Celia Annie F. FOOTE

HAIRSTON.org ID#5688, b. June 1832, d. 12 September 1902
Father*Gov. Henry Stuart FOOTE b. 28 Feb 1804, d. 20 May 1880
Mother*Elizabeth WINTERS d. a 1855
Birth*Celia Annie F. FOOTE was born in June 1832 in Mississippi, 1900 census says Alabama.1,2 
She was the daughter of Gov. Henry Stuart FOOTE and Elizabeth WINTERS. 
Marriage*Celia Annie F. FOOTE married Senator William Morris STEWART about 1855.3,2 
Census 1900Celia Annie F. FOOTE appeared on the 1900 census of Senator William Morris STEWART on 13 June 1900 in Washington, District of Columbia.2

 
Death*Celia Annie F. FOOTE died on 12 September 1902 in Alameda, California, at age 70. 
Obituary*San Francisco, Sept. 12 -- Mrs. William M. Stewart, wife of Senator Stewart of Nevada, was thrown from an automobile and killed today in Alameda, Cal.

Mrs. Stewart wat enjoying a ride with her nephew, Henry Foote, son of W. W. Foote, an attorney, and H. B Taylor. They were going along Santa Clara avenue in Alameda county. Taylor guiding the machine and sernding it along at high speed. At that moment he lost control of the steering apparatus or made a miscalculation. The automobile ran into a telegraph pole and the occupants were thrown out. Mrs. Stewart struck her head and was carried in an unconscious condition to a sanitarium in the vicinity, where she soon died. Foote and Taylor escaped with slight bruises.

Taylor is a cousin of Frederick Benedict, who was recently crushed to death under his automobile in New York. Mrs. Stewart was visiting her sister, Mrs Louis Aldrich, who lives in San Francisco. Mrs. Siewart resided in Washington.

Mrs Stewart before her mairriage was a Miss Foote, the daughter of Henry Stuart Foote, Governor and United States Senator from Mississippi before the civil war, and who during ihe 50s spent some years in California, Senator and Mrs. Stewart have several daughters, one of whom lives in New York city.

The Southern Herald, Liberty, Mississippi, September 19, 1902, Page 2. (Mississippi Department of Archives and History.)4 

Family

Senator William Morris STEWART b. 9 Aug 1827, d. 23 Apr 1909
Child

Sources (www.HAIRSTON.org)

  1. [S1850] 1850 Federal Census - National Archives and Records Administration - Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org.
  2. [S1900] 1900 Federal Census - National Archives and Records Administration - Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org.
  3. [S3200] Tillman, James David. Tillman & Hamilton Family Records: With Their Many Ancestral Lineages. Meridian, Miss.: 1959-1963. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89062498571, Hathi Trust Digital Library.
  4. [S3188] Library of Congress, Chronicling Amercia - Historic American Newspapers.
Last Edited30 May 2016