STEWART, Haviland: Died 1909

STEWART, MAUK

Posted By: Volunteer: Sherri
Date: 7/29/2013 at 06:42:41

Haviland Stewart was born in Kentucky, in 1839. Enlisted at Vernon, Iowa as a private in Co. F. 2d Iowa Infantry, on the 27th of may 1861, was discharged in April 1862; reenlisted as soon as his health would permit and was finally discharged at Louisville, Ky., July 12th 1865. Was married to Miss Emma C. Mauk, at Bentonville, Iowa on the 18th of July 1866. There were born to this union two sons and six daughters all of whom with their mother survive. Comrade Stewart came to the Iowa Soldiers Home in 1901 where he died on 22d of January 1909.

Funeral services were held in the Home Chapel conducted by the Chaplin of the Home on Saturday 23d inst. The following brief address after reading the above obituary notice: In that casket is all that remains of the soldier, the citizen, the husband, the father, the friend, and comrade. We shall see him no more among living men or familiar things. Yet he is not dead his life is simply transmitted into other and more enduring forms. The Republic stands as a monument to, and embodiment of, the time and thought and patriotism and blood of the Revolutionary fathers, its preservation is the embodiment of the time and heroic service and effort of the boys of sixty-one to sixty-five. Comrade Stewart in company with two million other patriots substituted their lives for the Nations life, and Comrade Stewart lies in the Nations Life. As the buildings, parks, pavements, push and enterprise of a city are attributable to the efforts of earnest men, so is every thing which is great grand and commendable in our Nation attributable to the courage push and enterprise of those who laid the foundations and built there upon, and those who preserved that building from dissolution. These men become as immortal as the Country for which they lived, fought, suffered and died.

This Comrade lives in his family. The affection they bear for him, and I have never known a family of sons and daughters as attentive to a father as these have been to their father, and his life will continue, with that of their mother, in the lives and character of each of these young men and women. By extended remarks the Chaplain showed that men and women have immortality in this world by living for that which is immortal. The man that has no immortality in this life is he who lives for nothing beyond selfish motives and selfish interests.

Source: Van Buren Co. Genealogical Society Obituary Book C, Page 164, Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, IA