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<^anccstr\1900 United States Federal Census

Name:

Florence Stewart

[Florance Stewart]
Age

14

Birth Date

Dec 1885

Birthplace

Kansas

Home in 1900

Union, Clinton, Ohio

[Clinton]

Race:

Gender:

Relation to Head

Black
Female

Daughter

of House:
Marital Status:
Father's Name:
Fatlier's

Single
John W Stewart
Ohio

Birthplace:
Mother's Name:

Mother's
Birthplace:

Ann V Stewart

Virginia

Occupation:
Household Name

Members:

John W Stewart

Age

.56

Ann V Stewart

53

Charles A Stewart

26

MaiT E Stewart

22

George W Stewart

19

Levi J Stewart

k7

Florence Stewart

14

Source Citation: Year: J900; Census Place: Union, Clinton, Ohio; Roll: 1248; Page: 16B; Enumeration
District: 0071; FHL microfilm: 1241248.
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IH T?{ ,WKOi COUNTRy ' j:

Are Those of .Dear ou .w.r.

MAYOR OF HARYEYSBrnG OHIO '

aivl flegf>!>onajf CoiinJics Sayi

Vijtlor m;Ncw Mexico,. Who]

Compares Co;ti3itions To Support

a "tbe . HistoricAl' -_ Hu Staleracat.

Some

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Thi.-i is a R...;fi,<rtvuritry t,.-) li'VtMf:'for jf.ilji.j 'In'n,

_hcaith. Many
hiT? anJ t iiLvt-.n-va
^im, all i^cn of
t.he array of

Oiily Coiorea ManTn "the State Thu? HoDorej^--A Note^ Educator

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Atnfics the People of His Race. . ~

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j-u.Cortu!.'-^. N\.w Mi-xk-o. 7-l0.',rir,'

Ui'ar."Mr, .

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whilo. bm

"J,,!,,,, v,,u w,u .,cvci.ic

'.var: ivh.,- c.'inii; j-iiaM-; to'tvnclj .-(,'!t<v)l.".

!!! was ri I _.Hi-'.C'.-Jiilnut.-! in h!^

jr,-'.'
.jivtu-r in b<v!/1 ''!"
arr-i aitcr he ha.I pur^-.

Wfuwd. I think Ihin jdint.., an-i U.n m. -nni n-s

-SMllbrti farmir.jf eoiintrY ufmra!

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-nrse ..h .tody

io teach ' rl.e colofejB;

ihnn totic t-nivsraiiv, iic

acircuiK-mbrac-, Kvf'-ythjnK ie hi;rh; cnal oti. 2.k-ts. Nh-u' ihirlinpt-.n, Ohir,. dh:. ihcnJ v?' fauidlv^Tp
nia, BHhop.A,.; P-

have ah)tht !)' IW.lm;: P''tatp.^s.

>wv. arc nr.w hehu,', rh.,rlrsuu;. 'he Ihvu^i j^l-ncn^ron er.n.I.n'r.l
. ,wne. lhe.ft^nif.
r-nnnd;
unHM,..
por
{..uinJ.
,,
.nunl-cr ..r 'l -V-iMa... i.-iulp
I,um unh'tl,e
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Was !\ ).-.p-hrr for ;, iiujiiI.fT ..r "'l
i - lutp iniM v. itU tite
h. intHh-etually.
h.
intejri'ctually, [hey
Jheycan
can raisio/me
rait^o hne -.nu-ns
'Oiit.ns hero
hei'o and
,
w-.,..,r,.. -,i i..
work. ' ''
li
m i;,,^ sft- i.'it ihat
ii.-.f

iuUy then in <he (inecahha;rn au-i /he -very !ar^,cst >]'r"^

-vcrai nf^his

..

waU-rmL'luns.'.apd ciuiUcijpw and

. ' " " I V , p-i'-ol-hn "t."S'jnii. uf the
;, 'iTumnkiiw:
Tbec..-rn isiibi.of.
-Ml lii'-liuiiajiOlLi..
Imjjitilafii) .hr:i!iinsi. nivn .an/i wa.nnet: of the
- ;,
"Jjumpkins. Tfu.'ci'm
is abour. vaWth"*
waist, "-'''"h. ..nnitr .ip
', .Jurige FriUiclH,.hili.
FriUiclH,.j}Wili. I atn
very
.tJr. Jloflnuok'!
. . '.
'.
ain veryjjluiFtJr.JIofi'ruuk^
- rare-Tcrrirrrf-ihcir eienmn.t;/rv
i'al
i'al that lie
lie \v*.s t^'int my darjchlnr
danjchlnr out
out lit-o-,
lit-o-, ns
ns she'^
she' Tin*
Tin* sitrTfm
snl'i' "' t ..f'
of iT;' sTvT!,'!,^
CT~!
'fa inmi;
't'*. "f
bi lime '" ''"Utd Tlol
Pol r;'!.atfi jitn.
atolhimt
her I''"- .h t.V-.>n.:w_u-U-.u,,....l>..
V.Cbis
lhjn.it "M {-rr
t.V sn.:w_u-U-.u,,....!>.. n I'n . '"" 'y
iioFuFtiie-iK"
ofifiiti oftna!
(ihe lyin
cjin wii
t^tii jjihI
1 I'lnk arii^^
nrift. Vi ;i.i /ii 1T!^.l^
C'f-dtie
tvpia! .tibe
juh] flrihik

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.sdi. .> pl^

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tiic-ial! .! I

re-

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frirmrpp.diUi- !.-,rrr I'v-'anirll-prin

vi]>ah.pi. one of the e.!v ^chooU.

ln-i,u.' \<-fv l;fv..ra;,!v

i,p^

seluvtl was sin.ti' t;ii>rf<i ujul i!ic

C"l,.M-eiI tearlier.s \y<iV,. m... je!.1111-

. od. n<- vva> uiyl 'uiid .i.s prmoi-

paj >!' ill,- kc^c^.pTI i.ji S.i!'niia, 1tin.j,

.\flec le.tdrOiy in Sahfia ...sie \ ear,-

llie u as_^i inir r'ed tin- loUft'-iii,-il-di ip

' d ' If XI .1,,I'.;. I SI 1). I, .1 111 \ \' lloi
I )lii.. 1I,.
, ti.ii',;,- ... the.

>SI h".-ff' iUrJfl tl -'..nsx. :il!\ ,. Xi-.O'S.

if was ul.th-

p.-ijixipa! ..: (i.,-!

sell...,! iIm: hv-.ht.-Mncd ;;re:f, ,e.

-'tlfs fo.rii i)i-.'hihcrs.

li,.

the sell..,.! ti. a ht!4h..s;atir(a!.t of

ettii it ih y am! loa paie.i

"""do-, ..I
:.4 Jj... ,1.
i! leai li iii.l;.

ami Morrow hail and ilij; the hia.-k ifiu.i nut of ih.-i-

.MtflN W isTI'WM'T

1 the terrLLuriar v}u-.;ls ami :In-y hav,.- idlejis.,' itieir'

i^u.oiiomu coneon- wiiK"n.s

on.
0.- ,-prink'
,~|,j mj; C";nc.<
eomc.-' and
niiU:.^
isUluti'.nal
iini ii" .Ihe
: ..

i)!;.-. 'i,,u
[uh
1,1,.,

timn Ku atnl (iiK the wH}.r'*tt. Avheeh, ,r',.,t ..pih ii,

l.npe

^.,,1 ^
, j.f.

