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)