Descendants of George Lewes Lewis

Descendants of George Lewes Lewis

Generation No. 1

1. GEORGE LEWES¹ LEWIS was born Abt. 1572. He married DENISE FORMAN 1597 in Brenchley, Kent, England, daughter of CLEMENT FOREMAN and MARGERY BALDOCK. She was born August 15, 1579 in Brenchley, Kent, England.

Children of GEORGE LEWIS and DENISE FORMAN are:

i. MARGERY² LEWIS, b. December 04, 1597, Brenchley, Kent, England.

2. ii. GEORGE LEWIS, b. August 31, 1600, Brenchley, Kent, England.

iii. JAMES LEWIS, b. April 17, 1603, Brenchley, Kent, England.

3. iv. JOHN LEWIS, b. November 01, 1606, Brenchley, Kent, England; d. December 08, 1676, New London, Connecticut.

v. MARY LEWIS, b. 1608, Brenchley, Kent, England.

vi. ELIZABETH LEWIS, b. February 02, 1612/13, Brenchley, Kent, England.

vii. GEORGE LEWIS, b. Abt. 1619, Brenchley, Kent, England.

Generation No. 2

2. GEORGE² LEWIS (GEORGE LEWES¹) was born August 31, 1600 in Brenchley, Kent, England. He married MARY UNKNOWN Bef. 1635 in Brenchley, Kent, England. She was born in Brenchley, Kent, England.

Children of GEORGE LEWIS and MARY UNKNOWN are:

i. MARY³ LEWIS, b. December 27, 1625, Brenchley, Kent, England; d. July 02, 1655, Scituate, Massachusetts; m. JOHN BRYANT, November 14, 1643, Scituate, Massachusetts; b. England; d. 1684, Scituate, Massachusetts.

ii. GEORGE LEWIS, b. November 11, 1627.

iii. THOMAS LEWIS, b. January 05, 1630/31.

iv. JAMES LEWIS, b. March 25, 1632.

v. EDWARD LEWIS, b. 1634.

vi. JOHN LEWIS, b. March 02, 1637/38.

vii. EPHRAIM LEWIS, b. July 23, 1641.

viii. SARAH LEWIS, b. February 02, 1642/43.

3. JOHN² LEWIS (GEORGE LEWES¹) was born November 01, 1606 in Brenchley, Kent, England, and died December 08, 1676 in New London, Connecticut. He married SARAH MEED WFT Est. 1627-1669. She was born WFT Est. 1593-1635 in Tenterden, Kent, England/Tenterden, England, and died May 12, 1657 in New London, Connecticut.

More About JOHN LEWIS:

Immigration: 1635, on the ship Hercules

Children of JOHN LEWIS and SARAH MEED are:

4. i. JOHN³ LEWIS, b. July 12, 1634, Tenterden, Kent, England/Tenterden, England; d. April 22, 1713, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut.

5. ii. JOSEPH LEWIS, b. January 29, 1639/40, New London, Connecticut; d. 1706, Simsbury, Connecticut.

iii. MARY LEWIS, b. January 29, 1639/40, New London, Connecticut.

iv. SAMUEL LEWIS, b. April 21, 1641, New London, Connecticut.

v. ELIZABETH LEWIS, b. July 10, 1642; m. BRYANT BORDEN.

vi. SARAH LEWIS, b. December 24, 1647, New London, Connecticut; m. JOSEPH BRABROOK.

Generation No. 3

4. JOHN³ LEWIS (JOHN², GEORGE LEWES¹) was born July 12, 1634 in Tenterden, Kent, England/Tenterden, England, and died April 22, 1713 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut. He married (1) MARY HUMPHREY June 16, 1675 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, daughter of MICHAEL HUMPHREY and PRISCILLA GRANT. She was born October 24, 1653 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, and died in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut. He married (2) ELIZABETH HUNTLEY May 24, 1677 in New London, Connecticut, daughter of JOHN HUNTLEY and JANE. She was born 1657 in Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts, and died December 26, 1741 in Groton, Connecticut.

Children of JOHN LEWIS and ELIZABETH HUNTLEY are:

i. MOSES⁴ LEWIS.

ii. ELIZABETH LEWIS, b. September 27, 1678.

iii. MARY LEWIS, b. April 12, 1679.

iv. SARAH LEWIS, b. August 18, 1683.

v. JOHN LEWIS, b. August 16, 1685.

vi. SAMUEL LEWIS, b. June 03, 1687.

6. vii. WILLIAM LEWIS, b. October 22, 1690, New London, Connecticut.

viii. HANNAH LEWIS, b. October 24, 1692.

5. JOSEPH³ LEWIS (JOHN², GEORGE LEWES¹) was born January 29, 1639/40 in New London, Connecticut, and died 1706 in Simsbury, Connecticut. He married (1) MARY SLAUGHTER. He married (2) ELIZABETH CASE April 30, 1674 in Simsbury, Connecticut, daughter of JOHN CASE and SARA SPENCER. She was born 1658 in Maspeth Kill, New York, and died October 09, 1718 in Simsbury, Connecticut.

Children of JOSEPH LEWIS and ELIZABETH CASE are:

i. ELIZABETH⁴ LEWIS, b. March 20, 1673/74, Simsbury, Connecticut; d. WFT Est. 1702-1768; m. SMITH, WFT Est. 1702-1736, Simsbury, Connecticut; b. WFT Est. 1657-1677; d. WFT Est. 1702-1763.

7. ii. JOSEPH LEWIS, b. March 15, 1675/76, Simsbury, Connecticut; d. November 29, 1749, Waterbury, Connecticut.

iii. JOHN LEWIS, b. January 08, 1679/80, Simsbury, Connecticut; d. May 09, 1717; m. ABIGAIL BACKON, WFT Est. 1711-1716; b. WFT Est. 1676-1694; d. WFT Est. 1711-1779.

Generation No. 4

6. WILLIAM⁴ LEWIS (JOHN³, JOHN², GEORGE LEWES¹) was born October 22, 1690 in New London, Connecticut. He married ELIZABETH BORDEN February 23, 1714/15 in New London, Connecticut.

Child of WILLIAM LEWIS and ELIZABETH BORDEN is:

8. i. HANNAH⁵ LEWIS, b. November 26, 1716.

7. JOSEPH⁴ LEWIS (JOSEPH³, JOHN², GEORGE LEWES¹) was born March 15, 1675/76 in Simsbury, Connecticut, and died November 29, 1749 in Waterbury, Connecticut. He married SARAH ANDRUS April 07, 1703, daughter of ABRAHAM ANDRUS and REBECCA CARRINGTON. She was born March 16, 1682/83, and died March 06, 1773 in Waterbury, Connecticut.

Children of JOSEPH LEWIS and SARAH ANDRUS are:

i. THOMAS⁵ LEWIS.

ii. SAMUEL LEWIS.

iii. DAUGHTER LEWIS, b. August 12, 1704, Waterbury, Connecticut; d. September 07, 1704, Waterbury, Connecticut.

iv. JOSEPH LEWIS, b. July 12, 1705, Waterbury, Connecticut; d. October 22, 1749, Waterbury, Connecticut.

v. SARAH LEWIS, b. April 29, 1708; d. WFT Est. 1736-1802; m. OBADIAH WARNER, WFT Est. 1736-1770; b. WFT Est. 1691-1711; d. WFT Est. 1736-1797.

9. vi. JOHN LEWIS, b. April 14, 1711, Waterbury, Connecticut; d. February 24, 1799, Waterbury, Connecticut.

vii. MARY LEWIS, b. June 10, 1714, Waterbury, Connecticut; d. WFT Est. 1742-1808; m. DANIEL WILLIAMS, WFT Est. 1742-1776; b. WFT Est. 1697-1717; d. WFT Est. 1742-1803.

Generation No. 5

8. HANNAH⁵ LEWIS (WILLIAM⁴, JOHN³, JOHN², GEORGE LEWES¹) was born November 26, 1716. She married JONATHAN BEEBE March 1731/32. He was born May 02, 1709, and died January 20, 1759.

Children of HANNAH LEWIS and JONATHAN BEEBE are:

i. IRA⁶ BEEBE.

ii. ZERUAH BEEBE.

iii. ZERE BEEBE.

iv. BORDEN BEEBE.

v. JONATHAN BEEBE.

vi. DAVID BEEBE.

vii. SEBA BEEBE.

viii. SILAS BEEBE.

ix. REUBEN BEEBE.

9. JOHN⁵ LEWIS (JOSEPH⁴, JOSEPH³, JOHN², GEORGE LEWES¹) was born April 14, 1711 in Waterbury, Connecticut, and died February 24, 1799 in Waterbury, Connecticut. He married (1) MARY MUNN December 04, 1734 in Waterbury, Connecticut, daughter of SAMUEL MUNN. She was born Abt. 1711 in Woodbury, Connecticut, and died September 30, 1749 in Waterbury, Connecticut. He married (2) AME SMITH May 29, 1750 in Waterbury, Connecticut, daughter of CAPT. SAMUEL SMITH. She was born 1720 in New Haven, Connecticut, and died September 26, 1796 in Waterbury, Connecticut.

More About JOHN LEWIS:

Burial: February 24, 1799, Buried in Ancient Cemetary, Nagatuck, CT. (C. Campbell saw grave in 1978)

Military service: 1780, Revolutionary War

Children of JOHN LEWIS and MARY MUNN are:

i. DAVID⁶ LEWIS, b. Abt. 1736, Waterbury, Connecticut; d. 1754, Waterbury, Connecticut.

10. ii. JOHN LEWIS, b. December 10, 1740, Waterbury, New Haven County, Connecticut (USA); d. March 05, 1812, Waterbury, New Haven County, Connecticut (USA).

iii. SARAH LEWIS, b. April 09, 1743, Waterbury, Connecticut; d. Berlin, Ohio.

Notes for SARAH LEWIS:

This stampless doesn’t have any postal markings and was likely hand carried by a friend. It is addressed to Mr. John Lewis, Salem, and is a one and one third page letter written by Sarah Sherwood. The headline is Berkshire November 19. There’s no year date, but judging by the contents of the letter it was written ca. 1805 or 1806. From what research I did, Sarah was the daughter of John Lewis and she was born in 1743 in Waterbury, Connecticut and married Nathan Sherwood. These Sherwoods moved to Ohio in 1805 along with several members of the Lewis family. I’m not sure where the Salem is, in Ohio or New England? I assume that a genealogist would be able to figure it out, but it‘s my guess her father was still in New England. Her spelling is quite phonetic, but she does well enough. One online record states that John Lewis Sr. died in 1799. Maybe Nathan Sherwood and his wife left the home town before Lewis Sr. died and she was not aware of his death? Or is this letter written by a daughter of Nathan Sherwood and his wife? It would be great fun to research all this.

Berkshire is in Delaware county, Ohio. There must have been a group of letters addressed to the Lewis family in CT at one time, as I just sold a letter from 1808 from Worthington, OH addressed to a Lewis. And Worthington is also in Delaware county. No doubt the letters are dispersed here and there and everywhere by now.

The lack of postal markings might be explained by there being no Berkshire Post Office established at such an early date.

Some abstracts:

"Most Honard Parents, I know have one moment time that I know [now] take to let you know sumthing how we got alongue [?] the first Day we set out we had a verry hard shoure of rain and wet our things verry much and did nt[?] get them dry till we got to our brothers in the jerses, thare we staid two days and got our close and beds dris.”

“… till we come to the mountings thare the weather was could and wet, lanson took a hard cold and remained so till we crost the three mountings that is called the three brothers, then we came to the alagany and the weather was verry cold and some snow we staid thare one day. Lanson gained some after that, john was taking sik but he soon got better then lewis was taken with pleurisy, we got him blead and he got some better.”

“… he thinks it is a fine country as his uncle john and lanson has got so much corn and fine wheet I suppose eight or nine hunard bushel and lanson five hundred [sic] bushel …”

“… and all other things that we want to mak us comfortable flax I think I never see no better than john has got, Betty was verry much disappointed not having no cloth brought as wod is Scars [?] …”

“… to know weather father is coming hear or know if he or not I want to know if he is or kno [sic]. Sarah is almost a Sleep wishes me to finish her Letter to be Re membed to brothers & sisters request that Flora [?] would write and all the best and Subscribe her yours, Sarah Sherwood.”

The handwriting of the last few lines [sentence] looks a bit different, and I think that possibly Nathan Sherwood finished writing for his wife, who was dozing off.

Condition of the letter rates good, some minor staining here and there, a small separation at a corner fold. Tiny red remant of old sealing wax.

As usual with stampless letters, after writing on one or more sides of a sheet of paper, the letter was folded several times and mailed. An interesting letter good for genealogy and history research. See my other auctions for similar items.

Children of JOHN LEWIS and AME SMITH are:

iv. AME⁶ LEWIS, b. May 24, 1751, Waterbury, Connecticut; d. WFT Est. 1779-1845; m. SILAS CONSTANT, WFT Est. 1779-1813; b. WFT Est. 1734-1754; d. WFT Est. 1779-1840.

