In 1850, he and his wife Mary A.J. lived in Ocala, Marion County, Florida with their children Swepson Stephens, Richard G. Stephens (possibly Mary's from a previous marriage?), Mary H., Lewis P., James S., Benjamin, Ruhannah, Ida, and two young men named Aaron Wooly and John Q. Wells[1].
Son of James Strother Gaines and Judith Easley, related to the great War of 1812 General Edmund Pendleton Gaines, as well as the well-known Governor of Alabama, George Strother Gaines. The Strother, Gaines and Pendleton families were very prolific in VA and in the rest of the South both before and after the Revolutionary War.
Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 29 September 2018), memorial page for Lewis Clark Gaines (19 Sep 1809–30 Dec 1860), Find A Grave Memorial no. 17332386, citing Middleburg Methodist Church Cemetery, Middleburg, Clay County, Florida, USA ; Maintained by Ann Parkinson (contributor 45284853) .
United States Census, 1850, database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFH6-4DF : 12 April 2016), Lewis C Gaines, Ocala, Marion, Florida, United States; citing family 303, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
1850 US Federal Census Ocala, Marion, Florida
Lewis C. Gaines 43 M Virginia
Mary A. J. Gaines 41 F Georgia
Swepson B. W. Stephens 19 M Georgia
Richard C. Stephens 16 M Alabama
Mary H. Gaines 9 F Alabama
Lewis P. Gaines 5 M Alabama
James S. Gaines 7 M Alabama
Benjamin Gaines 4 M Alabama
Rubannah Gaines 3 F Florida
Ida J. Gaines 1 F Florida
Aaron Woolly 25 M Ohio
John Q. Wells 22 M Ohio
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Lewis by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Lewis: