Mrs. Moses "Mary A." (Glew) Stuart 1821-1885

GLEW, STUART

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 1/21/2019 at 22:00:56

MRS. MARY A. STUART, Sec. 35; P.O. Cottage Hill; she was born Jan. 2, 1821, in Pennsylvania; she came to Dubuque Co. with her parents in 1839; she is the widow of Moses Stuart, who was born Nov. 11, 1811 in New Hampshire; when a boy, he came, with his parents, to Maine; in 1839, he came to Dubuque Co. He was married to Miss Mary A. Glew, Feb. 18, 1841; he died in September 1878; they had eleven children, nine living- Adaline, Elvira, Orren, Ellen, Summer, Moses, Mary, Ansel, Alvin, Oliver (enlisted in 1862, in Co. C. 21st I.V.I., and died June 17, 1863, of disease contracted in the army), Olive (died in 1870, aged 3 years). She owns about three hundred acres of land.

- "The History of Dubuque County"