... Thomas Jefferson [Stewart], father of Mrs. Starling, was born in Louisville on the seventh day of September, 1818. He grew to his majority a brave, noble-hearted, generous man, full of life and of the happiest disposition. On the twenty-second day of April, 1837, he married Miss. Mary T. Rucker, of Louisville, and unto them were born three children, Thomas Coleman, Jefferson and Mary Belle. Jefferson died in infancy. ...
... Captain Stewart, the greater part of his life was a prominent steamboatman on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. In 1860 he settled with his family in New Orleans and engaged in business very successfully, until broken up by the troubles incident to the war. In 1865, his health failed him, and while traveling through Kentucky, was stricken in Louisville and died July 13th, 1865, after a few days illiness. ...
