Matthew James Stewart

  Noted events in his life were:

• Military Service: From History of Indiana, 1861, Ohio. Matthew James was in the war of 1861, in an Ohio cavalry regiment.

• Military Service: Was a Confederate soldier during the Civil War, and was not heard from afterwards. From “Jefferson County, Pennsylvania - Her Pioneers and People,” Vol. II, by Dr. William James McKnight, published in 1917 by J. H. Beers & Company, Chicago, page 79.