Genealogy Report: Descendants of John Floyd
Descendants of John Floyd
241.COLONEL PATRICK MARTIN9 STEVENS, JR. (PATRICK MARTIN8, SARAH FLOYD7STEWART, MOURNING BURFORD6FLOYD, JOHN5, WILLIAM4, JOHN3, CHARLES2, JOHN1)2209 was born 17 April 1874 in Oak Hill, Bairdstown, Oglethorpe Co., GA2210,2211, and died 05 September 1966 in the hospital, Union Point, Greene Co., GA2212.He married HATTIE MITCHELL 02 January 1908 in the Mitchell's Green Street home, Gainesville, Hall Co.,GA, daughter of ROBERT MITCHELL and NANCY PRATER.She was born 17 February 1884 in Gainesville, Hall County, GA, and died 20 September 1976 in the hospital, Union Point, Green Co., GA2213.
Notes for COLONEL PATRICK MARTIN STEVENS, JR.:
Called Patrick by his mother at his birth, and named for his father, he later dropped the use of the full Patrick, and by the time his son was born in 1909 named him Pat M Stevens III. (This practice of the shorter "Pat" continued until Patrick Martin Stevens Vth arrived in 1980)
Pat was raised on the farm at Oak Hill, as the youngest of many older sisters and brothers. He often talked of "all those girls."By the time he reached college age, his parents were quite old with his Dad 51 years his senior, and much reduced in wealth after the war. Pat went first to Georgia Tech, where he entered the Class of 1896, one of the first classes.He studied mechanical drawing and engineering, but stayed for only the first year, returning home "with only a few cents left" in the spring of 1893. He worked as a "printer's devil" for his brother in law (William A. Shackelford, Nell's husband) in Lexington at the Oglethorpe Echo, but returned to Tech to complete the 1896 academic year.Again he went back to Lexington and the Echo.At the beginning of the War with Spain in 1898 heenlisted in the 46th US Volunteers, taking the train to South Framingham, Massachusetts to do so, and left with them for the Philippines. (A perhaps apochryphal story notes that the NCO receiving the new recruits asked Pat his name and he replied with the full name: Patrick Martin Stevens, Jr. The sergeant said 'I'm entering your name as Pat M Stevens,' and that is the way the Army carried him his whole long career.)After a colorful stint in the Islands, he was discharged as a Sergeant in 1900 at the Presidio of San Francisco and returned home to await the results of an examination he had taken to be commissioned an officer.For a time he worked, again at a newspaper, in Dublin, Ga.In 1901 the Secretary of the Army sent him a telegram saying he was to be a new second lieutenant, but it was lost for he was no longer in Dublin. His friend, a young woman there, found it and sent it to Oak Hill where he learned he was to be commissioned. He became a second lieutenant on 2 February 1901 (the same day as George C. Marshall) and spent several years in the 23d Infantry both in the Philippines and in various small Army garrisons around the US.After marrying Hattie in 1908, they returned to the Pacific, where his first son Pat III was conceived, causingHattie to take ship back home through the Suez Canal in early 1909 for Pat III's arrival in August. The baby was nine months old before his Dad saw him for the first time.
Pat served in WWI in, among other units, the 91st (Pine Tree) Division in combat. He was awarded the Belgian Croix de Guerre and the Purple Heart. In the post-war years, he was the senior advisor to the West Virginia and, later, the Georgia,Army National Guard. They lived in Huntington and Atlanta during those years. He went on to retire as a Colonel in 1933, and he and Hattie settled at Oak Hill in the early part of 1936, where they remained until their deaths. He volunteered to return to service in WWII, but was refused because of his age, 68 in April 1942. His recommendations for the award of theSilver Star for actions in both the Philippines and Europe, which had been declined at the time, were later reconsidered but rejected.
On the 24th August, 1966, he was burned accidentally while burning leaves behind his home at Oak Hill. After several days in the hospital in Greensboro, Greene Co., GA, he died at 12.30 AM on the 5th September 1966, in his 93d year.
