Ruhamah
Lewis
Born in Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island
Ancestors 
and Sister of
John Lewis, Sarah Nancy (Lewis) Wilcox, Chloe Lewis, Hezekiah Lewis, Elias Lewis, Simeon Lewis, Hannah (Lewis) Thompson, Bernice Lewis, William Lewis, Jeptha Lewis, Anna Lewis and Nancy (Lewis) Champlin
Wife of
Oliver Wilcox Lewis Sr
— married
10 Feb 1766 in Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island
Descendants 
Died
at age 37
in Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island
Profile last modified
| Created 26 Jul 2013
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Biography
Ruhama(h) Lewis, daughter of John and Thankful Lewis, was born on 19 May 1743 at Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island.[1]
She married Oliver Lewis, her cousin and son of Joseph and Mary Lewis, on 10 Feb. 1766 at Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island.[1][2]
Ruhuma died on 27 March 1781 at Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island.
Children of Oliver and Ruhuma
See Oliver.
DNA Confirmations
- Paternal relationship is confirmed by a triangulated group consisting of cousins: Philip Smith – GEDMatch ID: T618013; Alice (Brooks) Becker – GEDMatch ID: A936531; Michelle (DeRemer) Byron – GEDMatch ID: M394878 sharing a 23.9 cM segment on chromosome 19. Smith_Brooks_DeRemer_3_Way_DNA_Confirmation shows documentation. The common ancestor pair is Robert Burdick and Ruth (Hubbard) Burdick.
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Westerly - Births and Deaths Ancestry.com. Rhode Island, Vital Extracts, 1636-1899. Pages 114, 115.
- ↑ Genealogical and Family History of the Wyoming and Lackawanna Valleys, Pennsylvania, Volume 2. By Horace Edwin Hayden, Alfred Hand, John Woolf Jordan, Lewis publishing Company, 1906. Page 470.
Acknowledgments
- Thank you to Kenneth Lewis for creating Lewis-9420 on 26 Jul 13.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Ruhamah by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Ruhamah:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Ruhamah by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Ruhamah:
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~0.78%
Michelle (DeRemer) Byron
:
23andMe, GEDmatch M394878 [compare]
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~0.78%
Dick Merritt :
23andMe
+
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A542194 [compare], Ancestry member dickmerritt
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~0.78%
Alice (Brooks) Becker :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A936531 [compare], Ancestry member billaliceb
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~0.78%
Jennifer (Machyousky) Bolan :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch LK4017014 [compare], Ancestry member jennifermachyousky
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~0.78%
Laura (Wilcox) Jenkins :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member LauraEWJenkins
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~0.39%
Carl Widmann :
23andMe
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~0.39%
Barry Holroyd :
23andMe
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