I would dearly love to correspond with any descendents of the following
family.
My gr. grandfather Robert Franklin Lewis ran away from home at the age of 18
and we have had absolutely no contact with any of the family since.
Family Group Sheet
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Husband: Robert Lewis Jr.
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AKA:
Born: 16 Jun 1808 at: Lynn,
Essex,
Massachusetts Christened: at:
Died: 20 Nov 1868 at: New
Orleans, New
Orleans, Louisiana
Buried: at:
Father: Robert Lewis (1774-1854)
Mother: Abigail
Phillips (
Abt 1776-1810)
Married: 29 Dec 1846 Place: Gloucester,
Essex,
Massachusetts
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Wife: Susan Maria
Sargent ================================================================================
AKA:
Born: 9 May 1828 at: Gloucester,
Essex,
Massachusetts Christened: at:
Died: 1913 at:
Buried: at:
Pine Grove Cem., Lynn,
Essex,
MA Father:
Winthrop Sargent (1793-1881)
Mother: Charlotte Marchant (1802-1868)
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Other Spouse: John
Barnard ( -Bef 1880)
Date:
Abt 1869, Watertown, ,
Massachusetts ================================================================================
Children
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1 M George W. Lewis
Born: 1844 at: Gloucester,
Essex,
Massachusetts Christened: at:
Died: at:
Buried: at:
Spouse:
Marr. Date:
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2 M Robert Franklin Lewis
Born: 2 Nov 1848 at: Gloucester,
Essex,
Massachusetts Christened: at:
Died: 7 May 1849 at: Gloucester,
Essex, Mass.
Buried: at:
Spouse:
Marr. Date:
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3 M Robert Franklin Lewis
Born: 6 Apr 1850 at: Lynn,
Essex,
Massachusetts Christened: at:
Died: 6 Jan 1916 at: Lewis, Wallowa,
Oregon Buried: at: Enterprise, Wallowa,
Oregon Spouse: Alta Elizabeth
Swikert (1874-1936)
Marr. Date: 27 Jun 1890, Elgin, Union,
Oregon Spouse:
Marr. Date:
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4 F Anna
Augusta Lewis
Born: 2 Jul 1853 at: Gloucester,
Essex,
Massachusetts Christened: at:
Died: 9 Jun 1875 at: Watertown, Middlesex, Mass.
Buried: at:
Spouse: Charles Edward
Sargent (1851- )
Marr. Date: 9 Jun 1875, Watertown, Middlesex,
Massachusetts Spouse:
Marr. Date:
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5 F Mary
Marsh Lewis
Born: 26 Mar 1855 at: Magnolia,
Essex,
Massachusetts Christened: at:
Died: 1930 at:
Buried: at:
Pine Grove Cem., Lynn,
Essex,
MA Spouse:
Oliver ( - )
Marr. Date:
Spouse:
Marr. Date:
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6 M Jacob
Meek Lewis
Born: 12 Feb 1857 at: Magnolia,
Essex,
Massachusetts Christened: at:
Died: at:
Buried: at:
Spouse:
Marr. Date:
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7 M Clarence Herbert Lewis
Born: 28 Aug 1860 at: Magnolia,
Essex,
Massachusetts Christened: at:
Died: at:
Buried: at:
Spouse:
Marr. Date:
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Husband's Notes
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!CENSUS:1850
Essex Co., Mass, Lynn pg 339 !CENSUS:1860
Essex Co., MASS,
GLOUCESTER PG 305 !BIRTH:VITAL REC. LYNN, MASS !MARRIAGE:Vital Rec. Lynn,
Mass
!Batch #: 442608, Source Call #: !Batch #: M500251, Source Call #: 823641 IT
2
I am not at all sure about this death date and place. When I sent to
Louisana
for a copy of the death certificate, I received back one for a 12 year old
boy.
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Wife's Notes
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!CENSUS:1850
Essex Co., MASS, LYNN PG 339 CENSUS:1860
Essex Co., MASS,
GLOUCESTER PG 305 !BIRTH:VITAL REC. GLOUCESTER, MASS !CENSUS:1880 Middlesex,
Massachusetts, Watertown pg 6 living with her daughter Anna and her family.
On
this census it also shows that she has a 9 years old son, John
Barnard by
her
second husband that we knew nothing about until I found this record on 28
Sept
2001.
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Notes for Child: George W. Lewis
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!CENSUS:1850
Essex Co., MASS, LYNN PG 339 CENSUS:1860
Essex Co., MASS,
GLOUCESTER PG 305
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Notes for Child: Robert Franklin Lewis
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!CENSUS:1900
Union Co Oregon CENSUS:1860
Essex Co., Massachusetts,
Gloucester
pg 305 CENSUS:1850
Essex Co., Massachusetts, Lynn pg 339
!MARRIAGE:Marriage
Rec.,
Union Co., Oregon !My great-grandfather ran away from home when he was
18
years old (probably about the time his father died and his mother remarried,
but we will never know for sure). When he married many years later, he told
my
great-grandmother to never try to find his family because she would only be
hurt (we will probably never know the reason for this either). So no one
tried
to find out anything about his family, until I came along with the Genealogy
Bug. It took me twenty-some years to find his family and when I did, it all
just fell into to place. !DEATH:Obituary- Robert F. Lewis died last
Thursday, 6
Jan 1916 at his home at the Lewis Post Office, of a kidney trouble, after an
illness of a few weeks. The funeral was conducted by Rev. J. B. Astwood at
the
home Friday, 7 Jan and burial was in the Enterprise cemetary on Saturday.
Mr.
Lewis was born at Lynn,
Massachusetts, 6 April 1850. When a young man, he
moved to Omaha, Neb. whence he came to
Oregon 26 years ago, locating at
Elgin.
He was married there, 20 June 1891 to Miss Alta
Swikert, and they came to
Wallowa Co. in 1913 and took up there homestead in the uplands east of Crow
Creek, where the post office was established shortly afterward to seve the
many
settlers of the district. Mrs. Lewis and three children survive: Mrs.
Susie
Klien, George and Sylvia Lewis. (Discovered in Sylvia's things after her
death)
!BIRTH:Lynn,
Massachusetts Birth Records states that they lived at Chippeway
Court. It says that he was a fisherman and born in Lynn and that she was
born
in Gloucester. !MILITARY:"
Oregon State 1890 Special Federal Census of Union
Veterns and their Widows" lists him right below Jacob C. Swikert, but states
no
papers were found to give information.
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Notes for Child: Anna
Augusta Lewis
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!CENSUS:1860
Essex Co., MASS, GLOUCESTER PG 305
!CENSUS:1880 Middlesex,
Massachusetts, Watertown pg 6
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Notes for Child: Mary
Marsh Lewis
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!CENSUS:1860
Essex Co., MASS, GLOUCESTER PG 305
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Notes for Child: Jacob
Meek Lewis
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!CENSUS:1860
Essex Co., MASS, GLOUCESTER PG 305
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Notes for Child: Clarence Herbert Lewis
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Batch #: 5007609, Sheet #: 33, Source Call #: 1553487 !CENSUS:1880
Middlesex,
Massachusetts, Watertown pg 6
Last Modified: 5 Oct 2001
Anyone who knows anything about the family would be greatly appreciated.
Beth
Watkins _________________________________________________________________