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Stewart's Prairie ~ ca 1836
The area known as
Stewart’s Prairie lies on the extreme southeastern corner of Caldwell County on
the James Stewart League. The league straddles the county line between Caldwell
and Gonzales Counties. FM 1296 from Gonzales to Waelder bisects the area.
James Stewart was part
of a large family group that came to Texas from Alabama in 1823 with Austin’s
“Old Three Hundred”. He served the Republic of Texas in Capt. Jesse
Billingsley’s Infantry Company C, 1st Regiment of Texas Volunteers and was
awarded a service bounty of 640 acres. While much of Stewart’s extended family
settled near Waelder in Gonzales County, no designated village was ever
identified for Stewart’s Prairie. Early District Treasurers’ records list no
schools in Stewart's Prairie, the nearest schools being Hopkinsville and
Thompsonville, in Gonzales County. No information regarding a post office,
church or businesses has been found.
Sources –
1. Caldwell County Kin: The First 150 Years published by the Genealogical and
Historical Society of Caldwell County. November 2000, C-44
2. “Sons of DeWitt Colony Texas’, www.tamu.edu/faculty/ccbn/dewitt/dewitt.htm
3. Texas General Land Office, land grant search, www.glo.texas.gov
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05/15/2015
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