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  1. Catherine Stewart UNKNOWN: Birth: June 15, 1790 (1789) in Kentucky. Death: May 16, 1888 in Wyoming Cty, WV


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a. Note:   permanent settler of Wyoming County. After several members of his family were captured / and killed by Indians, he became an Indian fighter when he was 14 years old. By age 21, he had been commissioned Captain of Indian Rangers by Lord Dunmore, the Governor of Virginia.
  During the American Revolution, he fought under General Andrew Lewis and was at the Battle of Point Pleasant in October 1774. His commission was renewed by Gov. Patrick Henry in 1778 and he was ordered to South Carolina under General Greene. He participated in many engagements including Guiliford Courthouse, Ground Squirrel Ridge, Charlottesville, and Yorktown. His Rev. War papers indicate that he received a saber cut on his right arm, inflicted by the "Butcher Tarleton" himself. In later years, he was on the Invalid Roll of Virginia. He also states that he was one of the men assigned to guard Cornwallis after he surrendered at Yorktown.
  Ralph's first wife was a Mary Elliot whom he married somewhere around 1768. He was then living in Kentucky and they had seven children.
  Mary Elliot Stewart died in 1787. A few months later he returned to the New River area and married Mary Clay, the daughter of Mitchell Clay, the first settler of Mercer County, WV. Mary was only 16. Ralph was in his mid forties by that time. They then relocated in 1800 to Wyoming County.
  He received a pension in 1834 for his war services. His second wife Mary received one in 1846 when she was 74 years old.
  He died in 1835 and is buried in the Keatley Cemetary in Clear Fork, not far from his first cabin. Apparently, he and John Cooke had been friends for many years. There are numerous marriages between the descendents of these two families.
Note:   According to the Reference Book of Wyoming County History, Ralph was the second


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