He was the last of his sisters and brotherswhen he died. He and Hattie are buried in the family cemetery at Oak Hill, with his father and mother and most of his brothers and sisters, as well as his son, Robert Mitchell Stevens. He lived to see me graduate from the Military Academy at West Point in 1963. I loved him a lot. He is the inspiration for all these family notes.
His direct line of descent includes a number of Revolutionary and earlier French and IndianWar participants who are documented by the DAR: Colonel John Floyd (Va/Ky), Captain John Stewart, b 1760 (Va), 2d Lieutenant John Martin (Va), Captain Christopher Irvin (Va), William Floyd (Va) (served as a drummer;he was in his fifties when he enlisted. He had served as Captain in the French and Indian Wars), Daniel Burford (Va) (Public Service, contributed to war effort), John Stewart b 1734 (Va) (DAR has him as a Captain, but this is debatable), Private Joseph Henderson (SC), Private Lawrence Bankston (NC), Private Jonathan Brooks (NC), Reverend Iverson Lewis (Va), Matthew Tucker (Va) (Public Service), and Major Joseph Stevens in Caroline Co., VA, who served as an Engineer until 1758.
Each of these is recorded in these pages.
More About COLONEL PATRICK MARTIN STEVENS, JR.:
Burial: the Stevens Cemetery at Oak Hill, Oglethorpe Co., GA
Notes for HATTIE MITCHELL:
Hattie was the only daughter in her family, and the last of the three children. She was comfortably raised,her father a successful businessman in north Georgia, and a three time mayor of Gainesville. She had a fine upright piano when she was eight, and she played it all her life. She was well educated and studied music at Brenau College in Gainesville where she graduated in 1903. After college, she taught music in Gainesville, and traveled a bit, one trip in 1906 to visit the Federal City and stay with her US Representative and his family in what is called the Capitol Hill area of DC.In 1908 she married Pat, an Army Infantry lieutenant, and almost immediately left for the Philippine Islands. Her parents must have been despondent .
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In late 1908 she learned she was pregnant and sought immediate shipment home from Zamboanga. She sailed on a freighter from the Islands to Indonesia, and there transhipped to a German passenger ship, the RPD Prinz Eitel Friedrich,for a passage through the new Suez Canal to Europe. "Pat, it's just a palace.I have a lovely cabin. Just feel too good for words," the young pregnant mother writes to Zamboanga on a post card picturing the vessel. In Europe, she again changed ships for the trip back to America. Her diary of this trip exists; I have it and intend to publish it. Home in Gainesville by August 1909, she delivered the first of two sons, Pat, named for his father. Robert followed in 1912 at Fort Logan, Colorado, and the small family moved frequently until WWI, when they returned to Gainesville while then Lt. Colonel Stevens was in Europe. After the war they lived in Florida, Georgia and West Virginia until Pat retired to Oak Hill in 1935.
He died in 1966 at 92, and she followed ten years later at the same age. She lieswith her husband Pat, son Robert and brother Arthur in the Stevens cemetery at Oak Hill.
More About HATTIE MITCHELL:
Burial: the Stevens Cemetery at Oak Hill, Oglethorpe Co., GA
Marriage Notes for PATRICK STEVENS and HATTIE MITCHELL:
They were married in the evening of the 2d January 1908 at her parents' home on Green Street.
