CELIA STEWART is the proven daughter of JOHN STEWART and SUSANNAH TANNER and the wife of BENJAMIN WARD, son of RICHARD WARD and FRANCES WORSHAM, as documented through letters listed below. CELIA is also listed in various records as SELAH or CELEY or CELY WARD. She was born about 1755 probably in Nottoway Parish, Amelia County, Virginia. Celia Stewart married Benjamin Ward on 16 April 1774 at Pittsylvania County, Virginia, and for a brief period they lived in the household of Benjamin's half-brother, Daniel Ward, then at Pittsylvania County. Sometime soon after the marriage they removed to western North Carolina and lived the lives of true pioneers on land grants in Ashe County in the area that is presently in Watauga County. Benjamin and Celia had ten known children, eight sons and three daughters: Duke, Daniel, Benjamin, James, Nicodemus, Kelly, William Avery, Jesse, Susan, and Selah. Selah and Benjamin had sixty-six known grandchildren who dispersed through the United States. The date and place of her death has not been discovered as of yet by this researcher. Their property is presently owned by a descendant named Ray Ward and the property is located in the area served by the Sugar Grove post office. CELIA was mother of ten children, eight sons and two daughters. One son, William, and one daughter, Susan, died in early adulthood. This researcher is a descendant of CELIA and BENJAMIN through their second-born son, DANIEL WARD and his wife ANNA CURTIS.
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