Stewart Family Locations in Upstate South Carolina

Home site of 312 Alexander Baker Stewart and Ella Ann Owings

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Home site of 312 Alexander Baker Stewart and Ella Ann Owings

This property at 2651 Durbin Road is also in the Durbin Community near New Harmony Presbyterian Church.   The first Stewart known to have lived here was 312 Alexander Baker Stewart who married Ella Ann Owings.  The Baker Stewart homeplace still stands at the three-prong crossroad in the Durbin community near Fountain Inn.  At age 22, Baker bought 66 acres of land beside his father’s property.  Here he set up not only a grist and flour mill later operated by his bachelor brother, 319 Jim Stewart - but also built a country store, which for many years was the Jakin (Durbin community) Post Office, later known simply as Stewart’s Store.  Jakin was the community that preceded Durbin community.  The thick-walled old concrete building that housed his store is still standing near his home in the Durbin community, although the building has been unoccupied for many years, except for storage.  Baker prospered in this location, eventually adding more land, a cotton gin, a dairy, and one of the first peach orchards in the area to his various enterprises.  In 1888, Bake married Ella Owings Fowler and built a large modern one-story house on his property.  Bake and Ella reared their family of two daughters and a son in this home.  Their son 3123 Wayne Dial Stewart and Mary Eliza Curry also lived here.  Wayne and Mary’s son, 31235 Douglas Wayne Stewart, Treasurer of the Walter Stewart Clan, lives here today.

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