Mary Walker Lewis of Pan Tops,VA, "Aunt Molly"

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About Mary Walker Lewis of Pan Tops,VA, "Aunt Molly"

Mary moved with Isaac and her family to Louisville,KY.

Pantops “All-eye” named by Thomas Jefferson because of its wide and beautiful view. (10 miles)

(The first house was built by James Leitch, a single story wood frame-hall-passage-parlor house, which burned in 1929 and was replaced.)

Thomas Jefferson inherited the Pantops’ land, which bordered the family’s Shadwell land in 1756 and purchased additional adjoining land in 1777. http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php/Pantops

In 1797, he gave the property to his youngest daughter Maria as her dowry in her marriage to John Wayles Eppes. Jefferson hoped they would settle at Pantops, but Maria died in 1804. Her son, Francis Eppes offered the land for sale in 1812 and it was purchased by Thomas Jefferson Randolf, the grandson of Thomas Jefferson, who sold it in 1825 to James Leitch.

James Leitch (d.1831) Wife Mary Walker Lewis (b. 1793-d. 1872) daughter of Thomas Walker Lewis (son of Nicholas Lewis and Mary Walker) and Elizabeth Meriwether (daughter of Nicholas Walker Meriwether and Margaret Douglas), both of whom were Lucy’s second cousins

3 Children, one of whom is Eiliza Leitch (b. 1815-d.1866) David Anderson (b. 1776), brother of Lucy’s son-in-law, Edmond Anderson, who had been previously married to Wife Mary Walker Lewis Leitch They had no children, but Eliza Leitch married her mother’s step-son, Meriwether Lewis Anderson and they inherited Pantops

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Mary Walker Lewis of Pan Tops,VA, "Aunt Molly"'s Timeline

1793
March 25, 1793
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
1814
July 28, 1814
Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States
1815
August 23, 1815
Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States
1816
1816
1820
1820
1822
1822
1872
June 21, 1872
Age 79
Virginia, United States
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