The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1916-10-03
GENERATIONS REMEMBER
REV. THOS. R. STEWART
At The Age of 90 He Sends Greet
ings to Relatives in This City
Was Nj. E. Minister so Years.

None but Septuagenarians now re-
member the popular and good look
ing young lawyer, Thomas R. Stew
art, who lived and loved and married
in Cambridge, between 70 and rs
years ago. And they have lost sight
o. him for such very great length
of time that they will be surprised
and pleased to hear that he is still
living, at the great age of So years,
at Phoenix, Arizona. A letter from
a devoted daughter, one of the issue
of his second marriage, to her re-
mote young cousin, Miss Ernestine
Taylor, of this city, announces this
fact, and conveys Mr.. Stewards wish
to be kindly remembered to all those
In Dorchester of his old-time asso-
ciates and acquaintance who bear
him in remembrance.
Mr.. Stewart was born near Madi-
son, in 1920, one of the numerous
sons of that Capt. John Stewart who,
during the war of 1924, collected
a company of neighbors and captur-
ed a British sloop Of war that had
been driven aground in or near the
mouth of Little Choptank river. He
was a brother of Judge James A.
Stewart, John T. Stewart, of Sandy
HILL" etc., all so well known to our
citizens of the last generation.
After studying law with his bro
Their, he removed to Denton, Caro-
line county, but came back to marry
his bride, Miss Anna James, one of
the James sisters then living in what
is now known as the Simmons house,
at Race and Cedar streets, so widely
known for their beauty in the for
ties" She died very young, leaving
him three children, the two younger
ones (daughters) being so well
known to the last generation as the
beautiful Mollie and Mamie Stew
art-afterwards Mrs. J. Mcpherson
Edwards and Mrs. William G. Lee
Compte-who bloomed and flourish
ed in Cambridge just after the Civil
War. Some years after the death of
his first wife, he married Miss Fanny
Kelly, of Caroline county, the sister
of Mrs. Thomas c. Eaton, of this
city, and hence great-aunt OF Miss
Taylor. Messrs. Alfred and Donald
Stewart, of Cambridge, are his
nephews.
Mr.. Stewart, in the early fifties,
removed to Texas, and quit the pro-
fession of law to assume that of the
church, and for over SO years was an
active member of the ministery of
the M. E. Church, and was widely
known and beloved through our
Southwestern States. He finally be-
came blind, and retiring from the
pulpit, settled at Phoenix, where his
life has been solaced and made toler-
able through the devotion of his
daughter, Mrs. Fannie S. Williams.
To show his relatives and old
friends here the high esteem in
which he is held in the State of his
adoption, Mrs. Williams has sent to
Miss Taylor the following certificate:
Liberty, Arizona, 4-17-'16.
Rev. R. T. Stewart,
Phoenix, Arizona.
Dear Brother Stewart:
At the call of your name for the
passage of character, in the District
Conference at Cartwright, your pas
tor, Rev. w. ]. Sims, gave a glowing
report Of your mellow, sanity life.
In connection with the passage Of
your character, the secretary was in
structed to convey to you love and
greetings from the Conference, and
| to re-assure you of the high esteem
in which you are held by the breth-
rem. We assure you that your life
! and exampie is q DenedfctiUn to rs.
May God bless you, and spare you to
us yet many days.
Yours in the extention of His
Kingdom,
Arizona District Conference.
Per-S. G. Backmon, Sec.
So far as is known, not one of Mr..
Stewards former associates is still
living, the late Uriah Mcguire being
probably the very last survivor, but
there are doubtless many who, like
the writer, remember him from their
boyhood days, and who will be glad
| to hear of his honored old age.
CLEMENT SULIVANE.