Hi, I am sorry that I don't have any information for you on the Lewis's Family . I have another reason to be writing to you. I just found out recently that a Musselman married a Bu rgess I don't remember if the Museelman was a woman that married into the Burgess Famil or whether it was Burgress married into the Musselman? I am wondering if you can helped me if you have the time. my great gandfather was Jacob Musselman he and his wife 2nd wife I know it wasn't that generation because I know who the kids all married to so it have to be the the next generation or the next one after that I have been wondering about that so I decided to write to you and try and find out. Thank you Gloria gholder4@juno.com On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:32:48 -0700 Susan Burgess <suekbee@comcast.net> writes: > Here is a summary and a partial transcription of the claims made by > Margaret Lewis, wife of Obediah / Obadiah Lewis of Sebastian County, > > Arkansas. She listed the names of her last six children and > approximate > ages. > > Claim of Margaret Lewis, wife of Obadiah Lewis. Publication Number: > M1407 > Publication Title: Southern Claims Commission > State: Arkansas > County: Sebastian > Claimant: Margaret Lewis > Claim Number: 11057 and 1158 and 1160 > Claim Date: 10 Jan 1873 > Collection Title: Southern Claims Commission > > She says she and Obadiah married about 1835 and lists only her last > six > children in 1873 when she made her claim to the Southern Claim > Commission. She states her husband died in Nov. 1867 (It is > difficult > to read the last digit and it could be a 4.) > > Margaret Lewis, widow of Obediah Lewis of Greenwood, Sebastian Co., > > Arkansas claim for > 125 bushels of 15 acres of corn in the field and 1000 rails taken > July > 3, 1864 - $465 > corn, pork, hogs taken by the 14th Kansas Cavalry Jan. 15, 1864 - > $350 > 125 bushels of corn taken Feb. 15th 1864 - $125 > 15 acres of corn in the field and 1000 rails taken by the 1st > Arkansas > Infantry, 2nd Ark. Cav., and 4th Ark. Cav. - July 31, 1864 - $465 > > Margaret living at Center Township, Sebastian Co., Arkansas and at > the > time the claim accrued at Washburn township, Sebastian Co., Arkansas > and > that Obediah Lewis was the owner of said claim and that she is now > the > owner. > > Claim submitted April 10, 1875 by Sanborn & King, claimants > attorneys > > Witnesses to prove loyalty: > John Conway > Thomas Kersey > Elizabeth Melvina Conway > Ashley Conway > > Witnesses to prove claim: > Elizabeth Conway > James Calvin Lewis > > Claimants Deposition: > Part 1: > > From the 1st of April 1861 until July 1864 I resided on my farm in > > Sebastian County at that time I moved to Fort Smith and in August > following I went to the State of Kansas where I remained until the > close > of the war. My farm consisted of 160 acres of land. About 35 acres > > under cultivation the balance wood land. Situated about five miles > > South East of Greenwood the County Seat of Sebastian County. during > all > this time I was engaged in farming. > > I went to the State of Kansas in August 1864. I went with my teams > in a > refugee train guarded by Federal Soldiers, we could not live here > and > had to go some place to get something to eat and keep from being > annoyed > by rebels. I remained there until the war closed when I returned to > > this county again. > > The confederates took all my cattle and one horse. I never made any > pay > for any thing taken. They also took Corn out of the crib & meat our > of > the smoke house. I was thnatcused??? on account of my Union > sentiments > generally by Rebel bushwhackers. They threatened to burn my house. > > They robbed my house and took every thing we had leaving only what > we > had on our backs. This was a short time before we left our house. > > I fed Union people and soldiers when they came about me and sent my > > daughter twice to Fort Smith to inform the Federals where the Rebels > > were that were around through the country. > > At the beginning of the rebellion I sympathized with the Union cause > my > husband was a Union man and was run off from home on that account. > > I am a widow. I was married in about 1835. My husband was loyal to > the > government all the time. My husband died in November A.D. 1864. I > have > six children Elizabeth Melvina Conoway 26 yrs old. James Calvin > Lewis > 24 yrs. Joseph W. Lewis 18 yrs old. Henrietta Allice Lewis 16 yrs > old. > Lavina Josephine 15 yrs old. and Oliva Evergreen Lewis 12 yrs old. > none > of them were in the Confederate service during the war. > > My husband was never in the confederate army. The crop of corn I > raised > myself and when my husband was run off from home he told me I could > have > the place and every thing and do the best I could with it. The land > was > originally government land and was entered and paid for in > Confederate > money during the war but when we came back after the war we found > some > one on the place and as we had no title only the one from the > confederacy we never got possession of it again at the time the crop > was > made my children were all under age and helped me to make the crop. > > None of the children are interested in this claim. > > Part 2: > > Claimant being further questioned regarding property taken testifies > as > follows. I was present when all the articles specified in the > severall > items of my petitions No 11057 & 1 & 2 wer etaken and saw them all > taken. Items No 1-2 & 3 of claim No 2 Item No 1 of claim No 1 was > all > taken at the same time by the same command. > > Some time about the 1st of January 1864 then came a > large > Federal Forage Train