Home of Stewarts

HomeofStewarts.net was started several years ago to be our home page for our network. Over the years it has taken on many new looks and many new features. This project started back in 2001 and has been changing ever since. Today it has taken on even a larger change and incorporated CSS, ASP, HTML, Javascript, and Active X.

As we mentioned in the Welcome Message, this is the home page for our network. We have tried to make one page that all our family can use if they elect too. We have News, Weather, a Calendar, and our Music. We'll discuss each below in more detail.

News - this is a feed form DirectFeed News. We subscribe to this service which allows up to have the top stories automatically display. I noticed that during the elections they have their supported candidates. We do not always endorse their candidates but since it is a free service there is not much we can do to not display them. You'll always see the top 10 news stories from around the world there. Sometimes they are duplicated if all major news sources are reporting the same big event in the world.

Weather - this is a feed from WX.com that we subscribe to. This is the forecast and local radar for Mentor, OH. If you watch it during the winter months you'll see the snow.

Calendar - this is something that we have been developing over the years. Today it will just display the month, day and year. Eventually you'll be able to click on it and find out what is happening at HomeofStewarts.net on any given day. Keep trying this feature and one day when you click on a day you'll be able to see what is happening in our world, past, present and future.

Music - music has always been a big part of my life. I played the saxophone in grade school all the way through high school. I have been a lightman and soundman for garage bands and have always collect albums and CDs. Having had 3 major house fires in my life, this has played hell on my collections, but I have always seem to bounce back and have even a larger collection than I did before. Today we have a digital library of over 27,000 songs. I have several ways of listening to my music. I found a program on the Internet that allows me to stream them through the XBox and now I can listen to them in my theater. I have portable mp3players and a web-based mp3player for listening over the internet. Many times at work I will turn on the web-base and listen on my office. Right now I am listening to my library as I work on this webpage. During the summer months when we can enjoy being outside we have attached the web-base player to a PC and stream them to a Nikko rack system and have 4 speakers outside. Not sure the neighbors enjoy the same music tastes as I do but they are learning. The web-based player or JeMP3Player as it is titled was developed by myself and a friend of mine Ed Misiakiewicz. The plan was to have a player that would use Windows Media Player, stream music from my Media Server and it had to read multiple drives, and it had to play random. Once we were successful next was to be able to play an individual artist and then Ed had an idea to play a random file from an artist. For example if you want to hear some Pink Floyd but you didn't really care what played, once you selected Pink Floyd, the JeMP3Player would randomly select a Pink Floyd song and keep selecting from this artist until you turned it off. Other things had to be developed like a way to see what we had, by artist, song or a part of an artist name or part of a song title. Last we had to develop a way to catalog all thosee songs and to do it automatically. So every night a program runs that looks for new files and catalogs their names in a database. This is all protected behind our firewall and requires a username and password to use this program. There are so many files that if it did get out on the internet we would have millions of visitors on a continuous basis. Once it did get out accidently and I found all kinds of links from all over the world. It took a little while but they have now been deleted from all those search engines and webpages.

On January 25th, 2003 Anne Watts and Ned Stewart were married. This means that Anne's 3 kids and my 2 kids became one big family.

Starting at the top left, Christopher (Chris) Stewart born on May 3, 1983 in Alton, IL, Ronald (Ronnie) Watts II born in Biloxi, MS on July 23, 1986, Brandi Watts, born in Biloxi, MS on September 25, 1980. Middle row left, Melissa Hulsey born in Biloxi, MS on February 12, 1983 and married on October 20, 2007 to Jake Hulsey, Anthony (Tony) Stewart born in Alton, IL on October 25, 1985, and Jake Hulsey born in Douglasville, GA on January 30, 1983. Bottom row left, Anne Stewart, born in Biloxi, MS on December 5, 1959, and Ned Stewart, born in Alton, IL on October 21, 1957.

