Julia Stewart crossed the Red River into Texas in a covered wagon Christmas Eve, 1855, with her husband, Dr Thomas Stewart and five children, accompanied by her brother, W W Brady.
The Stewarts were enroute to Parker County, but were compelled to settle in the area that would become Wise County by the assets the area offered. They bought some land and built a home on Oliver Creek.
Following the Civil War, she and Dr Stewart moved to Kansas, then, to Oregon, returning to Texas in 1899 to live out lives surrounded by their family.
(Cates, Cliff Donahue: Pioneer history of Wise County: From Red Men to Railroads--Twenty Years of Intrepid History, Wise County Old Settlers' Association, Decatur, TX, 1907, Call number: 9153621), pp. 258-60.
Julia Stewart crossed the Red River into Texas in a covered wagon Christmas Eve, 1855, with her husband, Dr Thomas Stewart and five children, accompanied by her brother, W W Brady.
The Stewarts were enroute to Parker County, but were compelled to settle in the area that would become Wise County by the assets the area offered. They bought some land and built a home on Oliver Creek.
Following the Civil War, she and Dr Stewart moved to Kansas, then, to Oregon, returning to Texas in 1899 to live out lives surrounded by their family.
(Cates, Cliff Donahue: Pioneer history of Wise County: From Red Men to Railroads--Twenty Years of Intrepid History, Wise County Old Settlers' Association, Decatur, TX, 1907, Call number: 9153621), pp. 258-60.
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