This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: efavre1 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.lewis/11783.5.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Re Vicky Lynn Munsey's query: Happened to catch your query and thought this might help. Samuel Harding Lewis and Mary Walker had Ursula, Lucinda, Chidester ball, John Warner, Martha Damaris, Lucurgus Carroll , and Samuel H, Jr. Lycurgus m. Susannah Elizabeth Hubbard and they had John david, Gideon Capps, Orvil Bennet, Mary Jane, Mercennia Elizabeth, George, Samuel H., Alis Adelene, THomas Smith, William Albert, and Emmaline Ardelia. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: efavre1 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.lewis/11783.1.1.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi, Cynthia! This book, along with Michael Cook's vol 2 of Pioneer Lewis Families, are the best sources I have found. Both are highly respected and minutely documented. Couldn't have done without them. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: StevenLewis350 Surnames: Lewis, Crawford Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.lewis/11990/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Looking for info on a William Ward Lewis, born about 1840 Illinois. He died before 1900 in Northern California. Married Anna Crawford, DOB: Mar 4, 1847 from St Louis, In Mar 30 1873, in Adams County, Illinois. They had seven children together all boys. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: photo66666 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.lewis/11268.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Now you must know that Meriwether Lewis Clark the son of William Clark was at West Point with Robert E Lee. I believe Meriwether Lewis Clark was in the class of 1830 and Robert E Lee was in the class of 1829. Meriwether Lewis Clarks served under General Robert E Lee in Richmand Va. So I have boat builders in Pittsburgh with connections to the Lee and Clark families. Because of this connection, they lost the boat business during the Civil War. Do you know about John Baptiste who was adopted by William Clark and his Mother Sacajawea and her two granddaughters by John Baptiste? Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: wlewis37 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.lewis/11268.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: More and more intriguing! Michael Cook's Pioneer Lewis Families Vol III shows my Robert N Lewis' early home on the Mississippi River in Fulton County KY just across the KY line from where they lived later in what is now Lake County TN. This Fulton County was, as you know, named after Robert Fulton who, with fellow Pennsylvanian and your kin Robert Livingston, designed and built the first steamboat to travel the Mississippi River. The county was formed from Hickman County in 1845 and, I assume, named for Mr. Fulton for the impact he had on commercial shipping in the area. Just upriver is Livingston County Ky which was named after your Robert Livingston. So both Fulton and LIvingston may have spent some time there, and this new shipping may have been what attracted my Meriweathers and Lewises to the area in the first place. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

Hi all, Just added a ton of funeral home obits to GenealogyBuff.com in the various forums. Many may not realize that there are several search tools that will bring different results. For example, here is a search for the Lewis surname: Lewis data in the GenealogyBuff.com Data Library (all locations) http://www.genealogybuff.com/data.htm#Lewis Lewis data in the User-Contributed Obituary Forum http://www.picosearch.com/cgi-bin/ts.pl?index=72142&query=Lewis Lewis data in the User-Contributed Data Forum part I http://www.picosearch.com/cgi-bin/ts.pl?index=71492&query=Lewis Lewis data in the User-Contributed Data Forum part II http://www.picosearch.com/cgi-bin/ts.pl?index=73566&query=Lewis Lewis data in the Canadian User-Contributed Obituary Forum http://www.picosearch.com/cgi-bin/ts.pl?index=73125&query=Lewis Hope this helps. Bill

My husband can translate for you. Susan in Switzerland ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: gc-gateway@rootsweb.com <gc-gateway@rootsweb.com> Date: Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 1:50 AM Subject: Re: [LEWIS] Vorfahren Geschewsky To: LEWIS@rootsweb.com This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: TamaraLewis228 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.lewis/11977.6/mb.ashx Message Board Post: In English: Annegret, I am having trouble translating my messages to you from English to German. I don't know if you are getting the information the way I am intending. Is it possible for you to get my messages to you translated from English to German? In German: Annegret. Ich habe Probleme beim Übersetzen meine Nachrichten an Sie vom Englischen ins Deutsche. Ich weiß nicht, ob Sie sich die Informationen, die die Art, wie ich bin beabsichtigen. Ist es möglich für Sie, um meine Nachrichten für Sie übersetzt aus dem Englischen ins Deuts Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LEWIS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Google also has a translation program that I have found helpful. Eva Looking for Peter Lewis (Lewes) 1700 - Lewes, Delaware ----- Original Message ---- From: Stan McConnell <stanmcc@ix.netcom.com> To: lewis@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 1:09:35 AM Subject: Re: [LEWIS] translation (Tammy) LEWIS Digest, Vol 4, Issue 112] I have similar problems with "automatic translation" programs, and rarely use them, for that reason.  