Celebrating Dr. Charles Bellinger Stewart, Montgomery’s Favorite Son (TX)
Dr. Charles Bellinger Stewart became the first signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence
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On Saturday, February 8th, the environs of Montgomery’s Nat Hart Davis Museum glistened with pride as, before a standing room only audience, the city’s mayor, Sara Countryman, introduced the honorable Jack Shepherd to speak. Shepherd’s topic: Montgomery’s favorite son, Dr. Charles Bellinger Stewart. In addition to the mayor and several other city officials, the grand assemblage included Billy Ray Duncan, president of the Montgomery History Society and his council along with a sampling of Stewart’s descendants to the fourth generation. All
exhibited high expectations for the prestigious event.
Those expectations found resonance in the grand presentation of the designated speaker, the honorable Jack Shepherd. In period dress, Shepherd rendered a marvelous review of the amazing Dr. Stewart’s life. The review revealed that from his birth on February 6th, 1806,
in Charleston, South Carolina, until his burial in the Montgomery Texas Cemetery in 1885, the saga of Dr. Charles B. Stewart embraced his whole adopted state.
Arriving in Texas in 1830, two years later he participated in the Battle of Velasco. From there, he played pivotal roles in the two preliminary governments paving the way for Texas Statehood. These were…
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