This was written by the grandson of Mary Bryant and John Van Hoose and published in 1901. > Mary and John's son, John b. 1792 Montgomery Co NC married Lydia Lewis > d/o Zachariah Lewis, a kinsman of Lieut. Geo. Lewis married to Martha > Washington. Zachariah's wife was a Rachel Bracken. > Here's a little more about the Van Hoose/Bryan(t) family. > "Grandmother Mary Bryan's brother Owen had a duaghter who married a Mr. > Ramey and they named one of their sons Owen, after his grandfather Owen > Bryan. Owen Ramey has a large family of descendants in WASHINGTON COUNTY > ARKANSAS at present who are good citizens and there are many other families > descended from the same branch." > "My father, John Van Hoose, started for Anrkansas Saturday morning, > Mary 3,1839 .... There were tow other families with us, the Dickersons and > Steels." ---------- > From: Jane Adams <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Lewis, Washington ties > Date: Friday, January 22, 1999 6:53 AM > > Hi cousins, > Found this info in a magazine article, "The Odd Couple," about Eleanor > Parke Custis Lewis who was raised by her step- grandfather of George > Washington. > Thought ya-alls might be interested. > Jane > > Fielding Lewis, son of Col John & Frances Fielding, is the Fielding that > married Betty Washington, George's sister. > See info below: > > Martha Washington's (George's wife) son by her first marriage was John > "Jacky" Parke Custis, m. Eleanor Calvert. > Jacky and Eleanor 's daughter was Eleanor ( who was raised by George and > Martha Washington). > Eleanor married Lawrence Lewis, son of Col. Fielding Lewis and Betty > Washington. (Betty was George Washington's only sister.) > > When Jacky Custis died in 1781, Eleanor was left with four small children. > She agreed to let George and Martha Washington raise the two youngest, > Nelly and her brother, who had been named after his step-grandfather, > (Washy). Their older sisters lived on a remote plantation with a stern > stepfather and their mother. >