11. v. SAMUEL SMITH LEWIS, b. September 07, 1753, Waterbury, Connecticut; d. September 22, 1842, Nagatuck, Connecticut.

12. vi. DAVID LEWIS, SR., b. April 11, 1756, Waterbury, Connecticut; d. July 24, 1832, Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio.

Generation No. 6

10. JOHN⁶ LEWIS (JOHN⁵, JOSEPH⁴, JOSEPH³, JOHN², GEORGE LEWES¹) was born December 10, 1740 in Waterbury, New Haven County, Connecticut (USA), and died March 05, 1812 in Waterbury, New Haven County, Connecticut (USA). He married (1) SARAH GORDON November 17, 1763 in Waterbury, New Haven, Conneticut, daughter of JAMES GORDON. He married (2) SARAH GORDON November 17, 1763 in Waterbury, New Haven County, Connecticut (USA), daughter of JAMES GORDON. He married (3) SARAH GORDON November 17, 1763 in Waterbury, New Haven County, Connecticut (USA).

Notes for JOHN LEWIS:

Sources:

Repository:

Name: Family History Library

Salt Lake City, Utah 84150

Title: Connecticut - The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - 1686 - 1853

Author: Compiled by Jerri Lynn Burket

Publication: Baltimore - Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc

Call Number: US/CAN 974.6 V2wL v.50

Note:

Waterbury Records - This source is a transcription.

Page: pg. 217

Date: 28 Mar 2003

Repository:

Name: Family History Library

Salt Lake City, Utah 84150

Title: Connecticut - The town and city of Waterbury, Connecticut

Author: Sarah J. Pritchard and others; Edited by Joseph Anderson

Publication: New Haven: Price & Lee Company, 1896

Call Number: 974.67/W1 H2a FHL US/CAN Book

Note:

From the Aboriginal Period to the Year Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Five.

These are family records which are placed at the back of the book, in the Appendix.

Page: Vol. 1; pg. 84 ap

Date: 8 Apr 2003

Repository:

Name: Family History Library

Salt Lake City, Utah 84150

Title: Connecticut - The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - 1686 - 1853

Author: Compiled by Jerri Lynn Burket

Publication: Baltimore - Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc

Call Number: US/CAN 974.6 V2wL v.50

Note:

Waterbury Records - This source is a transcription.

Page: pg. 217

Note: dau of James, of Waterbury.

Date: 28 Mar 2003

Repository:

Name: Family History Library

Salt Lake City, Utah 84150

Title: Connecticut - The town and city of Waterbury, Connecticut

Author: Sarah J. Pritchard and others; Edited by Joseph Anderson

Publication: New Haven: Price & Lee Company, 1896

Call Number: 974.67/W1 H2a FHL US/CAN Book

Note:

From the Aboriginal Period to the Year Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Five.

These are family records which are placed at the back of the book, in the Appendix.

Page: Vol. 1; pg. 85 ap

Note: dau of James Gordon.

Date: 8 Apr 2003

More About JOHN LEWIS:

Military service: 1780, Captain Revolutionary War

Record Change: January 07, 2004

Notes for SARAH GORDON:

Sources:

Repository:

Name: Family History Library

Salt Lake City, Utah 84150

Title: Connecticut - The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - 1686 - 1853

Author: Compiled by Jerri Lynn Burket

Publication: Baltimore - Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc

Call Number: US/CAN 974.6 V2wL v.50

Note:

Waterbury Records - This source is a transcription.

Page: pg. 217

Note: dau of James, of Waterbury.

Date: 28 Mar 2003

Repository:

Name: Family History Library

Salt Lake City, Utah 84150

Title: Connecticut - The town and city of Waterbury, Connecticut

Author: Sarah J. Pritchard and others; Edited by Joseph Anderson

Publication: New Haven: Price & Lee Company, 1896

Call Number: 974.67/W1 H2a FHL US/CAN Book

Note:

From the Aboriginal Period to the Year Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Five.

These are family records which are placed at the back of the book, in the Appendix.

Page: Vol. 1; pg. 85 ap

Note: dau of James Gordon.

Date: 8 Apr 2003

More About SARAH GORDON:

Record Change: April 03, 2002

More About SARAH GORDON:

Record Change: April 03, 2002

Children of JOHN LEWIS and SARAH GORDON are:

i. ANNA⁷ LEWIS, b. January 05, 1765, Waterbury, New Haven County, Connecticut (USA); m. ASAHEL CHITTENDEN.

More About ANNA LEWIS:

Record Change: January 07, 2004

More About ASAHEL CHITTENDEN:

Record Change: April 08, 2003

ii. EZRA LEWIS, b. May 28, 1768, Waterbury, New Haven County, Connecticut (USA).

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Record Change: January 07, 2004

iii. LEAVA LEWIS, b. July 25, 1770, Waterbury, New Haven County, Connecticut (USA).

iv. JOHN LEWIS, b. July 16, 1772, Waterbury, New Haven County, Connecticut (USA); d. 1846, Berlin, Ohio; m. ELIZABETH.

More About JOHN LEWIS:

Record Change: January 07, 2004

More About ELIZABETH:

Record Change: April 03, 2002

13. v. SARAH LEWIS, b. August 17, 1775, Waterbury, New Haven County, Connecticut (USA); d. Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio.

vi. CHAUNCY LEWIS, b. January 16, 1779, Waterbury, New Haven County, Connecticut (USA).

vii. ALANSON LEWIS, b. December 08, 1788, Waterbury, New Haven County, Connecticut (USA); d. 1813, Waterbury, New Haven County, Connecticut (USA).

More About ALANSON LEWIS:

Record Change: January 07, 2004

Children of JOHN LEWIS and SARAH GORDON are:

viii. LEAVA⁷ LEWIS, b. July 20, 1770, Waterbury, New Haven County, Connecticut (USA); m. DAN.

More About LEAVA LEWIS:

Record Change: January 07, 2004

More About DAN:

Record Change: April 03, 2002

ix. SARAH LEWIS, b. August 18, 1775, Waterbury, New Haven County, Connecticut (USA); m. NATHAN SHERWOOD; b. April 22, 1770, Stamford, Connecticut; d. Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio.

More About SARAH LEWIS:

Record Change: January 07, 2004

More About NATHAN SHERWOOD:

Record Change: April 03, 2002

x. CHAUNCEY LEWIS, b. January 16, 1779, Waterbury, New Haven County, Connecticut (USA); m. HANNAH.

More About CHAUNCEY LEWIS:

Record Change: January 07, 2004

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Record Change: April 03, 2002

11. SAMUEL SMITH⁶ LEWIS (JOHN⁵, JOSEPH⁴, JOSEPH³, JOHN², GEORGE LEWES¹) was born September 07, 1753 in Waterbury, Connecticut, and died September 22, 1842 in Nagatuck, Connecticut. He married ABIGAIL BALDWIN February 22, 1776. She was born WFT Est. 1738-1764, and died WFT Est. 1792-1852.

Children of SAMUEL LEWIS and ABIGAIL BALDWIN are:

i. THOMAS⁷ LEWIS, b. April 13, 1777; d. WFT Est. 1778-1867.

ii. SALLY LEWIS, b. August 30, 1781; d. WFT Est. 1809-1875; m. H.H. PORTER, WFT Est. 1809-1843; b. WFT Est. 1764-1784; d. WFT Est. 1809-1870.

14. iii. MILO LEWIS, b. October 22, 1789, Nagatuck, Connecticut; d. WFT Est. 1810-1879, Nagatuck, Connecticut.

12. DAVID⁶ LEWIS, SR. (JOHN⁵, JOSEPH⁴, JOSEPH³, JOHN², GEORGE LEWES¹) was born April 11, 1756 in Waterbury, Connecticut, and died July 24, 1832 in Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio. He married (1) SARAH ADAMS. She died in Berlin, Ohio. He married (2) ELIZABETH BENHAM WFT Est. 1787-1820 in Waterbury, Connecticut, daughter of EBENEZER BENHAM and ELIZABETH HOTCHKISS. She was born 1755 in Wallingford, Connecticut, and died WFT Est. 1804-1850 in Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio.

Notes for DAVID LEWIS, SR.:

History of the Lewis Family

Compiled by Mrs. Emma Lewis Ryant and Mrs. Alma Lewis Gilkey

On Saturday, Oct 20, 1895, about 100 guests and relatives met at the home of Seaver Caswell to celebrate the 93rd birthday of [his mother]Mrs. Hannah Caswell. The forenoon was spent in social chats, etc., and at 12 o'clock sharp it was announced that dinner was ready. It was soon proven that the "women folk" had been making preparations for that dinner for several day past, as it consisted of everything that a heart could wish.

Dinner over, short talks were given by Messers James Ryant, A.L. Brown, Seaver Caswell and others after which the following genealogy of the Lewis family was read by Mrs. Emma Ryant, which she had prepared for the occasion.

"We meet today in this hospitable old home to celebrate the 93rd anniversary of our beloved Aunt Hannah Lewis Caswell, and the 90th anniversary of the settlement of Berlin by the Lewis family, as it was 90 years this month since they came here , Aunt Hannah, then a child of three years. The Lewis family to which we belong is one of the oldest in the United States, one of the oldest in Connecticut and Ohio, and the oldest in Berlin. This vicinity was once known throughout the county as the Lewis Settlement. It is difficult to picture or imagine the condition of our pioneer fathers and mothers of 1805. Here they were without shelter and winter approaching. I will give the genealogy of one branch of the Lewis family from 1635, or 260 years."

"First Generation: John Lewis came over from [sailed from]Sandwich, England, in 1635 on the ship 'Hercules' with his wife Sarah, and one son. They settled in New London, Connecticut, where he died on December 8, 1676, one hundred years before the Revolutionary War."

"Second Generation: Joseph Lewis, son of John married Mary Slaughter [later Elizabeth Case, April 1674]. He died in 1706."

"Third Generation: Deacon Joseph Lewis, son of Joseph, settles in Waterbury, Connecticut. In 1700 he married Sarah Andrews [Andrus]. He died November 26, 1749. Joseph was one of the respected and substantial men of the town of Waterbury. He was town Treasurer in 1711 [he also was the town fence surveyor]. His son, Samuel, was Deacon of the Waterbury church and afterward First Deacon of the Congregational Church in Naugatuck, Connecticut. Another son, Thomas, graduated from Yale College in 1741 and became a Congregational Minister and died in Georgia in 1804. (Yale College was established in 1700). A third son, John, also lived in Naugatuck, Connecticut."

"Fourth Generation: John Lewis, son of Joseph, married Mary Munn and later Amy [Ame] Smith. He was in the Revolutionary War and his two sons, David Sr. and John of Naugatuck. John had three children that came to Ohio: John, Alanson [Uncle Alanson] and Sarah, the wife of Nathan Sherwood."

"Fifth Generation: David Lewis Sr., son of John, was born April 11, 1756, in Waterbury, Connecticut. He came to Ohio with his five sons and four daughters in 1805 and died in Berlin in 1831 at the age of 75 years. He was a teacher in Connecticut and a student at Yale College."

"Sixth Generation: Hannah Lewis, daughter of David Sr., was born October 20, 1802. She married Wilbur Caswell in 1817 and has resided in this place [Berlin, OH] ever since. Wilbur Caswell was born in Massachusetts. He was a school teacher in Berlin and Aunt Hannah and Miss Lotia Dickerson were his pupils."

"The names of Aunt Hannah's brothers and sisters [David Lewis, Sr.'s Children]were: Patty, Rosetta, David, Jr., Sylvester, Betsy, Isaac, Chester, Joseph, Sylvia, John, Hannah, [and]Warren. All lived in Berlin but one, Rosetta Whitney. She died in New York City in 1872, aged 96 years."

"The Delaware Ohio Gazette August 28, 1900 in giving the history of Berlin township: 'It is generally conceded that the Lewises have the honor of being the first to settle in this township. Their names were David, Isaac and Chester. This was in 1805. The first white child born in this colony was J.C. Lewis, who in later years became a preacher of note.'"

"David Lewis Jr. born in 1778, married Almira Caulkins in Connecticut in 1802 and came to Ohio in 1805. He died in 1860, aged 82. Almira Caulkins, born in 1782, died 1875 aged 96. She died on the farm where she had lived over 75 years.

Betsey Lewis, born November 1, 1782, died 1875 aged 93. She came to Ohio with her father. She filled her unberbed with dry leaves of the forest and when relating it to me she said, 'I was never happier in my life.' She married John Johnson in 1809, the first marriage in Berlin. She thought to have it private but the J.P. was seen in company with the groom and before the ceremony was performed her cabin filled with guests.

Isaac Lewis married Florilla Welch in 1810, died in 1827.

Chester Lewis married Catherine Kensler in 1811, died in 1824. Six children were born to them: Thomas Lewis, oldest son of Chester Lewis was born in 1814; second son, Sylvester Lewis, was born August 2, 1816; third son, William Alonzo, was born June 16, 1819; Callie A. Lewis was born July 4, 1820; Alma Lewis was born March 23, 1822."

