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Source: Atlas Map of Fulton County, Illinois, 
Andreas, Lyter, and Co., Davenport, Iowa. 1871
(page 51)

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Mary Steward was the wife of Cornelius Steward, and was born in the state of Virginia in the year 1794, and moved with her parents, to Ohio, and lived with them until the year 1814, when she married Cornelius Steward, and continued to live in Ohio until she had five children, when they moved to Morgan county, Illinois, and stayed one year. They then moved to Fulton county, and settled on section 21, in Lewistown township, where Mr. Steward died in February, 1871, and was buried on his own farm, in a spot he had selected some years before he died. Mrs. Steward is the mother of thirteen children, six of whom are still living. Her son, Perry, left his home in Indiana and took part in the late war as a federal soldier, and has never been heard of since 1864. It is supposed he is dead. Her son, Daniel, has been in California about twenty years. He is about fifty-two years old. The rest of the children who are living, reside in her own vicinity. Mrs. Steward is in good health, for one of her age, and is comfortably situated on the old homestead farm.