWO SHEETS FROM A GENEALOGY RECORD FURNISHED BY OLLIE MARION ARD WHITEHURST WHICH STATE:

"..BY MARY SMITH HOWELL FROM HANDWRITTEN PAGES OF HISTORY BY AUNT SARA LENORA "LEE" PURVIS MCCRACKEN IN 1937. THEY WERE GIVEN TO UNCLE TOM LEE SMITH AND HE PASSED THEM ON TO MARY SMITH HOWELL IN DEC 1966. IN MAR 1979 NELDA SMITH SWEAT HAS TRIED TO BEGIN WHERE AUNT LEE LEFT OFF IN COMPLETING THE LINE OF DESCENT AND HISTORY OF HAWTHORNES." THE PAGE ON JOHN LEVI STEWART READS: "DIED 22 JUL 1873 - BURIED BEULAH CEMETERY. THIS SECOND SON OF JOHN STEWART AND MARY KNIGHT HUNTER WAS A HIGHLY EDUCATED GENTLEMAN. [I AM LOOKING AT HIS WRITING AS I PEND THIS AND MORE PERFECT PENMANSHIP I HAVE NEVER BEHELD. ]" "JOHN LEVI STEWART MARRIED A SOUTHERN LADY, LINORA BRYAN, WHEN HE WAS 21 YEARS OF AGE. FROM BOYHOOD HE WAS TRAINED TO FIGHT INDIANS. HE SERVED IN THE GEORGIA LEGISLATURE AND THE TERRITORIAL SENATE OF FLORIDA. HE HE FOUGHT THE INDIANS FROM 1835 TO 1839. HE ASSISTED IN ESTABLISHING THE STATE'S BOUNDARY LINES AND WAS WITH THE FIRST SURVEYORS OF THE STATE. FOR THIS HE WAS PAID A BIG SALARY, WHICH HE INVESTED IN SLAVES. HE BOUGHT HIS SLAVES AT THE SLAVE MARKET IN SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. HE SAW HILLSBOROUGH AND POLK COUNTIES BEFORE THE WHITE MAN MARRED ITS PRIMEVAL BEAUTY. HE FELL IN LOVE WITH THESE UNMARRED AREAS."

"IN THE EARLIEST DAYS OF THE PURCHASE HE BROUGHT HIS FAMILY TO HAMILTON COUNTY WHERE MARY ANN [HIS DAUGHTER] WAS BORN 9 AUG 1841. WHEN SHE WAS ABOUT 2 YEARS OF AGE, HE MOVED TO SILVER SPRINGS. THEY LIVED THERE 8 YEARS AND THEN MOVED TO PAYNE'S

PRAIRIE IN ALACHUA COUNTY. AFTER 2 YEARS RESIDENCE, MOVED WITH SLAVES, CHATTELS AND EVERYTHING TO APOPKA CITY, FLORIDA. THEY HELPED IN THE EARLY CIVILIZATION OF THE COUNTY. DURING THE BITTER POLITICAL CAMPAIGN OF THE 1860'S,STEWART AND HIS FIVE SONS VOTED FOR THESTATE TO STAY WITH THE UNION. GRANDFATHER WAS ILL BUT HE HAD THEM CARRY HIM ON A BED TO THE POLLS TO VOTE. WHEN THE STATE SECEDED, JAMES R., JOHN J., PHILAMON BRYAN AND JONATHAN C. ENLISTED. GRANDFATHER BOUGHT UNCLE MATTHEW A GRIST MILL SO HE COULD STAY HOME AND HELP WITH THE OTHER FAMILIES."

"JOHN L. ENLISTED AS A PRIVATE IN THE WAR OF 1856. HE WAS THEN 56 YEARS OLD."

"TO BE AWAY FROM "FREE" NEGROES AND YANKEE MAURAUDERS, JOHN LEVI TOOK HIS SON'S FAMILIES AND HIS OWN , ALL THE SLAVES AND LEFT APOPKA. HE MOVED TO WHERE ST. CLOUD NOW IS, CLEARED LANDS, BUILT HOMES AND REMAINED IN PEACE DURING THE CIVIL WAR. HE WAS OLD . IT WAS HERE, 11 JAN 1863, THAT KEDAR HAWTHORNE WAS BORN."