The problem is that they do not translate, they transliterate - i.e., they do a word-for-word translation, which rarely renders the desired result.  The classic example from years back. (perhaps apocryphal) was "out of sight, out of mind", which, after a round trip through an English->Russian->English translation came back as "blind, insane". At 12:00 AM 4/18/2009, you wrote: >Hi Judy.. > >Babelfish is the site that I have been using and I think I may have scared >the lady off. *lol* > >If you translate words like obituary and the phrase, last will and >testament it becomes pretty confusing. I had already posted to her and >then decided to go back and translate what I had posted from German back to >English and the post is a confusing mess. > >So my advise to anyone is, if you are going to try and do this do the >initial translation and then translate it back and see what you get. > >I have found another one that seems to work better... > >http://www.translation2.paralink.com/ > >Tammy ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LEWIS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I have similar problems with "automatic translation" programs, and rarely use them, for that reason. The problem is that they do not translate, they transliterate - i.e., they do a word-for-word translation, which rarely renders the desired result. The classic example from years back. (perhaps apocryphal) was "out of sight, out of mind", which, after a round trip through an English->Russian->English translation came back as "blind, insane". At 12:00 AM 4/18/2009, you wrote: >Hi Judy.. > >Babelfish is the site that I have been using and I think I may have scared >the lady off. *lol* > >If you translate words like obituary and the phrase, last will and >testament it becomes pretty confusing. I had already posted to her and >then decided to go back and translate what I had posted from German back to >English and the post is a confusing mess. > >So my advise to anyone is, if you are going to try and do this do the >initial translation and then translate it back and see what you get. > >I have found another one that seems to work better... > >http://www.translation2.paralink.com/ > >Tammy

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: photo66666 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.lewis/11268.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Your Alexander L Lewis might be related to my Alexander Lewis who owns the boat patent on the Lewis and Clark boat. He was born sometime around 1765. I believe his is married to Mary Smith who was a cousin of Robert Fulton's mother also named Mary Smith. Robert Fulton was married to Harriet Livingston a cousin of Alexander Hamiltons's wife Elizabeth Schuyler. Alexander Hamilton's mother was Rachael Levine Fawcett and his grandfather was Sir John Pollock. Again these names are connected to the Lewis riverboat family out of Pittsburgh who were in the 1800 census classified as boat builders. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: wlewis37 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.lewis/11268.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: My ggmother, Elizabeth Carolyn Fisher Ayers Lewis, was the widow of Captain Amos Ayers. She and my ggfather, Robert N Lewis were married 28 Jul 1844 in Obion County, TN. In 1846, they rafted the rather short distance downriver from Hickman County, KY to the New Madrid Bend area of what is now Lake County, TN. It is interesting to note that this area in Nortwest TN, and Southwest KY is also where the infamous tragedy of "Jefferson's Nephews", Lilburn and Isham Lewis occured--the area where the tragic earthquakes of Dec, Jan, & Feb 1811-1812 re-routed the Mississippi River and formed Reelfoot Lake. It was also the area where Meriweather Lewis was appointed by Jefferson as Governor after the Louisiana Purchase. (My earliest childhood memories are of my spending time at my relatives' homes near Reelfoot Lake.) My ggfather was known as "Major Bob" to all who knew him, and so many did, having done business where some of his children lived in Lewis Prairie near New Madrid, MO and New Orleans as well as TN & KY. When he died in 1859, the administrator of his estate sold over 1000 books from his library. (Don't I wish I could have seen them!) In 1828, he was appointed Constable of Henry County, TN; was the first postmaster of Clinton, KY, served 4 terms in the KY General Assembly, and was a member of the County Court and County Supervisors in Hickman County, KY. My aunt Onie who was the family historian stated that Robert N Lewis, my ggfather, first married a Jane Meriweather (perhaps a widow) and that their children were Alexander L Lewis, John N Lewis, Charles Lewis, Col Robert Andrew Lewis, Randolph Leonidas Lewis and George Lewis. My cousin, Genevieve, wrote decades ago after researching all our living relatives at the time that " Robert N Lewis, Jr, my grandfather (that is to say my great uncle)was the last child of" the aforementioned' "Col. Robert N Lewis". Please excuse this lengthy and detailed message. I apologize to you and to all who may read it, but I wanted to include some extent of detail in hopes that something might ring true with some of their family history and we could make a connection. Thanks for your time. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: wilsonfam7 Surnames: Lewis Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.lewis/5145.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I found a marriage record for Lodowick and Eliza Bennett. They married 1 May 1848 in Racine County, WI (WI Marriages pre-1907 Volume 1, page 0088 Based on census records I have the following children: 1. Lodowick Jr. (Frank) b. June 1850 d. 1905 2. Jinerva (daughter) b. June 1853 3. Geneva b. about 1855 4. Lorin Fernando b. 1860 d. 27 Oct 1927 (This is my 3rd great grandfather) 5. Edward N. b. about 1862 6. Alton or Allen b. about 1864 7. Charles J. b. about 1867 8. ? (son) b. about 1868 Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

