New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-06-21
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HEARTRENDING ACCIDENT.

Death of General Stewart and Wife.
The st. Louis Democrat of Saturday con.
tains the following from the. Troy, Lincoln
county, Herald of the fifteenth instant:
A general gloom has been spread over the
county by the sad intelligence of the death
of General David Stewart and his wife,
who were killed by horse running away
with the buggy in which they were going to
Louisville last Sunday morning to attend
church No one was near at the time the
accident occurred. Mrs. Stewart was
found first by persons on their way to
church. She was lying in the woods near
the road, mangled, torn and lifeless. Her
skull was badly fractured, her breast
crushed. one arm broken in three places
and her thigh broken, the shock being so
great that piece of the thigh bone about
six inches long was forced from its place,
which was found lying on her breast.
About fifteen or twenty steps further on IN
the woods General Stewart was found
His skull was badly fractured and his face
disfgured, and, although there were signs
of life, he was unconscious, and in about
two hours he breathed his last without hay
ing spoken word. The manner of their
death other than this will never be known,
as no one witnessed the sad sight.
The funeral took place at his family
burying ground, near Louisville, on last
Monday. They were both placed in one
coffin, and thus inferred. Elder Timothy
Ford, Of this place, performed the burial
service, and 80 universal was the esteem
and love for General Stewart that between
five hundred and thousand people were
there from this county and Pike, to pay the
last sad tribute of respect of the living to
the dead Heavy were the hearts and moist
the eyes that turned away from the grave
of the good man and his worthy wife.
General David Stewart was born in Mont
gomery county, Kentucky, January a.
1898. He emigrated to Missouri in 1893,
and to this county in 1880, where he has
lived ever since-torty-one years. He was
general of the State militia in the prosper
GUS days of the good old past, and repre-
scented the county in the Legislature, at an
early day, as an old line Wing, since when
he has filed many positions Of honor and
trust in the county.
General Stewart was twice married. The
first time to Miss Margaret Jameson, of
Kentucky. in 1896, with whom he lived I'M
til her death in 1913, and by whom he had
eleven children; six of these survive to I
mourn his sad death. The second marriage
was in 1850, and to Miss Mary c. McFan
land, who shared with him the unfortunate
accident of last Sunday. One child was
born to the general by his second mar
riage-a daughter-nOw an interesting
young lady OF eighteen, who is thus berett
of both father and mother at one fell
stroke. May heaven temper the wind to
the shorn lamb.
General Stewart and his wife were both
members of the Christian Church, he hav-
ing been professor for thirty-tive years
most OF the time an elder-and Mrs. Stewart
for twenty-five years.
Thus ends the life of one of the truest
and nOblest men we ever knew; and the
grand cOncourse of people that gathered
around him to bestow the last sad tribute
of respect to his ashes, and the looks of
sorrowful regret as they gazed upon the
mangled forms, speak in far more eloquent
tones than any eulOgy We could pronounce.