Children of PATRICK STEVENS and HATTIE MITCHELL are:
| i. | COLONEL PAT M10 STEVENS III, b. 16 August 1909, the Mitchellhome, 24 No. Green St., Gainesville, Hall Co., GA2214; d. 21 June 2007, his home in Novato, Marin Co., CA; m. (1) GRACE LOUISE MARSHALL, 14 October 1938, Alameda Co., CA; b. 12 June 1916, 212 East Pecan Street, Gainesville, Cooke Co., TX2215,2216; d. 17 June 1968, Letterman Hospital, the Presidio of San Francisco, San Francisco,CA2217; m. (2) BILLIE BELLE BURKE2218, 16 June 1971, Carson City, NV; b. 20 July 1912, Streeter, Mason Co., TX2218; d. 05 January 1997, Novato, Marin Co.,CA2219. |
| Notes for COLONEL PAT M STEVENS III: Pat was conceived in the Philippines in Zamboanga, Mindanao where his parents were with the 23rd US Infantry. In February, 1909, his mother returned home to Georgia by sea through the Suez Canal for his birth at 12.30 in the morning August 16, 1909. When his father rejoined them in Gainesville in 1910, they began the peripatetic life of an early 20th century Army family. They moved to Laredo, Texas, on the Mexican border for eight months, then to Angel Island in the San Francisco Bay, now a National Park, where they stayed for almost a year. Their house is on the east side of the parade, the third or fourthfrom the top of the hill. (I was there with Dad in 1986. He showed me the house where he had been a child....)From there they moved to Fort Logan, Colorado, where Robert joined his brother Pat in 1912.After three winters in the Colorado snow, they moved to Texas City, Texas, as the border problems with Mexico warmed. After just a few months, it was on to Jacksonville, Florida, and from there to Galveston, Texas by sea, where they arrived just after the devastating 1916 flood. Next was El Paso, Texas-- which was the first of several stays there for Pat III, the last to be some 32 years later. Pat III was in Syracuse, NY for the summer of 1916, and visited Washington DC to include a climb up the Washington Monument. In 1917 his father left for Europe and WWI, and Pat returned with his mother and Robert to Gainesville for almost two years. After the war, they moved first to Jacksonville, Florida, a return, and then on to Camp Jackson, SC, and Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, where Pat attended the 6th grade on post while his father was at the Staff College. In 1922 they moved to Atlanta, where he remained in school through his graduation in 1933 from Georgia Tech. in Mechanical Engineering. He was the Colonel of the ROTC Cadet Corps, the highest position, and was awarded the cadet sabre for his prize. Taking a reserve commission from Tech, he worked as an engineer for the Corps of Engineers in the Huntington District doing surveys for utility line relocations before the flood control resevoirs filled. He later joined the Hazel Atlas Glass Company. Moving to California in May 1935-- he arrived in Oakland on May 5th-- he continued Reserve Duty, and took a full-time commission in 1938 in the Coast Artillery, after which he was posted in Long Beach with his unit, reporting for active duty with the 78th Coast Artillery Regiment at March Army Air Field 1 August 1940, where he commanded Battery D.He rose to Lt. Col. in WWII, and was awarded the Bronze Star for Valor, the French Croix de Guerre three times, and the Purple Heart for wounds in battle. He served in North Africa, Sicily, Corsica, and France before entering Germany as the war climaxed. He was with an Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment through the War in the II Corps. After the war he was appointed toheadthe Tactics Department at the ArtillerySchool at Ft. Bliss, and from there was chosen to attend the Command and General Staff College at Leavenworth. At graduation, he joined the Army General Staff as a research and development project officer in the Pentagon (working on the development of the firstgeneration of Army missiles) until 1953 when he was ordered to bethe Senior US Representative to the United Kingdom Standardization Group in London for three years. In 1956, he was chosen tocommand the 24th AAA Group (Nike Missiles) in Philadelphia, and was later a staff officer at Ft. Monroe and in Okinawa, where he also commanded the IX Corps Artillery. For several months in 1962, he commanded the US Army Support Group, Viet Nam, in the early days of the war.He retired as a senior Colonel (eleven years in grade) in 1964, when he and Grace moved to Novato, California. Commissioned into the Army before his father retired, his own retirement came after his son Pat IV was on active duty. The three Pats served on active dutywithout a break from 1898 until 1996, with Pat III commissioned in 1933 before his father's retirement