I had a friend,Cordelia Lewis Baudendistal died about 5 years ago. She had just out-lived her husband of 77 +years,who died almost 102. Let's say she was born 1895-98. Her Lewis family lived in a Meeker neighborhood on the Clermont Co-Brown Co Oh line,say 30 miles nw of Bentonville,at least when she was courted. Meeker is an 1800-10 name in the Bethel,Oh neghborhood ,from Essex Co,NJ. Jonas [?] Meeker had 20+ kids,so perhaps some were farmed out. Modern day Musgrove and Meeker Roads are the neighborhood/ Hamlet's only. w Pike Twnsp,Brown Co,and se Williamsburg ywnsp,Clermont Co.. On Mon, 8 Nov 1999 17:28:23 EST KDale60909@aol.com writes: >In a message dated 11/08/1999 12:41:52 PM Mountain Standard Time, >DIXIELJAW@aol.com writes: > ><< Murphy's Genealogy Laws >> > ><< f.. You find your family in the census and write to the >county where they lived for 40 years, only to receive a letter stating > >all the county records burned. >>> > >As in Adams Co. OH? Or Gwinnett Co GA? I've got several of >those--'taint >funny, McGee! > >Well, while I'm at it might as well repost in search of my lost LEWIS > >relatives, partially lost because the Adams county records burned! > >I'm the great granddaughter of James Madison LEWIS and Vanellia MEEKER >who >were married in Adams Co. 10 Sep 1865. So far, outside of my brother >and one >first cousin, I know of no other descendants--and I'm trying to find >them. > >James and Vanellia had the following children--I think. There may be >others. > >Rebecca b. 1869 >Freddie b. 1875 >Adam b. 1877 >James Arthur (called Art) b. 1879 >Charles Taylor b. 5 Nov 1881 >Estelle Chloe b. 6 Feb 1884 >George william b. 2 Oct 1886 >Earl Campbell b 1892 > >James (s/o William Lewis and Nancy Ann Lanthorn), died 5 Feb 1893. On >27 Jul >1894, Vanellia admitted Charles Taylor, Estelle Chloe and George >William to >the OH Veterans Children's Home in Xenia. They remained there until >they were >sixteen. She kept the baby, Earl, with her in Bentonville. In the >1900 >census Earl, Adam and Estelle Chloe (who had just turned 16) were >living with >her in Bentonville. By 1910, not a single one of these Lewises can be >found >in Adams Co. > >Charles Taylor Lewis was my grandfather--he married in IL, 1902, moved >to CA >abt. 1910. >Estelle Chloe was in CA (Sacramento) by 1920--married to Herman >Bremer. >George William worked in the shipyards around the Great Lakes, married >a >Gladys and had 4 sons--I only know the names of three: George, Wm. and > >Charles. George William died early--and Gladys dropped the sons off on > >Estelle--and disappeared. The sons then promptly ran away, but we have >had >some contact with several of them over the years. > >But what about descendants of the other five children? I keep waiting >for >one of them to show up--so far no luck! Somewhere out there... . Do >any of >these names look familiar? > >Happy hunting, folks, >Karen Lewis Dale > > >==== OHADAMS Mailing List ==== >Help Instructions at: >http://www.zoomnet.net/~chipmunk/SurnamesMail.html >or contact Betty at: chipmunk@zoomnet.net >Archives: >http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?surname=OHAdams >Your gracious donations to RootsWeb makes this all possible!! >Rootsweb: http://www.rootsweb.com/ > ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.