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| | New Georgia Encyclopedia: Stewart County |
 | | Stewart County, created by the state legislature in 1830, was named for Daniel Stewart, an Indian fighter, Revolutionary War (1775-83) veteran, and the great-grandfather of U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt. |
 | | The county population exploded from 1836 to 1850. |
 | | Prominent Stewart County natives and residents include Clement Evans, a Confederate general, Methodist minister, and historian; political leader and Confederate general Robert Toombs, who owned a plantation on the Chattahoochee River; Sidney Root, a businessman, Confederate military advisor, and aspiring architect; architect John Wellborn Root; and Lillian Gordy Carter, mother of U.S. president Jimmy Carter. |
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