"Chester Lewis' daughter, Alma [Lewis]Gilkey, only child now living, resides in Illinois. She was born March 23,1822 in Berlin township, Delaware County, Ohio, and in 1844 was married to Noe Bockover, who died in 1849. She then was married to J.A. Gilkey in 1854 and they moved to Illinois the same year and settled at Indianola. Their only child that reached maturity was Emma who was married to C.C. Baum in 1877 and she died in 1879 leaving one child, Lelia E. Baum."

"Sylvester Lewis was born August 2, 1816, and died April 10, 1859. March 12, 1837, he was married to Jane Strickland, Edgar County Illinois, the Rev. John Kerns performing the ceremony. Jane Strickland was born August 19, 1817, and died January 27, 1885. To this union eleven children were born: three sons, Thomas, William Harvey and John Downey; eight daughters: Sarah Bell, Rebecca, Mary Alma, Jane, Harriet, Martha, Catherine Alvira, and Emma. Sarah Bell died August 12, 1839; Jane died October 27, 1847; William Harvey died at the age of three being bitten by a mad dog and died of hydrophobia, September 7 , 1847. The same year the family moved to Illinois."

"Mary Alma [Lewis] was born, January 4, 1843, and was married to William H. Singer, October 24,1867. Their home has been at Neoga, Illinois for over a quarter of a century. Mr. Singer being the proprietor of a large successful flouring mill. To this union, two children were born, Minnie Alice and Dollie L. Minnie Alice was born November 14, 1869, and died January 9, 1885. She was a bright, beautiful girl. Dollie L. was born March13, 1875, and was married to W.P. Whitney, October 23, 1898, Rev. W.S. Hooper, the same minister who performed the ceremony for her parents thirty-one years before, officiating. They reside at Veedersburg, Indiana."

"Thomas Lewis was born at Westfield, Illinois, February 3, 1841 and was married to Sarah Caroling Melton, in 1869. To them were born nine children."

"John D. Lewis was born in Westfield, November 7, 1853 and was married to Charlotte Morell, December 9, 1875. To them one child was born, Charles D. Lewis."

"Martha Lewis was born at Westfield, October 3, 1851 and was married to Edwin D. Neighbor, December 7, 1875. They established a home at Neoga, Illinois and Mr. Neighbor has conducted a harness manufacturing business, and has gained an enviable reputation. Five Children came into their home: Claude Day, Lewis Burton, Flora Alma, Clarence Allen, and Edwinna Floy. Their three oldest children died within six days of each other of diphtheria, in November 1882. Bertie died on Tuesday, Claude on Friday and Alma on Sunday. Their grief was 'too heavy for mortals to bare.' The two other children are living."

"Harriet Lewis was born at Westfield, January 12, 1850 and was married to William T. Gilkey, April 4, 1877. To them were born five children: Clyde, Sylvia, Claude, Vern, and Elsie Marie."

"Emma Lewis was born at Westfield, February 28, 1858 and was married to James Singer, March 21, 1877. To them were born three children: Bessie Ward, William Lewis, and James Edwin. They located at Neoga, but in 1895 moved to Stewardson, Illinois, where Mr. Singer is the proprietor of the city mill. Willie, their oldest son died in 1891."

"Rebecca Lewis was married to C. F. Hofsas in 1859. Their children numbered nine: Frantz Sigel, Rosina Jane, John Frederick, Sylvester Bernard, William Edward, Pearl, Randolph, Bertie, Mary Alma."

"Catherine Alvira Lewis, born November 22, 1855 and was married to Rueben McKinney, June 15, 1896. They have a comfortable home in Neoga, Illinois."

"Silvia Lewis married Jesse Armstrong. She died in Iowa aged 90."

"Joseph Lewis, my father, [Emma Ryant's] was born June 10, 1778, in Waterbury, Connecticut, married Sarah Sherwood in 1813, died 1831. He was a soldier in the War of 1812 and built the first m

"When the first settlers of this region sought the untried country of the West, they launched out like a mariner on an unknown sea, guided only by compass and deed. Judge Joseph Constant, of Peekskill, New York, came in possession of several thousand acres of land which was located in Delaware County, Ohio. He gave David Lewis, Sr., a deed for 80 acres of land, on condition that he would settle upon it, a condition that he at once proceeded to fulfill. With a few household goods for future use, with rifle, ammunition, flint and tinder box placed in one wagon, drawn by two horses, with three women and little Hannah, David Lewis. Sr., with his sons and Alanson Lewis, his nephew, shouldered their knapsacks and commenced their journey toward the West in August, [1805]. On arriving at the Hudson River they were ferried across; it was before Robert Fulton launched his boat, 'The Clermont.' On reaching the Blue Ridge, the first range of mountains, it was necessary to lighten the load as much as possible. The men and women carried rifles and bundles of various kinds all the way over the mountains. They were often met by immense wagons drawn by six horses, which made the journey over the mountains difficult. Three small bells were worn above the head of each horse, which announced the approach of these land ships. The mountains and the Ohio River crossed, they entered the great state of Ohio. They passed through Zanesville, then Granville. From thence they entered the forest with no guide, save the blazed trees and a pocket compass. There was one cabin at Johnstown, where an old bachelor lived alone. His place was called 'Rock Evantown.' They camped out by night all the way, and kindled their fires with flint and tinder. On they traveled until they reached Berkshire, where there were a few cabins, worn and wary, within five miles of the land they had purchased. Leaving their wagon and the women, they proceeded the next morning to the claim to erect a house. David Lewis, Sr. understood surveying. They started west from the center line of Berkshire Township on the line of the section. They went west to Alum Creek, then south, getting their direction from the pocket compass, and making the measurement with a bed cord which they had brought with them. Reaching a point described in their deed, they erected a cabin and moved into it the next day. On surveying the land afterward they found that they had come so directly, that the cabin was on the land that they had come in possession of eight hundred miles away. It was a few rods northeast of the house where Mr. Cleveland now resides. There was no on to great them in these western wilds, but 'beasts of prey and men as wild and fierce as they.' This cabin must have been a crude structure, without floor, doors or windows. Here the fire was kindled, the first supper was cooked , and where Aunt Betsey filled her underbed."

"With the rifle, the ace and the fire, they set to work at once to make way for the spade and plow to follow. There was a novelty at first that dispelled discontent. The next winter and spring they made troughs to hold sap, and they had abundance of maple molasses and sugar, and the first season after their arrival they made over 200 pounds of maple sugar in an iron pot and frying pan. Venison and turkey were abundant and after the brush and logs were cleared away, they had vegetables of all kinds. But there was lack of salt and leather and cooking utensils, the markets were at Zanesville and Chillicothe, over tedious roads imperfectly marked out. Alum Creek furnished an easier route. They could ride one way, but one way was considerable to ride in those days."

"On one occasion, Joseph Lewis, (my father) [Emma Ryant's] and Isaac and David Jr., his brothers, constructed a raft, loaded it with skins and furs, and launched it out on Alum Creek for Chillicothe, 100 miles away, to buy salt and some other necessary articles. When night came on they tied their raft to a tree and cooked supper in the woods. On their return they walked, carrying an iron pot, a roll of leather, a sack of salt and other articles. It was no small undertaking to carry these precious articles on their shoulders. Each mile seemed to add weight to the load, but the thought of the comfort that each article would bring, made the burden light. Crossing Alum Creek on a tree fallen across from bank to bank, in sight of home, David Jr. lost his footing and with the salt fell into the water. With shoulders chaffed with the burden and his salt dissolving, his feeling at the loss are better imagined than described."

"The pioneers of Berlin were not only architects of their own fortune, but of the state which grew of their pioneer efforts. Every man was a hero; every woman a heroine. The closest economy was to be enforced, and they practiced it. The roughest work was to be done, and they did it. They came from home of refinement and luxury. They left most of the comforts of home behind and every luxury. After a few years, all wore the same kind of clothing, made from flax and deer skins."

"After the first flax was spun it was necessary to find a loom. Betsey and Almira Lewis started on foot toward the northeast to find a loom and after walking several miles they found [a] cabin. On entering they found a wedding party already assembled. They were cordially invited to spend the night, which invitation they gladly accepted. In the morning they were invited to accompany the wedding party on foot to Berkshire. They reached the home of the groom and were treated to cowslip greens and corn bread for dinner."

"The War of 1812 quickly followed. The Indians added terror in the inhabitants, but I will not attempt to tell you about the Indian scare and the block house or fort [that] was erected near where Mr. Saunders now resides. The roof was made of shingles split from the trunks of trees and nailed on with wrought nails made by Nathan Sherwood, my grandfather, in the blacksmith shop. The door was of double thickness of three inch planks, fastened together with wooden pins, and it was hung on wooden hinges. Aunt Hannah can remember sleeping there. She is the last one living that fled there for protection. It was used after the war for [a] church and school. I attended my first school there."

"The period after the war was one of severe hardship. There was no market for what the settlers had to sell. Wheat, furs, beef and pork they begun to have to sell, but money ceased to circulate. It was difficult to procure money enough to pay postage on letters. The post office was five miles away at Berkshire. I have several old letters written from 1812 to 1825, on which the postage was twenty-five cents and one that exceeded fifty cents."

"My mother with others, went to Franklinton (now West Columbus [OH]), in a sled, taking with them 16lbs of butter and other produce. All she could get for the butter was a cotton bandana handkerchief, costing fifty cents, which now could be bought for five cents."

"The descendants of John Lewis that came from England are numberless. They have lived in every state in the Union and lie buried form the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific coast."

"Our forefathers believed in the civil and religious rights of man. Without a doubt they have been in all of the American wars. They lived in Connecticut before the first American war, the Pequots 1636, and we know they were in the war of '76 to establish a government and in the [War of 1812] Civil War to preserve it."

"When I think of Aunt Hannah, a little child, (the only child in that company that was coming west), with her father, mother, brothers and sisters, I have thought that she must have been tenderly cared for. How their hearts went out in love for her, and no doubt they carried her in their strong arms on that journey. All of that company except Uncle Alanson, lived to see her married and she in return gave back to each the love they gave her. The Lord has been her help and protector in all these years. He gave her a kind and good husband, blessed her with dutiful grandchildren and great grandchildren; and when she is called to leave this home, He will send His angles to conduct her to her heavenly home where she will meet her Savior and all her loved ones who have gone before.

