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Rosa Bayless (Lewis)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina, United States
Death: 1856 (33-37)
probably since where she was living, Ashland, Boyd County, Kentucky, United States (tumor under her right ear ulcerated on inside according to Nov 8, 1856 letter written by her husband)
Immediate Family:

Daughter of David Lewis and Rachel Benjamin Lewis
Wife of John Clark Bayless
Mother of Helen Wallace Lansdowne
Sister of Alexander Lewis; Unknown Lewis; Catherine Lewis; Col. Joseph C. Lewis, CSA; Judith Einstein and 4 others

Managed by: Charles Pillsbury Resor
Last Updated:

About Rosa Bayless

I had been informed that she was born in 1822 in a biography of her husband that she was born in this year, but another source indicated: Nov 18 1819 - Charleston County, South Carolina, USA. The biography indicated that she was "a highly educated girl from Charleston" SC

It appears clear that she and her husband resided in Ashland, KY, when she died in November of 1856 (according to biography of her husband written by Therese Lansdowne Duble

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Rosa Bayless's Timeline

1819
November 18, 1819
Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina, United States
1851
May 12, 1851
1856
1856
Age 36
probably since where she was living, Ashland, Boyd County, Kentucky, United States