..\rie^ u-afliuiy thirty ei.-iM-fiivi-ars,^ in :ij:ain w.-:u '-aelc to

hm t'mdin'u t.!,.,; rire i.,>,i\r

.
1It. i.irmim^r
...iieej'
a '.*'"''V"
l'-ae!ier !i:i.! '!
imfi';,-,!
r''t'.-= ' . i-'-r'-"
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In-

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1|sii-

e loriii friemls. nui, :iu sTo net J!w wakom home ^nn^nmt; In- uas -y/'voor's ^ fi'suim.j
rel'm^oV''i'rmdnn."'^o
leaeliiiii; iu

ilaiv.-vs-rord^thaf wlulo "K'ntnayhnve fine corn and oats \i,^.r ..ecimui lai i-i;; .pMO- a hn;.- 11|iI
Imi t.;-1'h iia,l
-1 hf \ er\ sell,> 'I i,iti enunty voted there to,lay uial a-hnr .wind may h'ttnue. he ami his tatlier enu::ii;e-i!.tat!;:"!
larioir: alm-o.,'.,.,.1.-,"^
ahn.'si a .[tuirtvr <>f a ci-ii-

ric<l public .scr- come ami hum it ali'ui, and in three m tlte uC'-m-ry huoiu-s- m, Xa:!i:i. "tiiry-ai.;,.,
criom-ee- a very
, tiiryai..,., l-le
l-lx "ex
rX[-Criem:ee;
hone.st jtvowal dtiys you hiive no crop at a!!.. Mv . ' dim i Ji:._Viird i-vliihf; t,^.
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HAPPIEST iP|OPLE
m- THE WHOLE COLWRy ' 1

S IN THE An Tbo of, Dr,r Old ^^,rnn>

, MATOR, OF HARVEYSBURG OHIO

ami Jieigbixjnng Counties Sayi

'

Visitor in New Mexico, Whoj. .

Goraparej CojiiJitiorjt To Support J "Only Colored Man in tht Statc Thuj HonareJA Netcd Educitcr
SlaJeraeot.
n"tIi,HiHori<al His Slaltmcal.

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Amftng tlje People of His Race.

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-J..'!".. y.,u il, ..e.c.bc

Mvu.iit %%hi. canic Gi

ft) li'AcJi .<(.h<")I "

ThL^ migooficnuniry ti, iivi-inf.>r ohi-, 'Tn.fir 'V^r-^-.nia. lie v\:.s a

in hih suidips in"

_hpalth. Muny jK.-qpIo cunu- here nnd j farMU-ivituJ li Utul cnvn. r iji t>,vU

arp. all rtion of are BJN-atly.hpiiHiU-d. I think this

.rtiho HrrSyof'wdibpa ftnnhu^ .rom.oy aft^ra j !

vv ,/,.

banhn MpthotN whiN'. hut v.-h, r. pruplt-.-fijo s'.

, r

f>rr.! niicx he had pur-

w'

cnurse .of study at

He \\ i|l,erfr.-ce -(.ivivirfiiy, in-

rau> in 'iU-'and pinpl. .yt-d j., iv,u'h"iiir colorpd

naHe it in thn Hkf nn.Hl cf tli,- scttl-rA jind dun't

l" Oindiiu- JaOhvn J.cb"o|^u,fJ iarvfysht:rL.'. 'i'lit's waA

iisl ct^ntury t'he k'lnw hnw in farm and only pinw

arintmcnt for a 'H'.nr corn o.ici-In nyi-ry fifteen day.s

as aU., a \ ijyjiiuin ami

iiT Faypitc c-Unryr ('iliw.i. '.V

.'n the circuit to dfn'y will not muk^ . very'much. T'licv lived iVir a [...n-

colnrpd .veh.,.'i oi
^duo. for colored'

m-.-ir

''c lau.irlit this scitoo.)

icircuifembrac- Kverythjuff is hix-h; cna! ofj; 2:.cts, Xpw ['.n-rlmj,-...,). Oino 'l-o limn- J//

ni./HUhoi..A-:^ pcrKrd;p.Enliri^^
have Kai.l lhat lr- 1) Ins;
-;mv rf
.w
..mi. i, cia. per iv\unj.
h.u, uiivurviuany,
jnlolI*eplually. ,lhey
,*
can
"'i iraise
.i-iv fine
ii;i nnmns
nnaniH hero
np: and
ana |.,. ,,
mlly thl'h in the li.ne^tahhairv
uryj the
very larircsl
larirpsl Z
mllytheninthe
Dne^ahha^v mvl
the .very
Aj

in

liiv

'.'v.j

I..IV

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iitivvsi',

rhiidm, were

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.)nlv I-rrs thai Vficr twn'yaK oi

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i,'.';?;";
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h ua- m.thm xc!itv.l7 ji.Tt
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t.'lltMi-- vvi-rv-'nr>-

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wiiU'rmelunii/ar.il cuntleojies and I "'J-.
" I ' y / S j i n c^..,,.[^^^1^,^
u f l/Sjincuflhc
hc
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""I'y'''f

;r'^ pumnkin.s; The c-.-rti is about', yaist-

IfLdiudajlCiii. .hr;pmt-st. nnui .and woincn-o! ti-o

.Judge Fraucis hWh. I ni-i wrv ylmFDr.diidi.rv..;U Hnlnin:.

fd that lie was "'inf. my rlniiKlUcr out liftr.i, as she ' TTu" VnTrjio ; ,7i

TTTiT

rnvc rcrrtt-rrf-tlunr vlcmct;t.liy

iXrtk h..

..'-ifj-i'iy.-jini'.' t'.p t'"nld"not fvUiUJ anylliinij ofi hpr ''' .' V\ >.Lvu. til., vi ,^.L.i-fi- Tn
tr5'A*S7h'Tp';
nirbm'rTo'Ti'r
Mprin
mFui~t"fii'!'
the then
t'lu-n'"'*h7m;adr'7irf^rti7n~"'''''-Sh^^^^^^
fHotfiach ar
yhiiipi.' snv camp |rTtv^r'-tritvi-YehTp;

lltcia!I <.f 1.sj* j^ia^rvm.

. [ I'H'cka. LviiiXi:LxvitrL_aA

of-^hn pqrral !^.he ;.;an i'4a anij drink ami has uaincd j

.I

Idirmtnir.-imi- larrr hwamF

r uMiCf after liJH qh ! mm- if th- nn.i.

jUidJ
licnch. .. ilut no
n-t i)Ta>' like I.t-hanou. ()ji|M. and 1
of Ihv fact that vicinit.v. The lourC; aionu ilu- U. K. !

!nv-i'!i!rn.;d n. (\ du...
Mil**. and
'.xW'l ru<mhcd

iiore

svii.kii] \sa-

ifaclihio ifi j.vli.'iii.-n. ij.Hu}. The

than once liad wpviLs r, thoin inriloud of iilucl

rii of this counf.y

Alo:i;,' ihv'flives'u'crp wpcds. |

cd-. Mr vva> nr_>T'I'.nM'! as pn.-.T

for the li-gislii. VVhjip in yV;uTpn couniy Ohio \vr i

pal >) the iiviiE'in nj ^al'mia. t ihii..

'fti a nx-niher tjf . have blue vj-ass all

the pikt-s '
r.-v.i"p'Lhi? Ihwm and. .fnrii-CM [nrft.v tMi'oucrii ' to ctirej
iiid*inu

3<)Vu eyes,

Alter tv.'iijfyiy in s',,iin,a ,,nv

MK- w

in all Uic aUiui, J nujwiid j

;Jyti, ' iliir.

in Hlinplirv Ifii,' ntiil NOMivl inivs lio'v hav.-t., iravci

ll'wa.s while

sii!,!'" !'r..iii Ills'j;d,,..-s.

