Around 1854 her mother, then a widow, loaded her family in a wagon and began a move from NC, across the Blue Ridge Mountains to Henderson County in West Tennessee, in a group led by Rev Hosea Preslar. Caroline never married and lived with her mother and sister, Roseanna Margaret 'Peggy' Stewart.
After Caroline and her sister died, their house was being torn down and an old dirty stained pillowslip was found the the attic which contained many letters, receipts and other papers that their mother Catherine had saved. These are known as the "pillowslip papers". Among these were letters from her sons who wrote home to her during the Civil War.
It is unknown exactly when Caroline died. She was buried in the Preslar Cemetery in Henderson County TN along with others in her family.
Around 1854 her mother, then a widow, loaded her family in a wagon and began a move from NC, across the Blue Ridge Mountains to Henderson County in West Tennessee, in a group led by Rev Hosea Preslar. Caroline never married and lived with her mother and sister, Roseanna Margaret 'Peggy' Stewart.
After Caroline and her sister died, their house was being torn down and an old dirty stained pillowslip was found the the attic which contained many letters, receipts and other papers that their mother Catherine had saved. These are known as the "pillowslip papers". Among these were letters from her sons who wrote home to her during the Civil War.
It is unknown exactly when Caroline died. She was buried in the Preslar Cemetery in Henderson County TN along with others in her family.
Gravesite Details
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Family Members
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Roseanna Margaret "Peggy" Stewart
1829 – unknown
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James Sanders Stewart
1830–1893
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Nancy Angeline Stewart Preslar
1832 – unknown
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Sgt John R Stewart
1835–1864
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Sgt John R Stewart
1835–1864
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Parthenia Dorothea Stewart Bailey
1837–1919
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William Robinson Stewart
1839–1904
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Alfred Merriel "A.M." Stewart Jr
1843–1914
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