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Isaac "Ike" Stewart

Isaac "Ike" Stewart

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  • Name Isaac Stewart 
    Nickname Ike 
    Birth 25 Sep 1892  Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Census 1900  Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census 1920  Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Initiatory (LDS) 1 Mar 1927  SLAKE Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census 1930  Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    FamilySearch ID KVG6-PG2 
    Burial May 1938  Meadow Cemetery, Millard, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Death 27 May 1938  Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
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    Person ID I19623  mytree
    Last Modified 25 Feb 2024 

    Father James Murdoch Stewart,   b. 22 Sep 1851, St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Jan 1932, Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth Emma Duncan,   b. 8 Feb 1866, Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Apr 1950, Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 84 years) 
    Marriage 19 Dec 1883  St. George, Washington, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F3150  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Rose Stewart,   b. 11 Jun 1906, Benjamin, Utah, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Jan 1993, Delta, Millard, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 86 years) 
    Marriage 1 Mar 1927  Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Gloria Stewart,   b. 7 Jan 1929, Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Oct 2020, Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 91 years)
    Family ID F9501  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 5 May 2024 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 25 Sep 1892 - Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 1900 - Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 1920 - Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsInitiatory (LDS) - 1 Mar 1927 - SLAKE Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 1 Mar 1927 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 1930 - Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - May 1938 - Meadow Cemetery, Millard, Utah, United States Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 27 May 1938 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Link to Google Earth
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  • Headstones
    Stewart, Isaac b1892, Stewart, Rose b1906    		Stewart, Isaac b1892, Stewart, Rose b1906

  • Notes 
    • Obituary:
      Funeral services were held in the Meadow Ward Chapel, Monday, May 30, f o r Isaac Stewart, 45, who died in a Salt Lake hospital following a linge ri ng illness. Services were under the direction of Bishop Milton Beckstr and . The deceased is survived by his widow, Mrs. Rose Stewart, by two da ught ers and one son; by his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Stewart, and the foll owin g brothers and sisters; Ruth Bennett, Violet Bennett, Niel M. Stewar t, Go lden Stewart, Zina Stott, Blanche Labrum, Clifford, Ephriam, Georg e and N ephi Stewart, Minnie Beckstrand and Mrs. Davies.



      Life Story of Isaac Stewart (Ike)

      Isaac Stewart was born 25 September 1892 in Meadow, Millard County, Uta h . His parents were James Murdoch Stewart and Elizabeth Emma Duncan . H e had six sisters and two brothers and seven half brothers and two h alf s isters. His father, James Murdoch Stewart, was a polygamist and hi s tw o wives, Mary Jennette and Elizabeth Emma were sisters. Elizabeth Em ma wa s the youngest and his second wife. Isaac was his father's tenth c hild a nd his mother's fourth child. He had dark curly hair and blue eye s and w as always large for his age. He was rocked in an old bumpy cradl e unti l an uncle came in one day and saw the old homemade cradle. He bo ugh t a new cradle for him which was very nice, Isaac's own babies were a ll r ocked in this cradle.

      Isaac was an ambitious boy; he was always helping others and never think i ng of himself. He had many friends and was very close to his half-brot he r Ephraim, who was only two weeks older than Isaac. One of their bes t fr iends was Ezra Gull who lived across the street. The three boys wen t t o school together and spent many hours with each other .

      Isaac went to school through eighth grade in a two story rock schoolhou s e just west of the church. Later it was torn down and a new modern sch oo l was built. A large class graduated from the Eighth Grade. One clas s wa s held back a year and one promoted up. There were sixteen in the g radua ting class. The graduation exercises were on 9th June 1911 in Oa k City . Eighth Grade Graduation was a County affair which was held in d ifferen t towns throughout the county. Oak City was so far from Meadow t hey trav eled by horse and buggy and got to stay all night in different h omes in O ak City. This was very exciting and a special occasion for the m. (It i s about 40 miles from Meadow to Oak City.) Isaac, Ephraim, Cli fford an d Zina were all in the same graduating class. The next winter th ey went t o Hinckley and attended high school at the Hinckley Academy whi ch was th e only high school in the county. Isaac only went one winter a nd after t hat his time was spent helping his father on the farm and doin g chores, m ilking cows, feeding cattle, etc.

      There were always lots of dances and parties in the town of Meadow. Isa a c was a fun loving person and always went to all the social activitie s . He loved to dance and was a good dancer. He did not marry young an d j oined each age group as they came along. He was one of the first you ng m en in town to have a car -- it was a Model-T Ford. He always ha d a loa d of girls taking them some place. He was so good natured he wou ld tak e them to Kanosh to a dance and go home alone. Seemed he didn't m ind i f they all found a boyfriend to take them home. He loved to see ev eryon e have a good time.

