Theodore Van Stewart
1906 - 1986 (80 years)
Generation: 1
1. Theodore Van Stewart was born on 6 Oct 1906 in Spearville, Ford County, Kansas (son of Isaac Van Voorhis Stewart and Dora Myers Leidigh); died in Nov 1986 in Pueblo, Colorado; was buried in Roselawn Cemetery, Pueblo, Pueblo County, Colorado. Notes:
Theodore V. Stewart, Pueblo, Nov. 29, 1986.
Husband of Eva H. Stewart, who passed away Sept. 20, 1979. Brother of Thomas L. Stewart, Oklahoma City, Okla.; James V. Stewart, Las Vegas, N.M.; and Mrs. Margaret Seattle, Des Moines, Iowa. Also survived by several nieces, nephews and great-nieces and nephews.
A member of First Presbyterian Church. Mr. Stewart was employed as a vice president at Minnequa Bank for many years, retiring in 1971. He was a veteran with the U.S. Army during WWII and a member of the Pueblo Kiwanis and the Masonic Lodge in Spearville, Kan.
Pueblo Chieftain, December 01, 1986
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/106472701/theodore-van_vorhuis-stewart
Plot 13 131 B8Theodore married Eva Louella Hedges on 31 Aug 1933 in Oklahoma. Eva (daughter of Ashba Vawter Hedges and Mary Mildred Wear) was born on 25 Sep 1901 in Norton, Norton County, Kansas; died on 20 Sep 1979 in Pueblo, Colorado; was buried in Roselawn Cemetery, Pueblo, Pueblo County, Colorado. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
2. Isaac Van Voorhis Stewart was born on 29 Jun 1856 in West Virginia; died on 15 Mar 1936 in Spearville, Ford County, Kansas; was buried in Silent Land Cemetery, Spearville, Ford County, Kansas. Other Events:
- Occupation: grocer
- Census: 1900, Spearville, Ford County, Kansas
- Census: 1910, Spearville, Ford County, Kansas
- Census: 1915, Spearville, Ford County, Kansas
- Census: 1930, Spearville, Ford County, Kansas
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Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/50837656/isaac-van_voorhis-stewartIsaac married Dora Myers Leidigh in 1886. Dora was born on 11 Aug 1866 in Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania; died on 12 Jun 1954 in Okmulgee, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma; was buried in Silent Land Cemetery, Spearville, Ford County, Kansas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
3. Dora Myers Leidigh was born on 11 Aug 1866 in Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania; died on 12 Jun 1954 in Okmulgee, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma; was buried in Silent Land Cemetery, Spearville, Ford County, Kansas. Notes:
Mrs. Stewart Died In City; Funeral Tuesday
Mrs. Dora Meyers Stewart, 84, mother of T.L. Stewart, 1202 East Sixth Street, died Saturday morning in an Okmulgee hospital, following an illness of several weeks.
Mrs. Stewart was a native of Carlyle, Pa., and moved to Spearville, Kan., in 1878. She was the widow of the late Isaac VanVoorhis Stewart who died at Spearville in 1936. She was a member of the Federated Church, Federated Club, and Missionary Society in Spearville, until coming to Okmulgee in October, 1953 to reside with her son.
Funeral services will be conducted in the Federated Church at Spearville at 10 a.m. Tuesday. Burial will be in Silent Land Cemetery under the direction of Davis Funeral Home.
Other survivors are four daughters, Mrs. Vera Stewart and Miss Helen M. Stewart, both of Seattle, Wash., Mrs. Dorothy Monk, Los Angeles, Calif., and Mrs. Margaret Beattle, Des Moines, Iowa; two sons, James V. Stewart, Los Vegas, N.M., and Ted V. Stewart, Pueblo, Col.; one sister, Mrs. F.A. Merrick, Colorado Springs, Col.; also six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Okmulgee Daily Times, Okmulgee, Oklahoma. Sunday, 13 June 1954.
Name:
daughter of Jacob Mohler Leidigh and Katharine A. Myers
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/50837698/dora-myers-stewartChildren:
- 1. Theodore Van Stewart was born on 6 Oct 1906 in Spearville, Ford County, Kansas; died in Nov 1986 in Pueblo, Colorado; was buried in Roselawn Cemetery, Pueblo, Pueblo County, Colorado.