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Mississippi, U.S., Compiled Marriage Index, 1776-1935
Name: Mary M. Ramsey Spouse: Richard A. Stewart Marriage Date: 27 Dec 1830 County: Amite
1840 United States Federal Census
Name: Reverend R A Stewart Reverend Home in 1840 (City, County, State): Amite, Mississippi
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 30 thru 39: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 40 thru 49: 1
Slaves - Males - Under 10: 5
Slaves - Males - 10 thru 23: 6
Slaves - Males - 24 thru 35: 2
Slaves - Males - 36 thru 54: 1
Slaves - Females - Under 10: 7
Slaves - Females - 10 thru 23: 5
Slaves - Females - 24 thru 35: 3
Persons Employed in Agriculture: 16
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 4
Total Free White Persons: 4
Total Slaves: 29
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 33
1850 United States Federal Census
Name: Richard Stewart Age: 34 Birth Year: [abt 1816] [1805] Birthplace: Louisiana [Virginia] Home in 1850: Iberville, Louisiana Occupation: Planter Industry: Agriculture
Real Estate: 44000 Line Number: 16 Dwelling Number: 464 Family Number: 503
Household Members Age
Richard Stewart 34
Madam Stewart 30
Madam Ramsey 54
Samuel Hart 51
U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995
Name: R A Stewart Residence Year: 1861 Street Address: La Residence Place: New Orleans, Louisiana Occupation: Sugar
U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
Name: Richard Atlantic Stewart Arrival year: 1867 Arrival Place: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Primary Immigrant: Stewart, Richard Atlantic
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Richard Atlantic Stewart BIRTH 10 Sep 1805 Culpeper County, Virginia DEATH Feb 1880 (aged 74) Orange Lake, Marion County, Florida BURIAL Trinity-Oaklawn Cemetery Orange Lake, Marion County, Florida MEMORIAL ID 17935346
Parents John Stewart 1769-1849 Catherine Campbell Stewart 1775-1846
Spouse Sarah A West Stewart 1835-1911 (m. 1874)
Siblings
William Stewart 1795-1828
Charles Stewart 1800-1869
Jane C Stewart Alexander 1811-1849
Sarah Ann Stewart McCreary 1817-1849
Lycurgus G Stewart 1821-1888
Note: Richard shares a marker with his wife, Sarah, and her sister, Laura West.
Posted 28 Mar 2011 by Dan Bedford
Richard Atlantic Stewart was born in Culpeper County, Virginia. His family soon moved about 1806 to Sumner County, Tennessee. By 1830 he was a lawyer practicing in Wilkinson, Mississippi. December of 1830 he married his first wife, Mary Ramsey, daughter of a wealthy Amite sugar planter. Richard eventually settled in the Iberville/East Baton Rouge area of Louisiana and from there he raised a company of his neighbors for the Mexican War.
Richard A. Stewart was a Methodist Episcopal Reverend, a captain then colonel in the Mexican War, a captain then major in the Civil War, a wealthy sugar planter, politician, inventor, coffee planter in Brazil and traveler. He was either a close acquaintance, or friend, of Zachary Taylor.
He is mentioned in a huge number of documents from passport applications and land records to newspaper articles and academic thesis.
He is called Richard, R A, The Fighting Reverend (or Parson) and Dick. He earned the nickname "Black Dick" probably due to his raven hair which it has been said was a prominent feature into old age.
Richard died in Orange Lake, Marion, Florida about February of 1880. He is buried there in the Trinity/Oaklawn Cemetery sharing a marker with his wife Sarah and her sister, Laura West. His obituary published February 18, 1880, in the Times-Picayune, gives a great summary of his life.
"Col. R A Stewart. The sad intelligence has just reached us of the death at Orange Lake, Florida, of Col. Richard A. Stewart, long and well known throughout Louisiana and Mississippi. Col. Stewart was a native of Tennessee, but moved to Mississippi at an early age, there married a daughter of Mr. Matthew Ramsey, and subsequently moved to Louisiana, and engaged in the cultivation of sugar, which occupation he continued until the outbreak of the war."
"He then raised a battery from Pointe Coupee parish, and was among the first of the Louisianians that went into the field from this state. His valor, courage and noble service as commander of that battery will long be remembered by his countrymen with glowing and grateful hearts. Remarkable for his suavity of manner, his fine personal appearance and address and his conversational powers, he had endeared himself to many friends in this city and state, who will hear with regret of his death."
"Col. Stewart was in politics a Whig, and ran for Congress some years ago against Mr. Harmonson, who was the successful opponent. Since the war the Colonel moved to Brazil, and from there the the Island of St. Thomas, where he introduced with great success his process for defecating cane juice. After accumulating quite a handsome fortune in the islands, he returned to the United States and located at Orange Lake, Florida, where he died."
"There are perhaps few instances in life where men of his age have displayed more energy or courage. At the close of the war, finding himself financially ruined, he left the country with what little money he could raise, and started for Brazil. After a trial at coffee planting for two years he found himself very much worsted, and from there he went to St. Thomas, which point he reached with only fifteen dollars in his pocket; he was three score years and ten, without a friend or acquaintance in the island. He introduced himself to the Governor General, and by his fine address, plausible statement and elegant manner, ingratiated himself at once into the confidence of that gentleman. He made an arrangement with the Danish Government to introduce his patent for clarifying cane juice, and met at once with success. After having accumulated something of a fortune he returned to Louisiana, and here compromised with his creditors and settled accordingly all of his debts."
"He left Louisiana with a light heart, feeling that he had discharged his duty like a faithful servant, and returned to Florida where he had some interests which he desired to settle with a view of coming back to Louisiana, where he wanted to pass the balance of his life. But there the great destroyer overtook him, and before his hopes could be realized he was called to his last home. Many are the friends who will remember his virtues."
