Colonel George Steuart and His Wife Margaret Harris

by Robert Stewart

1907

George Steuart (1736-1787) son of John Stuart (d. 1749) and his wife Ann Garland (b. 1716?). George married Margaret Harris (1737-1815) in 1758. When he reached the age of 13 his father died leaving him the only son of a widowed mother, with two sisters younger than himself naturally looking to him, as well as to their mother, for help. Several years later his mother remarried, a widower with 7 children himself. The family move about 4 miles away from the homestead. When George married he and his wife moved into the old homestead of 207 acres of land. George and Margaret had 6 children.