(5169.) BENJAMIN FRANKLIN HIATT (2940.) (1160.) (402.) (81.) (11.) (2.) (1.):
b. 6-11mo-1891, Surry Co., NC. (R152).
Eliza D. Stewart
Eliza Daniel Stewart was an important temperance advocate during the latter half of the nineteenth century. She began her career in public service during the American Civil War. Stewart actively participated in Soldiers' Aid Societies and the United States Sanitary Commission during the conflict, helping to establish hospitals, serving as a nurse, and supplying the soldiers with foodstuffs, blankets, medicine, and other supplies.
U pon the war's conclusion, Stewart became an active member in the temperance movement. She traveled across the United States and Europe, giving speeches on the effects of alcohol. In 1876, she toured England and helped establish the British Women's Temperance Association. Within the United States, Stewart also greatly assisted the temperance movement. She founded the Women's Temperance League of Osborn, Ohio, in 1873 and the Ohio Temperance League at Springfield, Ohio, in January 1874. The Osborn organization became the first local chapter of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1874.
Durin g 1873 and 1874, Stewart also participated in a temperance crusade. Temperance advocates escalated their efforts to convince their fellow Americans to abstain from alcohol. For example, in Hillsboro, Ohio, in 1873, women marched through the town. They stopped at every saloon, approximately twenty of them, and prayed for the souls of the barkeepers and their patrons. The women also demanded that the owners sign a pledge to no longer sell alcohol. By 1875, more than 130 other communities also had experienced marches.
St ewart became well-known for her activities. One newspaper reporter wrote, "so great was her zeal, and so robust and boundless her courage, that she accompanied her prayers and her marchings upon the streets with an attack with the gospel in one hand and the law in the other upon the saloon-keepers themselves." Stewart remained committed to the temperance movement for the remainder of life.
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Eliza Daniels Stewart became the famed Mother Stewart who was a Civil War nurse and Temperance reformer. She was a beautiful woman and looked enough like John Dever Guthery Sr. to be his own sister. Her mother, Rebecca, is buried in the Indian mound in Mound Cemetery at Piketon, Ohio with her father and mother.
Newspaper Article, Piketon, Pike, Ohio, USA
MOTHER STEWART
A Birthday Offering to One Who Was Born
In Piketon, April 25, 1816.A Famous Woman with a National Reputation.
To mark the spot in commemoration of the deeds of one who was born in Piketon, Ohio, on April 25, 1816, a monumental pile should be raised.
In that town Mrs. Eliza D. Stewart began her eventful life. Motherless at 3 and orphaned at 12, the early lessons of bereavement and endurance were fitting her to feel for and sympathize with suffering humanity.
From childhood her heart was ever drawn to those who suffered either in body or mind, and she was always most happy when she could alleviate their distress. She has ever felt for the poor, because she had learned the harder lessons of self support and self sacrifice. A nature sensitive ,refined and loving, the buffetings of the world had a tendency only to enlarge her sympathies and soften a more than usually tender heart into one of intense love and kindness, that has gone out and on, until the whole civilized world has known Mother Stewart.
Converted at fifteen, she began active church work wherever duty called. Later she took upon her the responsibilities of Sunday School and common school teaching, and to her, both of these meant a rounding out of moral and Christian character, as well as intellectual development. She was always an advocate of temperance. When the civil war began she was ready. Husband and step sons were at the front while her energies were given to helping with supplies until the "boys in blue’ all along the line said, "God bless Mother Stewart."
The crusade against rum brought every latent gift into recognition, and with the courage of a Daniel and trusting in his God, she went forth for home and humanity against the hosts of rum. During the crusade she spoke in a hundred towns and cities in the first six months. When this movement was chrystalizing into the W. C. T. U. she was one of the foremost in working for it.
Because of the great amount of work she had been instrumental in having accomplished at her home in Springfield, the first W. C., T. U. convention was called to that city. In 1876 she carried the message of the crusade to Great Britain, and as a result of her work, she had the satisfaction of seeing, before she left the kingdom, the organization of the British Woman’s Temperance Association. She has since crossed the seas twice in that great work. She took the work into the south and did more than any other woman to dispel the bitterness remaining after the war. Mother Stewart is honored Good Templar and an adopted sister of the Sir Knights in the Masonic order. She stood all one night on picket duty when Morgan’s guerrillas went through Southern Ohio. She has taken the place of a lawyer and plead the cases of drunkard’s wives and children and never lost a case. Eighty full years of earnest Christian toil can be known only "when the mists have rolled away and our comprehension is enlarged and radiated by the light of eternity. But with all her public work, she has been a faithful mother, a true wife and not only a tidy housekeeper but a model home-keeper as well. She demonstrated that a woman may be intelligent in all lines even as men are, and yet be womanly and refined as the most critical standard demanded by men. The great world recognizes at this eightieth birthday, that Mother Stewart’s sphere of usefulness is without limit to our mortal view, we hope that the sunset glories of life’s resting time may be commensurate to the heat and burden borne in its meridian. Move, a labor is sweet, but may the resting after it, be sweeter than the toil.
April 1896
Waverly Newspaper
AnnGu3added this on 20 Nov 2010
Eliza D. StewartEliza Daniel Stewart was an important temperance advocate during the latter half of the nineteenth century. She began her career in public service during the American Civil War. Stewart actively participated in Soldiers' Aid Societies and the United States Sanitary Commission during the conflict, helping to establish hospitals, serving as a nurse, and supplying the soldiers with foodstuffs, blankets, medicine, and other supplies.
