Wabasha County Herald (Wabasha, Minnesota) February 7, 1877, page 5 (of 8) Column 2.

Mr. Stuart McMaster, of St. Paul, died at his residence in that city, on the morning of February 1st. he leaves a wife and five children to mourn his irreparable loss. His body was brought here for interment.

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See his mother's obituary, for confirmation that Robert Stuart McMaster was buried in Riverview Cemetery in the family plot.

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From the genealogy provided by Clara McMaster Bill
Robert Stewart McMaster
1845-1877

"Stewart" as he was generally called, was the ninth of the twelve children and the youngest son.

At the age of eighteen he went into the employ of the American Express Company as messenger. For a number of years his run was between La Crosse and St. Paul, using steamers in the summer and stages in the winter. Later he was transferred to a run on the West Wisconsin Railway between St. Paul and Elroy, and lived in the former city after his marriage. While on this latter run he was taken ill and taken to his home in West St. Paul where after three weeks of suffering he died. His trouble was not fully understood by the doctors, but in the light of the writer's later experience we are satisfied it would now be known as appendicitis.

He possessed a sturdy upright character and a very affectionate disposition. During the meetings of Evangelists Whittle and Bliss, two years before his death, he was led to feel it his duty to come out on the "Lord's Side" which he did and joined the Clinton Ave. M.E. Church and went actively to work for the Master spending much of his time in Bible study fitting himself for teacher and superintendent of the Sunday school which positions he held at the time of his death.