'hv s, h..,.I t.. ,,

vhu o rn V

tin- li'Kirtljniirr, hi't'r ftoin 'I'l-xa,- t<-ll itio in th.' it;-j

'itttivnf

to

I itt-* 'air iUisiaoii IIm <a.aiI-

by tiowrti'w
viiid Morrow liad
I the terrtlutial
istitnti'inal
istttntii)nal con-

-*t stnl.v-lfj^isln tin K" and iliir <)i^ vvafott wh'-r!s

ji.. i

.i.,,id.iid i.f
pr. ,,a:v.i a \.,,yr

"ooil.ri ..I lr

^.,,1^ f.,,

. ..i.liii..}. ..il|..|.t- no.I ilif j.ron-.'nnr!

+fn'tvia!}<,

tti'-yhiiw t i'stop vory few vmii:

and dij; lln* hia.-k- niud .ajt -f lb,'f
w)u'ot.-< and i livy liav.r td hyna- du-ir
^vuK'Tifi
^vuK'
Tifi unl i!'ihv
i1'ihv ."jiriri),:
.'joiri).: conv-c.-niv-- and
am]

i-'l iticip.-d i.d' fins',

-."hcMil ili.i! Itv'..iiiiaincii ;o'-;i; la.

In l.hc ropofi. (jf ihn'f. In 'I't-nxs fm' ?I."n,i;o m \\fiat I

iFdl anil It. wan 'h-y<-).ill tin- binck Ininl, niid

III Wjlaini;^-

I I,- I,,id , h.iM.,. ,,,

jt. h... i! (. Mtrtcvti fi .ti-vnii r, ,. \ i .ji-,;

;!y IcK't^'aturv?'. 'ho h.wcr r-jnd wluvh i-i^rn-arlv iw.. i

and. mconciliii^t !'<*' la-I-'u :.'n-[up ,.f t),,. v-found. In |

fi.i- f.'.injju

liiioi'cd tin- pOO'dp.d-liip

"f 11>'" Iid. >1-1.'.1 -a

iii'J had an iiii- ' hrouKh 1li.-v hav.- nf}| v nnnt tioidrtj

: iif fill- .t-.iri.itu*;. lll'noiH tlic 'apd

nij>d'-.i .iini riie

C')[i>rfd foai-h.T-; \-^yr n .! n-t.-titt-

'1 1lailniii,;.

. \lii i_ Iv.ii hiim; I

c.m d-.-n yi-- y<';trs, h.. a^-ihi won? f,ai.k t.,

.!idi.\' \v, .sTLw.virr,

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lonu frh-nds." ou...soas-ro y.vt Mm waun ho... I

i.ir.
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i.'fmm:.;. t.ia '''"hid;

hn.lmV' th.fr
rin,. Intd
Inn'^vtha'r fin^ .1
\
'''a'her
had
nnh''
ei
T'
a tf.o. in.-f liad nnh'ied
I- T till-' \\ ..! k ..|1 ! Ill- ;.il ii;, In;
'"'r "'in '"'V

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rv-o;.];,-,!

{v.}cliiti:4

in

1!,. v

v^-ry srI,....: hv |,,^d

n -Munl.y voiMd ,thiTe today un<] n -hnf wind may hn inm-, In-.md'In^ lath.-r .-n-mmd ,'"Mc
' 'at-.:ht
lai-vht.[luaim.'sj
aim.isj ., .jnar:'. r :' a .a-i^

riotl nublicscr- come and burn it all'up and in ihrw Im ilu-ur.wvyv Im-Mm-s- m Xvm.a. '.i:ry ao^.'. ilr c.vwVn.'n!"
lii-vhoneat avowal d'hy.s y.ju have no lOMp at. ull. MvA*''.;.'

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of

nff" r,he Rrrny uf

'-cbanbn MethO(.JmaHtr it sn th<'
UiM century fhc

like rji'ist u! t.he settlers ajid nnn't

kntiw )icivv f,-, fiitun and f)nly piow

u(/iotnenl foh

their earn ..no- In i-yery fifteen ilay '''''"'I nf ' h'.iyeMe c.'.nMtvr (')liW, 'V .'l'*'
OJ-io foj- c<.>lor<-<l|
they will ni.i muk . very'much,
t'ved for
Jon;.: ttm'c nc;ir 1 ' 1
h.veryth.m}{ i hiKh; ci.al (>ii.2.Virt. New i'.tu Jitif,'!..!!.
"I".. t!i,-iii h.>' lai'iaVv''hi "ml'V"

in

the circuit lu

a circui^enibracnitt. '
Ah-
have Haid that
I wae the ^frunjf-

per K,^,

sn-j
' ^'H'i,'ii>ian and y"- 'hrst coIotcJ .school ,>ryani?:e>i!l

n..; r,d. ...r.,.,..

r... Ck.,, .rhij,)r,n.. ... rrr

uert.]; U'uxol.np .r; ..i

^'h. intejiectyaily, ' -i,nc5 can raise fute omens hen? and
iij'ly rheri in the

"nlj!;!-.:

.M''"

l/umpkin.s. The corn is ,about vvaiftj '

K-'iichnlg.

oi the

t i.n ton .jn Indiailiiiioiii.j.J.*r:}itn>:st nu-n .atui woiiicti 'ii tlic

, -tudge Fnmci^ high. I.am very giad Ur.JIuIbrook]

sent my'dnfghler out here, ru? she" ""

rrit-c _ rrnrtrrd - rhcif elfn:cnr;ir/ '

ski tc!!.. tiainiiig iu-Uiii. i.dio..>!.
M!" tlic_ial!.of
M, '.M 1., tn Iiyj _i".ar'y o!
uicjjii.-oi ;n.s,% Tt. yc- '

led -that he wa,i

tmald ItoL ^n/tiiiri ;i7:vthintr on her ''

tKon
' of--thofjusl

ivork. It wa- in.this s,-lir>7H dh-if

/inecahhage arvl the -very largest ^ a u d lun: -

wutcnnuIomi.Umd cntioj,es and '''/.

-".L

;wX\Cr
ho^ ,a,.Uy hi .merest, atKl iiZ;; .

pej .bX Jn.s, por.'iioe.s, .Md cts.,._per j,v>. arc- now living. ClMrlcs wi,..
Board n} IvJucat-fon cjm>Ioyecl
I^>nnd;.
p'Aund
fnr'';, nVunhcr ot n. a.svistam. r.. hdp hin, cV.Ui the

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h''T^-Vr:T?'-^"~r=uyn"ri'^*^'-'gditit?srt-nwnUnn\^:.^d-TWW'->nea7r-r:-^:

Ttf/mmwh''a? -^rn>\ --^'rtice' sh' "Tei tTi.'-' "|

.she lyin otii- ami drink mii- has gained |

."IT. :;.. j

Ivau-r.-'^.r-.X-fT >.v'.cmj.. uj-"-1

'seven"iniuimIs, 'lalk about heriutiful i

thh- iie tva.j rt'- . CoUDliues. I vva.1 rhet~^"an jJnt \vny4

fiffe and black,

T ^dfig

hii

afi 1CitTTfe our the fii-Hi. time, and |

; bench. - But no Miw n<place like i.ebam.in, iJhjo.and 1

of the fact that vicinity. The towns along the fi. K.
.lore than once hari weeris in ihion instead of blue

scll'vil \vas^ v,,t ,u ^

TS of this ctMinf.y graw. .Along the'f"nces"urre weeds.

for the legisltt- While in Wai riT) county Olo'o wc
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John W.Stewart

Homeinr88o: Harveysburg, Warren. Ohio

A^e:

37

Estimated birth abt 1843

year:

Birthplace: Ohio

Relation to head- Self {Head)

of-houschold:

Spouse's name; Ann Virginia

Father's VA
birthplace;
Mother's VA
birthplace:

Neighbors:

Occupation: School Teaching

Marital Status: Married
Race:

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Mulatto

Gender: Male
Gannot

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Blind:

Deaf and dumb;

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Members:

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johnAV^Ste^

Age
37

Ann Virginia_Stewart

33

^3

Tjjiiella Steiyart

Hprace^tewart

- -

T.ydia Stewart
Arthur Ste\^

7
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VA

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33

Louella Stewart

13

Horace Stewart

11

Lvdia Stewart

Arthur Stewart

Charles Stewart

Mary Stewart

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Waynesville airport founder Stewart dies at 87

By JOANN ROUSE
cox NEWS SERVICE

1-17

than plowing," Hanshew said.

