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- Zechariah G. Stewart was born and reared at New Alexandria, Pennsylvania. He
studied medicine and settled to practice at Murrayville, where he was living in
1830 when he married Jane Laird. Dr. Stewart lived in Murraysville until 1857,
when he removed with his family to Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania, to educate his
children. He died there in 1863 from typhoid fever contracted while acting as
a volunteer surgeon on the Gettysburg battlefield during the Civil War.
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Reference:
McTeer - Mateer Families of Cumberland County Pennsylvania, Frances Davis
McTeer, 1975, p 112.
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, d. 1863, Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania