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  (died 5 Nov. 1884, aged 92), housewife, has scholarship in her memory. (date of birth 1795 and “the closing years of the last century” also found) Born on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. Parents: Ranald Stewart and his wife Isabella McLeod. Marion Stewart and her siblings came to Canada in 1816, when the mother of the family emigrated with ten children (Ranald the father had died by this time). In GC, the Stewarts settled on lots 26 and 27 of the 4th Concession of Lancaster Township. Marion married Donald McDonald of the North Lancaster area of GC. (eleven children) Donald, who followed farming and lumbering, died 28 Feb. 1848, leaving his financial affairs in such a state that in their early careers, his sons Alexander and John S. “laboured together for years with but one aim, that of paying their father’s debts.” They managed, however, through their energy to preserve “the old homestead to [their] mother.” (//History of Fond du Lac County//) Moving later to the United States, Marion, who was blind in her last three years, died at her home in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. “She was an old lady, when twenty years ago, she followed her sons to Wisconsin and settled in Fond du Lac.” (obituary) She is buried at Rienzi Cemetery, Fond du Lac. Presbyterian.
-<tab>In 1879, during Marion’s latter years, her son John Stewart McDonald (John S. McDonald) of Fond du Lac, Wisc., founded the Marion Stewart McDonald Scholarship at Queen’s University, Kingston, for students from GC. The scholarship was first listed in the University calendars 1879-1880. The scholarship was originally for $100 per year–a large sum for the time. Today, the payments are larger arithmetically, but inflation has reduced the real value. Marion Stewart was the sister of two distinguished brothers, Neil Stewart of Vankleek Hill and William Stewart of Bytown. For other connections of this family, see the entries for these brothers.
+<tab>In 1879, during Marion’s latter years, her son John Stewart McDonald (John S. McDonald) of Fond du Lac, Wisc., founded the Marion Stewart McDonald Scholarship at Queen’s University, Kingston, for students from GC. The scholarship was first listed in the University calendars 1879-1880. The scholarship was originally for $100 per year–a large sum for the time. Today, the payments are larger arithmetically, but inflation has reduced the real value. Marion Stewart was the sister of two distinguished brothers, [[stewart_neil|Neil Stewart]] of Vankleek Hill and [[stewart_william|William Stewart]] of Bytown. For other connections of this family, see the entries for these brothers.
 <tab>Her children included Alexander McDonald (16 Sept. 1827-2 Jan. 1906) and the aforementioned John S. McDonald (7 Dec. 1831-8 April 1916), who were both born in GC and went to Fond du Lac in 1856. Alexander was a lumberman at Fond du Lac and Green Bay (Wisconsin), and had a wide range of other business interests, which included threshing machine and seeder manufacture, and a directorship in the German-American Savings Bank. Alexander was elected mayor of Fond du Lac in 1873. He died at his home in Fond du Lac. Presbyterian, with strong temperance interests. John S. was a lumberman in Wisconsin and Michigan, and his many business interests included the threshing machine enterprise. (The brothers’ business affairs were often thus connected.)