U pon the war's conclusion, Stewart became an active member in the temperance movement. She traveled across the United States and Europe, giving speeches on the effects of alcohol. In 1876, she toured England and helped establish the British Women's Temperance Association. Within the United States, Stewart also greatly assisted the temperance movement. She founded the Women's Temperance League of Osborn, Ohio, in 1873 and the Ohio Temperance League at Springfield, Ohio, in January 1874. The Osborn organization became the first local chapter of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1874.
Durin g 1873 and 1874, Stewart also participated in a temperance crusade. Temperance advocates escalated their efforts to convince their fellow Americans to abstain from alcohol. For example, in Hillsboro, Ohio, in 1873, women marched through the town. They stopped at every saloon, approximately twenty of them, and prayed for the souls of the barkeepers and their patrons. The women also demanded that the owners sign a pledge to no longer sell alcohol. By 1875, more than 130 other communities also had experienced marches.
St ewart became well-known for her activities. One newspaper reporter wrote, "so great was her zeal, and so robust and boundless her courage, that she accompanied her prayers and her marchings upon the streets with an attack with the gospel in one hand and the law in the other upon the saloon-keepers themselves." Stewart remained committed to the temperance movement for the remainder of life.
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Eliza Daniels Stewart became the famed Mother Stewart who was a Civil War nurse and Temperance reformer. She was a beautiful woman and looked enough like John Dever Guthery Sr. to be his own sister. Her mother, Rebecca, is buried in the Indian mound in Mound Cemetery at Piketon, Ohio with her father and mother.
Newspaper Article, Piketon, Pike, Ohio, USA
MOTHER STEWART
A Birthday Offering to One Who Was Born
In Piketon, April 25, 1816.A Famous Woman with a National Reputation.
To mark the spot in commemoration of the deeds of one who was born in Piketon, Ohio, on April 25, 1816, a monumental pile should be raised.
In that town Mrs. Eliza D. Stewart began her eventful life. Motherless at 3 and orphaned at 12, the early lessons of bereavement and endurance were fitting her to feel for and sympathize with suffering humanity.
From childhood her heart was ever drawn to those who suffered either in body or mind, and she was always most happy when she could alleviate their distress. She has ever felt for the poor, because she had learned the harder lessons of self support and self sacrifice. A nature sensitive ,refined and loving, the buffetings of the world had a tendency only to enlarge her sympathies and soften a more than usually tender heart into one of intense love and kindness, that has gone out and on, until the whole civilized world has known Mother Stewart.
Converted at fifteen, she began active church work wherever duty called. Later she took upon her the responsibilities of Sunday School and common school teaching, and to her, both of these meant a rounding out of moral and Christian character, as well as intellectual development. She was always an advocate of temperance. When the civil war began she was ready. Husband and step sons were at the front while her energies were given to helping with supplies until the "boys in blue’ all along the line said, "God bless Mother Stewart."
The crusade against rum brought every latent gift into recognition, and with the courage of a Daniel and trusting in his God, she went forth for home and humanity against the hosts of rum. During the crusade she spoke in a hundred towns and cities in the first six months. When this movement was chrystalizing into the W. C. T. U. she was one of the foremost in working for it.
Because of the great amount of work she had been instrumental in having accomplished at her home in Springfield, the first W. C., T. U. convention was called to that city. In 1876 she carried the message of the crusade to Great Britain, and as a result of her work, she had the satisfaction of seeing, before she left the kingdom, the organization of the British Woman’s Temperance Association. She has since crossed the seas twice in that great work. She took the work into the south and did more than any other woman to dispel the bitterness remaining after the war. Mother Stewart is honored Good Templar and an adopted sister of the Sir Knights in the Masonic order. She stood all one night on picket duty when Morgan’s guerrillas went through Southern Ohio. She has taken the place of a lawyer and plead the cases of drunkard’s wives and children and never lost a case. Eighty full years of earnest Christian toil can be known only "when the mists have rolled away and our comprehension is enlarged and radiated by the light of eternity. But with all her public work, she has been a faithful mother, a true wife and not only a tidy housekeeper but a model home-keeper as well. She demonstrated that a woman may be intelligent in all lines even as men are, and yet be womanly and refined as the most critical standard demanded by men. The great world recognizes at this eightieth birthday, that Mother Stewart’s sphere of usefulness is without limit to our mortal view, we hope that the sunset glories of life’s resting time may be commensurate to the heat and burden borne in its meridian. Move, a labor is sweet, but may the resting after it, be sweeter than the toil.
April 1896
Waverly Newspaper
AnnGu3added this on 20 Nov 2010
(5178.) JAMES RILEY HIATT (2940.) (1160.) (402.) (81.) (11.) (2.) (1.):
b. 25-8mo-1907, Surry Co., NC. (R152).
(5223.) HELEN K. JONES (2979.) (1190.) (420.) (86.) (11.) (2.) (1.):
b. 21-6mo-1899, Mooreland, Indiana; living 1950 in Muncie, Indiana; m. TED C. LACY.CH: (6935.) Teddy C.; (6936.) Judith Ann. (R125).
(6922.) KENNETH WAYNE SIMPSON (5193.) (2944.) (1161.) (402.) (81.) (11.) (2.) (1.):
b. 7-3mo-1944, High Point, Guilford Co., NC.; d. 15-8mo-1944. (R152).