Till Death Do Us Part Evelyn Fort Stewart To place an order call 1(870)425-2271 Sale Price: $17.95 Shipping US: $4.50 + $1.00/item Shipping Foreign: $12.00/item

Summary

In another, later time, Lawrence Alewine would have been locked up for the torture he put his young wife Evelyn and their three children through.

Indeed, from the first hours of their meeting, he relentlessly stalked her, then literally tricked the 16 year-old into marrying him and entering in decades-long cycle of abuse – one that began a generation earlier with his father and brother.

Set during the early years of World War II and beyond, the heart-wrenching memoir Till Death Do Us Part is Evelyn Fort Stewart’s message to every abused woman out there: Read this and be assured you are not alone.

Sixty-one when she began putting her story to paper, Stewart endured 10 years of dredging up memories from her happy childhood as one of 12 siblings to the years spent with Alewine, who not only cheated on and beat her and her three children, but put the family through years of destitution and mental hell.

Alive only by the grace of God, Stewart’s story is a love letter of hope to the abused and – yes – even to those who continue to abuse. By breaking the chain with her story, Stewart shows us that inner light can overcome and that, with God, anything is possible.

About the Author

Born in Shulerville, South Carolina in 1927, Evelyn Fort Stewart was the twelfth of twelve children. Higher education was rare during the Great Depression. Times were hard and each family member – young and old alike – labored to earn meager wages if there were to survive the hard times. Ms. Stewart’s father did the best he could under the circumstances. By age 13, her formal education ended at eth seventh grade and she was sent away to toil in a cigar factory.

Ms. Stewart survived, hardened and earned a degree in life. She has dedicated her life to helping men and women suffering from domestic violence and resides in Mountain Home, Arkansas.

 

 

My story is about abuse and about the way my father in law beat and abused his five children.  How,  he shot and killed my mother-in-law as she sat quietly hand quilting.  How, this same person raped his beautiful daughter, she gave birth to a baby at the age of fourteen. The child was born being terribly deformed. The baby lived two weeks and was buried by a cornfield. How was my sister-in-law killed you ask?  My brother in law said; his wife went to the outside toilet, fell hitting her head on a rock, she died instantly, so the story goes.