Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1909 — ANOTHER SLB PIONEER GONE. [ARTICLE]

ANOTHER SLB PIONEER GONE.

Sidney Steward, Who Came Here In 1840, Dies at His Home In Jackson Tp. Newton County. (''■Sidney Steward, one of the oldest settlers in this section of the state, died at his home three miles northeast of Mt. Ayr last Thursday. Deceased was born in Delaware county, Ohio, May 24, 1827, and came to Indiana with his parents in 1840, settling west of Rensselaer, on what is now the Jasper county poor farraS Five years later they moved tn

what Is now Newton county, locating on a farm adjoining the one on which he died. He later spent eight years in lowa and Kansas, finally returning to Indiana and again settling in Jackson township, Newton county. He was in Kansas during the time of the border warfare over the liberation of the slaves of the south, and had many exciting experiences during that period. Together with Samuel Long, the father of A. F, Long of Rensselaer and Ed Long of Mt. Ayr, Mr. Steward hauled the lumber for the first frame building ever erected in Rensselaer, hauling same from near Monticello. Mr. Steward's wife died in 1896. He leaves seven children—Morgan and Arthur of Durango, Colo.; William of Lake City, Cali.; Edgar of Newton county; Mrs. Edward Putman of Wann, Okla.; Mrs. Charles Shidler of Edmond, Okla., and Mrs. J. W. Meharry of Newton county. He was a member of the Methodist church for 62 years. The funeral was held from the North Star church near Mt. Ayr Friday, conducted by Rev. D- E. Noland of Mt. Ayr, assisted by Miss Cromwell, and interment made in the North Star cemetery.