Mary Boswell Lewis

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Mary Boswell Lewis (Herndon)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Virginia, Colonial America
Death: 1850 (79-80)
Maury County, Tennessee, USA
Place of Burial: Greenwood Cemetery, Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee, USA
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Col Benjamin Herndon and Sarah Herndon
Wife of Major James Martin Lewis
Mother of Robert Lang Lewis; Ann C. Lewis; Capt. (CSA) Micajah Green Lewis and William Terrell Lewis
Sister of Rebecca Ellis Herndon; Benjamin Herndon, II; Joseph Herndon; Stephen Decatur Herndon; Frances Herndon and 5 others
Half sister of Mary Thompson Newton Sims; John Newton Herndon; Lucy Boswell Herndon; Washington Boswell Herndon and Marinda Patsy Harriet Herndon

Managed by: Katherine Thomas
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About Mary Boswell Lewis

James Martin Lewis, born in 1762, who was a Lieutenant at King's Mountain, married 'Mary, daughter of Colonel Benjamin Herndon', and died at Columbia, Tennessee, in 1830.

Source: "King's Mountain and its Heroes" by Draper; pp 456 - 458.

314. Benjamin Herndon, b. near Fred , 1749; of Wilkes co., N. C; in Rev.; d. Dec. 30, 1819 ; m. 1st Sarah Pines ; m. 2d Cleveland. Ch.; 317. Nancy, m. Col. Joseph S. Rice, des. unk.; her g. s., Dr. Arthur H. Rice, lives Ocktoc, Miss. 31S. Benjamin, dec. unk. 319. Zachariah Pines, b. 1791 ; d. 1859; in. 1841; Elizabeth Pratt. Ch.: Des. all unk.; I. Columbia, 1843, m- Dr. Wm. H. Ford, Charleston, S. C.; II. Benjamin Zachariah, b. 1845, m. Mary E. King ; III. John Pratt, b. 1S47; d. 1867, unm.; IV. Mary E., b. 1849, m- S. L. Fuller; V. Eugene Oglethorpe, b. 1851, m. Jessie Bivings. 320. Stephen Decatur, des. unk. 321. John, his g. s., Herndon Moore, lives Columbia, S. C. 322. Joseph. '323. Mary Boswell, m. James Martin Lewis, and had 10 ch.' 324. Fannie, m. Daniel McKie, des. unk. 325. Rebecca, m. Col. Benjamin Rice, des. unk.

Source: The Virginia magazine of history and biography, Volume 12 By William Glover Stanard, Virginia Historical Society http://books.google.com/books?id=T1t2lNXTF9AC&pg=PA110&lpg=PA110&dq...

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Mary Boswell Lewis's Timeline

1770
1770
Virginia, Colonial America
1790
1790
Moore, North Carolina, United States
1792
1792
1797
May 13, 1797
1803
1803
Tennessee, USA
1850
1850
Age 80
Maury County, Tennessee, USA
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Greenwood Cemetery, Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee, USA