Berlin, Ohio

Saturday, October 20, 1895

Mrs. Emma Lewis Ryant

Constantina, Delaware County, Ohio

Mrs. Alma Lewis Gilkey

Indianola, Illinois

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Memories of our family

written by

Eunice Maria Lewis Brown

for my daughter

Sarah E. McLeod,

Central College, Ohio, 1890

"David Lewis, at the age of 17 years, just a boy, entered the Revolutionary war. He served until the end of the war. He was twice married. The first wife I never heard about but there were several children. Aunt Betsey Johnson being a half-sister and 12 years older than my father, Dr. John [Lewis]. The second time he married Sarah Adams, a cousin of John Quincy Adams, their two fathers being brothers. I will talk about a cheese that the friends and neighbors made for the President Adams. The time was appointed when all the women were to run all the milk and curd it at home, and bring it to the appointed place. Then it was taken to the cider press and set in cheese shape. A platform chart was prepared especially to take it to a place to ripen. When done, it was taken to the President with many ceremonies. Grandfather after raising a large family was bound to go to Ohio. He got ready with a team of oxen ( I suppose) and a big wagon and he started and came all the way alone, to look for a home site, which he did and later the family came the same way. His neighbors back east in Conn., said if he got through safely and did not get killed by the Indians, they would come too. Which very many of them did later. Those with families of little children waiting until they were sure of food and shelter. Grandfather got over the mountains and got to Cheshire, Berlin Twp., Delaware Co., Ohio and landed where a white man's foot had never trod before. (The family arrived Nov.25, 1805.) He had a tent for shelter and an abundance of firewood and cooked out of doors as it was quite cold. He started to get logs ready for his house. He split logs and hewed them to fit for the floors which was called pucheon. He cut logs the right length that would split easily for clapboard shingles. He also split out the rafters and lath for shingling. When he had everything prepared he went to the nearest settlements to ask everyone to come and help, which they always did. The fireplace made of stones and a large oven at one end and one cut of doors. The nearest settler was over seven miles away without even blazed trees to go by until he did it. At this time he had to go to Zanesville or Chillicothe for salt flour and other provisions. He laid in such things for the cooking of his family. They made their own sugar by boiling maple syrup in their cooking kettles. For a few years their living was mostly corn bread or some form of corn in meal, hominy and pork, with wild geese which were plentiful, even deer and turkey. For several years they had to go to Franklinton for their mail.So the next year they were to have some neighbors. Asa Scott started for Ohio, both families starting from Conn., New Haven County, Waterbury town. His destination was the same place where Grandfather Lewis had settled in Nov, 1806. All living as close together as possible on account of the Indians and having close neighbors. Scott put out a cabin that winter. Then the next year there were enough families came to make quite a settlement. There were families by the name of Hoadley, Steward, Caulkins, Eaton's. This was called the Lewis settlement being named after the first to settle in that place. here Galena now is was called the Carpenter Settlement; Sunbury was called the Brown settlement, Delaware the Bixbee settlement, Werthington the Kilbourne Settlement. So many settlers coming in, the Indians became very troublesome. They would come to your house and whatever they could see what they wanted, they would take it. At one time Grandmother Lewis had her dinner on the table and six large Indians came in with their guns, knives and tomahawks. They looked at Grandmother, then at each other. She thought they intended to kill her, but instead they took out their big knives walked to the table, ate all she had and then went their way. At another time an Indian comes and made grandmother Scott understand they wanted salt. At one time an Indian came, going into every house, looking around and not seeing what he wanted, would give a cross grunt and go to the next one. Finally he went to Aunt Hannah Caswell's house and there saw a large bunch of linen yarn ( which she had spun from flax) hanging up. He reached up and took it down. Aunt did not like to see her hard labor go that way, so she pitched into him and took it away from him. She was hardly five feet tall. Not another woman in the settlement but would have let him have it and been glad to see him go. The Indians became more and more troublesome as the settlers came in, the Indians were afraid they would have to leave. The white men had to build a fort which was called the blockhouse. It was built of hewn logs fitted together two stories high. The upper story projecting out over the lower part which had no opening. The lower one being entered by climbing ladders under the projection and going down on steps on the inside. The ladders being pulled up from the outside when all were in and the men shoot down from the projection in case of attack. When it was done, barrels of water, barrels of meat, provisions such as they could get and wood for the fireplace where they did their cooking. Not a very pleasant place but their lives are dependent on it. Then the families all moved in the big room, men and boys above. The men took turns standing guard. One night grandfather Lewis was on guard and he heard something which he thought might be Indians. As they always, he called out to find out who it was, he said "Who comes There?" No one answered. He fired his gun which was answered by the Indians. He turned to run into the fort but fell flat, the Indians shooting above him, yet he was not hurt. A Mrs. Eaton with a little babe and her little girl about 8 years old were taken by the Indians. The babe was very young. As soon as they were missed, the white went in pursuit. They got the little girl who said the baby cried and her mother would not throw it away as they tried to make her. So they took it by the bottom of the long skirt and swung its head against a tree. His mother fainted when she saw her baby killed. The little girl said she put her apron over her face as they killed her mother. The Indians became very cruel. One Mr. Power was scalped and left for dead but he got well. I have seen him many times and have been in his store at Delaware. So they struggled on. The Indians finally went away from the settlement. So the whites went each to their own home. All this time There was but little stock in the settlement. The men thinking it safe to go away and get some cattle, they left the women in charge of the children and homes. John Lewis, son of David, married Ruth Scott, daughter of Asa Scott. The 11th day of April 1812, after being married 17 days, John went into the war of 1812. These people were my father and mother. Father was an officer called ensign. My Grandfather Asa Scott was a colonel. My father was a doctor and a good one. He had a gun that had a hinge in the breach, so he could double it up and fasten it to the saddle. When he went to see the sick, he would kill game, hang it on a tree until he came back and then get it. He trained his saddle horses to let him shoot from the saddle. My oldest brother, Perry, once killed a deer when he was nine years old, I suppose it was hard to tell which was prouder, the father or the son. As my brother grew older he was a wonderful marksman. He learned to call just like an old hen turkey and my Uncle Thomas could gobble like a wild gobbler. The girls learned to shoot as well as the boys. It was one of their lively pastimes to shoot at a mark. I learned to shoot when a very small girl. My sister Betsey (Mrs. Nelson Bockover) once shot a hawk from a very high tree, with a long range rifle. Flint locks at that. Betsey was shooting at a mark one day when a young man by the name of Hiram DeWitt came along and wanted Betsey to shoot at his hat. Father told him that he had better not. He said that he was not afraid and she shot it in such a way that she tore it to pieces. He felt sorry as hats were hard to get. It was nice to beat your husbands and brothers shooting, as I have done many times. In 1861, another war came on. Nearly all my male relatives, except my aged father, 70 years old, were in it. Three brothers, Harry, Kingsley and Thomas. Kingsley died in Memphis in 1863, he was a doctor and a surgeon. He was graduated from Delaware College, Cincinnati Medical School and Harvard, dying six months after graduating from Harvard. He was in the 48th O.V.I. My brother Harry enlisted from Indiana from Jay or Adams County. My brother Thomas came home, he was Captain in the 121st Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Brother Harry got home to father's farm where we were all born in time to die January 5, 1865. One nephew, Sanford Ames, son of sister Mabel and Sloan Ames, was on the boat Sultana when it was blown up. He came near death, but lived several years an invalid, never fully recovering. He lived at New Carydon, Jay Co., Indiana. Another nephew, Wesley Lewis, whom my father raised,( as his father, my oldest brother, Perry died when a babe) died in Washington, D.C., after the others were mustered out. He being sick and would not be allowed to come home with Silus Nafus, my sister Eliza's husband and his son Elias Nafus, although they offered to help him in every way. When he started away he fainted, he was so homesick and when he revived he would faint again and again and died. One of the Lewis cousin's there, saw that he was buried as there was no money to bring him home. He was remarried years before, Jane Nash was her name. I did many kinds of work I had never done before. My little girl Sarah, twelve years old kept us in stove wood. My father would hitch up his steady old Bett, and Sarah and Aby Nafus would go to the windfall and get the wood. We had a few sheep and the children would hold them down while I cut the wool off. The sheep were sorry looking objects when we got through. We dried many apples the last year of the war, in fact enough to buy what we had to buy at the store. We had potatoes, corn and buckwheat flour and pork. For the first time in my life I planted a garden after it was plowed and harrowed by Santford Havens. I did very well except the onions did not come up. someone examined them and found they were all planted the wrong side up. My husband came home July 13, 1865. He could not walk alone, weighed less than a hundred pounds, had not strength to feed himself nor hold a cup of water to drink. His trousers were tatters to the knees, and years afterwards he was not well. My Grandmother Chloe Scott had the first loom in those parts. It was made by a Mr. Caulkins. They could all spin but they must have some way of weaving cloth. The men wore all the clothes they had but the women strictly kept a best dress for the Sabbath. They made their own bed linen, table cloths and towels, from flax which they raised, prepared for spinning and weaving. Also linen for the men's and boys summer clothes. For winter wear they spun their own wool rolls and made cloth, jeans for the men and boys and for Sunday they spun very fine yarn, wove it nice and took it to the factory and had it dyed shrunk and pressed. For everyday wear they colored at home beautiful colors, as my coverlids will show. They wove pretty plaids for dresses and colored all red or blue for the harder work wear. The women's flannel for nice was finer than that for men. For the beds we made woolen sheets as the Yankees called them. I have some now that were made in 1845 and are good yet. The cursey coverlids are good too. I have three strawbed ticks my mother wove in 1845, they have been in constant use and are as good as new. I have three coverlids that I began to spin the yarn for when I was 15 years old. My mother colored the yarn and we haired them woven in Delaware in 1846 by Gabriel Rausher and his brother who were Russians and brought their looms with them. They would not weave before anyone and their secrets died with them. The said it was as much trouble to prepare their loom for one as sic, also they charged, one for $5.00 or four for $9.00. (All had the western fever, went to Iowa but returned to Ohio to stay.)

More About DAVID LEWIS, SR.:

Burial: Berlin-Cheshire Cemetery

Military service: 1780, Revolutionary War

Children of DAVID LEWIS and SARAH ADAMS are:

15. i. JOHN⁷ LEWIS, b. Bet. 1792 - 1801, Waterbury, Connecticut; d. June 01, 1846, Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio.

16. ii. SYLVIA LEWIS, b. Bet. 1800 - 1816, Waterbury, Connecticut; d. Iowa at age 90/91.

iii. PATTY MARTHA LEWIS, b. Bet. 1800 - 1816; d. WFT Est. 1780-1885.

17. iv. HANNAH LEWIS, b. October 20, 1802, Waterbury, Connecticut; d. April 14, 1897, Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio.

v. WARREN LEWIS, b. Bet. 1805 - 1807, Waterbury, Connecticut; d. WFT Est. 1780-1882.

Children of DAVID LEWIS and ELIZABETH BENHAM are:

18. vi. CHESTER⁷ LEWIS, b. WFT Est. 1773-1798, Waterbury, Connecticut; d. Bet. 1824 - 1826, Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio.

19. vii. ISAAC LEWIS, b. Bet. 1776 - 1790, Waterbury, Connecticut; d. April 26, 1823, Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio.

20. viii. DAVID LEWIS, JR., b. August 20, 1780, Waterbury, Connecticut; d. February 13, 1861, Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio.

21. ix. JOSEPH LEWIS, b. June 10, 1778, Waterbury, Connecticut; d. November 07, 1830, Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio.

22. x. ROSETTA LEWIS, b. April 03, 1779, Waterbury, Connecticut; d. 1872, New York, New York.

23. xi. ELIZABETH "BETSEY" LEWIS, b. November 01, 1782, Waterbury, Connecticut; d. May 21, 1875, Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio.

Generation No. 7

13. SARAH⁷ LEWIS (JOHN⁶, JOHN⁵, JOSEPH⁴, JOSEPH³, JOHN², GEORGE LEWES¹) was born August 17, 1775 in Waterbury, New Haven County, Connecticut (USA), and died in Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio. She married NATHAN SHERWOOD Bef. 1794, son of JONATHAN SHERWOOD and KNAPP?. He was born April 22, 1770 in Stamford, Connecticut, and died in Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio.

Notes for SARAH LEWIS:

The lack of postal markings might be explained by there being no Berkshire Post Office established at such an early date.

Some abstracts:

“… till we come to the mountings thare the weather was could and wet,Lanson took a hard cold and remained so till we crost the three mountings that is called the three brothers, then we came to the Alagany and the weather was verry cold and some snow we staid thare one day. Lanson gained some after that,

john was taking sik but he soon got better then lewis was taken with pleurisy, we got him blead and he got some better.”

“… he thinks it is a fine country as his uncleJohn and Lanson has got so much corn and fine wheet I suppose eight or nine hunard bushel and Lanson five hundred [sic] bushel …”

The handwriting of the last few lines [sentence] looks a bit different, and I think that possibly Nathan Sherwood finished writing for his wife, who was dozing off.

Condition of the letter rates good, some minor staining here and there, a small separation at a corner fold. Tiny red remant of old sealing wax.

More About NATHAN SHERWOOD:

Record Change: April 03, 2002

Children of SARAH LEWIS and NATHAN SHERWOOD are:

24. i. LEWIS⁸ SHERWOOD, b. November 01, 1794, New Haven, Connecticut; d. September 01, 1883, Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio.

ii. ANNA SHERWOOD, b. October 01, 1813.

iii. SARAH SHERWOOD, b. 1815.

iv. GEORGE SHERWOOD, b. 1817.

v. JOHN SHERWOOD, b. 1819.

14. MILO⁷ LEWIS (SAMUEL SMITH⁶, JOHN⁵, JOSEPH⁴, JOSEPH³, JOHN², GEORGE LEWES¹) was born October 22, 1789 in Nagatuck, Connecticut, and died WFT Est. 1810-1879 in Nagatuck, Connecticut.

Child of MILO LEWIS is:

i. SAMUEL J.⁸ LEWIS, b. WFT Est. 1810-1839; d. WFT Est. 1816-1918.

15. JOHN⁷ LEWIS (DAVID⁶, JOHN⁵, JOSEPH⁴, JOSEPH³, JOHN², GEORGE LEWES¹) was born Bet. 1792 - 1801 in Waterbury, Connecticut, and died June 01, 1846 in Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio. He married RUTH SCOTT, daughter of ASA SCOTT and CHLOE. She was born 1794, and died January 10, 1873 in Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio.

More About JOHN LEWIS:

Burial: Berlin-Cheshire Cemetery

Degree: MD

Military: 1812, Ensign in War of 1812

Occupation: Physician

University: Medical College

More About RUTH SCOTT:

Burial: Berlin-Cheshire Cemetery

Children of JOHN LEWIS and RUTH SCOTT are:

25. i. WARREN M.⁸ LEWIS.

ii. MARY GARINGER LEWIS.

26. iii. HARRY LEWIS, b. Berlin, Ohio; d. January 05, 1865, Berlin, Ohio.

27. iv. BETSEY SCOTT LEWIS, b. Delaware Co., Ohio.

28. v. MABEL LEWIS.

29. vi. ELIZA LEWIS.

30. vii. HARRIET LEWIS.

31. viii. PERRY LEWIS, b. 1813; d. 1865.

32. ix. EUNICE MARIA LEWIS, b. March 12, 1829; d. April 25, 1900.

x. KINGSLEY LEWIS, b. 1835; d. 1863, Memphis, Tennesse, Civil War Wounded.

More About KINGSLEY LEWIS:

Graduation: Bet. 1862 - 1863, Delaware College, Cincinnati Medical, Harvard

Military service: 1863, 48th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Medical Corps

33. xi. THOMAS C. LEWIS, b. 1840.

16. SYLVIA⁷ LEWIS (DAVID⁶, JOHN⁵, JOSEPH⁴, JOSEPH³, JOHN², GEORGE LEWES¹) was born Bet. 1800 - 1816 in Waterbury, Connecticut, and died in Iowa at age 90/91. She married JESSE ARMSTRONG.