"THE WAR OVER, STEWART PICKED UP HIS REMNANT OF WIDOWED DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, HALF ORPHAN GRANDCHILDREN AND MOVED BACK TO APOPKA. IN 1869 HE DESCRIBED THE TALL TIMBERS OF EASTERN HILLSBOROUGH SO VIVIDLY THAT J. R. AND WILLIAM PURVIS RODE WITH HIM TO LOOK OVER THE SITUATION. HE DISMOUNTED RIGHT WHERE EDISON JUNCTION IS NOW AND TOLD MY FATHER TO CUT INTO A TREE STANDING THERE 'AS HIGH AS YOU CAN REACH' AND THERE THEY FOUND HIS SURVEYOR'S BLAZES MADE IN THE EARLY DAYS. HE SAID THEN 'NOW I HAVE MY LINES.' HE THEN STEPPED OFF 2 HOMESTEADS OF 160 ACRES EACH FOR UNCLE RICHARD AND FATHER. HE ALSO LAID HIS LAND WARRANT ON 80 ACRES THAT LAY OVER IN POLK COUNTY [THIS IS THE MCDANIEL PLACE.]."

!RESEARCHER: OLLIE MARION ARD WHITEHURST SAID SHE HAS DICOVERED THAT JOHN WAS NOT A PRIVATE AS SHE HAD THOUGHT BUT A LIEUTENANT. SHE IS PRESENTLY WORKING ON PROOF OF THIS.

!CENCUS: 1850 US CENCUS OF MARION COUNTY, FL, HOUSE NO. 93, LISTS: JOHN L. STEWART 51 FARMER AND COUNTY COMMISSIONER b. GA,LENORA 46 NC, RICHARD 23 LABORER FL, P. BRYAN 17 LABORER FL, JOHN J. 14 FL, MILES M. J. 12 FL, MARY ANN 9 FL.

!BIOGRAPHY: HISTORY OF APOPKA AND NORTHWEST ORANGE COUNTY, FL., BY JERRELL H. SHOFNER, 1982, APOPKA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, PAGE 7, UNDER CHAPTER, ORIGINS OF THE APOPKA COMMUNITY 1845-1877, IT STATES,

"IN JULY 1843, JOHN L. STEWART AND HIS TWO SONS JONATHON AND MATTHEW, ALL RECEIVED PERMITS FOR HOMESTEADS UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE ARMED OCCUPATION ACT ...THEIR LANDS WERE LOCATED AT LAKE OKAHUMPKA, SEVERAL MILES WEST OF LAKE APOPKA." FOOT NOTE SOURSE: THOMAS C. COCHRAN, NEW AMERICAN STATE PAPERS [WILMINGTON, 1973], VOL. 8, ABSTRACT OF PERMITS FOLLOWING PAGE 315, PERMITS 646,647, 648. THIS SOURSE ALSO STATES

"IN 1882 MATHEW STEWART PURCHASED LAND WARRANT 13279 WHICH HAD BEEN ISSUED TO JESSE DUPREE IN 1855 AND ADDED THE PROPERTY TO HIS HOMESTEAD WHICH HE ACQUIRED IN 1855. AT VARIOUS TIMES HE AND HIS BROTHER, JONATHAN C. STEWART, PURCHASED OTHER LAND FROM THE US LAND OFFICES IN TAMPA, ST. AUGUSTINE AND GAINESVILLE." FOOT NOTE IS ORANGE COUNTY MISC. RECORDS, NO. 3, UNIDENTIFIABLE MISC. FILES, BOTH ON MICROFILM AT THE UNIV. OF CENTRAL FL LIBRARY; AND ORANGE COUNTY, DEED RECORD BOOK D. p. 252. THIS SOURSE IS A MUST FOR DESCENDANTS OF THE STEWART FAMILY TO READ. IT CONTAINS MUCH INFO ABOUT HOW VARIOUS STEWART FAMILY ASSISTED IN DEVELOPING THE AREA OF WHAT IS TODAY, APOPKA, ORANGE COUNTY, FL.

PAGE 9 STATES, "THE 1855 TAX ROLLS SHOW JOHN L., MATTHEW A., JONATHAN C., SAMUEL W., PHILEMON BRYAN, AND JAMES R. STEWART AS LANDOWNERS, BETWEEN THEM THEY OWNED FOURTEEN SLAVES."

