James Madison Lewis

from The Millers of Millersburgh (on Googlebooks)

James Madison Lewis, the ninth child of Mourning Mills, was born in Buncombe County, North Carolina, in 1810 (now [He]nderson County). He was librarian and keeper of the state house at Jackson, Mississippi, for many years. He married Leander Perdue, of Madison County, Mississippi, in 1847. They had two children: Mary P., born 1849, and Bancombe [Buncumbe?], who was born in 1851 and died in 1854. Mrs. Leander Lewis died in Yazoo County, Mississippi, and her remains were interred in the cemetery at Vernon, Mississippi. James M. Lewis was residing in Asheville, North Carolina, in 1886.