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About Lucy Lewis
Lucy Meriwether Marks
- BIRTH 4 Feb 1752 - Albemarle County, Virginia, USA
- DEATH 8 Sep 1837 (aged 85) = Albemarle County, Virginia, USA
- BURIAL Locust Hill Cemetery, Ivy, Albemarle County, Virginia, USA
- MEMORIAL ID 63366265 · View Source
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63366265/lucy-marks
Mother of Gov. Meriwether Lewis
Lucy's first husband was Lt. William Lewis, buried at "Clover Fields" in Albemarle County, Virginia.They had the four children shown linked below.
Her second husband was Capt. John Marks, a friend of William Lewis. John died about 1791 in Oglethorpe County, Georgia and is presumably buried there. John and Lucy had two children, Dr. John Hastings Marks who died in Baltimore and Mary Garland (Marks) Moore, who died in Alabama. Burial places are not known for either.
Gravesite Details
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Bio by: The Meriwether Society, Inc.
Lucy Meriwether (1752-1837) was the daughter of Thomas Meriwether and Elizabeth Thornton. She married William Lewis and was the mother of Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. She also married John Marks. She died in Albemarle Co., Virginia.
Known far and wide for her medicinal remedies, Lucy grew a special crop of herbs that she dispensed to her children, her slaves, and her neighbors. She also knew the medicinal properties of wild plants. She took care to teach her son Meriwether all that she earned about herbal remedies.
Lucy Meriwether Lewis Marks was a remarkable woman. She bore five children, two by John Marks (John Hastings Marks, born 1785' and Mary Garland Marks, born in. 1788). She had a strong constitution; she buried two husbands and lived to be almost 86 years old. Thomas Jefferson called her a "tender" mother. She was slim, fragile in appearance, with light brown hair and hazel-blue eyes, "a refined face and a masterful eye." A family history describes her: "Her position as a head of a large family connection combined with the spartan ideas in those stirring times of discipline, developed in her a good deal of the autocrat. Yet she . . . Had much sweetness of character, was a devoted Christian and full of sympathy for all sickness and trouble.
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Lucy Lewis's Timeline
| 1752 |
February 4, 1752
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Albemarle County, Virginia, British Colonial America
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| 1770 |
March 31, 1770
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Albemarle, Virginia, United States
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| 1772 |
October 31, 1772
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Albemarle County, Virginia, United States
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| 1774 |
August 18, 1774
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Locust Hill Plantation, Albemarle County, Virginia, British Colonial America
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| 1777 |
February 14, 1777
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Locust Hill, Middlesex County, Virginia, United States
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| 1786 |
January 6, 1786
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Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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| 1788 |
May 8, 1788
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Georgia, United States
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| 1837 |
September 8, 1837
Age 85
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Ivy Depot, Albemarle, Virginia, United States
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September 18, 1837
Age 85
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Ivy Depot, Albemarle, Virginia, United States
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