      Ike started going out with Rose when she was living in Fillmore goin g t o high school He was older but was so kind and good she wanted to b e wit h him. He went to Fillmore to pick her up and took her to Meadow t o th e dances and parties. On Christmas 1926 he gave her a wristwatch fo r Chr istmas as an engagement gift. Few girls owned a watch so it wa s a wonder ful gift.

      In February his younger brother, Golden, was called on a mission and h i s Mother was going to Salt Lake for two weeks to work in the Temple an d t o be with Golden while he was in the Mission Home. Isaac and Rose de cide d to get married while she was gone. When they told her, she said , "If y ou are going to be married you come to Salt Lake and be married r ight. Y ou can go through the temple with your brother". Isaac and Ros e were mar ried in the Salt Lake Temple on 1 March 1927. The newlyweds l ived with h is Mother. His other brothers and sisters were married an d Golden was a way on his mission.

      Isaac had a lot he purchased from his Uncle Richard Duncan located on Ma i n Street right in the heart of town. (This lot was the one his Grandfa th er, James Duncan, one of the first settlers in Meadow, built his firs t a dobe home on.) Ike and Rose started at once to build their dream hom e . It was a lovely home of Cement Brick with a big front porch and a fu l l basement with a furnace and all the conveniences which wasn't had i n mo st homes at that time. It took nearly two years to finish and the y move d into it the fall of 1928.

      Isaac owned forty acres of dry grain land and twenty acres of seed grou n d and was running his Father's farm. He owned a few range cattle and h a d a permit to graze them in the mountains in the summer. He mortgage d hi s farm to build the new house and it took most of what he made to pa y th e mortgage payment. They didn't have money to buy furniture so onl y ha d the bare necessities but were very happy. Their first daughter, G loria , was born 7 January 1929. "We were really blessed and the happies t peop le on earth".

      The government changed the Cattle Permits on the forest range to sheep p e rmits, so everyone grazing cattle had to sell their cattle and buy shee p . They didn't know anything about sheep so took a big loss.

      Another baby girl, Elaine, was born 11 March 1934. That winter Ike go t s ick. The first doctor treated him for pneumonia but he didn't get an y be tter so he went to another doctor and found he had kidney complicati ons . The doctor treated him for his kidneys and he soon got well enoug h t o get up. As soon as he was well enough the doctor sent him to Sal t Lak e for further treatment. It was a year before he gained strength e noug h to do anything. He had to go to Salt Lake for treatments througho ut th e year because the doctor in Fillmore didn't have the equipment t o give t hem to him.

      A baby boy, Voy Dean, was born 10 May 1936 and he was happy to have a so n . Isaac got well enough to work again, but through his long sick spel l h e hadn't been able to make the payments on the mortgage. The bank fo recl osed and took the farm. We lost everything but our home. These wer e dep ression years and there was no work. Rose's brother in law, Alto n Donnel ley, was a superintendent in a coal mine in Kemmerer, Wyoming an d offere d Isaac a job in the mine. Ike didn't like the idea of workin g in a coa l mine but we needed to live so we moved to Kemmerer in the fa ll of 1936.

      He made good money in the coal mine and after a year and a half we wer e n early out of debt. His health still wasn't good when a Smallpox epide mi c hit the area and he got smallpox and was really sick. He was able t o g o back to work after the smallpox but his kidney trouble started agai n . Ike went into the hospital in Kemmerer but after three weeks he sti l l wasn't well enough to go back to work. He left his family in Kemmer e r and went back to Meadow to stay with his Mother and rest up. Afte r a w eek or two art home he got sick again and was rushed to Salt Lak e to th e L.D.S. Hospital.

      Rose left the children with her sister, Ruby, and took a bus to Salt Lak e . Isaac was critically ill and wanted to see his children so Rose wen t b ack to Kemmerer to get the children and pack up her things to move ba ck t o Meadow. Her brother, Keith, borrowed a truck from Isaac's brothe r in l aw, Cleon Stott. They loaded all of their belongings in the truc k and to ok off for Meadow with a stop in Salt Lake. When she took the c hildren t o the hospital to see their Daddy, he was so sick he didn't eve n seem t o know they were there. Keith took the truck with the childre n on to Mea dow where Rose's mother took care of them and she stayed wit h her husban d in Salt Lake.