" JOHN L. STEWART WAS COUNTY SURVEYOR IN 1854."

!SUMMERY: 1828 MOVED TO HAMILTON COUNTY, FL

1820-1821 WAYNE COUNTY GA MILITIA

1824-25 SURVEYOR WARE COUNTY, GA

1825-27 FIRST REPRESENTATIVE, WARE COUNTY, GA

1828 MOVED TO HAMILTON COUNTY, FL

1835-39 FOUGHT INDIANS

1841 DAUGHTER IS BORN, HAMILTON COUNTY, FL

1843 MOVED TO SILVER SPRINGS, MARION COUNTY, FL

1850 COUNTRY COMMISSIONER FOR MARION COUNTY, FL

1851 MOVED TO ORANGE COUNTY, FL

1853 MOVED TO ALACHUA COUNTY, FL

1855 MOVED TO APOPKA CITY, ORANGE COUNTY, FL

1856 ENLISTED AS A PRIVATE IN THE WAR OF 1856

1861 MOVED TO ST CLOUD, OSCEOLA COUNTY, FL

1865 MOVED TO APOPKA, ORANGE COUNTY, FL

1869 MOVED TO POLK COUNTY, FL

1873 DIED 24 JUL 1873, BURIED BEULAH CHURCH CEMETERY, KEYSVILLE, POLK COUNTY, FL

SIGN AT GRAVE SITE;

JOHN LEVI STEWART,

INDIAN SCOUT & SOLDIER 1835-1839. SERVED IN TERRITORIAL SENATE OF FLORIDA. VETERAN OF INDIAN WAR OF 1856, AND ONE OF THE STATES FIRST SURVYERS, HELPED ESTABLISH STATE LINES. FOUNDED FIRST MOSONIC LODGE IN FL. SELECTED SITE FOR BEULAH CHURCH & CEMETERY. FIRST PERSON BURIED IN BEULAH CEMETERY. [AAGRAHAMRL.FTW]

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1830 , HAMILTON, FL, JOHN L. STEWART, ,HAMILTON FL, FL173

1840 , HAMILTON, FL, JOHN L. STEWART, HAMILTON 087 NO TWP

1850 , MARION, FL, JOHN L. STEWART, 51 M FARMER & COUNTY. COMM, GA

1860 MILLONVILLE,ORANGE,FL, JOHN L. STEWART, 60 GA, FARMER; FL p556, LINE6 1850 ,MARION, FL LISTED WITH JOHN L,; RICHARD STEWART, 23 FL, LABORER !RESEARCHER: FAMILY GROUP RECORD OF OLLIE MARION ARD WHITEHURST. MARION'S SOURCES ARE: BIBLE OF JOHN LEVI STEWART, MCCALL COLLECTION, GEORGIA

ARCHIVES, AND 1850 US CENCUS, MARION CO. FL. !BIOGRAPHY: NATHANIEL YULEE BRYAN AND HIS FAMILY BY THEODORE WOODS, 1987. THIS SOURSE STATES JOHN LEVI STEWART AND LENORA JANE BRYANT WERE MARRIED IN COURT OF ORDINARY, WAYNE COUNTY, GA. SOURSE LISTED IS MARRIAGE RECORDS PUBLISHED IN GA GENEALOGICAL MAGAZINE, 1970. THIS SOURSE ALSO STATES. "JOHN LEVI STEWART SERVED AS A FIRST LIEUTENANT IN THE WAYNE COUNTY MILITIA IN 1820-1821. HE MOVED TO APPLING COUNTY, WHERE HE WAS COUNTY SURVEYOR IN

