Harlan County Battalion Company E ROSTER you should send for his records he was a Pvt James Lewis There should be a Pension for Him if he died in Civil war as he had underage child I would think Daniel James would have stayed with his Mother Lucy she would have been entitled to a Pension with underage child unless she remarried and son Daniel J did not get along with her new Husband..went to live with Hiram 1854Births in Harlan Co Ky Lewis, Daniel Aug 5 1854 Parents James Lewis & Loutisha? Smith one person reports your Daniel J Lewis died jan 20 1920 Pittsburg Co Ok bur Morgan Co Al but Pittsburg Co Okla did not make them file a death Cert for a long time... so may not be one and I found 1920 Census Pittsburg Co Okwife Maggie age 48 Wd b- Tn here is their marriage LEWIS, Mr. D.J. BATES, Maggie 27 Oct. 1904 531 I in Morgan Co Al also lots of Lewis there and here is aine of his children marriage 's all in Morgan Co Al LEWIS, Lula A. STAPLES, Walter B. 22 Dec. 1904 7 J LEWIS, Martha E. JOLLY, Elbert L. 16 Apr. 1902 582 H Go to this site http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ldshistorical&id=I297231 1880 Census Bullskin Clay Co Ky Daniel Lewis 25 Here he says b- inVA Mary Ann Lewis 28 Ky All kids born in Ky James Lewis 5 Sarah W. Lewis 3 this could be Sarah M Nancy Lewis 7M DJ Lewis son William Albert Lewis b-Aug 16 1888 Sidwell,Vermilion Co Illinois He was Medium Build Med Tall had brown eyes and Black hair per his Draft Card He was a Clerk in Groc Store Abner Lewis age 76Va wife Eleaner age70Va on the 1850 Cen Harlan Co Ky in John Lewis age 31 HH.... Neighbors were John Dixon age 64 Va & John Dixon Jr age 25Ky Abner Lewis Sr age 60 to 69 yrs on 1840 Cen Harlan Co Ky only Wife in HH next door is abv John Dixon age 50-59 ...reads 01012001 0122001..So would say John Lewis abv moved in to take care of them... 1830 Cen Harlan Co Ky Page 108 Abner Lewis age 50 to 59 reads 01111001 00020001 John Dixon Abv not on this page but next door is Hiram Lewis Males10001 Females 00001 so would say Hiram a son On page 116 John Dixon Sr this guy is 70 yrs & under 80 but next door to him is John Dixon Jr age 40 & under 50 so would say abv John Dixon on the 1819 Transfer from Knox Co Ky to Harlan Co Ky All these guys were in Knox Co Ky before1819 their lands were transferred to what became Harlan Co Ky in 1820 1820Harlan Co Ky This Census was alphbetical so could not tell who neighbors were Abner Lewis Males 301101 females 3201 he would have been abt age 45 and up LeahLewis would be one of the girls 10-16 yrs 1850 Cen shows b- 1808 1810 Knox Co Ky Abner Lewis 2111 here he is age 26 to 44.. 2 son under 10 yrs 1 son 10-15 one son 16-25 3 daug under 10 wife age 26-44 No 1800 Cen for Ky ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sharon Wilson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 2:17 PM Subject: [KYHARLAN] Abner Lewis and Eleanor Dixon > > Abner Lewis and Eleanor Dixon are two of my GGGG-grandparents. Even > though I knew there had to be more children, all I had to this point > was my own direct line beginning with their daughter Leah Lewis. > > Leah Lewis married William Conrad Coldiron on 20 Feb 1830; they had 15 > children, with one son named Hiram. As with all our Harlan families, > each generation reused the same names, over and over, naming their kids > for themselves, their parents, their uncles and aunts, their siblings, > etc. Maddening, isn't it? > > One little hint: our families are so entwined that you can sometimes > track an elusive ancestor by examining the families they married into. > For example, one of my favorite family histories is Otto Coldiron's > wonderful work on the Coldiron family; there is lots of sound > information on other family lines in this book. Of course this book > made it easy for me; my Lewis line turned into a Coldiron line, and so > loads of information was available. > > I always have to confess that when I first began to do family research > I did not have enough sense to keep track of sources. Early on, a > researcher gave me a copy of a photo that is supposed to be of Abner > Lewis Coldiron (son of Leah Lewis and Wm. Conrad Coldiron) and Lucy Ann > Ball. But I do not know where they obtained the photo. > > Good luck on your research. > > Sharon > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

For those researching Dixon you can go to this site and find all Census on Line http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyharlan/research.html just scroll down until you see Census 1852 Deaths in Harlan Co Ky Dixon, John 67 Male, Married does not note who his parents were born in Munore/Monroe Va 7/30/1852 unknown cause of death Some report Martha Creech-Dixon died 23 Jan 1876 Harlan Co Ky but it not on Harlan Co Death Site as her dying in 1876 so don't know how tru it is..