Walter Stewart Family 2010 Newsletter

The 103rd annual Reunion of the Walter Stewart Clan will be held during the weekend of August 7-8, 2010 at historic Fairview Presbyterian Church in Fountain Inn, S.C. We hope you will join us for the tour and family supper on Saturday, and for the big reunion meeting and picnic dinner on Sunday.

For our Saturday tour, we are responding to suggestions that we take a look at some of the resources for family genealogists in the Fountain Inn area. We have arranged a tour of the Greenville County Library that should interest our family historians. Their South Carolina Room is a rich source of information on families with roots in Greenville County and the Upstate. Their very helpful staff will show us some of their treasures and tell us how to use them. Before the tour starts, we will all have lunch together at the Saffron Restaurant in the Children's Museum near the library. And because we know some are not familiar with downtown Greenville and might find it hard to locate these places, we will meet at Fairview Church before lunch and carpool to the tour site.

Since the loss of its textile industry, Greenville has turned itself into a major area tourist attraction, with restoration and landscaping, tree-shaded sidewalk cafes, boutique shopping, outdoor festivals, a downtown park and a suspension walking bridge over the Reedy River.

We will return to the Fairview community building for our Saturday night supper. Please turn in your reservation blanks for all this , and also bring along any family pictures, mementos and stories you would like to share with us. Meanwhile, enjoy the newly added pictures on our website, www.walterstewart.org, managed by computer records coordinator Judy Smith. She is building a wonderful file of family photos.

We would like to congratulate Fairview Church on its new fellowship building, which is behind the main church building. This year, thanks to this wonderful addition to the life of the church, we will have our Sunday dinner in air-conditioned comfort seated around family-sized tables with plenty of room for all. The Saturday supper, though, will continue to be held in the old fellowship building across the road from the main sanctuary.

We look forward to seeing you during Stewart reunion weekend to renew old ties and celebrate new ones. As it has for over a hundred years, the call still goes out, bring a full picnic basket and join us. We hope to see you.

2010 Reunion Directions & Accommodations

Note from the Chief Historian: Sorry the Stewart Newsletter is so late coming to you this year, cousins. This was my doing, since I'm responsible for the yearly Updates and didn't get them ready as soon as I should have. There is a sad reason for this: my dear husband Dick Newton lost his battle with throat cancer in January. There have been a lot of changes in my life since, including a move. Our home in Greenville was just too empty and lonely, so I moved to the Bishop Gadsden Retirement Community in Charleston, SC, to be closer to my two daughters in the area. Give me a call if you're down this way.

Help Wanted: Every reunion takes some planning and sharing of tasks to make everything go smoothly, so every year some of us meet in the SC Upstate to accomplish this. Many who would be glad to attend these meetings live in other states, too far away to be on hand. We need a few more "locals" within driving distance to help get ready for our reunions. If you're willing to be on a Planning Committee, please let Chief Charles or one of the members of the Executive Committee know. Help wanted!

Old Home Sites: We all love to visit the old home sites in and around Fountain Inn. Last year we visited three old home places in the House of Robert and enjoyed the hospitality of our cousins who still live on the premises or nearby. If your family has a home near Fountain Inn and you would be willing to show it to the cousins on a Saturday afternoon tour, please speak to Chief Charles or Historian Mary Newton. We'd love to visit.

Address Change: We ask the Postal Service to notify us of address changes, but sometimes this information isn't available, and it always costs us extra money even to find that out. Please, if you're moving, add the Stewart family to your notification list! Send to our Registrar:

Out of State Cousins: At our Stewart Executive Committee Meeting this year we talked about the problem of out-of-state cousins (mostly those who fly in from far out-of-state) trying to find food to bring to our Sunday picnic dinner. If this is a problem for you, we suggest you donate a few extra dollars to the Sunday collection plate, and we will see that there is enough food on hand to go around (no miracles necessary, we hope).

Military Records: John Hellams has volunteered to help coordinate our military records. If you or someone in your family was in the military please send in the pertaining information and we will add it to our records. You may bring this info to the reunion or mail it to John Hellams, 108 Nash St., Fountain Inn, SC, 29644, musiclover11137 "at" aol.com.

Genes Will Tell: Here's a novel suggestion. 31713 Linda Clark, on hearing that some of her Stewart relatives are gluten (wheat) intolerant, says it would be good if we shared this information among ourselves. She is willing to compile information on this and other conditions known to be at least partly genetically determined. If you're interested, or want to share news of your own health problem, contact her, linclark "at" localnet.com.