1824-1825. WHEN WARE COUNTY WAS ERECTED, HE WAS ELECTED A REPRESENTATIVE IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND A JUSTICE OF THE INFERIOR COURT. IN 1828, HE MOVED TO FLORIDA AS A SURVEYOR FOR THE US GOVERMENT. JOHN HELD VARIOUS OFFICES IN HAMILTON, MARION AND ORANGE COUNTIES. AFTER THE CIVIL WAR, HE MOVED TO POLK COUNTY WHERE HE DIED IN 24 JULY 1873. LENORA DIED DIED ON SEPTEMBER 1880 AND BOTH ARE BURIED AT BEULAH CHURCH IN POLK COUNTY. THEY HAD EIGHT CHILDREN , SURNAMED STEWART. !BIOGRAPHY: HISTORY OF WARE COUNTY, GA, STATESON PAGE 147 AND 148: "THE FIRST SENATOR FROM WARE COUNTY WAS PHILEMON BRYAN WHO SERVED FROM 1825 TO 1827 AND JOHN L. STEWART WAS ELECTED THE FIRST REPRESENTATIVE". !BIOGRAPHY: TWO SHEETS FROM A GENEALOGY RECORD FURNISHED BY OLLIE MARION ARD WHITEHURST WHICH STATE: "..BY MARY SMITH HOWELL FROM HANDWRITTEN PAGES OF HISTORY BY AUNT SARA LENORA "LEE" PURVIS MCCRACKEN IN 1937. THEY WERE GIVEN TO UNCLE TOM LEE SMITH AND HE PASSED THEM ON TO MARY SMITH HOWELL IN DEC 1966. IN MAR 1979 NELDA SMITH SWEAT HAS TRIED TO BEGIN WHERE AUNT LEE LEFT OFF IN COMPLETING THE LINE OF DESCENT AND HISTORY OF HAWTHORNES." THE PAGE ON JOHN LEVI STEWART READS: "DIED 22 JUL 1873 - BURIED BEULAH CEMETERY. THIS SECOND SON OF JOHN STEWART AND MARY KNIGHT HUNTER WAS A HIGHLY EDUCATED GENTLEMAN. [I AM LOOKING AT HIS WRITING AS I PEND THIS AND MORE PERFECT PENMANSHIP I HAVE NEVER BEHELD. ]" "JOHN LEVI STEWART MARRIED A SOUTHERN LADY, LINORA BRYAN, WHEN HE WAS 21 YEARS OF AGE. FROM BOYHOOD HE WAS TRAINED TO FIGHT INDIANS. HE SERVED IN THE GEORGIA LEGISLATURE AND THE TERRITORIAL SENATE OF FLORIDA. HE HE FOUGHT THE INDIANS FROM 1835 TO 1839. HE ASSISTED IN ESTABLISHING THE STATE'S BOUNDARY LINES AND WAS WITH THE FIRST SURVEYORS OF THE STATE. FOR THIS HE WAS PAID A BIG SALARY, WHICH HE INVESTED IN SLAVES. HE BOUGHT HIS SLAVES AT THE SLAVE MARKET IN SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. HE SAW HILLSBOROUGH AND POLK COUNTIES BEFORE THE WHITE MAN MARRED ITS PRIMEVAL BEAUTY. HE FELL IN LOVE WITH THESE UNMARRED AREAS." "IN THE EARLIEST DAYS OF THE PURCHASE HE BROUGHT HIS FAMILY TO HAMILTON

COUNTY WHERE MARY ANN [HIS DAUGHTER] WAS BORN 9 AUG 1841. WHEN SHE WAS ABOUT 2 YEARS OF AGE, HE MOVED TO SILVER SPRINGS. THEY LIVED THERE 8 YEARS AND THEN MOVED TO PAYNE'S PRAIRIE IN ALACHUA COUNTY. AFTER 2 YEARS RESIDENCE, MOVED WITH SLAVES, CHATTELS AND EVERYTHING TO APOPKA CITY, FLORIDA. THEY HELPED IN THE EARLY CIVILIZATION OF THE COUNTY. DURING THE BITTER POLITICAL CAMPAIGN OF THE 1860'S,STEWART AND HIS FIVE SONS VOTED FOR THESTATE TO STAY WITH THE UNION. GRANDFATHER WAS ILL BUT HE HAD THEM CARRY HIM ON A BED TO THE POLLS TO VOTE. WHEN THE STATE SECEDED, JAMES R., JOHN J., PHILAMON BRYAN AND JONATHAN C. ENLISTED. GRANDFATHER BOUGHT UNCLE MATTHEW A GRIST MILL SO HE COULD STAY HOME AND HELP WITH THE OTHER FAMILIES." "JOHN L. ENLISTED AS A PRIVATE IN THE WAR OF 1856. HE WAS THEN 56 YEARS OLD." "TO BE AWAY FROM "FREE" NEGROES AND YANKEE MAURAUDERS, JOHN LEVI TOOK HIS