Children of SYLVIA LEWIS and JESSE ARMSTRONG are:

i. ELIZA⁸ ARMSTRONG, m. LUTHER CLOSSON.

ii. ANN ARMSTRONG, m. UNKNOWN FAULKNER.

iii. DAUGHTER ARMSTRONG, m. UNKNOWN ROBINSON.

17. HANNAH⁷ LEWIS (DAVID⁶, JOHN⁵, JOSEPH⁴, JOSEPH³, JOHN², GEORGE LEWES¹) was born October 20, 1802 in Waterbury, Connecticut, and died April 14, 1897 in Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio. She married WILBUR CASWELL 1817 in Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio. He was born 1791 in Massachusetts, and died April 21, 1881 in Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio.

More About HANNAH LEWIS:

Burial: Berlin-Cheshire Cemetery

More About WILBUR CASWELL:

Burial: Berlin-Cheshire Cemetery

Occupation: Teacher in Berlin, Ohio

Children of HANNAH LEWIS and WILBUR CASWELL are:

i. WILLIAM SEVER⁸ CASWELL, b. May 17, 1819, Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio; d. January 19, 1907, Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio.

More About WILLIAM SEVER CASWELL:

Burial: Berlin-Cheshire Cemetery

ii. SABIA CASWELL, m. UNKNOWN SCOTT.

iii. JANE CASWELL, m. UNKNOWN ALLEN, Gambier, Ohio.

iv. BENJAMIN CASWELL.

18. CHESTER⁷ LEWIS (DAVID⁶, JOHN⁵, JOSEPH⁴, JOSEPH³, JOHN², GEORGE LEWES¹) was born WFT Est. 1773-1798 in Waterbury, Connecticut, and died Bet. 1824 - 1826 in Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio. He married CATHERINE "HATTIE" KENSLER 1811. She was born WFT Est. 1774-1799, and died WFT Est. 1826-1888 in Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio.

Notes for CHESTER LEWIS:

Statements of C.Ross Bloomquist, letter dated December 11, 1950:

"correcting facts cited before in Emma Lewis Ryant's History of the

Lewis Family"

David Lewis Sr., was the first to come to Ohio. Captain John Lewis, his uncle, may have came to Ohio later but he did not remain permanently. Captain John's son, also John, did settle in Berlin Township, but was not one of the earliest settlers. Alanson Lewis, his son, came with David Sr., but died before maturity. The Delaware County Recorder's Office indicates that David Sr., did not get the land as a gift- he paid for it. Eunice Maria Brown's Memories confirm this. She was David's granddaughter. He died before E.M.'s birth, but she was grown while her grandmother, Sarah Lewis was still living.

Newspaper items:

THE LOCO FOCO, DELAWARE,OHIO., JUNE 25,1846.

"Died- In Berlin, on Tuesday morning the 9th instant, Capt. John Lewis

in the 75th year of his age."

THE DEMOCRATIC STANDARD,DELAWARE,OHIO, THURSDAY DEC.14.,1848

"Married on the 30th inst. by H. Hodgden, Esq., Mr. Reuben C. Gardner to

Miss Ldia Roloson all of Berkshire TP."

THE LOCO FOCO, NOV.23,1848;

"D. on Sat. 11th inst. Miss Jane Beardsly of Berlin Tp. age about 22

years.

THE LOCO FOCO, JANUARY 8, 1848;

"Died- In Berlin tp. on the 13th ult. Mr. George Bockover, a

respectable citizen, generally esteemed, in the 74th year of his age."

THE DELAWARE GAZETTE, DELAWARE, OHIO, OCTOBER 11,1867.

the 20th Annual Delaware Co. Ohio Fair held- therefore the County Fair

began in 1847.

THE LOCO FOCO , JANUARY 27,1848

"Died- On the 19th inst. In Berlin Tp., Mr. William Smith aged about 80

years."

THE DELAWARE GAZETTE, DELAWARE, OHIO, JANUARY 9, 1863;

Berlin Tp:- Delinquent Tax list

case, Riley R. 18 Tp. 4 Sec.3

161/2 acres

value $302.00

THE DELAWARE GAZETTE, DELAWARE, OHIO, AUGUST 7, 1868;-

"Grand Club in Berlin- The Republican Union voters of Berlin Township

are requested to meet at the Town House on Friday evening August 21st at

7 o'clock to organize a Grant Club. speakers will be present. G.L.

Sackett,Chr.

May 15,1868:- Teachers certificate, Lewis Center April 25 Anna Gregg,

Tanktown 12

At Delaware April 18 Ophelia Andrews Constantia.

THE DELAWARE GAZETTE, DELAWARE, OHIO, MAY 8,1868;-

Income taxes except on Government officials salaries and bank stock, the

highest paid amounts include the name of H.J. Eaton with $118.08

APRIL 17,1868;- Cheap As the Cheapest

and

Not to be Undersold!

At the One Price Store, of J.W. Place, in Cheshire, you will find a

select stock of Dry Goods, Notions, Groceries, Tin and Crockery ware,

mails, Glass, Paints, Oils, Brushes, etc., In short everything usually

kept in country store. All kinds of country Produce taken in exchange.

Also Wilson's Patant Steel tooth Harrow & Plow for sale at the

One Price Store

JUNE 1, 1860;- A farm belonging to George Bigelow 50 acres farm in

Berlin Twp., for sale on 9th day of June 1860 Elam A. Vinig, Admr.

AUGUST 10, 1860;- Republican County Convention met at Templar Hall.

There were three on the credentials committee- James Eaton & Joel

Cleveland were two. James Eaton also served on the resolution

committee.

THE WESTERN INTELLIGENCER, WORTHINGTON, OH., SEPT.11,1811;-

An exhibit of the different allowances made by the Commissioners each

year, from June 1804 to June 1811 (Franklin Co.) Paid Joseph Cowgill for piloting the views of a road from Berkshire down to Walnut Creek $1.50.

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More About CHESTER LEWIS:

Burial: Berlin-Cheshire Cemetery

Children of CHESTER LEWIS and CATHERINE KENSLER are:

34. i. THOMAS⁸ LEWIS, b. June 08, 1814, Berlin, Ohio; d. August 02, 1893, Concordia, Kansas.

35. ii. SYLVESTER LEWIS, b. August 02, 1816, Berlin, Ohio; d. April 10, 1859, Illinois.

iii. WILLIAM ALONZO LEWIS, b. June 16, 1819; d. WFT Est. 1820-1909.

iv. SALLIE A. LEWIS, b. July 04, 1822; d. WFT Est. 1823-1916.

36. v. ALMA LEWIS, b. March 23, 1822, Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio; d. WFT Est. 1859-1918.

19. ISAAC⁷ LEWIS (DAVID⁶, JOHN⁵, JOSEPH⁴, JOSEPH³, JOHN², GEORGE LEWES¹) was born Bet. 1776 - 1790 in Waterbury, Connecticut, and died April 26, 1823 in Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio. He married FLORILLA WELCH 1810. She was born Bet. 1776 - 1790, and died WFT Est. 1815-1883.

More About ISAAC LEWIS:

Burial: Berlin-Cheshire Cemetery

Children of ISAAC LEWIS and FLORILLA WELCH are:

i. SYLVIA⁸ LEWIS.

ii. AMY LEWIS.

iii. DEBORAH LEWIS, m. MARTIN BENTON.

iv. EUNICE LEWIS.

v. ASAL LEWIS.

vi. SHERBEN LEWIS.

20. DAVID⁷ LEWIS, JR. (DAVID⁶, JOHN⁵, JOSEPH⁴, JOSEPH³, JOHN², GEORGE LEWES¹) was born August 20, 1780 in Waterbury, Connecticut, and died February 13, 1861 in Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio. He married ALMIRA CAULKINS March 27, 1803. She was born February 14, 1784 in Connecticut, and died October 25, 1880 in Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio.

More About DAVID LEWIS, JR.:

Burial: Berlin-Cheshire Cemetery

More About ALMIRA CAULKINS:

Burial: Berlin-Cheshire Cemetery

Children of DAVID LEWIS and ALMIRA CAULKINS are:

i. DELIA⁸ LEWIS, m. UNKNOWN ADAMS.

ii. EUNICE CAULKINS LEWIS, b. March 01, 1821; m. (1) UNKNOWN WATROUS; m. (2) UNKNOWN SCOTT.

iii. ELIZABETH LEWIS, m. GEORGE UNKNOWN.

iv. JOSEPH CONSTANT LEWIS, b. September 29, 1806.

v. MILO LEWIS, b. December 15, 1811; d. February 20, 1866, Washington, DC.

More About MILO LEWIS:

Burial: Berlin-Cheshire Cemetery

vi. ROSETTE WHITNEY LEWIS, b. January 16, 1813.

vii. JULIA RIPLEY LEWIS, b. November 27, 1818; m. UNKNOWN PLATT.

21. JOSEPH⁷ LEWIS (DAVID⁶, JOHN⁵, JOSEPH⁴, JOSEPH³, JOHN², GEORGE LEWES¹) was born June 10, 1778 in Waterbury, Connecticut, and died November 07, 1830 in Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio. He married SARAH SHERWOOD 1813. She was born 1799 in Connecticut, and died 1881 in Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio.

Notes for JOSEPH LEWIS:

[Brøderbund Family Archive #311, Ed. 1, Census Index: U.S. Selected Counties, 1790, Date of Import: Aug 7, 1998, Internal Ref. #1.311.1.1695.27]

Individual: Lewis, Joseph

County/State: New London Co., CT

Page #: 155

Year: 1790

More About JOSEPH LEWIS:

Burial: Berlin-Cheshire Cemetery

Fact 3: Page #: 155

Fact 4: Year: 1790

Military service: 1812, War of 1812

Occupation: Mill owner, for wheat and corn

Children of JOSEPH LEWIS and SARAH SHERWOOD are:

i. EMMA CONSTANT⁸ LEWIS, b. 1828; d. March 1903, Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio; m. JAMES CORBIN RYANT; b. May 13, 1826; d. Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio.

More About EMMA CONSTANT LEWIS:

Burial: Berlin-Cheshire Cemetery

More About JAMES CORBIN RYANT:

Burial: Berlin-Cheshire Cemetery

ii. DAVID LEWIS.

22. ROSETTA⁷ LEWIS (DAVID⁶, JOHN⁵, JOSEPH⁴, JOSEPH³, JOHN², GEORGE LEWES¹) was born April 03, 1779 in Waterbury, Connecticut, and died 1872 in New York, New York. She married AMOS WHITNEY January 01, 1800. He was born 1778, and died 1848 in New York, New York.

Child of ROSETTA LEWIS and AMOS WHITNEY is:

37. i. AMY⁸ WHITNEY, b. 1803, New York, New York; d. 1850, New York, New York.

23. ELIZABETH "BETSEY"⁷ LEWIS (DAVID⁶, JOHN⁵, JOSEPH⁴, JOSEPH³, JOHN², GEORGE LEWES¹) was born November 01, 1782 in Waterbury, Connecticut, and died May 21, 1875 in Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio. She married JOHN JOHNSON 1809. He was born 1764, and died Bet. August 10, 1845 - 1849 in Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio.

More About ELIZABETH "BETSEY" LEWIS:

Burial: Berlin-Cheshire Cemetery

More About JOHN JOHNSON:

Burial: Berlin-Cheshire Cemetery

Children of ELIZABETH LEWIS and JOHN JOHNSON are:

38. i. HARVEY A.⁸ JOHNSON, b. 1810; d. 1884, Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio.

ii. LEWIS JOHNSON.

39. iii. SARAH (SALLY) H. JOHNSON, b. 1849, Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio; d. 1935, Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio.

Generation No. 8

24. LEWIS⁸ SHERWOOD (SARAH⁷ LEWIS, JOHN⁶, JOHN⁵, JOSEPH⁴, JOSEPH³, JOHN², GEORGE LEWES¹) was born November 01, 1794 in New Haven, Connecticut, and died September 01, 1883 in Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio. He married LOCKEY ADAMS. She was born December 13, 1798 in New Haven, Connecticut, and died September 15, 1867 in Maquoketa, Jackson County, Iowa.

Children of LEWIS SHERWOOD and LOCKEY ADAMS are:

40. i. CHARLES L.⁹ SHERWOOD, b. June 02, 1817, Berlin, Deleware. Ohio; d. February 05, 1889, Sac City, Sac County, Iowa.

ii. JOHN SHERWOOD, b. March 29, 1820, Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio.

41. iii. SIDNEY SHERWOOD, b. August 27, 1827, Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio.

iv. LA FAYETTE SHERWOOD, b. 1829.

v. SARAH SHERWOOD, b. February 05, 1835.

vi. NATHAN SHERWOOD, b. June 06, 1837, Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio.

25. WARREN M.⁸ LEWIS (JOHN⁷, DAVID⁶, JOHN⁵, JOSEPH⁴, JOSEPH³, JOHN², GEORGE LEWES¹) He married MARY GARRINGER in Indiana.

Children of WARREN LEWIS and MARY GARRINGER are:

i. JANE⁹ LEWIS, b. 1826, Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio; d. 1907, Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio; m. UNKNOWN BOCKOVEN.

