Born in New Kent County, Colony of Virginia
Ancestors 
Daughter of James Miller
and Mary (Trotman) Miller
[uncertain]
Sister of
Unknown (Miller) Trotman, Unknown (Miller) Spears, Unknown (Miller) Patterson, Mary (Miller) Strachey, Edward Miller I, James Miller and Augustine Miller
Wife of
John Lewis Jr
— married
1666 in Gloucester County, Colony of Virginia
Wife of
Robert Yard
— married
after 1689 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Mother of
Mary (Lewis) Dillard, Edward Lewis, John Lewis, Sarah (Lewis) Willis, Abraham Lewis Sr. and Patience (Lewis) Harrelson
Died
at age 63
in Petsworth Parish, Gloucester County, Colony of Virginia
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Biography
There has been much misinformation passed on about the wife of Major John Lewis. From their son John’s gravestone, it is known her name is Isabella. She is Isabella Miller, daughter of James Miller and Mary Trotman.[1]
Isabella was born on 24 August 1640.[2]
She was the daughter of James Miller Sr., who settled in York County about 1648. James received a grant of 150 acres on Rowlston Creek and died in 1657. It can now be determined that she was the one interred as Mrs. Isabella Yard born 24 August 1640 and died 9 February 1703/4, she having married Robert Yard after Major Lewis’ death.
Although she is not mentioned in her father’s Will, she is mentioned in her brother James Miller Jr's Will.
Their son Colonel John "Councillor" Lewis married Elizabeth Warner, the daughter of Augustine Warner and Mildred Reade.[3]
After John passed away, she married Robert Yard.
She passed away on 9 Feburary 1703/4.[2] Isabella's gravestone is in the small cemetery at Warner Hall, Gloucester County, Virginia, where Emigrant John is also buried.
Research Notes
Conflicting Marriage Information
"This would indicate she died before Major John, and he had her buried in his family cemetery and ordered a stone for her."
Sources
See also:
- Merrow Egerton Sorley, Lewis of Warner Hall: The History of a Family (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1935, 1979), p28; digital images, Archive.org (https://archive.org/details/lewisofwarnerhal00sorl/page/28/mode/2up?q=Isabella).
- The Inn at Warner Hall.
- Geni Entry - Which contains multiple sources
- Mark Lewis, Lewis at Home.
- Title: U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Author: Yates Publishing Publication: This unique collection of records was extracted from a variety of sources including family group sheets and electronic databases.
- Title: Family Data Collection - Marriages Author: Edmund West, comp. Publication Note: Edmund West, comp.,
- Title: Family Data Collection - Births Author: Edmund West, comp.
- Title: Family Data Collection - Individual Records Author: Edmund West, comp.
- Title: U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Author: Yates Publishing
- Title: Family Data Collection - Deaths Author: Edmund West, comp.
See also - other family trees:
- Alabama, U.S., Surname Files Expanded, 1702–1981; database with images, Ancestry.com (Ancestry Record 61266 #90122486). [unsourced]
- "Lewis Family," Marshall Genealogy Page; Rootsweb.com (http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~marshall/esmd45.htm). [unsourced]
- "Warner Family," Marshall Genealogy Page; Rootsweb.com (http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~marshall/esmd171.htm). [unsourced]
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Isabella 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 Isabella:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Isabella 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 Isabella:
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~0.78%
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[[1]] [[2]] I have changed her parents from the Warners to the Lewises and proposed a merge with Isabella Miller, but then I realized that I need to get group assent.