Jennifer, I would very much like to correspond with you regarding the names you have listed in your post. I am also a descendant of Hamilton/Hampton Stewart Sr. who married (?) Bledsoe..[I did not have her given name]. Their son John Clark Stewart Sr. b. NC married (unknown), and their first 4 children were born in Hawkins, TN, the next 5 in Jackson County, AL and the last one in Benton county, MO. John Clark Stewart Sr's daughter, Mary Ann "Polly" Stewart b 1825 AL married David Jones from Wales, and their daughter Malinda Elizabeth Jones married Henry Francis Ferguson. I also have Rice in there somewhere. I have been in Jackson county Al doing genealogy, and found sources that mention a group moving to Benton county, MO. I have a lot more to share if your are working on the Jackson county AL families and trying to get them sorted as I am. My grandmothers maiden name was Ferguson, I have had my second cousin, a Ferguson, DNA tested to the 111 markers. Not a lot of responses yet. I also have the book by Frances Hilliard about the Fergusons and Finchers in Jackson, AL. Please contact me on my email:
mfwebber@sbcglobal.net Thanks