Alexander Dundas Stewart

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1870, Sabine Pass, Jefferson Co, Texas
• Census: 1880, Sabine Pass, Jefferson Co, Texas
• Census: 1920, Mobile, Mobile Co, Alabama

Notes:

(from email from Charlie Vincent - cvincent@281.com)
The Gentz or Gantz name is familiar because a woman by
that name married John Stewart in Sabine Pass in the mid-1800s. John's sister was Margaret Stewart, who was married to another of my great grandfathers, C.W. (Colin) Balston, who served with Spaight's troops at Sabine Pass and was later assigned to one of the ships the Confederates captured there 8 Sept. 1863.

Thanks again,
Charlie

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(ancestry.com)
Inquiry abt John Stewart from Chris Miller
My name is Chris Miller and I'm looking for information on John STEWART (ancestors and descendants and how John got to Texas). I hope the following story will ring a bell.

During the Civil War, John Stewart was captain of the gunboat Clifton (Previously caputed from the North and used by the South for blockade-running of cotton to Mexico.). One day during a heavy fog, the Clifton ran aground off the coast of Sabine Pass, Texas. Two Yankee gunboats were in pursuit in an effort to recapture the Clifton and its cargo. To prevent recapture, Captain Stewart ordered the cotton to be saturated with kersene and the ship set afire. The crew walked to Sabine Pass. In due time, the rocker-arm of the ship was salvaged and mounted on a concrete base on the bank of the Sabine River, within the city of Beaumont, as a memorial to the courageous crew.

John's son Willie, John's first marriage, married Emma ALLEN (both of Sabine Pass, Jefferson County, Texas). Willie and Emma died in 1896-1898 leaving their 5 children as orphans. They all moved in with an Aunt Kate Stewart in Mobile, Alabama. I have information once the family got to Alabama.

Thank you for your help,
Chris.


Census:
John Stewart M 40y Scotland
Fredereka Stewart F 18y Louisiana
Hiram Stewart M 16y Texas
John Stewart M 12y Texas
Peter Stewart M 8y Texas
William Stewart M 7y Texas
Fredreka Stewart F 4m Texas
C Crossman M 49y Lttein
Fredereka Crossman F 43y Germany
Charles F Crossman M 20y Louisiana
John Crossman M 16y Louisiana
William Crossman M 13y Louisiana
Caroline Crossman F 12y Louisiana
Bertha Crossman F 10y Louisiana
Henry Crossman M 8y Louisiana
Fredrick Crossman M 5y Louisiana
Albert Crossman M 2y Texas


next door:
probably brother William Stewart, age 35 laborer, born in Scotland; living with C.E. Coronia 1805 France; and wife Alinda Coronia 53 (1817) Louisiana; and children.

Census:
Jno. Stewart 57 Scotland Scotland Scotland capt. pilot boat
F. Stewart 27 Louisiana Germany Germany
H. Stewart 26 Texas Scotland Prussia
Jno. Stewart 22 Texas Scotland Prussia
Wm. Stewart 14 Texas Scotland Prussia
Frederica Stewart 11 Texas Scotland Louisiana
Maggie Stewart 8 Texas Scotland Louisiana
Alx. Stewart 6 Texas Scotland Louisiana




Census:
John A Stewart 60 1860 Alabama Scotland Texas steamboat captain (edited in Ancestry that A is Aden or Arlen)
Maria C Stewart 52 Alabama Denmark Denmark (edited to Marie E.)
John A Stewart 28
Henry E Stewart 26
Carrie Stewart 17

John married Maria Frederika Crossman in 1868 in Sabine Pass, Jefferson Co, Texas. Maria (daughter of (lighthouse keeper) Charles Crossman, (immigrant) and Fredericka Kinsler) was born on 3 Feb 1852 in New Orleans, Louisiana; died in Sep 1923 in Sabine Pass, Jefferson Co, Texas; was buried in Magnolia Cem, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Other-Begin: 12 Oct 1886, Hurricane of 1886, Sabine Pass, Jefferson Co, Texas
• Census: 1900, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas
• Census: 1920, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas

Notes:

daughter of Charles Crossman.

From: cpmiller_unc94@yahoo.com
Date: Thursday, December 19, 2002 07:41:18 AM
To: TXJEFFER-L@rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: Information Re: Moses Allen

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list.

Surnames: Stewart, Allen, Gentz, Crossman
Classification: Query

Message Board URL:

http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BkB.2ACE/177.181

Message Board Post:

In your Allen research, have you come across an Emma Allen? She was married to John Stewart in Sabine Pass, Jefferson County, Texas in the 1860's.

Thank you,
Chris
One piece of information that I noticed about my message on Rootsweb, John actually remarried to a Crossman. It was his son, William Stewart, who married Emma Allen.

Other-Begin:
THE GREAT STORM OF 1886:
A DAY OF AGONY AND DEATH AT SABINE PASS, TEXAS

Mrs. John Stewart and daughter Frederika floated across Sabine Lake to Aurora, present-day Port Arthur, surviving by clinging for 12 hours to a mattress and a door frame.
http://www.wtblock.com/wtblockjr/great1.htm

Census:
1900 Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas
536 Ratchford Street
Mary F. Carlson 48 Feb 1852 widow Louisiana Louisiana Louisiana births 5 living 4
Anna Carlson 10 Jul 1889 dau Texas Texas Louisiana

Census:
1920 Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas
Sumpter Etheredge 36 1884 Georgia Georgia Georgia newspaper daily editor
Anna M Etheredge 30 1890 Texas Norway Louisiana
Marie M Carlson 68 1852 mother-in-law widow Louisiana, Germany Germany

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1870, Sabine Pass, Jefferson Co, Texas
• Census: 1880, Cameron Parish, Louisiana

Notes:

Census:
Charles Crossman 55 Germany
Frederacka Crossman 48 Germany
Bertha Crossman 20 Louisiana
Heny Crossman 18 Louisiana
Fredric Crossman 15 Texas
Albert Crossman 13 Texas
Benjamin Crossman 8 Texas

Charles married Fredericka Kinsler about 1847. Fredericka was born in 1827 in Deutschland; died after 1880 in of, Cameron Parish, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]