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Semantha
Randall
History of Kent County, Michigan; together with sketches of its cities, villages and townships ... biographies of representative citizens. History of Michigan ...; C. C. Chapman & co., Chicago, 1881, p. 1403 [Walker Township]:
John Stewart was born in Essex Co., Canada West, in 1817; is son of James and Margaret (Fulmer) Stewart, the former a native of Pennslyvania, born in 1794, the latter born in Canada. Mr. Stewart was married in 1835 to Semantha Randall, born in New York in 1817. They have four children-Margaret, Heroin, Sylvester J. and Celestia. Mr. Stewart moved to Hillsdale Co., Mich., in 1837, and a year later returned to Canada. In 1844 he went to Vergennes, and a year later came to Walker. In 1850 he bought 40 acres on sec. 11, then in timber, and still owns 29 acres, with 20 improved. Mr. Stewart is a Granger. During the Canadian difficulties of '37 he was " pressed" into the British service, and did military duty six months.