Hi Judy.. Babelfish is the site that I have been using and I think I may have scared the lady off. *lol* If you translate words like obituary and the phrase, last will and testament it becomes pretty confusing. I had already posted to her and then decided to go back and translate what I had posted from German back to English and the post is a confusing mess. So my advise to anyone is, if you are going to try and do this do the initial translation and then translate it back and see what you get. I have found another one that seems to work better... http://www.translation2.paralink.com/ Tammy On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, J McGinnis wrote: > Go to http://babelfish.yahoo.com/. You can translate either a block of text > or a web page from English to German and vice versa as well as English to > Russian, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Greek Dutch, Japanese, > Chinese, Korean. I suppose it could hang up a little when a surname is also > a word. > > Judy > > > Subject: Re: [LEWIS] Vorfahren Geschewsky > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Author: TamaraLewis228 > Message Board URL: > http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.lewis/11977.6/mb.ashx > > Message Board Post: > In English: > Annegret, I am having trouble translating my messages to you from English to > German. > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LEWIS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Go to http://babelfish.yahoo.com/. You can translate either a block of text or a web page from English to German and vice versa as well as English to Russian, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Greek Dutch, Japanese, Chinese, Korean. I suppose it could hang up a little when a surname is also a word. Judy > Subject: Re: [LEWIS] Vorfahren Geschewsky This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: TamaraLewis228 Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.lewis/11977.6/mb.ashx Message Board Post: In English: Annegret, I am having trouble translating my messages to you from English to German.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: photo66666 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.lewis/11268.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: My Lewis family made the Pittsburgh 1800 census record as boat builders and they have a patent on a heavy duty shallow draft keelboat given to them by Thomas Jefferson when he was Secretary of State in 1789. I have an invoice that Thomas Jefferson actually ordered seven of these keelboats when he was Governor of Virginia in 1780. They were delivered to William Clark's brother General George Rogers Clark. Meriwether Lewis had his boat built in Pittsburgh in 1803. This is still not enough for Historians. There are records for everything purchased for the trip including invoices for musket balls. What's missing is payment for the boat. I believe the boat was free and that's why no record. Records are very clear that Meriwether Lewis was unhappy with the slow pace of the boat builders. He writes Thomas Jefferson that he was looking for another boat. The problem he was finding he writes is that no boat builder from Wheeling to Pittsburgh could build such a boat to carry such a heavy load in shallow water. The Fisher name is also in my family. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: wlewis37 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.lewis/11268.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Thanks for your reply and the very interesting historical info regarding the Robert Fulton and the boats made for Lewis & Clark. We do have some striking similarities in family names. My ROBERT N Lewis named his children: with wife Mahalia MARTIN: ALEXANDER ca 1825 with wife Harriet Caldwell: John N ca 1830 Charles ANDREW ca 1833 Robert ALEXANDER ca 1834 LEONIDAS ca 1836 Emmett JEFFERSON ca 1838 Mary Elizabeth Harriet ca 1844 with Elizabeth Carolyn Fisher (my ggmother) Taylor ca 1846 William Worth ca 1847 WARNER H. ca 1850 Mahala Laura ca 1852 Merida P ca 1853 Buford MARTIN 1854 ( my gfather) ROBERT N jr 1859 Interesting tidbits anyway. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

I am sorry, but my Onie Laura Lewis Riley was married to John Bill (William?) Riley. I don't have any information on John Bill other than he worked for the TN Highway Dept as a road grader, and lived in Ridgely TN until his death in the late 1960's. In a message dated 4/15/2009 4:49:16 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, bhgarbers@cox.net writes: Dear Bill, I would like to know if you know any more about Onie Laurie Lewis Riley? Catherine Lewis married David Raley in Clay Co, IL. She was the daughter of Silas Lewis & Elizabeth Dowling. The ancestor of this family was John Robert Riley born abt 1787 NC married to Catherine Rossiter. This Riley family could have been in OH at the same time as the Lewises. John Robert Riley had a brother James in the 1840 census of Clay Co, IL. I never found him after that census. John Robert Riley and part of his family migrated to Linn Co, KS. Betty Harbin Garbers. > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Author: wlewis37 > Surnames: > Classification: queries > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.lewis/11268.1.