SON'S FAMILIES AND HIS OWN , ALL THE SLAVES AND LEFT APOPKA. HE MOVED TO WHERE ST. CLOUD NOW IS, CLEARED LANDS, BUILT HOMES AND REMAINED IN PEACE DURING THE CIVIL WAR. HE WAS OLD . IT WAS HERE, 11 JAN 1863, THAT KEDAR HAWTHORNE WAS BORN." "THE WAR OVER, STEWART PICKED UP HIS REMNANT OF WIDOWED DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, HALF ORPHAN GRANDCHILDREN AND MOVED BACK TO APOPKA. IN 1869 HE DESCRIBED THE TALL TIMBERS OF EASTERN HILLSBOROUGH SO VIVIDLY THAT J. R. AND WILLIAM PURVIS

RODE WITH HIM TO LOOK OVER THE SITUATION. HE DISMOUNTED RIGHT WHERE EDISON JUNCTION IS NOW AND TOLD MY FATHER TO CUT INTO A TREE STANDING THERE 'AS HIGH AS YOU CAN REACH' AND THERE THEY FOUND HIS SURVEYOR'S BLAZES MADE IN THE EARLY DAYS. HE SAID THEN 'NOW I HAVE MY LINES.' HE THEN STEPPED OFF 2 HOMESTEADS OF 160 ACRES EACH FOR UNCLE RICHARD AND FATHER. HE ALSO LAID HIS LAND WARRANT ON 80 ACRES THAT LAY OVER IN POLK COUNTY [THIS IS THE MCDANIEL PLACE.]." !RESEARCHER: OLLIE MARION ARD WHITEHURST SAID SHE HAS DICOVERED THAT JOHN WAS NOT A PRIVATE AS SHE HAD THOUGHT BUT A LIEUTENANT. SHE IS PRESENTLY WORKING ON PROOF OF THIS. !CENCUS: 1850 US CENCUS OF MARION COUNTY, FL, HOUSE NO. 93, LISTS: JOHN L. STEWART 51 FARMER AND COUNTY COMMISSIONER b. GA,LENORA 46 NC, RICHARD 23 LABORER FL, P. BRYAN 17 LABORER FL, JOHN J. 14 FL, MILES M. J. 12 FL, MARY ANN 9 FL. !BIOGRAPHY: HISTORY OF APOPKA AND NORTHWEST ORANGE COUNTY, FL., BY JERRELL H. SHOFNER, 1982, APOPKA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, PAGE 7, UNDER CHAPTER, ORIGINS OF THE APOPKA COMMUNITY 1845-1877, IT STATES, "IN JULY 1843, JOHN L. STEWART AND HIS TWO SONS JONATHON AND MATTHEW, ALL

RECEIVED PERMITS FOR HOMESTEADS UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE ARMED OCCUPATION ACT ...THEIR LANDS WERE LOCATED AT LAKE OKAHUMPKA, SEVERAL MILES WEST OF LAKE APOPKA." FOOT NOTE SOURSE: THOMAS C. COCHRAN, NEW AMERICAN STATE PAPERS [WILMINGTON, 1973], VOL. 8, ABSTRACT OF PERMITS FOLLOWING PAGE 315, PERMITS 646,647, 648. THIS SOURSE ALSO STATES "IN 1882 MATHEW STEWART PURCHASED LAND WARRANT 13279 WHICH HAD BEEN ISSUED TO JESSE DUPREE IN 1855 AND ADDED THE PROPERTY TO HIS HOMESTEAD WHICH HE

ACQUIRED IN 1855. AT VARIOUS TIMES HE AND HIS BROTHER, JONATHAN C. STEWART, PURCHASED OTHER LAND FROM THE US LAND OFFICES IN TAMPA, ST. AUGUSTINE AND GAINESVILLE." FOOT NOTE IS ORANGE COUNTY MISC. RECORDS, NO. 3, UNIDENTIFIABLE MISC. FILES, BOTH ON MICROFILM AT THE UNIV. OF CENTRAL FL LIBRARY; AND ORANGE COUNTY, DEED RECORD BOOK D. p. 252. THIS SOURSE IS A MUST FOR DESCENDANTS OF THE STEWART FAMILY TO READ. IT CONTAINS MUCH INFO ABOUT HOW VARIOUS STEWART FAMILY ASSISTED IN DEVELOPING THE AREA OF WHAT IS TODAY, APOPKA, ORANGE COUNTY, FL. PAGE 9 STATES, "THE 1855 TAX ROLLS SHOW JOHN L., MATTHEW A., JONATHAN C.,

SAMUEL W., PHILEMON BRYAN, AND JAMES R. STEWART AS LANDOWNERS, BETWEEN THEM THEY OWNED FOURTEEN SLAVES." " JOHN L. STEWART WAS COUNTY SURVEYOR IN 1854." !SUMMERY: 1828 MOVED TO HAMILTON COUNTY, FL 1820-1821 WAYNE COUNTY GA MILITIA

1824-25 SURVEYOR WARE COUNTY, GA

1825-27 FIRST REPRESENTATIVE, WARE COUNTY, GA

1828 MOVED TO HAMILTON COUNTY, FL

1835-39 FOUGHT INDIANS

1841 DAUGHTER IS BORN, HAMILTON COUNTY, FL

1843 MOVED TO SILVER SPRINGS, MARION COUNTY, FL

1850 COUNTRY COMMISSIONER FOR MARION COUNTY, FL

1851 MOVED TO ORANGE COUNTY, FL

1853 MOVED TO ALACHUA COUNTY, FL

1855 MOVED TO APOPKA CITY, ORANGE COUNTY, FL

1856 ENLISTED AS A PRIVATE IN THE WAR OF 1856

1861 MOVED TO ST CLOUD, OSCEOLA COUNTY, FL

1865 MOVED TO APOPKA, ORANGE COUNTY, FL

1869 MOVED TO POLK COUNTY, FL

1873 DIED 24 JUL 1873, BURIED BEULAH CHURCH CEMETERY, KEYSVILLE, POLK COUNTY, FL SIGN AT GRAVE SITE;

JOHN LEVI STEWART,

INDIAN SCOUT & SOLDIER 1835-1839. SERVED IN TERRITORIAL SENATE OF FLORIDA. VETERAN OF INDIAN WAR OF 1856, AND ONE OF THE STATES FIRST SURVYERS, HELPED ESTABLISH STATE LINES. FOUNDED FIRST MOSONIC LODGE IN FL. SELECTED SITE FOR BEULAH CHURCH & CEMETERY. FIRST PERSON BURIED IN BEULAH CEMETERY.[STEWART 1 2713.FTW]

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!CENCUS:

1830 , HAMILTON, FL, JOHN L. STEWART, ,HAMILTON FL, FL173

1840 , HAMILTON, FL, JOHN L. STEWART, HAMILTON 087 NO TWP

1850 , MARION, FL, JOHN L. STEWART, 51 M FARMER & COUNTY. COMM, GA

1860 MILLONVILLE,ORANGE,FL, JOHN L. STEWART, 60 GA, FARMER; FL p556, LINE6

1850 ,MARION, FL LISTED WITH JOHN L,; RICHARD STEWART, 23 FL, LABORER

!RESEARCHER: FAMILY GROUP RECORD OF OLLIE MARION ARD WHITEHURST. MARION'S

SOURCES ARE: BIBLE OF JOHN LEVI STEWART, MCCALL COLLECTION, GEORGIA ARCHIVES, AND 1850 US CENCUS, MARION CO. FL.

!BIOGRAPHY: NATHANIEL YULEE BRYAN AND HIS FAMILY BY THEODORE WOODS, 1987. THIS SOURSE STATES JOHN LEVI STEWART AND LENORA JANE BRYANT WERE MARRIED IN COURT OF ORDINARY, WAYNE COUNTY, GA. SOURSE LISTED IS MARRIAGE RECORDS PUBLISHED IN GA GENEALOGICAL MAGAZINE, 1970. THIS SOURSE ALSO STATES.