More About JANE LEWIS:

Burial: Berlin-Cheshire Cemetery

ii. CAROLINE LEWIS, m. UNKNOWN BOCKOVER/BARKOVEN.

iii. MARY LEWIS, m. UNKNOWN BOCKOVEN.

26. HARRY⁸ LEWIS (JOHN⁷, DAVID⁶, JOHN⁵, JOSEPH⁴, JOSEPH³, JOHN², GEORGE LEWES¹) was born in Berlin, Ohio, and died January 05, 1865 in Berlin, Ohio. He married UNKNOWN in Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio.

More About HARRY LEWIS:

Military service: Bet. 1862 - 1865, Wounded as Indiana Volunteers, died at father's farm in Berlin, OH

Children of HARRY LEWIS and UNKNOWN are:

i. LEWIS⁹ LEWIS.

ii. EDDIE LEWIS.

iii. MALIDA LEWIS.

27. BETSEY SCOTT⁸ LEWIS (JOHN⁷, DAVID⁶, JOHN⁵, JOSEPH⁴, JOSEPH³, JOHN², GEORGE LEWES¹) was born in Delaware Co., Ohio. She married NELSON BOCKOVEN November 16, 1837 in Delaware Co.. He was born September 04, 1816, and died August 05, 1900 in Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio.

More About NELSON BOCKOVEN:

Burial: Berlin-Cheshire Cemetery

Marriage Notes for BETSEY LEWIS and NELSON BOCKOVEN:

Marriage Index: Ohio, 1789-1850

Lewis, Betsy S. Spouse : Bockoven, Nelson

Marriage date : Nov 16, 1837

County of record : Delaware Co.

Sex : F

Children of BETSEY LEWIS and NELSON BOCKOVEN are:

i. MARY⁹ BOCKOVEN, m. UNKNOWN CREAMER.

42. ii. LEWIS BARKOVEN, b. New Jersey; d. September 24, 1926, Portland, Indiana.

43. iii. HARRIET BOCKOVEN, b. May 02, 1841.

iv. RUTH BOCKOVEN, m. UNKNOWN FLOOD.

v. CATHERINE BOCKOVEN.

vi. TURA BOCKOVEN.

vii. EMMA BOCKOVEN, m. UNKNOWN BUELL.

28. MABEL⁸ LEWIS (JOHN⁷, DAVID⁶, JOHN⁵, JOSEPH⁴, JOSEPH³, JOHN², GEORGE LEWES¹) She married SLOAN AMES.

Children of MABEL LEWIS and SLOAN AMES are:

i. SANFORD⁹ AMES, d. 1870, New Croydon, Jay County, Indiana.

Notes for SANFORD AMES:

Sanford Ames, son of Mabel and Sloan Ames, was on the boat Sultana when it was blown up. He came near death, but lived several years an invalid, never fully recovering. He lived at New Carydon, Jay Co., Indiana

More About SANFORD AMES:

Military service: Bet. 1861 - 1865, Civil War

ii. PERRY AMES.

iii. AMY AMES.

iv. ROSA AMES.

v. EUNICE AMES.

vi. CHARLIE AMES.

vii. HARVEY AMES.

29. ELIZA⁸ LEWIS (JOHN⁷, DAVID⁶, JOHN⁵, JOSEPH⁴, JOSEPH³, JOHN², GEORGE LEWES¹) She married SILAS G. NAFUS February 24, 1842.

Marriage Notes for ELIZA LEWIS and SILAS NAFUS:

Marriage Index: Ohio, 1789-1850

Lewis, Eliza Spouse : Nafus, Silas G.

Marriage date : Feb 24, 1842

County of record : Delaware Co.

Sex : F

Children of ELIZA LEWIS and SILAS NAFUS are:

i. SOPHRONIA⁹ NAFUS.

ii. HOLLENBECK NAFUS.

iii. ELIAS NAFUS.

More About ELIAS NAFUS:

Military service: Bet. 1861 - 1865, Civil War

iv. MABEL NAFUS.

v. ABY NAFUS.

vi. KINGSLEY NAFUS.

vii. SARAH NAFUS.

30. HARRIET⁸ LEWIS (JOHN⁷, DAVID⁶, JOHN⁵, JOSEPH⁴, JOSEPH³, JOHN², GEORGE LEWES¹) She married JACOB G. GARRINGER.

Children of HARRIET LEWIS and JACOB GARRINGER are:

i. JOHN⁹ GARRINGER.

ii. ANNETTE GARRINGER, m. UNKNOWN BESEL.

iii. SARAH GARRINGER.

iv. ELLA GARRINGER, m. UNKNOWN WHITENECK.

31. PERRY⁸ LEWIS (JOHN⁷, DAVID⁶, JOHN⁵, JOSEPH⁴, JOSEPH³, JOHN², GEORGE LEWES¹) was born 1813, and died 1865. He married JANE NASH.

Children of PERRY LEWIS and JANE NASH are:

i. WESLEY⁹ LEWIS.

ii. HARIETTE LEWIS, m. UNKNOWN CARPENTER.

32. EUNICE MARIA⁸ LEWIS (JOHN⁷, DAVID⁶, JOHN⁵, JOSEPH⁴, JOSEPH³, JOHN², GEORGE LEWES¹) was born March 12, 1829, and died April 25, 1900. She married WILLIAM BROWN September 17, 1846.

More About WILLIAM BROWN:

Military service: Bet. 1862 - 1865, Returned home 7,13,1865

Children of EUNICE LEWIS and WILLIAM BROWN are:

i. MARY L.⁹ BROWN, b. 1850.

ii. SARAH E. BROWN, b. November 08, 1852; m. ALBERT MCLEOD.

iii. PRESTON BROWN, b. December 29, 1856.

33. THOMAS C.⁸ LEWIS (JOHN⁷, DAVID⁶, JOHN⁵, JOSEPH⁴, JOSEPH³, JOHN², GEORGE LEWES¹) was born 1840. He married NAOMI WALTERS.

More About THOMAS C. LEWIS:

Military service: Bet. 1862 - 1865, Captain 121st Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Children of THOMAS LEWIS and NAOMI WALTERS are:

i. THOMAS⁹ LEWIS.

ii. MINNIE LEWIS.

iii. TILBURY LEWIS.

iv. MUSA LEWIS.

v. LOTTIE LEWIS.

34. THOMAS⁸ LEWIS (CHESTER⁷, DAVID⁶, JOHN⁵, JOSEPH⁴, JOSEPH³, JOHN², GEORGE LEWES¹) was born June 08, 1814 in Berlin, Ohio, and died August 02, 1893 in Concordia, Kansas. He married JANE BOCKOVEN November 23, 1836 in Berlin, Ohio, daughter of GEORGE BOCKOVEN and ELIZABETH MARIEN/MARIN/MARING. She was born June 23, 1820 in New Jersey, and died January 19, 1853 in Indiana.

Children of THOMAS LEWIS and JANE BOCKOVEN are:

44. i. CHESTER ARTHUR⁹ LEWIS, b. August 18, 1837, Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio; d. April 16, 1916, Republic, Kansas.

45. ii. LUCINA ELIZABETH LEWIS, b. September 24, 1839, Berlin, Ohio; d. December 25, 1915, Concordia, St. Cloud, Kansas.

46. iii. CATHERINE LEWIS, b. June 18, 1843, Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio; d. WFT Est. 1865-1937.

iv. SYLVESTER LEWIS, b. November 24, 1844, Berlin, Ohio; d. WFT Est. 1875-1934; m. MARRY REDDING, WFT Est. 1875-1909; b. WFT Est. 1840-1860; d. WFT Est. 1875-1944.

v. CHARLES D. LEWIS, b. January 12, 1847, Berlin, Ohio; d. WFT Est. 1878-1937; m. AMANDA BARTLETT, WFT Est. 1878-1912; b. WFT Est. 1843-1863; d. WFT Est. 1878-1947.

vi. NOE J. LEWIS, b. February 28, 1849; d. WFT Est. 1880-1939; m. EMMA POLLY, WFT Est. 1880-1914; b. WFT Est. 1845-1865; d. WFT Est. 1880-1949.

vii. MARY JANE LEWIS, b. September 29, 1851, Berlin, Ohio; d. WFT Est. 1879-1945; m. W.H. KELLEY, June 06, 1873; b. WFT Est. 1827-1853; d. WFT Est. 1878-1940.

35. SYLVESTER⁸ LEWIS (CHESTER⁷, DAVID⁶, JOHN⁵, JOSEPH⁴, JOSEPH³, JOHN², GEORGE LEWES¹) was born August 02, 1816 in Berlin, Ohio, and died April 10, 1859 in Illinois. He married JANE STRICKLAND March 12, 1837 in Edgar County, Illinois. She was born August 19, 1817, and died January 27, 1885 in Illinois.

Children of SYLVESTER LEWIS and JANE STRICKLAND are:

i. REBECCA⁹ LEWIS.

ii. JANE LEWIS, b. Westfield, Illinois; d. October 27, 1847, Westfield, Illinois.

iii. CATHERINE ALVIRA LEWIS.

iv. SARAH BELL LEWIS, b. Bet. 1837 - 1839, Westfield, Illinois; d. August 12, 1839, Westfield, Illinois.

v. THOMAS LEWIS, b. February 03, 1841, Westfield, Illinois; m. SARAH CAROLING MELTON.

47. vi. MARY ALMA LEWIS, b. January 04, 1843; d. Neoga, Illinois.

vii. WILLIAM HARVEY LEWIS, b. Abt. 1844, Westfield, Illinois; d. September 07, 1847, Westfield, Illinois.

48. viii. HARRIET LEWIS, b. January 12, 1850, Westfield, Illinois.

49. ix. MARTHA LEWIS, b. October 03, 1851, Westfield, Illinois.

50. x. JOHN DOWNEY LEWIS, b. November 07, 1853, Westfield, Illinois.

51. xi. EMMA LEWIS, b. February 28, 1858, Westfield, Illinois.

36. ALMA⁸ LEWIS (CHESTER⁷, DAVID⁶, JOHN⁵, JOSEPH⁴, JOSEPH³, JOHN², GEORGE LEWES¹) was born March 23, 1822 in Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio, and died WFT Est. 1859-1918. She married (1) NOE BOCKOVEN 1844. He died 1849. She married (2) J.A. GILKEY 1854. He was born WFT Est. 1805-1834, and died WFT Est. 1859-1919.

Child of ALMA LEWIS and J.A. GILKEY is:

52. i. EMMA⁹ GILKEY, d. 1879.

37. AMY⁸ WHITNEY (ROSETTA⁷ LEWIS, DAVID⁶, JOHN⁵, JOSEPH⁴, JOSEPH³, JOHN², GEORGE LEWES¹) was born 1803 in New York, New York, and died 1850 in New York, New York. She married URIAH HELMS 1830 in New York, New York. He was born 1803, and died 1881 in New York, New York.

Child of AMY WHITNEY and URIAH HELMS is:

i. ROSETTA LEWIS⁹ HELMS, b. 1833, New York, New York; d. Brooklyn, New York; m. CHARLES WINTER; d. Bef. 1912, Brooklyn, New York.

More About ROSETTA LEWIS HELMS:

Residence: March 28, 1912, 115 Lee Ave. Brooklyn, New York

38. HARVEY A.⁸ JOHNSON (ELIZABETH "BETSEY"⁷ LEWIS, DAVID⁶, JOHN⁵, JOSEPH⁴, JOSEPH³, JOHN², GEORGE LEWES¹) was born 1810, and died 1884 in Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio. He married UNK.

More About HARVEY A. JOHNSON:

Burial: Berlin-Cheshire Cemetery

Child of HARVEY JOHNSON and UNK is:

i. HAVERY A.⁹ JOHNSON, b. 1857, Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio; d. 1936, Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio.

More About HAVERY A. JOHNSON:

Burial: Berlin-Cheshire Cemetery

39. SARAH (SALLY) H.⁸ JOHNSON (ELIZABETH "BETSEY"⁷ LEWIS, DAVID⁶, JOHN⁵, JOSEPH⁴, JOSEPH³, JOHN², GEORGE LEWES¹) was born 1849 in Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio, and died 1935 in Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio. She married (1) SHANDY CAULKINS. She married (2) PETER BOCKOVEN.

More About SARAH (SALLY) H. JOHNSON:

Burial: Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio

Children of SARAH JOHNSON and SHANDY CAULKINS are:

53. i. ALBERT⁹ CAULKINS, d. July 14, 1890, Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio.

ii. HERIETTA CAULKINS.

Children of SARAH JOHNSON and PETER BOCKOVEN are:

iii. WILLIAM⁹ BOCKOVEN.

iv. JOHN BOCKOVEN.

v. AUGUSTUS BOCKOVEN.

Generation No. 9

40. CHARLES L.⁹ SHERWOOD (LEWIS⁸, SARAH⁷ LEWIS, JOHN⁶, JOHN⁵, JOSEPH⁴, JOSEPH³, JOHN², GEORGE LEWES¹) was born June 02, 1817 in Berlin, Deleware. Ohio, and died February 05, 1889 in Sac City, Sac County, Iowa. He married ALMA BOCKOVEN Abt. 1837 in Deleware County, Ohio, daughter of GEORGE BOCKOVEN and ELIZABETH MARIEN/MARIN/MARING. She was born May 23, 1817 in Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio, and died November 21, 1889 in Sac City, Sac County, Iowa.