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx > > Message Board Post: > > Sorry to be so long to reply to your last post from 2007, but I never > received notification and unfortunatly just today checked back on this web > page and saw your message. > > I will tell you what I know about the Meriweathers and my Robert N Lewis. > Robert N Lewis was b. in VA ca 1798 and died in Obion County (now Lake > County) TN in 1859. After VA he lived in Hickman County, KY and then on > to Obion County TN. > > The Meriweathers and my Lewises were always very close either by kinship > or just very close friends. The Meriweathers followed the Lewises from VA > to Ky and then on to Obion County, TN and always lived nearby the Lewises. > I am not certain of the relationship of these Meriweathers or my Lewises > to THE Meriweather Lewis. I do know that, some fifty years ago, my Aunt > Onie Laura Lewis Riley, who I believe was in her early 80's at the time, > told me that my ggfather Robert N Lewis was first married to a Meriweather > then to Harriet Caldwell before he married my ggmother Elizabeth Carolyn > Fisher. > > My documented Dillard connection is from my grandmother, Louisa Elizabeth > Dillard, daughter of John Jefferson Dillard, who was the son of John Leath > Dillard, the son of William M. Dillard, my ggggfather. > > I would love to have any info you have that might connect or clarify > anything concerning the Dillards or Lewises or Meriweathers. > > Bill Lewis > > Important Note: > The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you > would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link > above and respond on the board. > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > LEWIS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LEWIS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message **************Great deals on Dell’s most popular laptops – Starting at $479 (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1220029082x1201385915/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fad.doubleclick.net%2Fclk%3B213969145%3B35701480%3Bh)

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: TamaraLewis228 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.lewis/11977.6/mb.ashx Message Board Post: In English: Annegret, I am having trouble translating my messages to you from English to German. I don't know if you are getting the information the way I am intending. Is it possible for you to get my messages to you translated from English to German? In German: Annegret. Ich habe Probleme beim Übersetzen meine Nachrichten an Sie vom Englischen ins Deutsche. Ich weiß nicht, ob Sie sich die Informationen, die die Art, wie ich bin beabsichtigen. Ist es möglich für Sie, um meine Nachrichten für Sie übersetzt aus dem Englischen ins Deuts Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: photo66666 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.lewis/11268.1.1.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I believe I have tracked down my Lewis family. They belong to Col Andrew Lewis of Point Pleasant. Col Andrew Lewis was not related to the Lewis family of Meriwether Lewis but he was related to the Meriwether family of Meriwether Lewis. Does that make sense? My family built boats in Pittsburgh in the late 1700's. I believe this Lewis family were the boat builders for Meriwether Lewis. John Fitch the first inventor of the Steamboat says in his book that Alexander Lewis in 1889 had the Patent on the shallow draft heavy duty keelboat. It was issued to him by Thomas Jefferson. Here I have been trying to figure out how Alexander Lewis was related to Meriwether Lewis through the known Lewis family of Meriwether Lewis. It's the other way around. Then Robert Fulton was not the inventor of the steam boat. He was the person who actually made it work well enough to ship fright and passengers. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: wlewis37 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.lewis/11268.1.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Sorry to be so long to reply to your last post from 2007, but I never received notification and unfortunatly just today checked back on this web page and saw your message. I will tell you what I know about the Meriweathers and my Robert N Lewis. Robert N Lewis was b. in VA ca 1798 and died in Obion County (now Lake County) TN in 1859. After VA he lived in Hickman County, KY and then on to Obion County TN. The Meriweathers and my Lewises were always very close either by kinship or just very close friends. The Meriweathers followed the Lewises from VA to Ky and then on to Obion County, TN and always lived nearby the Lewises. I am not certain of the relationship of these Meriweathers or my Lewises to THE Meriweather Lewis. I do know that, some fifty years ago, my Aunt Onie Laura Lewis Riley, who I believe was in her early 80's at the time, told me that my ggfather Robert N Lewis was first married to a Meriweather then to Harriet Caldwell before he married my ggmother Elizabeth Carolyn Fisher. My documented Dillard connection is from my grandmother, Louisa Elizabeth Dillard, daughter of John Jefferson Dillard, who was the son of John Leath Dillard, the son of William M. Dillard, my ggggfather. I would love to have any info you have that might connect or clarify anything concerning the Dillards or Lewises or Meriweathers. Bill Lewis Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.