Biography

Lizzie Stuart was born presumably in West Liberty, Iowa on October 14, 1842 to early settlers Robert and Nancy Stuart. Robert and Nancy Stuart had five children: Granville, James, Lizzie, Samuel, and Thomas. Stuart's diary recounts her departure from West Liberty to Cedar Falls, Iowa where she lived with her mother and her mother's in-laws, the Bozarths. Her younger brothers, Thomas and Samuel, are noted as still living in Cedar Falls at this time. In 1849 and again in 1852 with his two sons (Granville and James), Robert left for California to search for gold. Lizzie Stuart's older brothers, Granville and James, were later famed early settlers and explorers of Montana. Her younger brother, Thomas, also served as an interpreter to Plenty Coups of the Crow Nation and other chiefs from Currance, Idaho to Washington, D.C. to sign a peace treaty with the United States. Lizzie died at the young age of 18 in 1860.

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