Francis Stuart

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Children of FRANCIS STUART:

1. ELIZABETH STUART, m. JOHN HARRISON about June 23, 1792.
2. SALLY STUART, m. SAMUEL HENRY on July 26, 1810 in Rockingham County, Virginia.
3. POLLY STUART, m. EDWARD ERWIN on May 19, 1798 in Rockingham County, Virginia.
4. JANE STUART, b. about 1778, Rockingham, Virginia; m. JACOB CLEMENTS ERWIN on December 5, 1797 in Rockingham County, Virginia¹⁷⁹⁹; d. August 10, 1847.^{3681, 3684}

Newspaper Articles

Staunton Spectator, February 26, 1884¹⁰⁵⁵³

THE BIG FLOOD OF 1770

It was a singular coincidence that the flood of 1770 and 1870 were within four months of being exactly 100 years apart. Listen. David Hanna, a genial, warm-hearted generous Irishman, a bachelor, some living remember, was a welcome guest around the hearth-stone of the best people on Middle River a half century ago. He was at Mr. Samuel Leslie's one night, when Mrs. Leslie (a Stewart, we believe) said to him, "Mr. Hanna, I wish you to tell me when my father died." "Sure Betsy, an' I can tell you when he died; it was during the great flood of 1770, and in the month of May, and you was born in November before." Mr. Hanna died under Maj. Wm. Poague's roof fifty years ago. He made his home a long time in the family of John Stuart, on the Humbert-mill property, and was a weaver. John Stuart was a cousin of the grandfather of Messrs. A. H. H. Stuart and G. B. Stuart.

Mr. Frank Stuart, one of the same family, was the father of Mrs. Jacob Clement Ervine, a mile above Bridgewater, her husband and his brother Andrew, Elders, near fifty years, in Mossy Creek congregation, as was their younger brother, Maj. Eugene Ervine, of Rocky Spring, and son-in-law of its Pastor, Rev. John Montgomery. Mrs. Samuel Henry and Mrs. Samuel Craig, the first near Craigsville, were sisters of Mrs. Ervine. We are f the impression that Mrs. Dr. Peachy Harrison, of Harrisonburg, Va., mother of Prof. Gesner Harrison, of the University of Virginia, was a sister, if not a first cousin. Mrs. Henry's husband was for one-third of a century a prominent and most respected merchant of Harrisonburg.