Wa3Tiesville airport founder

Emerson Charles "Red" Stewart

Sr. spent a. lifetime sharing the

joy of flying.
Stewart, who died of natural
causes last week at 87, was
remembered at services as some

one whom aviation was a boy

hood passion, a hobby, a job and
centr^ to his life.
Bom in Galia Covmty, Stewart
was one of six siblings who worked
their parents' farm iil Osbome.
That's where he learned the love of

flying, said family friend ^d fel

low aviator Steve Hanshew.

"His other brothers griped

s^l^lmGire tim.^ im^'sifrtipg

mulejwatibhm^aii^

a'

for the B-29 Superfortress, fami

ly members saidAfter the war, Stewart fronted
money to his .father, who pur
chased 108 acres in Waynesville.
Stewart's plan was to use 40
acres to build an airport. Until
then, Stewart was in the practice
of fljdng to work at Fridgidaire in
Dayton and tying down his
went to war.
Aeronca plane next to fiiends'
"Red tried to enlist, but because Fords and Chevys.
of feet and leg trouble, was dis
When his plant manager told
qualified," Hanshew said. "In him to quit parking in the park
order to keep flying. Red joined the ing lot, Stewart quit his job and
Civil Air Patrol, which was went about building what is now
allowed to continue flying light the Waynesville Airport in 1946.
aircraft involved in missions."
"Re flew roughly 18,000 hours,
Stewart also worked double
teaching, cajoling and breathing
shifts making propellejr blades. flight," Hanshew smd. "His sons.

Stewai:t spent several of his

young adult years working in
California during the Depression
before returning to the Dayton
area. Stewart, landed a job in
1940 working for Fridgidaire,
using his earnings to pay for fly
ing lessons.
Shortly afterward, the nation

their wives and" their children

have continued the dream he

began over 50 years ago."

Stewart is sxirvived by his wife
Irene; sons Emerson Jr., Stephen
and David, all of Waynesville;
brother J.W. of Union City, Ind.;
five grandchildren and two stepgrandchildren.
Services were held Sept. 13
and burial followed in Miami
Cemetery in Corwin.
The family asks that dona
tions be made to the Emerson
Stewart Memorial Fund at the
Lebanon
Citizens
National

Bank, Wajmesville branch.

The fund will provide an avia
tion scholarship at Waynesville
High School.

 THURSDAY, MAY 7,1998

VALLEY PORTRAITS

EDUCATION

By Ty Greeniees

Teachers receivt
Springboro resident

Teresa Poeppelman

among out^ndlng
classroom educators.
By Janet Irvin
FOR THE DAYTON DAILY NEWS

Teacher appreciatiop day

arrived a little early for
Springboro resident Teresa
Poeppelman, who teaches

Teresa ^

humanities at D. Russel Lee

Career Center in Butler Covmty.

Poeppelman is one of six
teachers selected to receive the

Crystal Apple award, which

recognizes outstanding
classroom educators serving

Element

Packert!
Middle S

The award is sponsored 1

Middletown Community
Foundation, which selects
winners from applications
interviews and personal

observations of teachers ir

Middletown students. Other

classrooms. This year, 70

winners were Carla Amburgey,

teachers were nominated 1

In Project Outreacl
kids seek solutions
^ Teams of students In

Emerson "Cub"

Stewart Jr.
- 1946 was a siginificant year
for the Stewart family in
Waynesville. The birth of a
son, the birth of a new airport
and the purchase of a Piper
Cub airplane that would lend
its name to the baby boy all
happened that year.
Emerson "Cub" Stewart Jr.

said he "learned to fly with

Dad" and practically lived at

the airport. Stewart, 52, now
has a family of his own that
runs the same grass strip air

port along U.S. 42 in Waynes

ville.

Stewart does it all he flies

the airplanes, fixes them and,

along with his family, main
tains the airport grounds.
Stewart's son Emerson III is a:

flight instructor at the airport

and daughter Sarah keeps the ^

books b^nced. Wife Cathy

helps keep the vintage tube

and fabric airplanes patched ,
and looking like new. On most
weekends, people fly in to
Waynesville just to see Stew
art's collection of flying classic
airplanes and visit with Cub
and other aviators.
"You wouldn't do this unless

you loved it," Stewart said. "I

don't do it for the money."

grades six through 12 try

to solve community
problems in a tournament
setting.
By Pamela Ferris-Olson
FOR THE DAYTON DAILY NEWS

Teen-agers from the Miami

Valley demonstrated that they
can be actively involved in the
solution to community problems
during the fourth Project
Outreach Tournament and'

Recognition Day.
The Chaminade-Julienne High
School Drama Club, the Carroll
High School Hi-Y, the CenterviLle
High Power of Self Outreach
Team, The Panther Five from
Springboro Junior High School,
Erie Shores Girl Scout Troop 356,
and a independent team
sponsored by the West CarroUton
Police Department took gold
medals in the competition.
Silver medalists included the

Elementary Helpers and the

Daily Afternoon Live teams from
West CarroUton High School.

others to the world of the a

(M.A.D. Matters), teaching

hard-to-learn concepts (Thi
Toys), creatively
improving or enriching a
community by working wii
available community resoi
(Partners for Progress), or
expanding and/or improvij
project begun in 1996-1997
(Second Time Around).
Participants in the tourn
were:

Chaminade-Julienne P

School Caroline Turner,

McCleUand, Matt Mize, An
Pesch, Rhonda Evans and ^
Taylor; Fran Pesch, advise;
Carroll High School
Amanda Davis, Andrea Jol
Alicia Kessel, (Chelsea WiU
Tracy Walker, Julie Glaser
Sarah Wahler; Joy Karl, ad
CenterviUe High Schoc
Joe Fanelli, Emily Kazyak,
Graf, Rachel Robbins, Ann;
Vukin, Tia Earman, Ponta
Kangarlu and Anne Fromk
Jeri Neidhard, adviser.
West CarroUton Police

Sara Guthrie, Brandy Di

Chris Stevens, Brandon Pi1
and Tim DiUon; Cathie Vic

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OHIO MAGAZINE May 1982

COL'NTRV lOURNAl./ MARK MliRNSTIMN

FLYING HIGH
Tlic folks ut the Win'ncs\'illc uhportindulge nwi s
graitcstfiuitasy

Sieve and Charles and David Slewatl

grewup onan aii-pon. the one their fath

er built, south of Waynasville. where the
flat Ohio familand that usually raises com
:ls well ;us kids gives way to gently rolling
hills. The elder Stewart, known by all as Red

A.

for his brashcd-back hair long since turned

gray, was thirteen when his family moved

down from the hills of Gallia County to farm
shareson govcmment land nctirDayton. Ad
jacent was the Faiifield Air Depot, with an
old.empty hangxir that had belonged to some
brothers named Wright. It was 1926. the
yearbefore Lindbergh flew the Atlantic, and
aviation was, so to speak, in the air.
1.askinginto that air. Red Stewart recalls,
lips tracing a smile before tongue Hnds the
wonis. "I'd sec those biplanes Hying over. Two
wings, you know. The guy's head would be
sticking out of the cockpit. Just thought he
was .some other kind of human being." Red
give.s thelistener his characteristic two-finger

tap on the back of the hand and add.s, "1

think you get my point."
Red Stewart learned to Hy a decade later.
vN'hcn W)rld War 11 broke out, but varicose

veins kept him out of the air corps, so he

went to workat Frigidairc, building propel
lers for the airplanes they wouldn't let him
fly. He bought a fami with his father and
brotherand took forty Hat. well-drained acres
as his sharenot to farm, but to land on.

