Mary A. Kinton Stewart

KINTON, STEWART

Posted By: Ida Morse
Date: 4/12/2006 at 22:00:32

Winterset Madisonian and Chronicle
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, April 5, 1888
Page 1

Obituary Notice

Grandmother Stewart, of Douglas township, died at her home on last Friday. From her great age and her unusually industrious habits, kept up till long after the time of life when most people, even the few who live so long, become helpless, she had be come quite a local celebrity.

The writer has seen her when past seventy years of age, going to the neighbors, working in the fields, helping to manufacture the sorghum cane then so commonly raised, and doing various kinds of labor. She would walk to Winterset to do her marketing, a distance of about seven miles, in weather so cold that no man would travel without an overcoat. She owned a small piece of land, and did a large part of the work of the cultivation of it, holding the plow herself.

For several years past since she has been unable to care for herself, her daughter, now almost sixty years of age, has remained constantly with her, endeavoring to comfort the last days of the one whose long life had been such a struggle. A friend hands us the following particulars of her life.

Mary A. Kinton was born in east Tennessee January 22d, 1798; was married in the year 1826 to Archibald Stewart; removed from Tenessee (Tennessee) to Virginia, thence to Indiana, thence to Illinois, thence to Jefferson county, Iowa, where her husband died. The family then moved to Madison county, Iowa, where she lived till removed by death, departing the 23d of March 1888, aged 90 years and 8 months. She was the mother of five children, one dying in infancy and four living to womanhood.

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