Mildred Gregory Minor

Mildred Gregory Lewis (1770-1812:15) married in 1790, Col. William Minor (1759-1823), of Hybla, Hanover County, Va., son of Maj. John and Elizabeth Cosby Minor. Their children were Warner Washington (1792-1830) who married in 1819, Maria Timberlake (1799-); Lucy Thornton (1794-1870) who married c1815, James Byars (1784-1863); and Elizabeth Ann Minor (1806-59) who married in 1825, Col. William Campbell (1798-1878) said to have served in the Mexican War. Descendants include Episcopal minister Dr. Edmund Lee Woodward (1873-1948), of Virginia.

Mildred Gregory Lewis's father was Col. John Lewis (1747-1825)(Oxford 176_), only surviving son of Col. Fielding (1725-81) and Catherine Washington Lewis (1724/5-49/50), who was born June 22, 1747, in Virginia. He lived in Fredericksburg, Va. until moving c1811 to Logan County, Ky. During the Revolution he was a lt. colonel in Grayson's Regiment until 1779. He became a colonel in the Virginia militia and commanded a regiment at the Yorktown surrender. He assisted his father at the gun factory in Fredericksburg and in 1781 became a partner. He married (1) in 1768, a second cousin, Lucy Thornton (1750-70), daughter of Col. John (-1777) and Mildred Gregory Thornton (c1722-). Their daughter was Mildred Gregory Lewis (1770-c1812). He married (2) in 1771, Elizabeth Thornton (1748/9-c72), daughter of Presley Thornton (1721-69). He married (3) in 1773, Elizabeth Bates Jones (1753-83), daughter of attorney Gabriel Jones, of Rockingham County, Va. Their sons were Fielding, III (1773-98)(unm), Gabriel Jones (1775-1864), and Warner Washington Lewis (1779-1833)(unm). He married (4) in 1785, Mary Ann Fontaine (-1799), and their children were Frances (1786-1851), Robert (1790-95), John (d.inf), Sarah Katherine (1792-94), John James Howell (1794-d.yg), and Mary Ann Lewis (c1799:1803-). He married (5) in 1809, a cousin, Mildred Ann Byrd Carter (1774-1837), daughter of Landon Carter (1751-1811), of Cleve. Their son was Otway B. Lewis (c1810-25).

See Merrow Egerton Sorley, Lewis of Warner Hall (Baltimore, 1935), 131-136; Dr. Justin M. Glenn, The Washingtons, A Family History, Volume One, Seven Generations of the Presidential Branch (Savas Beatie, El Dorado Hills, Ca. 2014), I: 67-68, 162-164, 318-319; James Houston Barr III, Lt. Colonel Nathaniel Pope, c1610-1660, of Virginia, Ancestor of Washington, Governors and Legislators, History of His Descendants (Louisville, Ky. 2018), 9-10.* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Dec 14 2022, 16:26:41 UTC