Margaretta Anderson, who married Jacob S. Stuart, a native of Washington County, Tennessee, and a grandson of Captain James Stuart, Speaker of the House of Representatives in the first legislature in the State of Tennessee. Jacob S. Stuart died in Knoxville in 1874 and Margaret A. Stuart died in 1 890. Both are buried in Old Gray Cemetery. Seven children were born to them: Annie Elizabeth Stuart (who married Jason B. Kelley and had Addie Kelley, Nora Kelley and Margaret Kelley); Rosa Stuart (who married Charles W. Irby and has six children, Charles W. Irby, Jr., Edna Rembert Irby, Margaret Stuart Irby, Stuart Chalmers Irby, Lois Irby and Philip Erskine Irby. Charles W. Irby, Jr., married Grace Weldon and has two children, Gertrude and Elizabeth); Fannie May Stuart (who lives in Knoxville, Tennessee); Hampden Stuart (who died unmarried); Adelia Stuart (who married, firstly Frederick North, of Asheville, North Carolina, and married secondly Southern, a Baptist minister); Jacob Gerald Stuart (who married Fanny Wray, daughter of Dr. W. A. Wray, and has one child, Frances Stuart); and James D. Stuart (who married Miss D. E. Lanny, of Savannah.
The descendants of Jacob S. Stuart are eligible to the Sons and Daughters of the Revolution through Captain James Stuart, who had charge of a company of home guards in Washington County, Tennessee. His company had charge of the district from Greasy Cove to Duggers Fort, which was located on the St. John property near the village of Watauga, Tennessee. Colonel Hugh Montgomery, of Salisbury District, North Carolina, was the father of Captain James Stuart's wife. Montgomery Stuart married Hester Thompson, of New Jersey, whose ancestors took an important part in the early history of that state.
