Thomas Lewis's Comments

You will have to give me your email for me to add you.  SInce everyone seems to know my email, you can send me a note to rkat91@aol.com.  Put Lewis in the subject heading so I don't delete it with unknown mail.

The Lewis link you send was not liked by my computer security, so beware. I have ancestry world, which is safer.  I have had a lot of problems research through European sites, and received a lot of European span in the past.  I have a few Welsh sites I can share that are safe.

I have found that at least one Lewis/Lewellyn line in Wales was related to Tudor, and goes back to Charlemagne on the women's line.. I am interested in seeing if different Lewis lines in Virginia can be separated. 

I have no real proof Henry Lewis of Virginia descended from Henry Lewis in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and I am hoping DNA  can solve this problem.  I think Lewis will have to be tested to 111 markers to show anything.  More individual markers may be required.  This will take dedication by Lewis descendants.  The most important thing at the moment is to get this DNA contributed, even at a low level of markers.

I will share the Welsh sites with you, but right now I am going to GENTREK in the chat room at this site which occurs every Monday night.  I invite you to join us.  I have learned a great deal at GENTREK over  the years I have attended it here and atother sites on the web.

Take care,

Rosemary

Most of the Browne ancestors I found at Ancestry.com, but I had to google to find confirmation of some claims of ancestry.  I have Ancestry World Explorer now.  I worked a lot on Brown/Browne because I have several lines of Brown in the US.   I researched other Lewis ancestors too.

Catherine Tywman was not the mother of Simeon Buford Lewis.  She was his (step)grandmother.  The Simeon Lewis of that generation was also in Kentucky, but he was older than ours, and he had a son who was younger than ours.

Email me and I can send you some information.  rkat91@aol.com

I think the Black people named Lewis in Barren County, KY were freed slaves of the Lewis family, freed before the Civil War.  I have seen no proof.

The son of Henry Lewis and (Mary) Anne Buford (Beaufort is correct) in our line of descent was William Lewis (1763-1851), lived Culpeper County, Virginia.  He married Mary Brown (1767-1829).  They are the parents of Simeon Buford Lewis, born 1795-1799, Culpeper.  There were two lines of Brown in Mary's ancestry.  One of the Brown / Browne lines went back to Francis Browne, the immigrant, born 1609, England; died 1682, Old Rappahannock County, Virginia. Francis Browne was a younger son of  Anthony Maria Francis Browne (1574-1629), 2nd Viscount Montague,  Before him were several men named Anthony Browne, including Anthony Sir Knight Browne, all having titles.  Anthony Maria Francis Browne married Jane Sackville, my 9th great-grandparents.  Between these two families, they were related to many of the nobility and early royality of England and Europe.  Anthony Brown was Catholic which was out of favor in the court, and probably influenced his son in deciding to immigrate to Virginia..  There is a painting of the Browne Brothers, and Anthony Browne.  You look a bit like him.  He lived in London during the time of Shakespeare.  We have at least two direct lines through different children to Henry Plantagenet, King Henry III of England (1207-1272), and Eleanor of Province, my 20th great grandparents, and your great-grandparents also.  All these people married in the set of their social equals, and it is a royal mess to research.  I thought you should know about this.

You were correct that some Lewis were Black people.  Some of the Lewis in Barren County, Kentucky were Black, and they carried the same names as the Lewis who were White.  This is a heads up to anyone concerned.

You were right about Catharine Katie Twyman.  She married Henry Lewis 27 Nov 1794, Madison County, Virginia. (Mary) Ann Buford Lewis had died in 1790.  I found Henry Lewis' estate papers that names all his living sons (in 1804 or so), and his daughters' living husbands.  It was the same as what I had, except I added Catharine Twyman.  Catharine was mentioned as his widow.  This has all been proved.  It sure is slow work.

Genealogy is confusing for anyone.

I am sorry about your computer..

I have seen the claim that Henry Lewis married Catherine Twyman, but I have seen no proof anywhere that this Henry married her.  I fail to see why Simeon Buford Lewis was named that if he did not have Buford ancestors.  It is things like this that kept me from finding Simeon B.'s parents for years.  I think I researched every Lewis in the country.

Sarah J. "Nettie" Lewis would have died before 1930, as she was not listed in Julia B. Thornhill Lewis' obituary.  My mother had the obituary from a Rolla newspaper, but it is missing now.  I transcribed it by hand years ago, as no photocopier was available.  It said she was born in Bedford County, Virginia, and listed her 7 living sons. That was all it said.

See previous comment on Sarah "Nettie" Lewis.

I have  a request.  Whenever you have time, could you please search through records of people buried in cemeteries in and around Rolla.  I have been told by a descendant of Sarah Janetti/Janette "Nettie" Lewis, daughter of Abraham Lewis and Julia Thornhill, that she is buried in a Rolla cemetery.  No one can find her after she was on census in 1910, but she had children living in Phelps county.  She is missing, but a photo of her as an older woman survives.  This is bothering several people.

Info on Sarah

born abt 1862, Franklin County, Missouri

married 1st in 1880 at Flat, Phelps, MO to John William Steward (b. 1857) - Divorced before 1900.

Children :  Laura Ellen Steward 1881-1882;  Annie Benson Steward 1883 Flat. Phelps, MO - 1842 Texas Co., MO m. William Floyd Craig;  Lora Delbert Dudley Steward (male) 1887 Dent Co., MO - 1971 Dent Co., MO

married 2nd Oct 1900, Webster Co., Iowa to Edward J. Lory who died a few years later.  He had a son, Jacob A. Lory born Feb 1900, who Sarah "Nettie" raised.  His mother was presumed to have died.

married 3rd  March 1910, in Harvey Co., Kansas to Francis Frank A. Naylor (b. 1868).  He is found in Oklahoma in 1920 by himself saying he is divorced.

Descendants say her sons Lora D.D. Steward and Jacob Lory visited in Phelps County, and that Sarah "Nettie" was buried in a Rolla Cemetery.  I have a wedding photo of Nettie and Frank Naylor, as do several other people.  My grandmother knew her.  In 1920, she would have been 58 years.  One of her descendants has a photo of her older than that.  No one can find her on census or anywhere.  I am thinking she may have married again, so she might have a different surname.  She is not in Smith Cemetery.  Not all the cemeteries are transcribed online.  Please help when you have the time.

I see Gabel spelled as Gable sometimes.

The real reason I asked if you have Ancestry, was I can share my tree with you if you are a member.

I forgot to mention I do not have a direct line of Gabel.  They are related to my family by marriage.

On my father's side, I have a direct line to the immigrant, Conrad Eyler / Euler / Iler / Oyler, born abt 1679 Maar Vogelsbergkreis, Hessen, Germany; died 1751 Manheim, York, Pennsylvania.  His daughter, Elizabeth, migrated south to North Carolina.  I do not have information on Conrad's sons.  I have a photo on Conrad's page of a memorial of the  Iler Settlement.

Do you have Ancestry.com?

I noticed that Sarah C. Jackson married Louis Gabel.  They are duplicate people in my tree.  Martha Patsy Jackson Sullivan was my 3rd great grandmother.  I have been researching all these names.  So many of the people are doubly related.

James H. Lewis was my great grandfather.  His daughter Lula "May," who married Jim Smith, was my grandmother.  I remember Jim Lewis well since my grandparents lived with him at Flat for the last 8 or 9 years of his life.

We are some sort of double cousins, although you are the age of my children.

I will look up Eiler / Eyler.