Children of CHARLES SHERWOOD and ALMA BOCKOVEN are:

54. i. ELIAS ADAM " BUB"¹⁰ SHERWOOD, b. March 07, 1861, Clinton County, Iowa; d. January 20, 1946, Sac City, Sac County, Iowa.

55. ii. OCTAVIA SHERWOOD, b. May 06, 1843, Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio; d. April 09, 1893, Iowa.

iii. ANNA LOUSIA SHERWOOD, b. Abt. 1843; m. BENJAMIN WARD, Abt. 1863, Deleware County, Ohio; b. Abt. 1809; d. May 06, 1893, Wall Lake, Sac County, Iowa.

56. iv. GEORGE C. SHERWOOD, b. October 22, 1847, Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio; d. 1908, Wall Lake, Sac County, Iowa.

v. LEDOYT P SHERWOOD, b. 1849.

vi. MARY SHERWOOD, b. 1851.

41. SIDNEY⁹ SHERWOOD (LEWIS⁸, SARAH⁷ LEWIS, JOHN⁶, JOHN⁵, JOSEPH⁴, JOSEPH³, JOHN², GEORGE LEWES¹) was born August 27, 1827 in Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio. He married ELIZABETH DAVIS November 1856, daughter of THOMAS DAVIS and LYDIA HAINES. She was born in Vermont.

Children of SIDNEY SHERWOOD and ELIZABETH DAVIS are:

i. LOCKEY¹⁰ SHERWOOD.

ii. ROXANA SHERWOOD.

iii. MILTON SHERWOOD, m. JULIA HIGGINS; b. Boone, Iowa.

iv. LOGAN SHERWOOD.

42. LEWIS⁹ BARKOVEN (BETSEY SCOTT⁸ LEWIS, JOHN⁷, DAVID⁶, JOHN⁵, JOSEPH⁴, JOSEPH³, JOHN², GEORGE LEWES¹) was born in New Jersey, and died September 24, 1926 in Portland, Indiana. He married MARY DEVOR. She was born October 29, 1849 in Randolph County, Indiana.

Child of LEWIS BARKOVEN and MARY DEVOR is:

57. i. EVA JANE¹⁰ BARKOVEN, b. October 12, 1876.

43. HARRIET⁹ BOCKOVEN (BETSEY SCOTT⁸ LEWIS, JOHN⁷, DAVID⁶, JOHN⁵, JOSEPH⁴, JOSEPH³, JOHN², GEORGE LEWES¹) was born May 02, 1841. She married JOHN JEFFERYS GARRINGER, son of DAVID VAN GARRINGER and TAMARA ADAMS. He was born November 17, 1834 in Deleware County, Ohio.

Children of HARRIET BOCKOVEN and JOHN GARRINGER are:

i. ELMER FRANKLIN¹⁰ GARRINGER, b. November 24, 1861.

ii. EMMA FRANCES GARRINGER, b. November 24, 1861.

iii. LEWIS IRVING GARRINGER, b. March 07, 1864.

iv. VICTOR ORRINGTON "LITTLE ORRIE" GARRINGER, b. June 09, 1869.

v. ALBERT GARRINGER, b. February 22, 1875.

44. CHESTER ARTHUR⁹ LEWIS (THOMAS⁸, CHESTER⁷, DAVID⁶, JOHN⁵, JOSEPH⁴, JOSEPH³, JOHN², GEORGE LEWES¹) was born August 18, 1837 in Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio, and died April 16, 1916 in Republic, Kansas. He married SOPHRONIA HALL October 31, 1858 in Adams, Indiana, daughter of CHARLES HALL and EMILY LOOFBOURROW. She was born October 26, 1836 in Franklin, Ohio/Franklin, Warren Co., OH, and died July 23, 1920 in Republic, Kansas.

More About SOPHRONIA HALL:

Burial: Pleasant Ridge Cemetery, Republic, Kansas

Child of CHESTER LEWIS and SOPHRONIA HALL is:

58. i. WILLIAM ALBERTIS¹⁰ LEWIS, b. June 04, 1872, Republic, Kansas; d. October 10, 1962, Jamestown, Cloud, KS.

45. LUCINA ELIZABETH⁹ LEWIS (THOMAS⁸, CHESTER⁷, DAVID⁶, JOHN⁵, JOSEPH⁴, JOSEPH³, JOHN², GEORGE LEWES¹) was born September 24, 1839 in Berlin, Ohio, and died December 25, 1915 in Concordia, St. Cloud, Kansas. She married JOSEPH L. HALL December 31, 1854 in Daviess County, Indiana by Rev. Douglas, son of CHARLES HALL and EMILY LOOFBOURROW. He was born April 09, 1831, and died October 04, 1894 in Concordia, St. Cloud, Kansas.

Notes for LUCINA ELIZABETH LEWIS:

Visited grave site in Concordia, KS May 31, 2003..It is a Red-Gray Granite tombstone, flush/4 inches to the ground that says "Mother' Lucina Elizabeth Hall." It sits next to Joseph L. Hall's marker, which is a tall White marble obelisk, on which, the inscription is very faded and hard to read. It does say he was in the Civil War, in the Indiana Regiment as an Orderly. They were in the Main COncordia Cemetary in Section 122. She owned 6 plots, hers, Jospeh's and a daughter Della, whose stone was broken off at the base with no writing...but records show it as hers. The other 3, according to the records, owned by L.E.HAll, but with unknown in the graves.

More About LUCINA ELIZABETH LEWIS:

Burial: Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Concordia, St.Cloud, Kansas

Notes for JOSEPH L. HALL:

On May 3`, 2003, I visited Joseph L. Hall's marker, which is a tall White marble obelisk, on which, the inscription is very faded and hard to read. It does say he was in the Civil War, in the Indiana Vols. Regiment as an Orderly, 49th Indiana Infantry. Private Private 94 E Co., 2 Battalion Veteran Res. Corps. Union. Grave is in Section 122.9 Block 3 of the Pleasant Hill Cemetary, Concordia, Kansas .

History of the 49th Indiana Volunteer Infantry

During the closing days of August, 1861 and the following month of September, the nucleus of what became the 49th Indiana Volunteer Infantry entered "Camp Joe Holt", a rendezvous for troops, situated on the north bank of the Ohio River, and just west of Jeffersonville, Indiana. The 49th Indiana Regiment was organized at Jeffersonville on the 18th of October, 1861, and mustered into service at the same place on the 21st of November, 1861, with John W. Ray as Colonel.

Beginning it's first march by crossing the Ohio River on the 11th of December, it marched through Louisville, Ky, into the interior of Kentucky, reaching Bardstown on the 13th, where it entered into a camp of instruction.

On the 12th of January, 1862, under orders to reinforce General Thomas, who was watching the movements of the rebel General Zollicoffer, who seemed to threaten another invasion of Kentucky. The 49th reached a point five miles south of of Lebanon, when it received the news that General Thomas had defeated the rebels at Mill Springs, Kentucky, where the southern General Zollicoffer was killed. The Regiment proceeded through Lebanon, Crab Orchard, Mt. Vernon, London, and Barboursville, to Cumberland Ford, Kentucky, arriving there on the 15th of February.

On the 14th of March a part of the regiment was engaged in a skirmish at Big Creek Gap, Tennessee, and on the 23rd of March, took part in an ineffectual attempt to take Cumberland Gap.

It remained at Cumberland Ford for the remainder of the winter, until June, 1862. While at that place the regiment was severely scourged by disease, losing by death a large number of its members. For a time scarcely a hundred men could be mustered for duty.

In April, 1862, Governor Morton of Indiana, received word that 370 men in the 49th were sick and needing food and hospital supplies suitable for sick men. Nothing of that kind could be had there. On this same date, Governor Morton promised to send a good lot of supplies, and additional surgeons. Even with this aid conditions grew rapidly worse. An Agent sent to check on the Unit, in the middle of May sent back a report stating that only 377 men were then fit for duty, and 188 were sick and in camp. 321 were absent and on sick leave. They men needed Fruit, pickles, kraut, and potatoes, but most of all it seemed best to send them on furlough to Lexington. This was never allowed, however. Conditions grew even worse, and Early in June, 229 out of the 900 Officers and men could report for duty. Their camp was in an unhealthy locality, and supplies were meager, and not fit for sick men!

On the 12th of June it marched with General Morgan's forces toward Cumberland Gap, and on the 18th it occupied the Gap, the rebels having evacuated it the same day. The 49th proceeded to add to the strength of the already well fortified position.

In the month of August the rebel General Kirby Smith, with a strong force, came through the mountains, and succeeded in cutting off supplies and all communications in the Gap. At the same time supplies were already low in Cumberland Gap, and the men were in need of clothing.

The regiment remained at Cumberland Gap until the night of the 17th of September, when General Morgan, whose army the 49th was part of, abandoned the works, and started it's retreat with General Morgan leading them through Eastern Kentucky to the Ohio River. During the march the troops subsisted mostly upon green corn. After a march of sixteen days,the regiment reached Greenupsburg, Kentucky, on the 3rd of October, from whence it moved to Oak Hill, Ohio.

Going into camp at Oak Hill, Colonel John W Ray met up with the regiment, having been on detached service, and tendered his resignation on October 17, 1862. He was succeeded by James Keigwin, who continued as it's colonel until the close of the war.

After a few days rest, the 49th started for Western Virginia, going up the Kanawha as far as Coal's Mouth. Returning from this expedition it embarked on transports at Point Pleasant on the 17th of November for Memphis, arriving there on the 30th of that month.

On the 19th of December it embarked, with Sherman's army, on the expedition to Vicksburg, landing at Chickasaw Bayou on the evening of December 26th, and engaging in the five days battle that followed. It lost fifty-six men in killed and wounded. The attempt to storm the rebel works being unsuccessful, the regiment re-embarked on transports and left Chickasaw Bayou on the 2nd of January, 1863, and proceeded to Milliken's Bend. Young's Point, Louisiana, where a change in commanders took place with General John A. McClernand succeeding General Sherman in command.

From this place it started in steamers on the expedition against Arkansas Post, a strongly fortified position held by a force of over five thousand men under General Churchill. On the 11th of January, after a fierce fight, and a gallant defense, the enemy surrendered.

Returning to Young's Point, it assisted in digging the canal across the point, remaining in that vicinity until the 2nd of April. It then moved with Grant's army as part of the 13th Corps on April 2, 1863, and moved down the west bank of the river to a point below Grand Gulf, where it boarded transports, which, with gunboats, had ran past the batteries of Vicksburg and Grand Gulf, and had landed at Bruinsburg, near the mouth of Bayou Pierre. On the 30th of April, 1863, the regiment crossed the river, and marched toward Port Gibson, where on the morning of May 1st, began the battle of Port Gibson, the first on a series of engagements preliminary to the complete investment of Vicksburg. At Champion's Hill, on the 6th of May; and at Black River Bridge, on the 17th, where SGT William W. Kendall won the Medal of Honor for his actions, in which he crossed the enemy works, and leading his company, captured guns, and more men then he had with him.

On May 22, the regiment took part in the Bloody assault on the works of Vicksburg, and that failing, took part in the siege that followed. After several weeks of siege warfare, the garrison at Vicksburg capitulated on July 4, 1863.

After the fall of Vicksburg the regiment marched to Jackson, Mississippi, taking part in the seven day's fighting at that place and vicinity. Returning to Vicksburg, the 49th embarked on the 10th of August for Port Hudson, and from there proceeded to New Orleans, where it was assigned to the Department of the Gulf.

From New Orleans the regiment was transported by train to Brashear City, on Berwick Bay. Moving from Berwick's Bay it took part of the expedition up the Teche, passing through the towns of Pattersonville, Franklin, New Iberia, going as far as Opelousas, Louisiana. Returning to New Orleans, the regiment left in transports for Texas on the 10th of December, boarding the steamer Blackstone, reaching Decroe's Point on Matagorda Peninsula on the 14th. From there it moved to Indianola, where on the 3rd of February, 1864, one hundred and sixty-seven men and four officers re-enlisted.

In March the regiment moved to Fort Esperanza, on Matagorda Island, and remained there until April 19th, when it embarked for Alexandria, Louisiana, to reinforce Banks' army on Red River. Here it was engaged with the enemy for thirteen days with the enemy until the 13th of May, when the army retreated to the Mississippi river. Returning to New Orleans, the regiment proceeded to Indiana on Veteran furlough, reaching Indianapolis on the 9th of July.

At the expiration of its veteran furlough, it was ordered to Lexington, Kentucky, where it remained until the 7th of September, 1865. Leaving there on that day it proceeded to Louisville, where on the 13th of September, 1865, the regiment was mustered out of service. The following day it reached Indianapolis with two hundred and sixty-one men and seventeen officers, where it was finally discharged from service.

