Ethelbert Lewis
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Ethelbert Wallis Lewis (abt. 1815 - 1856)

Ethelbert Wallis Lewis
Born about in Madison, Virginia, United Statesmap
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Husband of — married 31 Jul 1839 in Miami, Saline Co., MOmap
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Died at about age 41 in Miami, Saline, Missouri, United Statesmap
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Biography

ETHELBERT WALLIS LEWIS: Occupation: Merchant

ETHELBERT WALLIS10 LEWIS (John9, William8, Henry7, Henry6, Henry5, John4, Richard3, Henry2, Edmund1) was born on 18 Feb 1815 in Madison Co., VA. He died on 29 Apr 1855 in Miami, Saline Co., MO. He married Rebecca Randolph on 31 Jul 1839 in Miami, Saline Co., MO.

E. W. Lewis came to Missouri from New Jersey in 1836, and died in 1856. Page 698[1](???)

Ethelbert Wallis Lewis and Rebecca Randolph had the following children:

i. (SON)11 LEWIS (son of Ethelbert Wallis Lewis and Rebecca Randolph) was born on 11 Jun 1840. He died on 11 Jun 1840.

ii. CATHERINE ANN MERRY LEWIS (daughter of Ethelbert Wallis Lewis and Rebecca Randolph) was born on 29 Jun 1841 in Miami, Saline Co., MO. She died in 1905 in Missouri. She married (1) HENRY LATIMER on 18 Aug 1858. She married (2) FRANK SELDON ROBERTSON on 31 Jul 1865.

iii. MILDRED ELIZABETH LEWIS (daughter of Ethelbert Wallis Lewis and Rebecca Randolph) was born on 14 Jun 1843 in Miami, Saline Co., MO. She died in 1928 in California. She married John Pryor Strother (son of John Strother and Lavinia Bruce) on 23 Oct 1860.

iv. ETHELBERTA LEWIS (daughter of Ethelbert Wallis Lewis and Rebecca Randolph) was born on 15 Sep 1845 in Miami, Saline Co., MO. She died on 29 Apr 1880 in Grand Pass, Saline Co., MO. She married Benjamin Lewis on 18 Sep 1868 in Saline Co., Missouri.

v. WILLIAM RANDOLPH LEWIS (son of Ethelbert Wallis Lewis and Rebecca Randolph) was born on 24 Nov 1847 in Miami, Saline Co., MO. He died in 1918 in Longwood, Pettis Co., MO.

vi. ARTHUR WALLIS LEWIS (son of Ethelbert Wallis Lewis and Rebecca Randolph) was born on 09 Jun 1850 in Miami, Saline Co., MO. He died in 1900 in Louisiana. He married Sallie Austin on 10 Apr 1878.

vii. JOHN JACOB LEWIS (son of Ethelbert Wallis Lewis and Rebecca Randolph) was born on 29 Jan 1852 in Miami, Saline Co., MO. He died on 20 Oct 1852 in Miami, Saline Co., MO.

viii. NELLIE LEWIS (daughter of Ethelbert Wallis Lewis and Rebecca Randolph) was born on 05 Sep 1853 in Missouri. She died in 1937 in Houstonia, Pettis Co., MO. She married Thomas Montgomery on 29 Dec 1882 in Marshall, Saline Co., MO.

ix. ETHELBERT E. LEWIS (son of Ethelbert Wallis Lewis and Rebecca Randolph) was born on 26 Nov 1855 in Miami, Saline Co., MO. He died on 26 Nov 1877 in Miami, Saline Co., MO.[2]


C Lewis, Ethelbert Wallis, (1815-1855), Letters, 1837-1851 1674 1 folder

This collection is available at The State Historical Society of Missouri. If you would like more information, please contact us at shsresearch@umsystem.edu.

INTRODUCTION

The papers contain letters from Ethelbert to his brother, William W[alker] Lewis, of Culpepper County, Virginia, from Missouri. Lewis emigrated from Virginia in 1836. Letters describe Howard County in 1837, the Missouri legislature and Missouri and Virginia politics. Discuss crops, soil fertility, commodity prices, wages, land prices, social life, 1837, Fayette; negro hiring, education, teachers 'salaries; Indian trade, family, and friends.

DONOR INFORMATION

The papers were donated to the State Historical Society of Missouri by R. E. Robertson on 29 August 1937.[3]

"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDZ5-4CB : 9 November 2014), Ethelbert W Lewis, Saline county, Saline, Missouri, United States; citing family 287, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).


Sources

  1. History of Saline County, Missouri, carefully written and compiled from the most authentic official and private sources
  2. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSsr=201&GScid=1982265&GRid=14884924&
  3. http://shs.umsystem.edu/manuscripts/invent/1674.pdf


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