Thomas David Stuart

Thomas David Stuart was born on August 29, 1874, in Johnsville, Bradley County, Arkansas. Tom grew up in Bradley County, one of six children born to Thomas Henry & Amanda Jane (Thomas) Stuart.

Tom married McCaulley Morgan in about 1899. They resided in Wilmar, Drew County, Arkansas, and were the parents of two children, Henry Wilson Stuart and Van E. Stuart.

McCaulley died on March 31, 1909. Sons Van and Wilson were only 5 and 8 years old when she died. McCaulley is buried at the cemetery in Wilmar.

Tom married Anne Logan Douglass on September 24, 1909, in Louisville, Kentucky. Annie was born and raised in the Maywood area of Lincoln County, Kentucky, the youngest of six children born to Nathaniel & Emily Tucker Kirkpatrick Douglass. Sometime after her father's death in 1898, Annie moved to Arkansas, to live with her uncle, James Barnes Douglass, who resided in Drew County.

Tom and Annie began their married life residing in Warren and then Fordyce, Arkansas. Tom is enumerated on the 1910 census as being a retail grocery merchant in Warren, Bradley County, Arkansas. He was later hired to run a store in Ankeny, Polk County, Iowa. The family moved to Iowa in about 1914, and resided there for several years. By 1920, Tom and Annie had relocated to Pine Bluff, where they remained for the rest of their lives. Tom was manager of the company store for the Arkansas Oak Flooring company in Pine Bluff. He also had his own business, Stuart Mercantile, in Warren and Pine Bluff.

Tom and Annie were the parents of one child, a daughter Maxine.