Ned Stewart - I was born on October 21, 1957 in Alton, IL. My parents, John E. Stewart and Mae M. Owens were married sometime between 1940 and 1941. I had 2 brothers John E. Stewart Jr and James W. Stewart and a step-brother Mark A. Rowland. Jim passed away in 2003 from cancer. I did a tribute webpage to Jim and you can view it here. My dad passed away in January 1975. My mom is still living and in April 2008 she will be 92 years old. I attended Humbolt, Lovejoy and Thomas Jefferson elementry schools. I then attended East Junior High School, and graduated in 1975 from Alton Senior High School. In the fall of 1975 I briefly attended Lewis & Clark Community College. In 1977 I moved to the east coast to live in Delaware and Pennsylvania. I returned to Alton in the fall of 1979. In November 1979 I started working for a company called Bruening Bearings, Inc. The parent company Bearings, Inc was headquartered in Cleveland, OH. In July 1991 I was transferred from Alton to Cleveland, OH and bought a home on the east side in Mentor, OH. On May 3, 1983 my first child was born, Christopher J. (Chris) Stewart. On October 25, 1985 my second child was born Anthony L. (Tony) Stewart. On March 9, 1981 I was married and then divorced in June 2000. In January 2003 I married Hazel Annette (Anne) Watts. We just celebrated our 5th anniverary this year. I have been blessed with 3 step-children, Brandi, Melissa and Ronnie. When I was growing up I would see my step-brother on Saturday's and my 2 other brothers were much older than me and had their own lives. I grew up mainly as a only child. It is so great now having a larger family. This is something I didn't have before and enjoy each day of it now, they are all such good kids, I love them all. In September 2008 I will become a Granddad for the first time. My youngest step-daughter Melissa and her husband Jake Hulsey are expecting so I am making my plans now on just how to spoil this first grandchild. I have told the family that once the grandchild is born, we will get in my corvette with matching hats and head to the Lake Erie beach and the grandchild will become my "chick magnet".

H. Annette Stewart - I was born on December 5, 1959 in Biloxi Ms. My parents, Hazel and Rether Griffin. They are both deceased now. My father was born Sept 19, 1922 and went to heaven on April 23, 1973. My Mom was born October 8, 1921 and went to heaven on April 15, 1995. I have 5 brothers. Robert, James, Rether, Gary and Jack. They all live in Mississippi on the coast. Robert and James are a lot older than me. Rether, Gary, Jack and myself are close in age. 3 years apart. We were close growing up. Have so many good memories as kids. I married Ned Stewart on January 25, 2003. I have 3 children and Ned has 2. They are all great kids. Brandi Michelle was born Sept 25, 1980. Melissa Jane was born Februaryy 12, 1983. Ronald Wilson was born July 23, 1986. Since Ned and I have been married we have gotten all of the kids together 1 time. It was in June of 2007. We went and had pictures made with all of them. Melissa was married October 20, 2007 to Jake Hulsey. Jake was born January 30, 1983 in Douglasville Ga. We have a great bunch of kids and I love having them all here. Cant wait until Sept when my first grandbaby will be here. Melissa and Jake are blessed to be pregnant. I cant wait!!

Brandi M. Watts - I was born on September 25,1980 in Biloxi Mississippi. I live in Alpharetta Ga. I work for a company called RLI. I have a little Yorkshire terrier that is the apple of my eye. Her name is Maggie. She was born July 2006.

Melissa J. Hulsey - I was born on February 12,1983 in Biloxi Mississippi. I am a manager for American Signature Furniture store. I live in Douglasville Ga with my new husband Jake Hulsey. We were married on October 20, 2007. I found out on January 12,2008 that we will be parents. The new baby is due on September 23, 2008.

CHristopher J. (Chris) Stewart - I was born on May 3, 1983 in Alton, IL. I reside in Mentor, OH but am currently being trained in Philadelphia PA for a company called PC Helps. I hope to be back in Mentor the beginning of spring 2008. I have an apartment in Eastlake OH with a room mate.

Anthony L. (Tony) Stewart - I was born on October 25, 1985 in Alton, IL. My address is my Dad and Stepmom's right now because I am on temporary assignment in Philadelphia PA for PC Helps. I hope to return to Mentor in the spring of 2008. At which time I will be looking for a place of my own.

Ronald W. (Ronnie) Watts II - I was born on July 23, 1986 in Biloxi Mississippi. I live in Mentor Ohio with my Mom and step dad Ned. I work for Buffalo Wild Wings. I started in the kitchen and I am currently training for a manager position. I have been there almost a year.

Jake Hulsey - born in Douglasville, GA on January 30, 1983 and married Melissa on October 20, 2007 to become one of the HomeofStewarts.net gang.