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Carrie Eloise Stewart

Female 1912 - 1993  (81 years)

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  1. 1.  Carrie Eloise Stewart was born on 14 Jul 1912 in Bath, Steuben County, New York; died on 22 Oct 1993 in Hornell, Steuben County, New York; was buried in Nondaga Cemetery, Bath, Steuben County, New York.

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    Born in Bath, NY to Samuel "Dewitt" and Elizabeth "Lizzie" Burns Stewart, she graduated from Geneseo State Teachers College, Geneseo, NY, and taught school at Bath, Avoca, Hornell, Howard, Canisteo and Canandaigua, NY. She was vice-principal at Haverling Central School in Bath and and a member of the Retired Teachers Association.
    She and her mother ran Brooklea Farms for seven years, taking in travelers and serving meals to help support them. She did farming and the Stewart Farm had been in the family for seven generations. She and her husband, Kenneth Spraker, continued in her father's tradition raising prize-winning Cheviot and Tunis sheep on their farm, also exhibiting the sheep throughout the United States and Canada, winning various awards and honors.
    She is listed in Who's Who of American Women. She was an international sheep judge, president of the American Cheviot Sheep Society and president and secretary of the Tunis Sheep Society.