Free Family Email Addresses: We recently moved www.walterstewart.org to a new hosting service, and we can now supply walterstewart.org email addresses to any family members who would like to have one. Drop a line to judy@walterstewart.org to request one, and specify what you would like it to be.

If you need to contact one of our board members please use the contact info below.

151212211	ABIGAIL GRACE THOMPSON, born March 10, 2009 to Rebecca Ann and Richard Guy Thompson of Easley, SC. Grandparents: Mr. and Mrs. Wilton Thompson of Fountain Inn, SC. G-grandparents: Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Thompson of Fountain Inn.
151214	DAVID HELLAMS THOMPSON, 85 (husband of Dorothy Spoon Thompson) of Fountain Inn, SC died December 10, 2008. A funeral service was held at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church near Fountain Inn and interment was at Cannon Memorial Park, Fountain Inn, SC.
151215	FRANCES TAYLOR THOMPSON, 75 (widow of Jimmy H. Thompson, Sr.) of Fountain Inn died May 21, 2009. Services were held at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church near Fountain Inn and burial was in Cannon Memorial Park.
15131322	SAVANNAH BELLE OWENS, born September 17, 2008 in Greenville, SC to Kim and Chris Owens. Grandparents: Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Owens of Gray Court, SC. G-grandparents: Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Owens of Fountain Inn.
15123	MARY ELLEN JONES McCARSON, 81 (widow of Charles Burnett McCarson) of Greenville, SC died March 21, 2010 in Greenville. Burial was at Woodlawn Memorial Park in Greenville.
21415111	SARAH ELIZABETH CASTELL, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Larry W. Castell of Tulsa, OK, married John Michael Doughty, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Doughty on June 25, 2007 in Tulsa.
21415112	DANIEL WILLIAM CASTELL, son of Mr. and Mrs. Larry W. Castell of Tulsa, OK, married Janae Marie Wallace, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mike Wallace on October 6, 2007 in Tulsa.
21415113	BENJAMIN KEITH HESTER, son of Mr. and Mrs. Larry W. Castell of Tulsa, OK, married Leslie Gail Collins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ken Collins, on July 10, 2004 in Fresno, CA.
3822	CLARENCE LAWSON SCOTT (Scotty), 99 (widower of Martha Preston Scott) of Rolling Green Village in Greenville, SC died July 14, 2009. A memorial service was held in the chapel of Thomas McAfee Funeral Home in Greenville. Burial was at Philippi Baptist Church in Johnston, SC.
2661	PAULINE McHUGH WOODSIDE, 87 (widow of Thomas L. Woodside) of Greenville, SC died at home March 8, 2008. Services were at Buncombe Street United Methodist Church and burial was in Springwood Cemetery in Greenville.
267221	ALLISON DIANE OWINGS married David Leroy Meredith August 27, 1989 in West Palm Beach, FL. The couple reside in Fountain Inn, SC.
31713	JOHN TINSLEY STEWART, 82 (husband of Frances Sargent Stewart) of Lyman, SC died August 1, 2009. Services were held at Lyman First Baptist Church with burial at Wood Memorial Park.
31714	RICHARD CECIL NEWTON (Dick), 78 (husband of Mary Stewart Rawlinson Newton) of Greenville, SC died January 12, 2010 at St. Francis Hospital in Greenville. A memorial service was held at his home at 204 Seabury Drive in Greenville, with interment at Graceland Cemetery East in Greenville.
38322	NANCY STEWART WATSON, 75 (widow of Douglas Benton Watson, Sr.) of 5 Ridgeland Drive in Greenville, SC died December 20, 2009. Services were held at Fountain Inn Presbyterian Church and burial was in Cannon Memorial Park.
3.13.254	JOHN CLEON "BUCK" WILLIS, JR., 81 (husband of Martha Johnson Willis) of Laurens, SC passed away Monday, February 1, 2010, at Greenville Memorial Hospital. Burial was in Forest Lawn Cemetery in Laurens.
6233311 6233312	KELLY GARRETT McDANNALD, born March 13, 1999, and MARY KATHERINE McDANNALD, born June 10, 2008 to Kerri Bullock and Werner D. McDannald. Grandparents: Mr. and Mrs. Werner B. McDannald of Fountain Inn, SC. G-grandparents: Mr. and Mrs. David H. Garrett of Fountain Inn.
7213221	CHRISTI LEIGH MILLER RICHARDSON married Frank William Conrad II on April 24, 1996 in Las Vegas, Nev. The couple resides in Sweetwater, TX.

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