to my house guarded by about 40 or 50 Federal > soldiers. There might have been a hundred. I know there was a good > > many. They came from the direction of Fort Smith Ark about twelve > oclock in the day and camped about half a mile from my house on a > creed > that night the following morning they came back to my house and > drove > the wagons to the corn cribs. which were about thirty yards from > the > house and loaded some 12 or 14 wagons full. I think the wagons > would > hold twenty bushels each. I had in the smoke house about 15 steps > from > the house about 1500 # of salt pork they took from the smoke house > carried it out and loaded on the wagons as much as 1000# of the salt > > pork and bacon together. They also killed five tolerable large hogs > > that would weigh about 150# each which they loaded on top of the > wagons > loaded with corn and hauled the corn bacon. salt pork and hogs off > in > the direction of Fort Smith Ark. Corn at that time was worth $1.00 > pr > bushel. The salted pork and bacon was worth about 15 cts. pr pound. > > There was present at the taking. Elizabeth Melvina Lewis my > daughter > and my son James Calvin Lewis. (and my husband now dead) and Dr. > Chapman > is all I think of now there might have been commissioned officers > along > but I dont know. > > My husband asked them by what authority they took the > articles. They said they were sent out foraging. he asked them for > > receipts for what they had taken to which they replied for him to > come > to Fort Smith and prove his loyalty and he would get pay for what > they > had taken. I know that he never got any voucher receipt or pay for > any > of the articles specified in the several items of claim No. 1 & 2. > Item > No. 3. of claim No - 2 - the hogs were worth at least $10.00 pr > head > > Items No 1 & 2 of claim No 11057 was taken at the same > time > by the same command. > > There came out a Federal Train from Fort Smith to move > in > the people about through the county. They camped at my house and > eat > up nearly all we had. and turned their mules and horses into a field > of > corn 14 acres both citizens and soldiers and eat up the whole field > of > corn and during the time they were camped then burnt about 1/4 mile > of > rail fence suppose them must have been about one thousand rails. > This > was about the last of July 1864. The field of corn had been well > tended > and was good corn just in good roasting ears. There was a great many > > citizens present. Elisha Bradshaw, Chas Cagle, Ashley Conway and a > > great many others. > > Neither myself or my husband during his lifetime ever made any pay > for > any of the articles specified in the several items of my claim. > > No. 11057 and 1 & 2 > Her > Margaret X Lewis > Mark > > Sworn and subscribed to before me this 12th day of October A.D. > 1872 > W. A. Harris > Spl. Comisr > > Deposition of Elizabeth Melvina Conway who being duly sworn to tell > the > truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Testifies as > follow. > > I am 25 years of age. reside in Sebastian County Ark. > and > by occupation a house keeper. I am Daughter of claimant have no > direct > interest in this claim. > > I was present when items Nos 1-2 and 3 of claim No 2 and > > item No 1 of claim No 1 and items Nos 1 & 2 of claim No 11057 were > all > taken and saw them all taken. I saw the corn pork - hogs field of > 15 > acres of corn and rails taken. Items nos 1-2 & 3 of claim No. 2 and > > item No 1 of claim No 1 was all taken at the same time by the same > command. > > Some time about the first days of January 1864 there > came > along by claimants house and camped over night about 60 yds from the > > house a Federal Forage train of some 40-50 wagons. Guarded by about > 125 > federal soldiers in command of a Captain whose name I dont remember > they > came about three oclock in the evening and left the following > morning > when the sun was about an hour high. After they came in the evening > > they loaded thirteen wagons with corn. I dont know how much they > would > hold to the wagon but they were loaded full. The corn was in a crib > or > rails pens 50 or 40 yds from the house and when they left they > hauled > the corn in the direction of Fort Smith Ark. > > They also took from the smoke house some 15 yds from the > > house a large quantity of salt pork and bacon. I think about 1000# > in > all taken. which they loaded on the wagons that were already loaded > with > corn and hauled it in the direction of Fort Smith. this item No.2 > was > taken at the same time and by the same command as item 1 of claim No > 1 > and item No 1 of claim No 2 Item No. 3 was some 5 or 6 head of fat > hogs > which was killed an either eat then or hauled of in the direction of > > Fort Smith at the same time and by the same command as items Nos 1 & > 2 > of claim No 2 and item No 1 of claim No 1. > > There was present at the taking others than soldiers > none > but our own family that I remember of now. My Father (now dead). > Mother three sisters and two brothers. I cant now remember anything > > that was said at the time of the taking. Items No1 and 2 of claim > No > was taken some time in the summer of 1864. . . > > -- > Susan Kimes Burgess > Fremont, CA > suekbee@comcast.net > http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=burgess_kimes&I11.x=34 &I11.y=2 > http://picasaweb.google.com/suekbee > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > ____________________________________________________________ Digital Photography - Click Now. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/BLSrjpTDvmRPhlzUWB4xU4ofAmp3dWfHozgYFcXZTTG2Hrsqjotrgvu6w8I/