and Pat IV's commissioning in 1963 before his father retired in 1964. (And Patrick V was commissioned in the Army on July 27, 2002.) (He always noted that the middle initial "M" was an initial only and should not have a period following. I have tried to maintain that tradition for my own name with no success into the 1990s. Editor ) I called him a minute ago to wish him a happy 93rd birthday. He was about to be off with his stepsons to supper in Novato at Orsi's.And in Sept. we visited him and he is excited about the delivery of his new BMW z4 in November for his drive to Florida for Christmas with the Vaughans. For the 2003 Christmas he flew to us in Va. My last visit to him was a week in February 2007 and we did all the usual things: he drove his BMW z4 and we toured the Marin headlands above the Golden Gate so he could show me where he fired training rounds with his anti-aircraft unit in the late 30s, ate in San Francisco at Fisherman's Wharf, and headed out to the Marin coast for oysters. On 21 June 2007 he died at 1815 hours in his home in Novato. He was at peace, but weakened from a year-long bout with some form of anemia. He finished his last model boat before he died, and was out driving his sports car at least the day before. God Speed, we'll miss you! He was buried at his request with full military honors in Arlington on 5 September 2007. |
| More About COLONEL PAT M STEVENS III: Burial: 05 September 2007, Section 52, Site 597 Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA Cause of Death: Congestive Heart Failure and Anemia Education: Georgia Tech, Mech Engineering, 1933 |
| Notes for GRACE LOUISE MARSHALL: Grace was raised as the youngest of severalbrothers and sisters in Gainesville, TX,where her father and motherwere both from Cooke Co. families whichhad for many years ranched and raised cattle in the north Texas area.After graduating at the Gainesville HS, she went first to the University of California, Berkeley, where she remained fortwo years.In 1936, she was asked by her national sorority headquarters (Alpha Omicron Pi)to manage the startup of their new branch at the University of Washington in Seattle, where she remained as a student for a time.Returning to theSan Francisco Bay Area, where her elder sister Nan Priest and Carl had moved after marrying in 1934, she worked in the Union Square Parker Pen Office, where Carl, an executive with the company,had his office. She wasintroduced to Pat III by mutual friends, and they were married in the Fall of 1938.She accompanied Pat around the world for almost 30 years, including overseas postings in Londonand the Island ofOkinawa, until they retired to Marin County, California in 1964,where they located on a golf course in the Marin hills of Novato. She was soon named President of the Marin Country Club Estates Women's Golf Association, as well as being their champion golfer for several years.She is buried in Arlington National Cemetery, to where I came home from the war in Vietnam to be with her at her graveside on that sad day. Three of us-- Dad and Nancy and me. She died on June 17, 1968. On 5 Sep 2007 Dad was buried beside her. From her nephew Jerry Koontz about Grace: "I first (came to Gainesville)in 1945 when the war was over....Your mother lived in a rented house (ed.: in February 1943 she bought the house on Denton) down the street from the Denton Street house (ed.: the Marshalls lived at 809 South Denton Street).While you and Nancy were taking naps in the early afternoon, I would visit with your mother.I absolutely adored her.She was such fun to be with.On the average visit she was busy in the kitchen making dessert for the family dinner that would take place in the evening at 809 South Denton.I, to this day, can remember her taking a huge cast iron skillet out of the cupboard and putting a large pat of butter in the bottom...then came the brown sugar and the cream... followed by the pineapple and cherries.Last would come the butter cake batter and into the oven would go this enormous creation.We would chat and clean up the kitchen.About an hour later the cake would come out...Your mother would struggle to hold the heavy skillet, and put it on the rack to cool.A half hour later the cake would be turned upside down.It was absolute perfection!!!After a dinner of roast beef with all of the trimmings cooked by Erin...your mother would emerge with the pineapple upside down cake. In true Marshall tradition each person was served a piece of cake in a soup bowl with a quarter pint of thick cream poured on top." |
| More About GRACE LOUISE MARSHALL: Burial: 19 June 1968, Section 52, Site 597 Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA Cause of Death: Pulmonary anemocarcinoma |