      Isaac Stewart died in L.D.S. Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah 27 May 19 3 8 of Kidney failure. He was a wonderful Son, Husband, and Father, lov e d by all that knew him. He is buried in the Meadow Cemetery .
      Written by: His wife Rose St e wart Stewart Nichols


      GROWING UP IN MEADOW
      The following account of their family life as Isaac was growing up was w r itten by his sister, Zina, who was three years younger than him :

      "We were a large family, 18 children. Father married two sisters, Mar y a nd Elizabeth Duncan. Each wife had nine children and we all lived to geth er as one big happy family. I don't remember Nephi and Minnie, th e two o ldest in the family living at home, the first child James died wh ile a ba by. Strangers that visited the home would say they didn't kno w which chi ld belonged to which mother. We all had our certain chores o r jobs to d o and we did them without being told. Our home was a large tw o story Re d Brick. It has a kitchen, pantry, dining room, and two bedro oms downsta irs separated by a hall. These were Mary and Elizabeth's roo ms, (Aunt M y and Aunt Bee) as they were called. There were two beds i n each room . A staircase that went upstairs where there were five nic e sized bedroo ms with two beds in some rooms and a large closet. Ther e was a Home Comf ort range in the kitchen, a large round heater, could s ay Pot Bellied Hea ter, that heated most the house. A smaller heater i n one bedroom with th e stove pipe going up and through one of the room s that made the upstair s very comfortable.

      I can remember when there were 15 of us at home. Duncan, Em, Neil, Tee n , George, Ruth, Ephraim, Isaac, Clifford, Zina, Angus, Violet. Grace, B la nch, and Golden. Dad was a good provider; he did a lot of freighting , se lling produce, garden stuff, fruit, etc. He always bought rice, sug ar, r olled oats in 100 lb. bags. Our flour came from a mill in Fillmore . The y would take a load of wheat, have it ground into flour then we ha d a lar ge bin in the pantry that they would dump it in. They raised the ir own p ork and cured it. We always had good ham and bacon all summer a nd winter . They would put it in sacks and bury it in the wheat bins i n the summer . They really knew how to cure pork. The Beef would hang o utside in a t ree. In the winter they always killed a beef, in the col d weather, it wo uld keep for some time.

      We had really cold winters, the frost on the windows each morning were b e autiful scenes. For winter our clothing for girls would consist of , a ch emise, warm bloomers, two petticoats, one always was flannel, lon g stocki ngs and dress. The boys always had long handled underclothes a nd othe r items, sweater, coat, muffler, woolen mittens, heavy shoes an d boots . We didn't get dressed in a hurry.

      The stoves were kept burning with wood. Bath night usually Saturday nig h t for 15 children was a busy time. The water was heated on the top o f th e stove and in a reservoir and portioned out in a number 3 tub in th e kit chen where it could be more private. The rest of the time we had t o spon ge behind the ears, neck and other places as we managed to keep cl ean. W e usually had two outfits of clothes. Wear one a week then chang e to th e second set while they were washed .

      At Christmas time a closet under the stairs would be full of lots of goo d ies. Candy in those days come in 5 gal. Wooden buckets and I can remem be r six or eight buckets of different kinds stored for Xmas .

      We had big gardens and orchards about a quarter of a mile north of our h o me north of where Neil Stewart’s home now stands.. We always had a lar g e melon patch that we could go with a wagon and load it up. Father own e d the land from Neil's corner out the road to the canyon. So he donate d , opened up the road which also made building spots for some of the boy s . The boys would string out to do their chores with father. The yar d wa s across the street from our house on the South West Corner. Some w oul d take care of the milking or dairy, hand milking, others the feeding . I t seemed like Aunt My's Boys did the milking and Isaac, George, an d Nei l the feeding of the stock. The girls all had their jobs. The old er one s would take a younger one and they would make all the beds. Th e older g irls would comb the younger ones hair. Some would set the tabl e, no smal l job, and then place all the chair backs to the table for Mor ning Prayer . Everyone was there with their morning chores done and read y for breakf ast at once.

      It seemed to me things went pretty smooth for such a crowd. I remembe r w hen Tena, George, Ephraim, Ruth, Isaac, Clifford, Zina, Violet and An gu s come home at noon for lunch. Our kitchen table was full. We woul d se t our lunch on, there was usually enough meat left over from breakfa st . Fruits and jam, butter, bread, milk and always honey, as we had bee s . We would always wash our dishes before going back to school. The ol de r ones, grown ups, had dinner later in the day and usually the table w oul d still be there ready for us to clear up when we came home from scho ol ; especially on Wash Days when they would wash till dark. There wer e alw ays babies for me to tend, my sisters, Grace and Blanche, and broth er, Go lden.

      Grandpa Duncan lived with us for years. He and Father did most of the p r aying and I was always glad when it wasn't Grandpa's turn, he prayed s o l ong we would nearly starve. I was quite grown up before they starte d t o call on the Mothers and Children to pray. Grandpa Duncan lived i n a on e room house, not far from our home on the same lot. As we girl s grew u p we all had turn making his bed and keeping his room clean. H e had a wo oden chest and he always gave us a few pieces of hard tack can dy. He cho pped a lot of wood; it took a lot in the winter to keep sever al stoves go ing. We would all carry it in and fill wood boxes full, bes ides the boxe s on the porch.

