Originally this home was built by Elizabeth Sloan Stewart's family prior to the Civil War. Elizabeth was born in this home. In 1870, when Elizabeth was 5 years of age her mother died. According to Census report information from 1880 Elizabeth was then 15 years of age and residing in New Hampshire..apparently working on someone else's farm as a household worker. Her father had remarried and now had a new wife hardly any older than herself. All the checking I did through the Census reports show that the new wife had a child by James Sloan. The baby did not survive childhood for very long. By 1890 James Sloan is dead and now Elizabeth comes into sole ownership of the homestead, as she is the only surviving child of James Sloan.