The whole distance marched by the regiment during its term of service was eight thousand miles. The Regiment lost during service one officer and 40 enlisted men killed, and mortally wounded, and 3 officers and 192 enlisted men by disease; total 236

More About JOSEPH L. HALL:

Burial: Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Concordia, St.Cloud, Kansas

Military service: Private Indiana 49th Vols Civil War

Children of LUCINA LEWIS and JOSEPH HALL are:

i. FLORENCE L.¹⁰ HALL, b. WFT Est. 1853-1880; d. WFT Est. 1885-1963; m. MERWIN CRANS, WFT Est. 1885-1919; b. WFT Est. 1844-1879; d. WFT Est. 1885-1958.

ii. ALICE J. HALL, b. WFT Est. 1853-1880; d. WFT Est. 1885-1963; m. HARRY KEY, WFT Est. 1885-1919; b. WFT Est. 1844-1879; d. WFT Est. 1885-1958.

iii. DELLA J. HALL, b. WFT Est. 1853-1880; d. WFT Est. 1860-1963.

iv. ALBERT L. HALL, b. WFT Est. 1853-1880; d. WFT Est. 1887-1960; m. EMMA WEAVER, WFT Est. 1887-1923; b. WFT Est. 1853-1887; d. WFT Est. 1887-1968.

59. v. HARRIET "HATTIE" E. HALL, b. Abt. 1878, Concordia, Cloud County, Kansas; d. Bet. 1940 - 1945, Oakland, California.

vi. CHARLES C. HALL, b. WFT Est. 1853-1880; d. WFT Est. 1887-1960; m. ALLIE ATKINSON, WFT Est. 1887-1923; b. WFT Est. 1853-1887; d. WFT Est. 1887-1968.

60. vii. PEARL A. HALL, b. WFT Est. 1853-1880; d. WFT Est. 1885-1963, Oakland, California.

61. viii. MYRTLE MAY HALL, b. May 10, 1869, Union City, Indiana; d. June 02, 1956, Santa Ana, California.

46. CATHERINE⁹ LEWIS (THOMAS⁸, CHESTER⁷, DAVID⁶, JOHN⁵, JOSEPH⁴, JOSEPH³, JOHN², GEORGE LEWES¹) was born June 18, 1843 in Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio, and died WFT Est. 1865-1937. She married DR. LEWIS DAVID HALL October 19, 1858 in New Corydon, Jay County, Ind, son of CHARLES HALL and EMILY LOOFBOURROW. He was born May 05, 1834 in Franklin County, Ohio, and died WFT Est. 1863-1930.

Notes for DR. LEWIS DAVID HALL:

DR. L. D. HALL was born in Franklin County, Ohio, May 5, 1834. In 1838, with his parents went to Indiana. Graduated at Physio-Medical Institute of Cincinnati, Ohio, Febuary 7, 1867, and began the practice of his profession in Jay County, Ind., where he practiced until 1869, when he emigrated to Atchison, Kan., where he remained until 1871, when he went to Republic County, and in February, 1877, to Concordia, Cloud County, where he has remained in practice ever since; he is and has been for two years United States ex-Surgeon for pensions; also appointed Medical ex-Surgeon for the Northwestern Masonic Aid Society, and several other insurance companies. He enlisted in the late war May 2, 1864, in Company E, One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Indiana Volunteers, and was discharged October 8, 1864. He was married October 19, 1858, at New Corydon, Jay County, Ind., to Miss Catherine Lewis, and has seven children--Ella R., Marietta E., Lenna K., Orestus C., Augustus J., Fred. Garfield and Baley Hall.

Index to Marriage Records 1850 - 1920 Inclusive Volume I Letters A to Z Inclusive

Record Location: Jay County, Indiana

W. P. A Original Record Located County Clerk's Office Portland Compiled by Indiana Works Progress Administration 1938

Spouse 1: Catharine Lewis

Spouse 2: Lewis D. Hall

Marriage Date: 19 Oct 1858

County: Jay

Book: C-B

Original Source Page: 330

ID: I00089

Name: Lewis David HALL

Sex: M

Title: Dr.

Birth: 5 MAY 1834 in , Franklin, Ohio 1

Death: 11 JUL 1920 in Outlook, Yakima, Washington 2 of Cystitis

_FA3: Was in the Civil War. Private in Co. E, 139th Reg Indiana Vols.

_FA4: 28 FEB 1884 Affidavit by Charles M. Kelly, 32 yrs. Has known Lewis 25 yrs. 3

_FA5: 28 FEB 1884 Affidavit by William H. Kelly, 30 yrs. Has known Lewis, 25 yrs. 3

_FA6: 28 FEB 1884 Affidavit by Chester Lewis, 47 yrs. Known Lewis 27 years. 4

_FA7: 12 JUN 1890 Affidavit by William J. Kelly,59.Known Lewis since 1848 5

_FA8: 18 NOV 1890 Affidavit by Charles D. Lewis, 43, known Lewis 30 yrs. 3

_FA9: 19 NOV 1890 Affidavit by Charles O'Harra, 48, has known Lewis 35 yrs. 3

Occupation: Doctor, merchant latter years

_FA11: 6 MAY 1909 Lewis is 75 and in Seattle, Washington

_FA12: 12 APR 1915 Living in Seattle, Washington

_FA13: 11 JUL 1920 died near Ellensburg, Washington

Event: Other hazel eyes

Reference Number: 89

Medical Information: Enlarged prostate & senility

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Declaration for Invalid Army Pension. State of Kansas County of Cloud.

On this 11th day of December 1882, appeared before me, Cornelius F. Hostletter (sp), Clerk of the District Court, a Court of Record..... Lewis D. Hall, aged 48 years, a resident of Concordia, Kansas.... that he enlisted in the service of the United States at New Corydon County of Jay State of Indiana on the 2nd day of May 1864 as a Private in Company E of the 139th Regiment of Indiana Vols commanded by Capt Rush and was honorably discharged at Indianapolis State of Indiana on the 29th day of September 1864. That his personal description is as follows: Age 48 years; height, 6'; complexion, light; hair, light; eyes, brown. That while a member of the organization aforesaid, in the service and in the line of duty, as such soldier and at a place called Fort Sands, Kentucky on or about the month of June, 1864:

1. He contracted scurvy - which affects the whole system making itself most apparent on the lower limbs. I was not treated by any surgeon in the service for it - I was in charge of the sick at Fort Sands, Kentucky. My company was there on duty - and I had charge of the sick - My greatest trouble is in my lower limbs, sometimes my hands and face and mouth. My whole system seems impregnated. I have never been treated by any doctor for it - I am a Physician (myself of nearly twenty years practice and have always treated myself.--Many friends, and neighbors know how I have been since the war -- and I ask to be notified whether I can at once submit that kind of testimony."

Since leaving the service he has resided in Indiana and Kansas. His occupation has been that of a Physician and Surgeon.

Witnessed by: Albertus B. Chaffer and Bailey M. V. Price

Filed by Daniel L. Brown, attorney. Concordia, Kansas

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Affidavit State of Kansas County of Cloud

On this 28 day of February A.D. 1884. Lewis D. Hall aged 49 years, a resident of Concordia, Kansas, well known to me to be reputable and entitled to credit, and who being duly sworn declares:

"I was enrolled on the 2nd day of May 1864, was discharged on twenty ninth day of September 1864 by reason of expiration of term of service. I entered the service sound and well, never had scurvy, salt rheum, serofula or any chronic skin diseas before entering the service, but shortly after coming out of the army I began to be troubled with aching and stiffness of my legs, they became scally, a sort of dandruff forming on them from the knees to feet, accompanied with troublesome itching; finely they began to swell and brake out with blisters and highly inflamed pimples, were very painful; whenever I succeeded in reducing the inflammation the itching became intense, my legs gave out easily could not walk or stand on them without suffering pain and fatigue, I never had any diseas of the kind before going into the service and none of my relation to my knowledge ever had any thing of the kind, I am very much worse at times have often been confined to my bed for weeks; about three years ago my entire body became swollen, eyes swelled shut sores on head, face and neck, as it did not appear while in the service, I can give no testimony of officers, I have never been treated by any other physician having always treated myself, and it has been necessary to take treatment a great deal of the time to controle the diseas, for I have never been able to cure it, sometimes would think I had it about cured when it would brake out again in its most violent form; thought I would never ask for a pension, but I am growing older and more disabled in consequence of the diseas, I am much better at the present time, but in ten days my be laid up and unable to do anything at all. The character of testimony that I am sending is all that I can give, I can send more of the same kind if necessary. I have not been able to perform manuel labor sufficient to support myself let alone my family; for the last fifteen or sixteen years, greate deal of the time, unable to attend professional calls." Signed Lewis D. Hall

(I have left the spelling on this document as it was Lewis' own handwriting.)

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General Affidavit signed by Charles D. Lewis, age 36, Concordia, Kansas.

He states: " I knew the above claimant (Lewis D. Hall) about eight or nine years before he enlisted and never knew to be afflicted with any disease before going into the service, was a comrad & messmate with him in the above regiment for over five months have been personaly acquainted with him ever since we were discharged.

Dated 28 Feb 1884

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From the "Ellensburg Capital" Ellensburg, Washington - July 15, 1920

Social and Personal

"Last Sunday at Outlook, Wash., occurred the death of L. D. Hall, for a number of years a resident of Ellensburg. The deceased came to Washington from Kansas 20 years ago and lived at Seattle for 10 years before coming to Ellensburg. He was 86 years old and was a practicing physician for 35 years. Mr. Hall leaves three sons and three daughters. The body arrived in Ellensburg Monday evening and funeral services were held on Tuesday afternoon from the Bridgham undertaking parlors, Rev. Billington of the Christian church officiating."

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[Brøderbund Family Archive #318, Ed. 1, Census Index: U.S. Selected States/Counties, 1860, Date of Import: 10 Dec 1997, Internal Ref. #1.318.1.15166.82]

Individual: Hall, Lewis D.

County/State: Jay Co., IN

Location: Wabash Twp

Page #: 196

Year: 1860

Father: Charles HALL b: 31 AUG 1808 in , Delaware, Ohio

Mother: Emily LOOFBOURROW b: 21 MAR 1815 in West Virginia

Marriage 1 Catherine LEWIS b: 18 JUN 1842 in Berlin, Delaware, Ohio

Married: 19 OCT 1858 in New Corydon, Jay, Indiana 6

Note: by Rev. Smith

Children

Ella Rufinah HALL b: 16 SEP 1859 in , Jay, Indiana

Marietta Emily HALL b: 20 DEC 1860 in , Jay, Indiana

Rosa Belle HALL b: 10 FEB 1863 in Jay Co., Indiana

Thomas Edwin HALL b: 13 MAR 1864 in , Jay, Indiana

Lenna Hortance HALL b: 22 SEP 1865 in , Jay, Indiana

Rinaldo Glessner HALL b: 24 FEB 1868 in , Jay, Indiana

Orestes Charles HALL b: 17 FEB 1871 in Kenekuk, Atchison, Kansas

Augusta Jane HALL b: 18 JAN 1873 in , Republic, Kansas

Fredrick Garfield HALL b: 5 SEP 1878 in Concordia, Cloud, Kansas

Harry Claude HALL b: 3 DEC 1881 in Concordia, Cloud, Kansas

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Declaration for Invalid Army Pension. State of Kansas County of Cloud.

Since leaving the service he has resided in Indiana and Kansas. His occupation has been that of a Physician and Surgeon.

Witnessed by: Albertus B. Chaffer and Bailey M. V. Price

Filed by Daniel L. Brown, attorney. Concordia, Kansas

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Affidavit State of Kansas County of Cloud

On this 28 day of February A.D. 1884. Lewis D. Hall aged 49 years, a resident of Concordia, Kansas, well known to me to be reputable and entitled to credit, and who being duly sworn declares:

(I have left the spelling on this document as it was Lewis' own handwriting.)

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General Affidavit signed by Charles D. Lewis, age 36, Concordia, Kansas.

Dated 28 Feb 1884

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From the "Ellensburg Capital" Ellensburg, Washington - July 15, 1920

Social and Personal

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[Brøderbund Family Archive #318, Ed. 1, Census Index: U.S. Selected States/Counties, 1860, Date of Import: 10 Dec 1997, Internal Ref. #1.318.1.15166.82]

Individual: Hall, Lewis D.

County/State: Jay Co., IN

Location: Wabash Twp

Page #: 196

Year: 1860[koinonia2.ged]

Declaration for Invalid Army Pension. State of Kansas County of Cloud.

Since leaving the service he has resided in Indiana and Kansas. His occupation has been that of a Physician and Surgeon.

Witnessed by: Albertus B. Chaffer and Bailey M. V. Price

Filed by Daniel L. Brown, attorney. Concordia, Kansas

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Affidavit State of Kansas County of Cloud

On this 28 day of February A.D. 1884. Lewis D. Hall aged 49 years, a resident of Concordia, Kansas, well known to me to be reputable and entitled to credit, and who being duly sworn declares:

(I have left the spelling on this document as it was Lewis' own handwriting.)

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General Affidavit signed by Charles D. Lewis, age 36, Concordia, Kansas.