      A block east of our place the creek bed crossed the street and come do w n next to our home. In the winter the stream would freeze, then thaw a n d flood over and we sure had a skating rink, clear down almost to the h ig hway. It seemed lots colder in those days, the ice was thick.

      There were four Duncan's and Aunt Olive who all lived a half of block ea s t of us and the Gulls lived across the street. So with our bunch ther e w as always plenty to play games and skate. In the summer we would car ry a rmfuls of straw from the straw stacks, make a big circle in the stre et be tween us and the Gulls and all upper town kids would meet with us a nd w e would play Red Man's Bluff and Kick the Can. We had lots of chore s, wo rked hard and played hard.

      As far back as I can remember, Mother took over the general managemen t o f the home. It seems she did all the bread making, sixteen large loa ve s at a time, every other day, and oftener. I can still taste the goo d co okies and ginger snaps she baked. I don't see how she ever got th e big b read pan full, with so many samplers while they were hot. I neve r hear d her deny anyone anything they had to eat. She worked in the pub lic a l ot, was Relief Society President for years, also Primary Presiden t. Aun t My would sooner work outside and take care of the Chickens, etc .

      Dad had a dry farm south and west of Dry Creek Ranch. There was a log c a bin on it. The farm was planted to alfalfa. In the summer when the h a y was ready to harvest, two of us girls would go down with the men t o d o the cooking. It was during the spring runoff of the water from th e mou ntains. Dad would take his water turn down there and flood over hi s farm . In those days there were lots of squirrels. As the water woul d floo d over the fields it would fill the squirrel holes and out would c ome th e squirrels. We would go down to help kill them and all of the In dians , who lived near the ranch would come to get the fat squirrels to e at. T hey would sit by a hole and when they poked their head out they wo uld gra b them around the neck, and slam them hard on the ground to kil l them. W e had to get rid of them or they would take all the crops. Th is farm wa s where our Seed Crops come from.

      I remember churning, first with an old dash churn and later a big barr e l churn. Mother would get it ready and I have churned many a batch o f cr eam into butter. She always called me in to have a fresh glass o f butte rmilk. I loved it, specially when it had hunks of butter in it . I stil l like it. We used to have lots of Jonney Cake for supper an d Green Onio ns, Preserves and Milk. (Jonny cake was a dry flat bread ma de with cor n meal, salt and water, and cooked on a griddle, in a cast ir on pan, or i n the oven). On Sunday there was always a good dinner waiti ng for us a t home. I learned to make cake early. Sunday morning Mothe r would ski m a pan of milk, get a cup of rich cream, one cup sugar, tw o eggs, bakin g powder, salt, flour and have one of us stir it up and th e cake was read y for dinner with real whipped cream on top. (Milk was pu t in a large pa n overnight and the cream formed a layer on the top).

      It was a big night when the Ward Teachers came. Father would call us a l l in, quite a circle of us. We would all kneel in prayer. After pray e r the teachers would start with father and each in his turn would be ca te chized. (to teach using question and answer method). The questions th e y asked us children would be Are you a good girl/boy? Do you mind you r p arents? Do you say your Prayers? Do you attend church and do your d utie s? Do you swear, etc.? It really put us on the spot .

      Whenever our father would ask one of us to do something all of us wou l d almost instantly be on our feet ready to do his bidding. He was a lw ays so considerate and kind it was a pleasure to do things for him. I f a ny salesman
      come to town selling new things for the home, that made home life easie r , he was the first to buy. We had Coal Oil lights, Hanging lights, Car bi de lights that lit up like the gas lanterns now, and many other things .

      The smaller girls had to have all of the Sunday Shoes shined and all cle a ned for Sunday. We nearly always had a everyday pair and a Sunday pai r . Saturday night the long hall would have shoes the length of it read y f or the owners on Sunday morning. On everyday when our shoes needed p olis h we would take a lid off the back of the stove, wet a shoe brush, d ip i t on the back of the lid in the black soot and shine our shoes. Th e shin e didn't last long if our shoes got wet.

      We had a big herd of Geese. Aunt My used to pluck their feathers off a n d we all had feather beds and pillows. We children would herd the gee s e in a pen and catch them and Aunt My would hold them on her lap and pl uc k them. They would look so funny with their dresses off .

      Charles Gull ran the Creamery just across the street. The boys would be a t Aunt My to gathering the eggs and find all the new nests and we woul d t ake the eggs over to the creamery and exchange them for candy. Cha s ha d groceries and the best candy you ever ate. We would all join in o ut o n the grass and really feast. We were good sized kids before we go t a ni ckel to spend on Sunday.” (In the town of Meadow children were giv en a ni ckel to spend on Sunday so they could go to the little store an d buy cand y. (This tradition was still going on when Gloria was a child )



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