Information on John M. Stewart...etc.

From Branson's Business Directory, 1896

TOWN OFFICERS

MONROE – Mayor, Dr. J.W. Stephenson; Commissioners, H.A. Shute, J.M. Blair, B.A. Morrow, S.W. Parham;Clerk, J.M. Stewart; Treasurer, J.M. Stewart; Marshall, N.S. Ogburn.

The year of Sarah Hortense Davis Stewarts death and the year after her divorce, her father-in-law held not one, but two offices in the town of Monroe. I am sure if William, who was teaching at a Music School in Chester, South Carolina, was a little low on funds for a lawyer, his father would have gladly helped out. Hortenses father had already passed away by this time and her mother had married a drunkard who had came from money, but by the time of their marriage, his was long gone. They lived off what she could muster from her deceased first husbands estate. 

J. M. Stewart was still alive and well in Monroe in 1902. 

From the Freepages.genealogy Union County Deeds:

Deed Book 32 pages 544-545

Therefore let the said deed, together with this certificate, be registered March 21, 1902. 

E. A. Armfield CSC

Filed for registration March 21

st

1902 at 1:50 oclock pm

JM Stewart, Register

E. C. Williams commissioner to S. E. Hamilton

State of North Carolina

Union County

This indenture made this  15

th

day of March A.D. 1902 between E. C. Williams commissioner of 

the County of Union, State of North Carolina party of the first part and S. E. Hamilton of the 

County and State aforesaid, party of the second part, Witnesseth that whereas in a special 

proceeding regularly instituted in the Superior Court of Union County before the block and 

entitled M. A. Newsome, et al, Plaintiffs and Addie Pusser, et al defendants for the partition and 

division of certain premises mentioned in the petition in said proceeding an order was made by 

said Court that a sale of said premises be made and appointing and directing E. C. Williams, 

party of the first part, commissioner to make said sale of said premises at public auction to the 

highest bidder at the Court House door, in said County, after giving notice according to the law 

of the time and place of such sale, and whereas the said commissioner pursuant to the said order 

and directions of the said Court after giving notice of the time and place of said sale prescribed 

by statute, did on the 4

th  

day of Nov. A.D. 1901 at 12 oclock M, in the city of Monroe, N. C.  at 

the Court House door, exposed to sale at public auction, the hereafter described lands at which 

time and place S. E. Hamilton, party of the second part, became the last and highest bidder at the 

price of seven hundred and ten ($710.00) Dollars, and whereas the said S. E. Hamilton has paid 

the entire sum of the purchase price in cash, and the party of the first part having reported the 

said sale according to law and the same having been approved and confirmed by said Court and a 

deed ordered to be executed to the party of the second part.