Highway 99 renamed for Snohomish settler William P. Stewart (WA)
Published: Sunday, May 22, 2016, 12:01 a.m.
By Julie Muhlstein
Three sisters gathered at Georgina Paul's Everett home Thursday to talk about a man they never met. They are the great-granddaughters of William P. Stewart, an African-American Civil War veteran who settled in Snohomish after serving in the Union Army.
Stewart, born free in Illinois in 1839, was a private in the 29th U.S. Colored Volunteer Infantry. He enlisted in Chicago in early 1865, and served in the final stages of the Union's Virginia Campaign, including the fall of Richmond. By 1889, he and his wife, Elizabeth “Eliza” Thornton Stewart, had settled in Snohomish. They had one son, Vay Stewart, a mailman.
William and Eliza Stewart are buried at the Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery in Snohomish, where his grave is marked by a government-issued headstone ...
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20160522/BLOG60/160529769
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I've been looking for an excuse to drive up to Bellingham.
Mr. William P. Stewert's final resting place is a good reason to head that direction.
Pvt Stewert
According to the article. hough Bellingham is worthy of a visit any time...
They'd feel hurt!