"JOHN LEVI STEWART SERVED AS A FIRST LIEUTENANT IN THE WAYNE COUNTY MILITIA IN 1820-1821. HE MOVED TO APPLING COUNTY, WHERE HE WAS COUNTY SURVEYOR IN 1824-1825. WHEN WARE COUNTY WAS ERECTED, HE WAS ELECTED A REPRESENTATIVE IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND A JUSTICE OF THE INFERIOR COURT. IN 1828, HE MOVED TO FLORIDA AS A SURVEYOR FOR THE US GOVERMENT. JOHN HELD VARIOUS OFFICES IN HAMILTON, MARION AND ORANGE COUNTIES. AFTER THE CIVIL WAR, HE MOVED TO POLK COUNTY WHERE HE DIED IN 24 JULY 1873. LENORA DIED DIED ON SEPTEMBER 1880 AND BOTH ARE BURIED AT BEULAH CHURCH IN POLK COUNTY. THEY HAD EIGHT CHILDREN , SURNAMED STEWART.

!BIOGRAPHY: HISTORY OF WARE COUNTY, GA, STATESON PAGE 147 AND 148:

"THE FIRST SENATOR FROM WARE COUNTY WAS PHILEMON BRYAN WHO SERVED FROM 1825 TO 1827 AND JOHN L. STEWART WAS ELECTED THE FIRST REPRESENTATIVE".

!BIOGRAPHY: TWO SHEETS FROM A GENEALOGY RECORD FURNISHED BY OLLIE MARION ARD WHITEHURST WHICH STATE:

"..BY MARY SMITH HOWELL FROM HANDWRITTEN PAGES OF HISTORY BY AUNT SARA LENORA "LEE" PURVIS MCCRACKEN IN 1937. THEY WERE GIVEN TO UNCLE TOM LEE SMITH AND HE PASSED THEM ON TO MARY SMITH HOWELL IN DEC 1966. IN MAR 1979 NELDA SMITH SWEAT HAS TRIED TO BEGIN WHERE AUNT LEE LEFT OFF IN COMPLETING THE LINE OF DESCENT AND HISTORY OF HAWTHORNES." THE PAGE ON JOHN LEVI STEWART READS: "DIED 22 JUL 1873 - BURIED BEULAH CEMETERY. THIS SECOND SON OF JOHN STEWART AND MARY KNIGHT HUNTER WAS A HIGHLY EDUCATED GENTLEMAN. [I AM LOOKING AT HIS WRITING AS I PEND THIS AND MORE PERFECT PENMANSHIP I HAVE NEVER BEHELD. ]" "JOHN LEVI STEWART MARRIED A SOUTHERN LADY, LINORA BRYAN, WHEN HE WAS 21 YEARS OF AGE. FROM BOYHOOD HE WAS TRAINED TO FIGHT INDIANS. HE SERVED IN THE GEORGIA LEGISLATURE AND THE TERRITORIAL SENATE OF FLORIDA. HE HE FOUGHT THE INDIANS FROM 1835 TO 1839. HE ASSISTED IN ESTABLISHING THE STATE'S BOUNDARY LINES AND WAS WITH THE FIRST SURVEYORS OF THE STATE. FOR THIS HE WAS PAID A BIG SALARY, WHICH HE INVESTED IN SLAVES. HE BOUGHT HIS SLAVES AT THE SLAVE MARKET IN SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. HE SAW HILLSBOROUGH AND POLK COUNTIES BEFORE THE WHITE MAN MARRED ITS PRIMEVAL BEAUTY. HE FELL IN LOVE WITH THESE UNMARRED AREAS."

"IN THE EARLIEST DAYS OF THE PURCHASE HE BROUGHT HIS FAMILY TO HAMILTON COUNTY WHERE MARY ANN [HIS DAUGHTER] WAS BORN 9 AUG 1841. WHEN SHE WAS ABOUT 2 YEARS OF AGE, HE MOVED TO SILVER SPRINGS. THEY LIVED THERE 8 YEARS AND THEN MOVED TO PAYNE'S

PRAIRIE IN ALACHUA COUNTY. AFTER 2 YEARS RESIDENCE, MOVED WITH SLAVES, CHATTELS AND EVERYTHING TO APOPKA CITY, FLORIDA. THEY HELPED IN THE EARLY CIVILIZATION OF THE COUNTY. DURING THE BITTER POLITICAL CAMPAIGN OF THE 1860'S,STEWART AND HIS FIVE SONS VOTED FOR THESTATE TO STAY WITH THE UNION. GRANDFATHER WAS ILL BUT HE HAD THEM CARRY HIM ON A BED TO THE POLLS TO VOTE. WHEN THE STATE SECEDED, JAMES R., JOHN J., PHILAMON BRYAN AND JONATHAN C. ENLISTED. GRANDFATHER BOUGHT UNCLE MATTHEW A GRIST MILL SO HE COULD STAY HOME AND HELP WITH THE OTHER FAMILIES."

