Winona Caroline (Gephart) Lewis (1911 - 1997)

Born 10 Aug 1911 in Miami Co., Ohio, USA

Ancestors

Wife of John Clifford Lewis — married 23 Jan 1938 in Sistersville, Tyler Co., West Virginia, USA

Died 18 Jan 1997 at age 85 in Lima, Allen Co., Ohio, USA

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Biography

Winona Gephart was born 10 August 1911 in Miami Co., Ohio. She is the daughter of to Devoe Gebhart and Mary Griner.

In July 1914, her father was sentenced to the workhouse and her mother was sentenced to 83 days in the county jail for failure to provide. She and her siblings were sentenced to the jail as juveniles. Her brother, Daniel, remained with her mother in the jail. He and her other siblings were sent to the Miami County Childrens Home after 3 days.^[1]

Prior to that, the family was living in a tent along the canal south of Piqua and New Castle, Henry Co., Indiana. In December 1914, she was taken out on trial by Mr and Mrs Henry Rice of Sidney, Ohio. She was adopted in February 1918 and her name was changed to Peggy Caroline Rice.^[2]

1920 census -- Sidney, Shelby Co., Ohio, USA

Harry Rice, head, own mortgaged, white, male, age 42, married, born New York, father born New York, mother born New York, secretary candy factory co.; Willa H Rice, wife, white, female, age 35, married, born Ohio, father born Ohio, mother born Ohio; Peggy C Rice, daughter, white, female, age 8, single, born Ohio, father born Ohio, mother born Ohio^[3]

1930 census -- Sidney, Shelby Co., Ohio, USA

Harry L Rice, head, own $10000, white, male, age 52, married, first married @ 29, born New York, father born New York, mother born New York, manager candy factory office; Willa H Rice, wife, white, female, age 43, married, first married @ 22, born Ohio, father born Ohio, mother born Ohio; Peggie Rice, daughter, white, female, age 17, single, born Ohio, father born Ohio, mother born Ohio, attended school^[4]

She married John C Lewis 23 January 1938 in Sistersville, West Virginia.^[5]

1940 census -- Beaverdam, Allen Co., Ohio, USA

John C Lewis, head, white, male, age 37, married, 7th grade education, born Ohio, same place 1935, telephone construction foreman; Peggy Lewis, wife, informant, white, female, age 28, married, 4 years high school education, born Ohio, Tyler Co. WV 1935; William C Lewis, son, white, male, age 1, single, born Ohio; Richard B Lewis, son, white, male, age 17, single, attended school, 2 years high school education, born Ohio, Lima OH 1935, student; Harold Lewis, son, white, male, age 15, single, attended school, 1 year high school education, born Ohio, Toledo OH 1935, student;^[6]

She died 18 January 1997 in Allen, Ohio. ^[7][8]She is buried in Memorial Park Cemetery and Mausoleum in Lima, Ohio.^[9]

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSLK-FBDF?i=196&cat=434367
2. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BQ-RJ42?cat=10887
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MD5K-NGP : 3 February 2021), Peggy C Rice in entry for Hary Rice, 1920.
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X4CR-BKW : accessed 19 March 2022), Peggie Rice in household of Harry L Rice, Clinton, Shelby, Ohio, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 1, sheet 10A, line 16, family 267, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1873; FHL microfilm 2,341,607.
5. ↑ "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FYFQ-CM6 : 16 March 2020), John Clifford Lewis and Peggy Caroline Rice, 1938; citing Wetzel, West Virginia, United States, , county clerks, West Virginia; FHL microfilm 840,562.
6. ↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KWDF-ND5 : 9 January 2021), Peggy Lewis in household of John C Lewis, Beaverdam, Richland Township, Allen, Ohio, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 2-58, sheet 3A, line 27, family 66, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 3021.
7. ↑ "Ohio Death Index, 1908-1932, 1938-1944, and 1958-2007", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VK26-MY6 : 30 June 2021), Peggy Caroline Lewis, 1997.
8. ↑ Wapakoneta Daily News, Wapakoneta, Ohio, Tuesday, 1/21/1997, p 3:

   Peggy Caroline Lewis, age eighty-five of Waynesfield, died Saturday, January 18, 1997 at 10:25 p.m. at the Lima Memorial Hospital.

   She was born on August 14, 1911 in Sidney, the daughter of Harry L. and Willa (Hickock) Rice. On January 23, 1938, she married John Clifford Lewis who passed away on June 10, 1967.

   Mrs. Lewis is survived by three daughters and two sons-in-law, Willa Jean Lewis Braden (husband Ronnie Braden) of Enterprise, Alabama; Susan L. Lewis of Deltona, Florida; and Barbara J. Lewis Young (husband: Gary Young) of Waynesfield; two step-sons: Leonard Kelveder and James Kelveder, both of Cincinnati, Ohio; eighteen grandchildren and twenty-six great-grandchildren.

   She was preceded in death by one son, William Clifford Lewis and two step-sons: Richard Merrel Lewis and Harrold Duane Lewis.

   Mrs. Lewis was a homemaker.

   Funeral services will begin at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday at the Lewis Memorial Chapel of Chiles & Sons in Laman, Lima, Ohio. Burial will follow in Memorial Park Cemetery in Lima, Ohio. Friends may call from two to four and six to eight on January 21, 1997 at the funeral home.

9. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/218339100/peggy-caroline-lewis : accessed 19 March 2022), memorial page for Peggy Caroline Rice Lewis (14 Aug 1911–18 Aug 1997), Find A Grave: Memorial #218339100, citing Memorial Park Cemetery and Mausoleum, Lima, Allen County, Ohio, USA ; Maintained by Madonna Jervis Wise (contributor 48182918) .