Hannah Louise Lewis

Hannah was the mother of 13 children; John born in 1816, Ezekiel 1818, Mary (called Polly) 1820, James 1822, Phoebe 1824, Sarah 1826, Margaret 1828, Elizabeth 1830, Susan 1832, Jesse B 1834, Nancy Ann 1836, Martan 1838, and Daniel in 1840 who died in infancy. Oldest son John married Polly Turner in 1834 they crossed the plains with the family to Willamette Valley, Oregon then moved to Jackson County Oregon in 1862. Hannah's father's name was William Sneethen. Her mother was Hannah Costo, her grandmother was Phoebe Gandy, and her greatgrandmother was Hannah Cline.

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Hannah was born and raised in eastern Kentucky. On May 30, 1816, William Martin Lewis and Hannah Louise Snethen (spelled variously Sneethen and Sneathen) were married in what was then Clay County Kentucky. William and Hannah had 13 children between 1816 and 1840. Most, if not all were born in Perry County, Kentucky. They included John, Ezekiel, Mary, James, Phoebe, Sarah, Margaret, Elizabeth, Susan, Jesse, Nancy, Martin and Daniel.

In the early 1840s the Lewis family left Kentucky on Middle Fork of the Kentucky River on log rafts. They followed the rivers to Platte County Missouri. William and Hannah Lewis came to Oregon by ox drawn wagon in a wagon train in 1853 arriving in Polk County, Oregon, on September 28. Their claim (#5088) was within feet of the Willamette River near the town of Buena Vista. In 1861 the river had a flood of record proportion (635K cubic feet per second). The flood inundated 353,000 acres and this doubtlessly included William and Hannah's Polk County homestead claim.

William Martin Lewis died in 1881 and Hannah Snethen Lewis in 1886. It is not known where they were buried. His obituary indicated he was buried in a cemetery near the Methodist Church in the Monroe/Alpine area. The Alpine (Simpson Chapel) Cemetery would have been a likely location. If they have a tombstone, it has not yet been found.

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