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About William Martin Lewis
FROM THE OBITUARY OF WILLIAM LEWIS
IN THE CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE OF APRIL 7, 1881
We mention affectionately the name of William Lewis aged eighty-three years and four months. Born in North Carolina, Ash county November 12th 1797. His father emigrated to the then new state of Kentucky when he was eight years old. He grew up inured to the privations and dangers of pioneer life, enduring the vicissitudes and hardships of the frontier with becoming heroism. He was married to his now venerable widow at about nineteen years of age. They have live together in fidelity and according to God's ordinance as man and wife almost sixty-six years. He professed religion at eight years of age.
Of children they had thirteen and raised twelve. Of grand children they had one hundred and two. Of great grand children one hundred and fifteen. Of great great grand children several. Total of descendants at least two hundred and thirty. What a progeny.
His grandmother on the maternal side was a sister of the celebrated Daniel Boone of Kentucky.
March 8, 1881 L. B. White
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28 SEP 1853 Arrived in Oregon Territory
Event: Land Records 1 OCT 1853 Donation Land Claim #5088, Polk County, Ore gon
Event: Fact Welsh and Irish descent
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The Lewis family eventually Settled near Junction City, Oregon - East of Salem, Oregon. Their first Kentucky original home was a one bed room cabin on property of his father James Lewis II and Sarah Couch Lewis in present day Breathitt County. In those years the land was first Clay Co until 1820, then Perry County until 1839 when it became present day Breathitt County, Kentucky. A County of many criminals and rebels who randomly killed.
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William's Father was James Lewis. James was a stone mason and moved from Ashe County NC to Kentucky in 1810 and to Platte County Missouri in 1840 then to Silverton Oregon in 1851. His mother was Sarah Couch, sister to famed Jonathan Couch famed in history as one who fought at the side of George Washington. His grandmother was Mary or Polly Boone famed Daniel Boone's sister. The William Lewis's came over the Oregon trail to the Willimatte Valley Oregon in 1853 with their 13 children. William and Hannah Lewis show up on the 1870 U S Census Post Office: Starr's Point, Sub Division 5, Benton County, Oregon William Age 72 birthplace N. Carolina and Hannah age 72 , birthplace Kentucky and daughter living with them were; Elizabeth 40, Jesse B age 36 (I believe to be a nephew), Sarah E age 30 and two children a boy age 7 and girl Lydia R age 5 two children a boy age 7 and a girl Lydia R age 5) also living with them a ministeer John W Starr; Living next door is Ezekial age 32 and Eliza Lewis age 25 with three young children). William and Hannah Lewis, ages 83 are recorded on the 1880 U S Census record for Monroe Precint, Benton County, Oregon as boarders with their daughter Susan Lewis Starns age 47, her husband Thomas Starns age 54 and grown children, Jesse D age 23, John H age 20, Mary E aage 18, Jennie age 15, Vena B age 14, Benjamin C age 12 and Georgia H age 9. Listed next door (I believe to be their son) is a Jesse B age 44, wife Lucinda age 37 and 2 daughters and 3 sons.
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William was born in Ashe County, North Carolina and was the fourth generation of Lewises to live in Ashe County. His great grandfather and paternal grandfather emigrated there from Wales in 1740.
William was the oldest of 8 children born to his parents between 1797 and 1815. In 1810 the family moved to eastern Kentucky. It is likely they took the Cumberland Gap through the Appalachian Mountains to get to Kentucky.
In 1816 at the age of 18, William married Hannah Louise Snethen. William and Hannah had 13 children between 1816 and 1840. They included John, Ezekiel, Mary, James, Phoebe, Sarah, Margaret, Elizabeth, Susan, Jesse, Nancy, Martin and Daniel. In the early 1840s the Lewis family left Kentucky on Middle Fork of the Kentucky River on log rafts. They followed the rivers to Platte County, Missouri. William and Hannah and some of their children came to Oregon by ox drawn wagon in a wagon train in 1853 arriving in Polk County, Oregon, on September 28. Their first claim (#5088) was within feet of the Willamette River near the town of Buena Vista.
His obituary that ran in the Pacific Christian Advocate newspaper, dated April 7, 1881, stated that William was buried in a cemetery near the Methodist Church in the Monroe/Alpine area. The Alpine (Simpson Chapel) Cemetery would have been a likely location. If they have a tombstone, it has not yet been found. In his obituary, it also states that his grandmother (Mary Polly Couch) was the sister of the celebrated Daniel Boone, but no other documentation has been found.
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William Martin Lewis's Timeline
| 1797 |
November 2, 1797
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Ashe County, North Carolina, United States
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| 1816 |
April 30, 1816
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Perry, KY, United States
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| 1818 |
July 2, 1818
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Perry, KY, United States
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| 1820 |
October 12, 1820
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Perry County, KY, United States
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| 1822 |
April 13, 1822
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Bourbon, KY, United States
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| 1824 |
March 20, 1824
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Bourbon, KY, United States
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| 1826 |
April 11, 1826
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Perry County, KY, United States
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| 1828 |
March 18, 1828
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Clay County, KY, United States
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