Using hand sitws. dynamite and a team of

horses, he cleared fifty fair-sized trees away

for the runway and. after the war. bought an

Aeronca surplus fmm the government.
In 1947. Red quit work at Frigidairc. de

ciding to make a go of it working other air

ports during the week and giving ilighl in
struction and airplane rides at his own on
weekends, Charles

known ever since as

Cub for the llrsl new plane the family

bought, a Fiix:r Cub was then a two-ye;irold: Steve was on the way. "I wanted to fly

so bad, 1 figured we could make it," Red

Stewart siiys.

Which they did. The family lived on the

comer of the airport in a small white house

Sky King: If van really want toJly, Red Stewart will see to it that you get your ehance

that had a hangar instead of a garage, and

parked thecar underthe wing. And the kids
grew up with airplanes. At thirteen. Cub
graduated from working on model planes to
helping his uncle, a licensed aircraft me
chanic. Steve made his first parachute jump
at sixteen. "On Saturday nights in high
school," he recalls, "other guys would be out
driving around. I'd be home, working on my
parachute on Mom's sewing machine."
Today, the WaynesviHe Air]X)rt isa center
forsjxirt aviation. What |X\)ple come*)ul for
is parachuting - the airport is home of one
of the state's most active sky-diving clubs-
llight lessons, aircraft rental, glider instruc
tion and rental, and airplane servicing and
repair.
The airport, not being longon luxury, kus
chairs in the lemiinal that are mostly the

ones taken out ol" the small planes to make

room for sky divers. Contributions for coffee

go into a cup and whoever's handy answers
the phone, says "WaynesviHe Airport" and
hunts up whomever thecaller islooking for.

The next generation of Stewarts- Cub and

Steve are each married to women named

Kathy scramble around the rcx)m, while

Fo7y.ie Bair takes a breather on the counter.

Says Cub Stewart, "If someone wants to

learn to fly at a place where they walk inthe
door, the flight instructor shakes their hand
and takes 'cm to an ofllce, they go out and
the airplane's gtissed up and ready, they fly
their hour, sign out and drive off. then this
probably isn't the place. Hut," he adds, "if
they'd rather come in. play with (he kids for
a few minutes,help me hunt up a quiet place
where we can talk and maybe hold a wrench
while I llnish something, then this is where
they'll find it."
Tliey find it in substantial numbers. On a
warm Saturday, the strip may handle two
hundred takcxiffs and landing.s. probably
more than ninety-five percent of the airports
in the country. The Stewarts own thirteen
aircraft now. mostly small, while a half-doz
en small plane owners have restoration proj
ects in various stiiges of completion in the

Mark lieriislein is afreelance writerfrom Yellow Springs.

I '(h ili". ll\ lu'l'l.'tl I llSi'lll'l

COUNTRY JOURNAl.

hangars and another twenty rent lie-down

spiice along the 3,3(X>-fool grass runway.
About half those planes are "taildraggers."That's a pilot's term, referring both to
the older-style aircraft that have their third

LOQ

wheel under the tail iastead of the nose, and

to the people who fly them. They take a bit

more skill as the pilot has to put the plane
into a semi-stall to ease it down onto the run

way, but, as any taildragger will tell you,

they're what real piloLs fly.
And it's on taildraggersantique Aeronca Champs and Piper J-3 Cubsthat stu
dents learn to fly at the Waynesville Airport.
"1 think it makes a better pilot, starting out
on one of these," saysCub. "You learn more
about what the aircraft does," a bit like the

wayyou learn more about cars froma man

ual transmission than an automatic. "Some

planes, it's like starting three rungs up the

ladder. This is learning it from the bottom
up. If you're ever in trouble in the air, that
could come in handy And," he adds with a
smile, "we likeold planes."
As much as anything, that's the common
ground at the VVhynesville Airport; A sheer

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love of airplanes and flying and a desire to

share that enthusiasm.

"Whynesville," saysBill Fraser, the gliding

instructor, "is the lastof the real fun airports

I own a lot.

Yes

No. Date I plan to build

I know of. There's no control tower, not all

that regulation that takes the fun out of it.

Just being careful and keeping your eyes
open. You're instructed on the day's flight
pattem, you fly the field rules, and if you
don't, then God help you."
It all makes for a noncommercial atti

tude.One currentjob in the shopIsservicing

the elevator sections of the wings of a pri

vately owned DC-3. The work's being done

at Wkynesville, in part, becausethe strip lets
the owner do some of it himself, under su

pervision, saving on his bill. Notes Fraser,

"Can you imagine driving into a LincolnCadillac dealer and saying, Td like to use
one of your racks'?"

Favors get returned.Fraser himself wasin

one morning making new tie-down ropes,
scouting around for a markingpen to section
off the nylon rope and cutting it with a heat
knife snitched from the room set aside for

making parachutes. His wife had been in a

few daysearlier to help strip the paint off a
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"I think what's made It work," says Irene

Stewart, Red's wife, "is Red's altitude about

flying. Anybody whowants to lly, he makes

it as nearly possible for them as he can." But
though his livelihaxi depended on it, Rod
Stewart has never tried to talk anyone into
flying. "If 1 was to do that," he say.s, "and
theygot hurt. I'd feel terrible. Besides, if ihey
don't reiilly wantto lly, youdon't want ihcm;
they're not safe. And if they really want to
gel up in the air, you can't stop them."
Not pcmiancntly, anyway. Witness George
Bowman, who at age seventy is the second
oldest man ever to jump out of an airplane.
Willingly
"This old guy started ragging on me,"
Steve Stewart says. "You know, 'Back in the
old days ...,' like you'd hear in a bar. Only
he seemed to know what he wiis talking
about. So I said. 'George, bring me proof.'"
Bowman went back home and returned with

a block of forty-year-old newspaper type

abtHil Gairge l^>wnian. parachuter.
1n 1928.at age seventeen. Bowman para
chuted from the sca)nd airplane he'd ever
ridden in. l ie became a barnstormingjump
er, a CTOwd-plciLser at fairs and carnivals. The
parachutes of the day were hard to control.
"You didn't get to pick your spots when you
were barnstorming," Bowman says. "If you
landed in a cornfield without hitting a tree
or a building, you llgurcd you were lucky."
Bowman made smokescreenjumps, trailing
a sack of flour, or what he aills doublejunij*;,
relc;>sing his main chute in midair and re
turning to freefall l>elbre pulling the ri|xord
on his rascrve chute. " That would kind of

put the edge on a crowd," he says. Bowman

made as much as $35 a jump, though once,
stranded broke with a friend and an airplane
near Bedford, Kentucky, they landed in a
cornfield, drew a crowd and passed the hat.
Bowman made hisjump, took the $2.50 out
of the hat and went off to buy dinner.
Bowman got married in 1938ina biplane
circling Madison, Indiana,and built a home.
The mortgage insurance agent put a rider
on his policy: If Bowman ever stepped into
or jumped out of a private plane again, he'd
cancel the insurance. "It was an awful hard

thing to turn my back on," Bowmansays."1

just about wept. So I made a sort of secret
vow to my,sclf, that when I was seventy. I'd
jump again."
Now. they like to be accommixlating at
the Waynesville Airport, but, even .so, Steve
SlcwaH was a bit concerned aNnit having a
scvcnly-yciir-old man jumping tml of one of
his aipilanes. "I'd never trained a guy that
old." Steve says. "But his kids came with
him and I said, 'Is the family behind this'?'
and they .siiid they were, so I .siiid okay."
Bowman shared Sieve's concern. "1 was a

Flight Path: Stew Stewart cast hisfate to the wind whenhe made the airport his life

worried, you know, would my bones take it'?