| Marriage Notes for PAT STEVENS and GRACE MARSHALL: They were married in a small civil ceremony near Oakland, in Piedmont. Among those present were Nancy Marshall Priest and her husband Carl. |
| Notes for BILLIE BELLE BURKE: Billie was born and raised in the Texas hill country near San Antonio. She met her husband of many years, Harry Verner Heim when he was a second lieutenant on duty in Long Beach, CA with Pat Stevens III and other young officers in 1940-41.Shewas fond of telling the story that Grace missed Billie's wedding to Lt. Heim because of Grace's advanced pregnancy with Pat IV.After their marriage in late 1941, the entire group of young officers and their wives scattered to the winds of WWII, which began with Pearl Harbor two days after Pat IV's birth.She and Verner Heim served in many places together, including a tour in post-war Japan where he served on Gen. MacArthur's staff.He was a lieutenant colonel at the regional ARADCOMmissile headquartersin Middletown, NY, and subsequently assigned to the Air Defense School at Fort Bliss when he was stricken anddied unexpectedly.Billie and her two boys, Harry V. and Charles,moved first to her home in Bandera, Texas, and later to Marin Co., Calif., where for many years she was a real estate agent and an accomplished painter.Pat and Grace and Billie renewed their old friendship,and after Grace's death, Pat and Billie married in 1971. They lived in Novato on Fairway Drive for many years.She died shortly after five in the afternoon on the 5th January, 1997. Death Register, CA:STEVENS, BILLIE HEIM 07/20/1912TERRY (mother's surname) BURKE (father's surname) Fborn TEXASdied in California, Co:MARINd. 1/05/97 Billie had two siblings according to her Birth Certificate. |
| More About BILLIE BELLE BURKE: Burial: the garden beneath the redwoods, Novato CA |
| Marriage Notes for PAT STEVENS and BILLIE BURKE: Marriage filed in Book 43, Marriages, Page 405, File No. 91517, 9 July 1971 |
| ii. | ROBERT MITCHELL STEVENS, b. 24 September 1912, Ft. Logan, Denver, CO2220; d. 15 November 1991, Oak Hill, Bairdstown, GA2221; m. BETTY RANKIN2222, 18 September 1937, TN; b. 17 February 1920, Hibbing, St. Louis Co.,MN2223,2224; d. 1964, Decatur, GA. |
| Notes for ROBERT MITCHELL STEVENS: Robert died at Oak Hill on 15 November 1991. |
| More About ROBERT MITCHELL STEVENS: Burial: the Stevens Cemetery at Oak Hill, Oglethorpe Co., GA |
| Notes for BETTY RANKIN: Abt. 1964 |
Notes for LT. ALCEE WILLIAM STEWART:
Julia Floyd Foster, 1896:"He was of French descent, and no relation to our Stewart connection."
This is true, but Alcee married a Floyd cousin of ours. In March 2005, I got a great deal of information from Paul Shipp, a relative of these folks, and I was able to clean up my notes on these St. Louis Stewarts, who descent from Irish Stewarts.
Paul later wrote (2006):
"Dear Pat,I just thought you might like to know that the Stewarts in St. Louis at the turn of the century basically did what appeared to be a world tour digging up old family history.Alcee Stewart (husband of Elizabeth Floyd Green) even went to France to look up his French Ancestry. . . I have no doubt that he also looked up his other European roots, including those of his wife!!! The information has been held by some older ladies in the family and I have JUST scratched the surface!Some of the Stewart Children visited actual relatives in Virginia and obtained photographs and other materials. . . on the FLOYD and other families. . . If and when I get new or "new-and-improved" information I will let you know.I just got a photo of Alcee Stewart along with prints of his uncles and other relative long ago relatives and discovered an extremely colorful history.Sincerely,Paul Shipp<[email protected]>, Kansas City, Missouri"
More About LT. ALCEE WILLIAM STEWART:
Burial: Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, MO2236
Children of ELIZABETH GREENE and ALCEE STEWART are:
| i. | SEYMOUR10 STEWART2237, b. 30 September 1867, Thomaston, GA2237. |
| Notes for SEYMOUR STEWART: He is the author of many letters in 1896 seeking family history. Noted throughout these notes... In March 2005 Paul Shipp <[email protected]> sent me several people in this family. I will add that information, citing him. About Seymour Stewart, he says: Seymour STEWART was born 3 on 30 Sep 1867 in Thomaston, Georgia. He died 4 on 1 Jul 1927 in Saint Louis, Missouri.... He was buried on 4 Jul 1927 in Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri. Seymour was...President of Stewart-Shallcross Real Estate Company in St. Louis. He moved to Saint Louis in 1875. He was a member and VP of the St. Louis Club; Civitan Club (national vice-president); and the Glen Echo Country Club