5/26/2023 0 Comments The Night Land by James StoddardThey were members of Bethany Presbyterian Church (founded 1833). Robert and Rachel and their rapidly increasing family lived in the Bethany community for over twenty years. Family tradition says Rachel had red hair. Rachel was the youngest daughter of Nancy and Robert Gilliland of the Bethany community, and a sister of Anna Gilliland, the wife of Robert's brother, 1 Samuel Stewart. Here, we may assume, Robert built the house to which he brought his bride, Rachel Gilliland, two years later in 1823. According to the plat on the deed, this land lay beside his father's land about a mile behind Bethany Presbyterian Church, just to the west of his father across what was then known as Campbell's Creek. In 1821, when he was 31 years old, Robert bought 96 acres of land from Henry Campbell of the Bethany community for $325. Born about two years after his parents came to this country, he was the first native-born American citizen among Walter Stewart's seven sons. He was born in 1790 in the Bethany community in lower Laurens County, SC. Robert Stewart was the third son of Walter Stewart, Sr.
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