"JOHN L. ENLISTED AS A PRIVATE IN THE WAR OF 1856. HE WAS THEN 56 YEARS OLD."

"TO BE AWAY FROM "FREE" NEGROES AND YANKEE MAURAUDERS, JOHN LEVI TOOK HIS SON'S FAMILIES AND HIS OWN , ALL THE SLAVES AND LEFT APOPKA. HE MOVED TO WHERE ST. CLOUD NOW IS, CLEARED LANDS, BUILT HOMES AND REMAINED IN PEACE DURING THE CIVIL WAR. HE WAS OLD . IT WAS HERE, 11 JAN 1863, THAT KEDAR HAWTHORNE WAS BORN."

"THE WAR OVER, STEWART PICKED UP HIS REMNANT OF WIDOWED DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, HALF ORPHAN GRANDCHILDREN AND MOVED BACK TO APOPKA. IN 1869 HE DESCRIBED THE TALL TIMBERS OF EASTERN HILLSBOROUGH SO VIVIDLY THAT J. R. AND WILLIAM PURVIS RODE WITH HIM TO LOOK OVER THE SITUATION. HE DISMOUNTED RIGHT WHERE EDISON JUNCTION IS NOW AND TOLD MY FATHER TO CUT INTO A TREE STANDING THERE 'AS HIGH AS YOU CAN REACH' AND THERE THEY FOUND HIS SURVEYOR'S BLAZES MADE IN THE EARLY DAYS. HE SAID THEN 'NOW I HAVE MY LINES.' HE THEN STEPPED OFF 2 HOMESTEADS OF 160 ACRES EACH FOR UNCLE RICHARD AND FATHER. HE ALSO LAID HIS LAND WARRANT ON 80 ACRES THAT LAY OVER IN POLK COUNTY [THIS IS THE MCDANIEL PLACE.]."

!RESEARCHER: OLLIE MARION ARD WHITEHURST SAID SHE HAS DICOVERED THAT JOHN WAS NOT A PRIVATE AS SHE HAD THOUGHT BUT A LIEUTENANT. SHE IS PRESENTLY WORKING ON PROOF OF THIS.

!CENCUS: 1850 US CENCUS OF MARION COUNTY, FL, HOUSE NO. 93, LISTS: JOHN L. STEWART 51 FARMER AND COUNTY COMMISSIONER b. GA,LENORA 46 NC, RICHARD 23 LABORER FL, P. BRYAN 17 LABOR

More About John Levi Stewart: Date born 2: 1800, Georgia.5741, 5742, 5743, 5744, 5745, 5746, 5747 Date born 3: March 06, 1800, ,Glynn, GA.5748, 5749, 5750, 5751 Date born 4: March 06, 1800, Glynn County Georgia.5752, 5753, 5754, 5755, 5756, 5757, 5758, 5759 Burial: Unknown, Beulah Church Cem, Keysville, Polk, Fl.5760, 5761, 5762 Died 2: 1873, Polk County, FL.5763, 5764, 5765, 5766, 5767, 5768, 5769 Died 3: July 24, 1873, Beulah Cemetery Polk County Florida.5770, 5771, 5772, 5773, 5774, 5775, 5776, 5777 Died 4: July 24, 1873, Keysville, Polk, Fl.5778, 5779, 5780, 5781 Fact 1: served in Indian War.5782, 5783, 5784, 5785, 5786, 5787

More About John Levi Stewart and Lenora Jane Bryan: Marriage 1: Abt. 18255788 Marriage 2: 1821, Wayne County, GA.5789, 5790, 5791, 5792, 5793 Marriage 3: January 11, 1821, ,Wayne, Ga.5794, 5795, 5796 Marriage 4: January 18, 1821, Wayne County North Carolina.5797, 5798, 5799, 5800, 5801

• Religion: 2 PLAC Baptist
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