Samuel Stewart

from Cumnock Chronicle

Samuel was born about 1888 in Riccarton to Irish miner William Stewart and his Cumnock born wife Mary McGinness. The parents lived at 69 Skares Row.

He married Elizabeth Hope, daughter of confectioner John Hope and Catherine McPhee  in Cumnock on 1 Dec 1911.

His wife and young son William lived at 12 Townfoot.

He worked at Whitehill Pit.

He was a private in the Royal Scots Fusiliers and died on 23 Oct 1916 in France. He was killed by a shell while digging a trench.

He is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial and on Cumnock War Memorial.

His wife remarried to John McKinnell and  lived at 446 Brick Row, Lugar.

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