in St. Louis. He joined religion Episcopal Church in St. Louis. .... At his death he lived at 5261 Washington Blvd, St. Louis, MO.He served as theCommander-In-Chief of the Sons of Confederate Veterans in 1914/1916 in St. Louis, and was President of theSons of the Revolution in 1927 in St. Louis. His obituary from both Tuck Wilson and Paul Shipp: Obituary, probably from the St. Louis paper, dated 23 July 1927: Seymour Stewart, Retired Merchant and Clubman, Dies. Began Successful Business Career in St. Louis in 1885. Seymour Stewart, 60 years old, died last night of heart disease after a protracted illness at his residence , 5261 Washington Blvd. He was prominent in club circles and a member of the former clothing firm of Salveter & Stewart. Stewart was born in Thomaston, Georgia and came to St. Louis in 1875 and was educated at Smith Academy. He began his business career with Samuel C. Davis Dry Goods Company in 1885 and in 1890? joined Charles C. Salveter in forming the firm of Salveter & Stewart, a well known men's furnishing store. He was vice-president of the Stewart-Shallicross Real Estate Company. Stewart retired from active business in January, 1908 and became active in club circles, becoming secretary and then vice president of the old St. Louis Club. He was a commissioner of the Mullanphy? Emigrant Relief Fund from 1903 to 1912, and with Dr. William F. Gephart, served as Food Commissioner for St. Louis during the world war. He was president of the St. Louis chapter of the Sons of the Revolution, and was at one time commander in chief of the United Sons of Confederate Veterans. He belonged to the Summit Hill Country Club and the Glen Echo Country Club. He was International Vice President of the Civitan Club and former president of the local chapter. Stewart is survived by a sister, Miss Evelyn Stewart, and two brothers, Dr. Floyd Stewart and Alcee Stewart. Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. Interment will be private in Bellefontaine cemetery. |
| ii. | ALCEE WILLIAM STEWART2237,2238, b. Abt. 18692239. | ||
| iii. | EVELYN STEWART2240, b. Abt. 1871, Probably St. Louis, MO2241. | ||
| iv. | DR. FLOYD STEWART2242,2243, b. 20 October 1873, Thomaston, GA2244; d. 1963, St. Louis, MO; m. ADA MAY ROWLEY2245, 25 July 1898, New Orleans, LA2246; b. Abt. 1873, LA2246. |
| Notes for DR. FLOYD STEWART: He was a medical doctor and practiced in St. Louis. He was a Major, MD in the Spanish American War. In October 2005, Alex Luken found this data at http://www.accessgenealogy.com/scripts/data/database.cgi?file=Data&report=SingleArticle&ArticleID=0001348 Stewart, Floyd M.D. Released 02 December 2002 Centennial History of Missouri "Dr. Floyd Stewart, formerly connected professionally with the United States army and navy for several years, is now engaged in the private practice of medicine in St. Louis, making a specialty of genito-urinary diseases. A native of Georgia, he was born at Thomaston, October 20, 1873, a son of the late Alcee W. Stewart, who was born in Louisiana and was of Scotch descent. His grandfather was Samuel Stewart, who was born in County Down, Ireland, and was a lineal descendant of the family of Stewart that formerly reigned in Scotland and England. Samuel Stewart came to America in 1816. He was an architect by profession and was married in New Orleans in 1833, continuing a resident of this country until his death, which occurred in 1868. His wife bore the maiden name of Marguerite Nisida Giquel and was a daughter of J. B. F. and Elizabeth (de St. Romes) Giquel, the latter's father being Colonel de St. Romes, who was engineer in chief of the French colonies of the West Indies and was made chevalier of the Order of St. Louis in 1755 by order of Louis XV. "Alcee W. Stewart, son of Samuel Stewart and father of Dr. Floyd Stewart, was reared and educated in New Orleans and at St. Timothy's Hall, Catonsville, near Baltimore, Maryland, and was valedictorian of his class in 1858. Prior to the Civil war he was a lieutenant in the Louisiana Militia, resigning to become active with the Confederacy as a private. He was afterward made second lieutenant and finally first lieutenant in the Twentieth Louisiana Regiment. After the war he was a commission merchant in New Orleans but moved to St. Louis in 1873 and dealt In naval stores. He was a democrat in his political views and an Episcopalian in religious faith. He married Floyd Elizabeth Greene, a native of Georgia and a representative of an old family of both Virginia and Georgia, descended through the maternal line from the Stewart and Floyd families of England and Wales. The death of Mrs. Stewart occurred in St. Louis in 1892, when she was in her forty-seventh year, and Alcee W. Stewart passed away May 2, 1917, at the age of seventy-five years and five months. They were the parents of four sons and a daughter, including Dr. Floyd Stewart, who was their fourth child. "In the maternal line Dr. Stewart is descended from an old southern family. His mother was the daughter of Judge James W. Greene, of the superior court of Georgia. and his wife, Sarah Evelyn Greene, who was the daughter of Raleigh and Elizabeth (Floyd) Greene, the latter a daughter of Colonel John B. and Anne (Stewart) Floyd of Georgia. The wife of Colonel John B. Floyd was a sister of General John Stewart, who commanded the army of Georgia in 1813. Judge James W. Greene, the maternal grandfather of Dr. Stewart of this review, was the son of Thomas Bass and Patience Clark (Wyche) Greene and a grandson of James Greene, who was a soldier of the Revolutionary war. "Dr. Floyd Stewart was educated in private and public schools of St. Louis, in the University of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee, and in Washington University, In which he completed his professional course, winning his M. D. degree April 25, 1896. Following his graduation he served in the Charity Hospital at New Orleans for two years and afterward spent a similar period in the New Orleans Polyclinic. He later joined the Louisiana Naval Reserves, with which he served for a year and then became connected with the United States army as a surgeon with the rank of major, serving in the latter connection for more than a year In Cuba during the Spanish-American war, being at various military points on the island. In 1900 he returned to St. Louis, where he entered upon general private practice but gives special attention to genito-urinary diseases and in the membership list of the American Medical Association is classified as a urologist. He belongs to the St. Louis Medical Society, the Missouri State Medical Association, the American Medical Association and the American Urological Association, also to the organization known as United States Military Surgeons. He has won prominence and distinction in the educational world, having formerly been professor of medicine in the American Medical College, professor of urology in the National University and professor in the dermatological department of Washington University. At one time he was surgeon general of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and he is well known as a contributor to medical journals, having written many articles of recognized value upon professional questions and problems. "On the 25th of July, 1898, in New Orleans, Dr. Stewart was married to Miss Ada May Rowley, a native of the Crescent City and a daughter of Walter Livingston and Catherine Ann (Mortee) Rowley, both now deceased. Her father, who was born in New York in 1834 and died in New Orleans in 1891, was a son of Rufus and Charlotte (Stockman) Rowley and was a grandson of Richmond Rowley, who lived at Richmond, Massachusetts, near Pittsfield, the place being named in his honor. The mother of Walter L. Rowley was a daughter of Dr. Stockman, of Utica, New York, and Caroline (Richie) Stockman, whose father was an Episcopal minister of Philadelphia. Mrs. Stewart's mother, who in her maidenhood was Catherine Ann Mortee, was born in 1841 and died in 1916. She was the daughter of William P. and Judith Catherine (Penn) Mortee, of Patrick County, Virginia. Her grandmother was Sarah Gordon, of Richmond, Virginia, who became the wife of George Penn, the son of John Penn, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and related to the distinguished Penn family of Pennsylvania. An uncle, Alexander Gordon Penn, of Patrick county, Virginia, was a prominent congressman, serving in the national halls of legislation in 1851 and again in 1853. "Dr. and Mrs. Stewart have had three children: Seymour Floyd, Catherine Penn and one who died in infancy. The family resides at No. 5266 Washington boulevard in St. Louis. During the World war Dr. Stewart served on the medical examining board, also in connection with volunteer medical service and was actively identified with Red Cross and other interests that had to do with the successful prosecution of the war. He belongs to the Washington University Alumni Association, is a member of Missouri Lodge, No. 1, A. F. & A. M., and is a communicant of St. George's Episcopal church, while his political endorsement is given to the democratic party. Thoroughness and earnestness characterize him in every relation of life. He is loyal to any cause which he espouses and feels that he is responsible for the wise use of his time, talents and opportunities, being particularly conscientious in the performance of all of his professional duties." |