Thomas Jasper Lewis

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Immediate Family

About Thomas Jasper Lewis

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25095491

Siblings:
David William Lewis 1841–1852 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18149691
Thomas Jasper Lewis 1851-1920 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25095491
Mary Elizabeth Lewis Hall 1853-1907
Hamer Walter Lewis 1855-1930 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25095486
Morse Homer Lewis 1857–1929 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/54769293
Sarah Josephine Lewis Burton 1860-1901
Frank Moore Lewis 1862–1925 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35738733
Jennie Lavica Lewis Hawkins 1869–1954 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/159753238

1900 Census:
Name, Role, Sex, Age, Birthplace:
Thomas J Lewis Head M 49 Indiana
Anna B Lewis Wife F 42 Illinois
Charles Lewis Son M 17 Indiana
Marian Lewis Stepdaughter F 18 Illinois
Eva Lewis Stepdaughter F 19 Ohio
Edward Sargent Boarder M 31 Illinois
Event Place Precinct 19 South Town Chicago city Ward 2, Cook, Illinois, United States
District 50
Sheet Number and Letter 13A
Household ID 268
Line Number 15
Affiliate Name The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Affiliate Publication Number T623
GS Film Number 1240246
Digital Folder Number 004113702
Image Number 00206
Citing this Record: "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSSK-Z22 : accessed 5 July 2018), Charles Lewis in household of Thomas J Lewis, Precinct 19 South Town Chicago city Ward 2, Cook, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 50, sheet 13A, family 268, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,246.

1881 marriage record of Thomas J Lewis and Clara Rawlings:
Name Thomas J Lewis
Event Type Marriage Registration
Event Date 07 Jun 1881
Event Place Benton County, Indiana, United States
Gender Male
Marriage License Date 06 Jun 1881
Marriage Place Benton, Indiana
Spouse's Name Clara Rawlings
Spouse's Gender Female
Officiator's Name Wm D Owen
Page 556
Number of Images 1
Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007
GS Film Number 001955066
Digital Folder Number 004201898
Image Number 00623
Citing this Record: "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XX25-V59 : 10 February 2018), Thomas J Lewis and Clara Rawlings, 07 Jun 1881; citing Benton, Indiana, United States, various county clerk offices, Indiana; FHL microfilm 1,955,066.

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L417-D9Y

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Everything below this point is theoretical, not known to be fact:

My theory is that Thomas married Clara first, in 1881, marriage information above.
They had son Charles Lewis, listed in the 1900 census as Thomas' son born in 1883.
Clara died Nov. 21, 1885 at the age of 25.
Two months later, Anna's husband died in February 1886 at the age of 29.
The widowed Thomas marries the widowed Anna.
When they married, Anna already had two daughters from her first husband. These are in the 1900 census: step-daughters Marian, born 1882, and Eva, born 1881.
The census lists the relationship of household members to the head of the household. Thus, to Thomas, Charles is a son and the girls are step-daughters.

It appears the following person at findagrave.com MIGHT be this Anna B. Lewis:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/41250413/anna-b.-lewis
Anna B. Loehr Lewis
Birth: Dec 1858
Death: Oct 5, 1947 (aged 88) Georgetown, Scott County, Kentucky
Burial: Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois
The name is given on her grave marker like this:
"Anna B. Loehr
Rawlings-Lewis"
She is buried next to:
William D. Rawlings https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/41248632
Birth Jul 1856
Death Feb 1886 (aged 29)
Note that he died quite young, and that she has another last name on her marker in addition to Rawlings: Lewis
My theory is that Anna was first married to William Rawlings and then married Thomas Jasper Lewis.

Notice that geni has two wives listed for Thomas J. Lewis.
One is:
Anna B. Lewis, maiden name unknown. The other wife is:
Clara Lewis, maiden name given as Rawlings.
The odds are remote that she would have the maiden name of Rawlings AND another wife of Thomas (Anna) would have the previous married name of Rawlings. With Clara buried in the same cemetery as Thomas, the case for her is stronger.
Clara's burial information:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25095485
Her grave marker reads:
Clara R., wife of
T.J. Lewis
Died Nov. 21, 1885
Aged 25 Yrs 26 Dys

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Thomas Jasper Lewis's Timeline

1851
July 14, 1851
Oxford, Benton, IN, USA
1883
December 18, 1883
Oxford, Benton, IN, United States
1920
March 20, 1920
Age 68
Cordell, Sashit, Oklahoma, United States
????
Oxford West Cemetery, Oxford, Indiana