Samuel Dewitt Stewart

Family/Spouse: Lizzie F. Burns. Lizzie (daughter of James Burns and Susan Jane Stewart) was born on 7 Mar 1887 in Howard, Steuben County, New York; died on 6 Aug 1966; was buried in Nondaga Cemetery, Bath, Steuben County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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.