STEWART, WILLIAM HENRY (1818-1903) ~ William Henry Stewart, attorney and judge, was born in Cambridge, Maryland to Joseph Fookes and Rachel Linthicum Stewart. He attended Dickinson grammar school in in 1837, entered Dickinson College in Pennsylvania from which he received an A.B. in 1841. He was admitted to the bar in Cambridge in 1843. He moved to Iowa in 1844, and to Texas in the fall of that same year. He settled in Gonzales and was elected mayor in 1848. In 1849, he was elected to the Texas legislature serving in the 2nd and 3rd Congresses. He served with the rank of major in the Quartermaster Corps of the Confederate Army. He was a member of the Texas Constitutional Committee of 1875. Stewart settled in Galveston, where he was elected judge of the district court of the Tenth Judicial District of Texas in 1876, and served continuously until his death. He became a Baptist in 1870. He first married Adeline Morrison. They had no children. When she died, he married again to Adeline Tomlinson. Together they had two daughters. After her death, he married a third time to Mary Walker Minor. Together they had two sons, one of them Maco Stewart who had Maco Stewart, Jr., a prominent businessman in Galveston.
Source: Texas Handbook Online
Broadway Cemeteries Vol. 1
Oct. 1900 ~ March 1910"
"Records of Interment in the
City of Galveston 1900 to 1910
Book No. 1 ~ Volume 2"
copied in 1994 by Linda & Doug McBee, JR.
Source: Texas Handbook Online
Broadway Cemeteries Vol. 1
Oct. 1900 ~ March 1910"
"Records of Interment in the
City of Galveston 1900 to 1910
Book No. 1 ~ Volume 2"
copied in 1994 by Linda & Doug McBee, JR.
STEWART, WILLIAM HENRY (1818-1903) ~ William Henry Stewart, attorney and judge, was born in Cambridge, Maryland to Joseph Fookes and Rachel Linthicum Stewart. He attended Dickinson grammar school in in 1837, entered Dickinson College in Pennsylvania from which he received an A.B. in 1841. He was admitted to the bar in Cambridge in 1843. He moved to Iowa in 1844, and to Texas in the fall of that same year. He settled in Gonzales and was elected mayor in 1848. In 1849, he was elected to the Texas legislature serving in the 2nd and 3rd Congresses. He served with the rank of major in the Quartermaster Corps of the Confederate Army. He was a member of the Texas Constitutional Committee of 1875. Stewart settled in Galveston, where he was elected judge of the district court of the Tenth Judicial District of Texas in 1876, and served continuously until his death. He became a Baptist in 1870. He first married Adeline Morrison. They had no children. When she died, he married again to Adeline Tomlinson. Together they had two daughters. After her death, he married a third time to Mary Walker Minor. Together they had two sons, one of them Maco Stewart who had Maco Stewart, Jr., a prominent businessman in Galveston.
Source: Texas Handbook Online
Broadway Cemeteries Vol. 1
Oct. 1900 ~ March 1910"
"Records of Interment in the
City of Galveston 1900 to 1910
Book No. 1 ~ Volume 2"
copied in 1994 by Linda & Doug McBee, JR.
Source: Texas Handbook Online
Broadway Cemeteries Vol. 1
Oct. 1900 ~ March 1910"
"Records of Interment in the
City of Galveston 1900 to 1910
Book No. 1 ~ Volume 2"
copied in 1994 by Linda & Doug McBee, JR.
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