You do get a bit of a jolt." But Bowman,
probably :ls old as the next three jump stu
dents combined, did the training, somewhat
miffed that he had to start out as a beginner.
"Going up in the airplane," he admits, "I
was nervous. But then there were lots of times

when I was barnstorming that I wished I

was back on the ground." His first jump in
thirty ycjirs, however, went perfectly. Back
on the gmund, SteveStewart asked him what
he ihoughlof mulem a|uipmenl."lt was like
in (he old day.s," Bowman sjiiil. "If you had
a rciilly gixxl hoi-se, all you had to do was lay
the reins on its neck and it'd turn the way
you wanted. It was that smooth."
Bowman's first sky-diving career ended
before most of today's divers were bom.
Some twenty-five hundred people have done
training and first jumps at the Waynesville
Airport. Most never return; they come to see
what the thrill is. or on a bet with a friend
or, like Bowman, a bet with themselves.

Kathy Stewart, Steve's wife, and Janey

Carpenter, kids in tow, organize each plane
load from the small jump center buildingon
the northeast comer of the airport. (>crhead, gliders circle, their pilots looking for
themials, the columnsof rising warm air that
will lift their brcxid-winged craft up to a
higher altitude and a longer ride.
In addition to .sharingduties at the jump
center, .lancy is Steve's secretary and has
worked on nearly all (he five hundred para
chutes built and sold at (he airfxirt. The
chutes are made to Sieve's design, cut from
bolts of nylon and sewn on one of the airjxirl's indastrial sewing machines. Uach is
about (wo days' work, but as .laney s;iys, "It's
a lot more thi'illing llian making a dress."

Near the hangar door. Cub Stewart drills

holes in the elevators of that DC3, while at

the opposite end of the hangar Steve uses a

wire brush to remove spots of rust from the
tail section of the Cessna 182. It wasn't al

ways certain, though, that Cub and Steve

Stewart would end up at the airport. Cub
worked as a mechanic at a commercial field

for a time. "It was like working in a motor

pool," he says. "If youwere on the flight line,

you g<Ls.scd up planes and checked tires and
that's about all you did." At hisown airport,
work is varied. "1 go from working on a new
plane to helping someone figure out how to
recover the wing of an old one."
Sieve's "moment of truth" came in 1971.

He'd worked in a local grocery during high

school, then got married. A union job as a
meatcutter with Liberal markets, a chain,

looked good. "Liberal made me come in

Saturdays," he says. "That had been my day
to fly. One day, my wife calls. Thirty kids
from the University of Dayion had turned
up, wanting to jump. I'd neverhad a classof
more than three. I told the foreman there

wasan emergency at home. It took two days

to train and jump all those kids. That Mon
day, I turned in my notice. I figured, This
airport has raised one family; it can raise an
other'

"Spring and fall, however, we're out here

from eight a.m. to eleven P.M. It's hard to
make a business out of your hobby. You'd
rather see a guy fly than charge him the
money li)r it. But you've got to remember
it's a business." Steve says,adding, "The bank
called this morning."
The latest addition to the field is some

thing called an ultralight. It's a motorized

hang glitlcr, l.'>9 ivmml.s tlripping wet, that

COl'NTRYJOMKNAI.

you sit on rather than hang from. The air

port's firstan "Eagle," built by a New
Mexico firmis, Red Stewart siiys, "abso
lutely thesafest way there Is to go up in the
air."

First, it's slow; top speed is. fifty miles an

hour, allowing it to take off in one hundred
feet and land in hdlf that. Second, unlike
most ultralighLs, the Btglc has a camyd wing.
That's a small wing placed forward of the
main wing, a design used by the Wright
Brothers on their first aircraft. Because the

wingsare angled differently, it's virtuallyim

possible to stall the craft, thus eliminating
one of the main hazards of flight. "Unless
you fly it into the side of a building or take'
it up in too much wind," Red says, "there's
almost no wayyou can hurt yourself."
Forthe moment, and probablythe future
as well, ultralights are a hot item. "I sokxxi
twelve people the first three weeks we had
it." Steve .says. "In six hours, anybody can
learn how to fly one."
One attraction of the craft is that, as yet,
it's unregulated. You don't need a pilot's li
cense to fly one. But it goes deeper. "Back
before the Wright Brothers," Red says,
"when people drciuncdof flying, theyweren't
thinking about putting one hundred people
in a single airplane, or using planes for war.
They were strapping wings to their arms.
They wanted to fly like birds. This thing,
you don't need to be an expert pilot; yt)u
don't even need an aii|xjrt. You just sit in it
and lly." And Stewart, givinganother of his
tiips on the wrist. add.s, "I think you get my
|\)int."
Tliis past August they had an air show
out at Wiynesvilleskydivers, gliders and
airplane rides. At one point. Red, who still
flies and still gives flight instruction at age
sixty-nine, buzzed the crowd at five hundred
feet in his Piper J3 Cub. He was standing
on the wing, leaning intothe cockpit to han
dle the controls. "I'm not saying it wasn't
dangerous," he says,"but it's not as danger
ous as it la)ks. It's like a guy standing on a
high ladder. It looks more dangerous from
the ground than it is.On the other hand, you
c;in gel hurt." And, wiili one lasl lap on the
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point."
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That's me... (it seemed obligatorythat I put a pic of me in here)

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I guess since you've found your way in here (and youhaven't fled yet), I should tell you
a little about myself. I was bom in Southem California in January of 1964. Some stuff
happened after that, and now 1live in North Texas. Wanna see one reason myheart is
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means you spend a lot of time looking up at the airplanes... As a result of this, 1wanted
to learn to fly fi*om a very early age. 1have not yet leamed to drive an airplane, but 1
have leamed to fly. In the summer of 1984, while on siunmerbreak from school, 1
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(from the TV show Roseanne) when she made her first skydive at Waynesville Sky
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jump at Skydive Dallas together, but we hadn't yet run into each other. Then one night I
was chatting on Powwow and she paged me... Steffi has quite a variety of interests,
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Showing the way to swans who can teach the migratory

route to next year's trumpeters if the Muscatatuck Fourfly

home to Ontario next spring. (They won't be able to follow

him home; his ultralight will be dismantled and swans won't

follow the accompanying ultralight that will be flown back to
Ontario.)

Supporting his belief that cygnets hatched in the nest and

reared by swans are likelier candidates for "Induced

migration" than those hatched in Incubators and raised by

people.

"Birds raised by their parents for 10 days initially don't

follow," Mr. Bezner Kerr said. "They are afraid of humans.

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'Migration teaching new swans old tricks

significantly better, they fly higher, they climb harder, they
fly faster and they fly longer."

Moreover, wilder birds have "much better prospects for

long-term migration and survival."
Mr. Bezner Kerr Is a graduate student at Guelph University
near Toronto. Those conclusions will be central to his

master's thesis on the Interplay of trumpeter nurture and

migration.

However, Ifthe swans do not return to Ontario, It will raise

serious questions about the validity of trumpeter swan

Induced migration, regardless of how cygnets are raised, his

wife, Rachel, said.

Once they're safely at Muscatatuck, it will be up to the swans.

