Hi Bobbi, I have given up looking for George! When I started this journey I had no idea what I was getting into. My grandmother was Ada B. Lewis, daughter of George J. B. Lewis and granddaughter of Basil Lewis. Your grandfather was my grandmother's half-brother. It is a sorry tale in that George J. B. had 3 small daughters when his wife Ida Cornelia Shaff died. He farmed all 3 of the girls out to relatives, got married again, raised another family and never brought the little girls back home again. However, they did see one another as they all lived in Jefferson MD.

Now about George. In Williams History of Frederick County, our gr-gr-grandfather says his middle initial was E. However, I obtained a copy of George W. Lewis and Nancy Walker's marriage license from Montgomery County MD and it has W. as a middle initial.

In Williams History of Frederick County his birth year is given as abt. 1808. I have his marriage as Nov. 26, 1822. Now either he was 14 when they got married or one of these dates is wrong. Their first child was born ca. 1827. He died before 1850 in Unity-Tridelphia (one of these towns is under water now) area of Montgomery County, MD. He was a blacksmith and he was of the Methodist-Episcopalian faith. WH also says he was born in the Kemptown area of Mont. Cty. Well I have been in touch with a Lewis researcher who has done extensive research in Kemptown and he has never run across him.

Bessie Hobbs Johnson, who was a third cousin, 1x removed, was going to take me to Roxbury Mills and show me where Nancy Walker Lewis was buried, unfortunately my mother passed away and I was not able to get together with her. Bessie died in 2007.

Contact me at Brenda4507@frontiernet.net if you want me to send you a generation report of what I have found. -- Brenda