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Charles Bellinger Stewart Full Name: Charles Bellinger Tate Stewart Date of birth: February 6, 1806 Date of death: July 28, 1885 Terms of Service Biographical Notes Committee Information Terms of Service top Chamber District Dates of Service Legislatures Party City/County Note Counties in District H 14 Jan 13, 1874 - Apr 18, 1876 14th (1) (2) (3)   Democrat Montgomery / Montgomery   Harris, Montgomery H 32 Nov 3, 1851 - Nov 7, 1853 4th     Montgomery / Montgomery   Montgomery H Montgomery Feb 16, 1846 - Dec 13, 1847 1st     Montgomery / Montgomery   Grimes, Montgomery, Walker (1) Montgomery, Montgomery County. Directory of the Members and Officers of the Fourteenth Legislature of the State of Texas . . ., 1874. (2) Danville, Montgomery County. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004, 2005. (3) The marriage of C.B. Stewart and Julia Sheppard took place on March 11, 1836 at the home of Julia's father, W.W. Sheppard, who lived on land in the Lake Creek settlement that would later become the town of Montgomery in July of 1837, "The Marriage of Charles Bellinger Stewart, or, So, Mr. Stewart, Where Did You Go for Your Honeymoon?" Montgomery County, TXGenWeb Project.   Biographical Notes and Resources top Resolutions and Journal entries 75th Legislature, R.S., HR 1123. Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary. Biographical Sketches Biographical sketch, p. 176. Birth date 2/18/1806; death date 7/28/1885. Biographical Directory of the Texan Conventions and Congresses, 1832-1845, 1942. STEWART, CHARLES BELLINGER TATE (1806-1885). Handbook of Texas Online. Biographical sketch, included in list of doctors who fought in the Battle of San Jacinto, Ch. 5, Surgeons at San Jacinto, pp. 48, 58-59. The Medicine Man in Texas, 1930. Stewart, Charles Bellinger Tate. Cenotaph. Texas State Cemetery. Biographical sketch, "Charles B. Stewart: Signer of the Declaration of Independence," reprinted from The Men Who Made Texas Free, by Sam Houston Dixon, 1924, Texas Historical Publishing Company, Houston, pp. 239-241. Montgomery County, TXGenWeb Project. Biographical sketch, "Dr. Charles B. Stewart: Statesman, Physician, Scientist, Scholar, Philosopher, and Patriot," reprinted from Houston Tribune Magazine Supplement, Vol. 1, No. 5. Birth date 2/18/1806. Montgomery County, TXGenWeb Project. Other Resources "History of the Lake Creek Settlement . . . " by Kameron Searle. Montgomery County, TXGenWeb Project. "Montgomery County Texas Confirmed as the Birthplace of the Texas Lone Star Flag," which was designed by Dr. Charles B. Stewart of Montgomery County at the request of President Mirabeau B. Lamar. Montgomery County, TXGenWeb Project. Obituaries of Charles B. Stewart. Montgomery County, TXGenWeb Project. Portrait and text of Dr. Charles B. Stewart historical marker. Montgomery County, TXGenWeb Project. Photographs Photograph. C.R. Stewart, 14th Legislature, State Preservation Board Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol 14th session composite photo of Senate and House members (Ground floor elevator vestibule, east wall. GW.V3). State Preservation Board. Committee Informationtop 14th R.S. - 1874 Bureau of Tax Rolls in Comptroller's Department   Education   Finance   Immigration   Penitentiary (Chair)  Private Land Claims   Sam Houston's Grave (Chair)  Sanitary Legislation (Chair)  4th R.S. - 1851 Apportionment   Private Land Claims No. 1 (Chair)  Public Lands   State Affairs   State Geologist, Select   1st R.S. - 1846 Contingent Expenses (Chair)  Finance   Land Office   Official Seals of the Republic of Texas, Collect and Destroy All   Privileges and Elections   Public Lands   Public Printing (Chair)

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