Three years of devotion to the animals have driven the
Bezner Kerrs to the edge of bankruptcy.

"Our funding has run out," he said. So have their credit card
limits and the willingness of friends to serve as volunteers.
"We have called In every favor Imaginable."

Unless someone comes up with $125,000, the Canadian

couple's role Is over and their two ultralights will be sold to

cover debts.

It's no puzzle why trumpeter swans with a honk akin to a

French horn or possibly a truck air horn were hunted
aggressively. Three or four times larger than the Canada

goose, one shot put more than 30 pounds ofdinner on the

table. And In the late 19th century, their plumes were a hot
fashion Item.

Surviving flocks In Alaska, northern Canada and the Rocky

Mountains were used to restore trumpeters to Ontario.

Migration Isvital If birds are to return to the wild. Geese have

been trained to follow boats, cars and ultralights, but no one
knew how best to teach swans to follow ultralights in the
absence of elders to teach migration routes.

Pursuing that was Mr. Bezner Kerr's graduate project.

Of the 17 candidates hatched this year, one cob (the male)

and three pens (females) showed the aptitude and stamina

for the trip.

The four swans and two ultralights took off on Dec. 4, unsure
where they would land on any day.

To accommodate that uncertainty, Rachel Bezner Kerr"cold

called" owners of private, grass landing strips between North

Monetvllle and Seymour.

Everyone welcomed them.

Swans were tireless, flying up to 150 miles a day and ready

again after a night In a protective pen. The birds flew about

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Migration teaching new swans old tricks

35 miles an hour and sometimes in bursts over 55 mph
led Mr. Bezner Kerr's ultralight.

That wasn't the only evidence of their playful nature.

Swans changed formations, sometimes flying four on one

side of the ultralight, or three and one, or two and two on
both sides.

Sometimes, the powerful birds would jostle his ultralight, Mr.

Bezner Kerr said, or land on his wings and "ride free."
"Unnerving" as that was, his greatest fear was that a
hitchhiker might get tangled In wires atop the wings.
"It wouldn't have been a good situation," Rachel Bezner Kerr

said; more likely to hurt the swan, it could be fatal to both.

Men and swans flew from 400 to 3,000 feet above the

ground, stopping when head winds stymied them, weather

became too rough for the ultralights or the pilots needed to
take a break.

"The swans are very strong," Rachel Bezner Kerr said, adding
stops were largely to accommodate "human needs."
In the air, Mr. Bezner Kerr concentrated on the birds. Other
Ontario pilots Mcrae Nussy, Bryan Quickmire, and now Ken
Kennedy followed in the second ultralight, radioing
directions and helping track swans.

On the ground, Rachel Bezner Kerr and Anita Jane Fedoruk, a

Gueiph graduate who volunteered to see the project through
after money ran out to pay her, followed in a borrowed motor
home.

Rachel Bezner Kerr's master's degree dealt with manure and

farming in Maiawai, Central Africa. Still, she shares enough of

her husband's interest in swans to have devoted herself to his
thesis project.

"I wouldn't do it only because I'm married to him."

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Wayne Bezner Kerr leads four

trumpeter swans into a wildlife
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sonorous sound has been

heard in the 8,000-acre

took the photo with a remote

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Led by half-frozen
Wayne Bezner Kerr in an open ultralight, the swans landed
and waddled onto a frozen ma rshy

"It's perfect," the young Canadian biologist said as he

eased stiff fingers around a paper cup of coffee brewed by
welcoming refuge employees. "Today is wonderful. It's like
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has dominated Mr. Bezner Kerr's

him to the edge of bankruptcy.

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For his master's thesis at

Guelph University, he had to find

out the best way to raise
trumpeter swans to follow an

ultralight so he could teach

story about the swans'

stopover in Waynesville,
Ohio

them migration routes vital

to their return to the wild.

There are no elders to teach the cygnets. Trumpeter

swans were hunted to extinction in most of North America in

the 19th century; his birds are descended from Alaskan and
Yukon survivors.

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He won't know all of the answers until March, when he

learns whether his cob (male) and three pens (females)

return to South Bay of Ramsay Lake in Ontario.
All was going well until
Wednesday. They reached

Headed south

last

Trumpeisr swans are making ifieirway

southirom Canada to Seymour. Ind. A Waynesville, Ohio, where awful

flying weather and fellow pilot

Ken Kennedy's 24-hour flu
grounded them.

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again next year and in 2000, he

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If they stay here,

rather
than fly home, it will raise
doubts about the potential for
such "induced migration," he

Ths Qndnnati Enoiiipsr said.

Even today's flight almost failed.

Mr. Bezner Kerr and the swans took off, but Mr.

Kennedy couldn't follow in the second ultralight; ice had

fouled his fuel system.
Mr. Bezner Kerr and the swans circled and landed, but
when the engine problem was solved, the swans wouldn't
cooperate. They were accustomed to taking off, flying and
landing for the day, and they'd just done that.

"They wouldn't go again," Mr. Bezner Kerr said. "It was

pretty hairy."
Resistance was so stubborn that Mr. Bezner Kerr's
wife,
Rachel, and assistant, Anita Jane Fedoruk, put the birds in a
van and hauled them to a nearby airstrip.

Away from now-familiar surroundings at the Reid

Stewart Airfield in Waynesville, the swans followed Mr.
Bezner Kerr's lead ultralight Into the air as If it were a new
day.
It took 2.5 hours to cover 110 miles, and even though
he was wear ing a fully insulated floatation suit, Mr. Bezner
Kerr said the cold was "awful."

Unlike Mr. Kennedy's enclosed aircraft, his ultralight

lacks even a windscreen. He was "shivering so hard the wing
was shaking."
As he watched the resting swans here, Rachel Bezner
Kerr pulled up In their borrowed motor home, followed by Ms.
Fedoruk in a van pulling a supply trailer.

The two young women jumped out, embraced to

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celebrate the successful end of the voyage, and Rachel

Bezner Kerr hugged her husband.
Then the two women crunched across the marsh with

sections of the swans' protective wire pen. Rachel Bezner

Kerr assembled It while Ms. Fedoruk fetched buckets of food
from the trailer.

Familiar with the routine, the swans assembled in the

pen for dinner and drinks.
Then unexpected trouble surfaced.

Coyotes are common in the refuge and the pen will not
deter them. The swans were not familiar enough with their
winter home to move to safety in the pond. And employees of

the refuge had nothing to protect the prized birds.

The answer was to bed the swans down in straw in

the

trailer and figure out the next moves in the morning.

Today, Mr. Bezner Kerr plans to take the swans flying

around the refuge in orientation flights.

Listening closely was Toronto filmmaker Bill Carrick, of

Toronto, who drew on 30 years of training waterfowl to help
prepare the trumpeter swans for the historic flight.
It was Mr. Bezner Kerr's moment and he stood aside.

But when asked for his appraisal, Mr. Carrick said with

quiet satisfaction, ''All we're trying to do is come as close as

possible to what is natural."

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-ans chase their surrogate
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jyne Bezner Kerr. Kerr and

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rt in Waynesville.
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cles, and noise control, especially

n Miami Twp., where citizens

and surrounding entities such as

vehicles with loud radios.

the school district and Miamis-

burg have met to discuss how to

retain greenspace, Anderson said
farmland preservation "is a big
one for us."

Anderson said there are many

issues involved in preserving

farmland.

"When you pull on one string

md it pulls something else,
/ou've got a big knot," he said.
"Here we are in the bread belt
)f America and we're eating up
;he farmland with more schools,

nore asphalt, more spread out

services that cost more to do than

if you are in a dense area," he

said.
"The state needs to look care

fully at having less of a free mar

ket land-use policy. I know that
sounds un-American but... what

Alan F. Pippenger, a Harrison

Twp. trustee, noted that state

laws.

Pippenger said Harrison offi

cials also want legislators to
revise state law so the township's
new Community Improvement

Corp. can acquire residential

property in addition to commer
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acquire abandoned residential

properties and redevelop them,"
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anymore and they want to sell to

the highest bidder, how can we
say no?"
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said he can see both sides.

"We need planned, balanced

growth and to preserve our agri

cultural heritage," he said.
In Bethel Twp., Ron Lyons is
the chairman of the township
trustees. The rural township
hasn't seen much development,
but there are fewer farmers than
there used to be.
"There's still a lot of farm

land," Lyons said. "But if we're

going to have reform, you have to

do it in a way that wouldn't hurt
the farmer. When developers
come in, it's all money. But a
farmer can't make a living now
with the price of com, beans,

pigs. If a man owns the farmland

he needs to be able to do what

ever he needs to do with the

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they're doing is we're just mov

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don't know if the old restrictions

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apply anymore."
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probably not be considered urban

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what wiU probably be proposed.

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year.

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Republican from Franklin Coun
ty, plans to reintroduce the mea
sure despite the heat.
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aide, Mark Aiken, while some
changes will be made in the
revised bill, it will still require
uniformity of cities in adminis
tering income taxes and may add
additional expenses for cities.
Kettering's Husemann said
there are advantages to making
income tax formats and require
ments more consistent.

His city and the seven others

participating in the Miami Valley

Cable Council already worked

together on their policies. With

so many residents crossing bor
ders for jobs, it made sense for
the cities to cooperate, he said.
But that doesn't mean the state

should order one approach for

everyone, Husemann said.

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Anyone seen four regal but

"lost-lookinn" trumpeter swans? "They
haven't been seen for several weeks

now/' said Mike Oliver, biologist at

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In January, they were hanging

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Then he walked the land, checked the ponds and flew

over the refuge looking for them.

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On the other hand, there is no sign predators have

dined on the birds since they flew in Dec. 23, Mr, Oliver said.
There are no monitors on the birds, but the four are

distinguished by yellow and black dye on their feathers.

The trumpeters' absence is not an immediate cause for
concern because they might be returning early to breeding
groups In northern Ontario.

However, no one has seen them there, either, Mr.

Oliver

said. "In fact, we haven't had reports from any direction

about some lost-looking trumpeter swans," he said.

Trumpeters coveted for their meat and feathers

were wiped out east of the Rockies in the 19th century.
In the past two decades, an effort has emerged to
reintroduce them to the region. The four birds followed an
ultralight piloted by Wayne Bezner Kerr Into Muscatatuck. If
the swans have flown home, it could be a double victory for
Mr. Bezner Kerr, wife Rachel and others in the project.
Returning swans might breed and teach others to migrate
between Ontario and Indiana.

Ms. Bezner Kerr said the Muscatatuck Four took to the

refuge without apparent fear.

That adjustment was "exciting news for us," she wrote
in a recent newsletter, because "the main objective of this

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year's research was to determine the best method to raise

swans that both follow airplanes and retain wild behavior,"
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nyone who sees the swans is asked to e-mait

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One of four rare trumpeter swans that wintered in

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"It's very exciting," Wayne Bezner Kerr confirmed

Thursday.

Leader of the team trying to teach traditional migration

routes, he said one female flew "right back to the spot where
the training pens were" near Sudbury In northern Ontario.

A colleague got close enough to read the swan's leg

band and confirm it was one of the Muscatatuck Four, Mr.
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Mr. Bezner Kerr, in Guelph, Ontario, also has a reliable

but unconfirmed report that the three remaining swans were
spotted near Sudbury.
It was the best news since the trumpeters left
Muscatatuck In late February or early March.
Mr. Bezner Kerr and his wife, Rachel, began their

trumpeter project as part of a larger effort to reintroduce the

huge birds to the eastern half of North America where they
were hunted to extinction in the 19th century.

(Trumpeters are the 747s of the waterbird world, four

times the size of the more common Canada goose.)

The couple and their allies used different methods to

raise newborn cygnets in southern Ontario. They hoped to
learn which approach produced trumpeters most willing to be
taught to follow an ultralight aircraft.
Next, they took 3-month-old swans about 300 miles
north to Sudbury for training.

Finally, Mr. Bezner Kerr used his ultralight to lead the

strongest quartet to Muscata tuck, a suitable wintering
venue. In December.

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Their arrival just before Christmas made the experiment
a success and gave Mr. Bezner Kerr all he needed to finish his
master's degree at Guelph University.
It would be a bonus if any of the trumpeters flew back
to Sudbury, and the female's return proved that historic
migration routes could be taught by humans, Mr. Bezner Kerr
said. "We're not guessing now."
Moreover, the round trip suggests returning swans
might breed and restore the natural cycle.

"We're now in a position to right some serious wrongs,"

Mr. Bezner Kerr said.

Finally, he said, the return is "the first evidence" that

swans learn routes from terrain over which they fly.

An alternative theory says swans watch the night sky

from birth and learn a "fix" from the stars.

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N.Kv. poised to become a leading tourist draw
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Air-Qualitv rating to rise
Justin's bioloQical parents file appeal

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Boone Co. OKs Genesis museum
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Countv to fix, scrap computer

House decides how to spend $40B

State mioht own casinos
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ings to pay for flying lessons.
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went to war.

"Red tried to enlist, but because

of feet and 1^ trouble, was dis-

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quaUhed," Hanshew said. "Inorder

flying, saldfamilyfriendand

to keep flying, Red joined the Civil

aviator Steve Hanshew.

Air Patrol, which was allowed to

volved in missions."

Mr. Stewart also worked double

shifts making propeller blades for

the B-29 Superfortress, family
members said.

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ed, money to his father, who pur
chased 108 acres in Waynesville.
Mr. Stewart's plan was to use 40

acres to build an airport Until then,

Stewart was in the practice offlying
to work at Frigidaire in Dayton and
tying down his Aeronca plane next
to friends' Fords and Chevys.

When his plant manager told him

to quit parking in the parking lot,
Mr. Stewart quit his job and went
about building what is now the
Waynesville Aiiport in 1946.
"Red flew roughly 18,000hours

RUSSELL MUNS6h

EMERSON CHARLES 'RED' STEWART SR. loved tofly his Piper Cub. He died
at home in Waynesville on Monday.

Please see STEWART/4B

STEWART: Fund to set up aviation scholarship

Continued from Page IB

Waynesville; abrother,J.W. ofUnion

City, Ind.; five grandchildren; and

teaching, cajoling and breathing

two step-grandchildren.

Memorial Fund at the Lebanon Citi

zens Bank, 9 N. Main St., Waynes
ville.

their wives, and their children have

Services will lie at 11 a.m. at the

Stubbs-Conner Funeral Home in

The fund will provide an aviation

scholarship at Waynesville High

continued flie dream he began over

50years ago."

Waynesville. Graveside services will

School.

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fli^t," Hanshew said. "His sons,

Mr. Stewart is survived by his

wife,Irene; three sons, Emerson Jr.,

Stephen

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David,

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Name: John W. Stewart

Home in i88o: Harveysburg, Warren, Ohio
Age: 37

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Ann Virginia
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John W. Stewart

37

Ann Virginia Stewart

Louella Stewart

33
13

Horace Stewart

11

Lydia Stewart
Arthur Stewart

9
7

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Charles Stewart

Mary Stewart

Source Citation: Year: iSSo-, Census Place: Hurveyfiburg. Wurren, Ohio\ Roll: Tg_i075\ Family History Film: I2o5075\
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