Reuben R. Stewart, son of Luke Stewart and Ruth Risley. Reuben was married to Helen A. Pierce. At his death, a son also named Rueben R. Stewart had not yet been born. In his will, Reuben refers to the younger to be born Reuben as "any child or children by me begotten which may be born of her [Helen A. (Pierce) Stewart] subsequent to the time of my decease".

Date of birth is set as recorded in the "The Risley family history, including records of some of the early English Risleys' a genealogy of the descendants of Richard Risley, of Newtown (Cambridge), Massachusetts (1633), and of Hartford, Connecticut (1636); an account of the family reunion at Hartford, August 3, 1904, and a list of the founders of the commonwealth of Connecticut", by Edwin Hills Risley, 1909.

Date of death is as recorded in a Truxton Cemetery burial registry. Reuben's young son Freddie had just passed 4 MAR 1864 days before Reuben's last will and testament dated 16 MAR 1864. Probate papers were dated 31 MAY 1864.

Note that in a Truxton Cemetery burial registry and all described from Reuben Stewart's (1832-1864) perspective, and all interred in the old burying grounds A 2, were:

Reuben R. Stewart 1832-1864 (himself),

Freddie Stewart, Reuben's son,

Louis Pierce, Reuben's sister-in-law, daughter of Albert and Eliza Pierce,

Mary Pierce, Reuben's sister-in-law, and

Albert Short, Reuben's nephew, son of William and Lydia M. (Pierce) Short (findagrave)