WILLIAM RILEY STEWART WAS BORN SEPTEMBER 30, 1844, IN BOLTS

FORK, LAWRENCE COUNTY, KENTUCKY. (BOLTS FORK IS ON THE BORDER OF

LAWRENCE AND BOYD COUNTY. KENTUCKY). HIS PARENTS ARE ABSOLUM AND AMY FANNIN STEWART.

HE WAS A FARMER AND SERVED IN THE CIVIL WAR FROM 1861 TO 1864, AS

A PRIVATE IN THE INFANTRY OF COMPANY D, 68 EM, OF KENTUCKY.

HE WAS MARRIED TO MARY ELLEN LAMBERT, BORN JULY 15, 1857, FROM

BOLTS FORK, LAWRENCE COUNTY, KENTUCKY. THEY WERE MARRIED ON SEPTEMBER 5, 1878. PROBABLY IN LAWRENCE COUNTY, KENTUCKY. MARY ELLEN LAMBERT WAS THE DAUGHTER OF JEREMIAH LAMBERT AND JULIA ANN STEWART.

MARY ELLEN LAMBERT MARRIED A SECOND TIME TO MILTON CAMPBELL,

AFTER SHE LOST WILLIAM RILEY STEWART, HER FIRST HUSBAND BY HOMICIDE ON AUGUST 24, 1900.

WILLIAM RILEY STEWART WAS KILLED ON AUGUST 24, 1900, OF

A HOMICIDE.

WILLIAM RILEY STEWART IS BURIED IN THE STEWART/FANNIN CEMETERY

HIGH ON A HILL BEHIND THE WARREN DIXON HOME, 9.2 MILES SOUTH ON STATE

ROUTE 3 FROM THE INTERSTATE 64 EXIT AT CANNONSBURG, BOYD COUNTY,

KENTUCKY, OR 1.1 MILE FROM THE INTERSECTION OF STATE ROUTE 3 AND 773.

THE NAME EAST FORK CEMETERY MUST COME FROM THE EAST FORK CREEK, WHICH RUNS ON THE LEFT SIDE OF STATE ROUTE 3.

TO LOCATE THE CEMETERY GO SOUTH ON STATE ROUTE 180 AT CANNONSBURG, EXIT TO INTERSTATE 64 WHICH

RUNS INTO STATE ROUTE 3 SOUTH, TO STATE ROUTE 773. AT THE CORNER OF

STATE ROUTE 3 AND STATE ROUTE 773, YOU WILL SEE A COUNTRY STORE. GO

1.1 MILES FURTHER SOUTH ON STATE ROUTE 3, AND THE CEMETERY IS ON YOUR

RIGHT BEHIND THE WARREN DIXON HOME, HIGH UP ON THE TOP OF A STEEP

HILL. THEY ARE OTHER FANNIN CEMETERIES IN THE SAME GENERAL AREA OF

LAWRENCE COUNTY, KENTUCKY. WILLIAM RILEY STEWART'S GRAVE IS IN THE

VERY BACK OF THE CEMETERY IN FRONT OF HIS DAUGHTER ANNA STEWART WHO

MARRIED FRANK N. ADKINS AND HAD THREE CHILDREN, MARGARET ELLEN,

HERMIA, AND BELVA ADKINS (BELVA ADKINS MARRIED REV. M.F. LEADINGHAM IN 1925), BEFORE HER DEATH IN 1909, OF DYPHERIA. WILLIAM RILEY STEWART'S FATHER, ABSOLUM IS BURIED IN FRONT OF HIM.

HE AND MARY ELLEN LAMBERT HAD THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN, ALL BORN AT

BOLTS FORK, LAWRENCE COUNTY, KENTUCKY:

1. GIRARD KINNER STEWART, BORN OCTOBER 24, 1879, MARRIED HATTIE EVANS

ON JUNE 2, 1913, AT PARKHILL, CARTER COUNTY, KENTUCKY.

2. JERRY BELL STEWART, BORN FEBRUARY 8, 1890, MARRIED LILLIAN

WHEATLEY ON APRIL 17, 1924, IN ASHLAND, BOYD CO. KY.

3. ANNA M. STEWART (ANNA MARY STEWART), BORN FEBRUARY 22, 1882,

MARRIED FRANK NEWBERRY ADKINS, OF SHANTY BRANCH, WILLIAMS CREEK,

CARTER COUNTY, KENTUCKY, ON DECEMBER 24, 1902. AND SHE DIED ON JANUARY

5, 1909, OF DYPHERIA AT THE ADKINS HOME PLACE, LOCATED AT SHANTY

BRANCH AND WILLIAMS CREEK, NEAR RUSH CARTER COUNTY, KENTUCKY.

ANNA M. STEWART AND FRANK NEWBERRY ADKINS HAD THREE CHILDREN;

MARGARET ELLEN ADKINS, NAMED AFTER HER GRAND MOTHER MARGARET ELLEN WILLIAMS, THAT MARRIED WISER ADKINS; HERMIA ADKINS, AND BELVA (BELL) ADKINS LEADINGHAM, WIFE OF REV. MEREDITH FRANKLIN LEADINGHAM FROM MUSIC, CARTER COUNTY, KENTUCKY. MUSIC IS ABOUT TWO MILES SOUTH OF WHERE BELVA (BELL) ADKINS WAS RAISED AT SHANTY BRANCH.

REV. MEREDITH FRANKLIN LEADINGHAM AND BELVA (BELL) ADKINS

LEADINGHAM HAD TEN CHILDREN: HERMIA BEATRICE; IMOGENE; JOSEPH EARL;

MEREDITH PAUL; JESSE FRANKLIN; JOYCE ANN; LAWRENCE EVERETT; PATTIE

SUE; DONALD RAY; AND CHARLES DAVID. IN FEBRUARY OF 1994, ALL ARE STILL

LIVING EXCEPT JOSEPH EARL, WHO DIED ON 21 JAN 1994, OF THROAT CANCER..

ANNA STEWART IS BURIED IN THE FANNIN/STEWART CEMETERY WHERE HER

FATHER OUTLINED ABOVE IS BURIED. HER GRAND FATHER ABSOLUM AND HER

GRAND MOTHER AMY FANNIN STEWART ARE ALSO BURIED IN THE FANNIN/STEWART CEMETERY, WHICH SOME PEOPLE CALL THE EAST FORK CEMETERY.

INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM:

1. LILLIAN STEWART OF 1315 S.E. 18TH TER. CAPE CORAL, FLA.

2. FROM REV. MEREDITH FRANKLIN LEADINGHAM AND HIS WIFE BELVA (BELL)

ADKINS IN 1991.

3. UPDATED IN JANUARY OF 1994.

4. COMPUTERIZED BY MEREDITH PAUL LEADINGHAM, OF FREDERICK, MD.

5. UPDATED IN JUNE 1996, AFTER FINDING THE GRAVES OF ANNA STEWART HER

FATHER WILLIAM RILEY STEWART, AND WILLIAM RILEY'S PARENTS, ABSOLUM AND AMY FANNIN STEWART.