Charles Wheeler LEWIS

  General Notes:

Document: Here are pertinent extracts from the death record of Charles W. Lewis, 1818-1888. The original record is on file at the Belmont County Courthouse, Saint Clarisville, Ohio. Unfortunately, the county was not required to document a burial location.

Death Record from DeeAnna Allum Granston

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NOTE: Most descendants of Charles Wheeler Lewis and his wife, Lydia Ann Gregg, were researched in 2006 but have been updated regularly through 2011. Documents were prepared some time ago and will be added here. Meantime, they can be seen in the ALLUM: Maryland and Pennsylvania...Westward file at Ancestry.com




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The burial locations in Ohio of Charles W. Lewis, his wife, Lydia Ann (Gregg) Lewis, and his mother, Mary S. (Allum) Lewis, are among the Allum genealogy's "most wanted" ...

Do stones exist that can be photographed?

Hatcher ancestors of Lydia Ann (Gregg) Lewis are at Lloydsville Cemetery (Old Quaker Cemetery) in Morristown, Belmont County, Ohio, but are Lydia and Charles there also? The cemetery may also be known as Plainfield Friends Cemetery because it is on Plainfield Road. Many of the stones in Lloydsville Cemetery are no longer readable, some stones are piled beside a tree, others have been vandalized and are broken off at the base.


1818 BIRTH of Charles Wheeler Lewis

(In 1818 the President's house became known as the White House because of its new coat of paint; the first President's house had been burned by the British in 1814. James Monroe and his wife Elizabeth held a public reception during which visitors saw the French Empire furniture purchased by the First Lady for the oval Blue Room. Congress passed the Pension Act offering pensions for Revolutionary War veterans. Illinois became the 21st state with its capital at Kaskaskia; the northern region of its territory was ceded to Michigan, and the northeastern boundary of Illinois included the village of Chicago. On the Northern Plains the first church and school opened in what later became North Dakota. The new Cumberland Road, or National Highway, was completed from Baltimore, MD to Wheeling, W VA. Formerly a path, or trail, during the Revolution, it became a gateway to cheap land in the west for thousands of families in Conestoga wagons.)

1820 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Washington County, West Bethlehem Township (Chales is presumed to be in the Isaac Lewis household)

1820-1830 DEATH of grandmother, first wife of William Allum

1830 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Washington County, Pike Run Township (Charles is presumed to be in the Isaac Lewis household)

1840 DEATH of grandfather, William Allum

1840 MARRIAGE of Charles W. Lewis and Lydia Ann Gregg (according to the following source)

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN QUAKER GENEALOGY, Volume IV, Ohio, by William Wade Hinshaw:

WESTLAND Monthly Meeting, Washington County, Pennsylvania:

Page 35: "1840, January 23, Charles Lewis gct Plainfield MM to m Lydia Ann Gregg"
["gct" means "granted certificate to"]
[Plainfield MM means Plainfied Monthly Meeting, which was in Belmont County, Ohio]

1840 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Washington County, West Pike Run Township (Charles Lewis household: 1 male 20-30, 1 female 20-30)

1844 DEATH of father, Isaac Lewis

1844 MIGRATED from Pennsylvania to Monroe County, Ohio

1850 MOVED from Monroe County, Ohio to Belmont County, Ohio

1850 CENSUS, Ohio, Belmont County, Richland Township (July 26) ("Charles W.," age 31, "Farmer") (wife "Lydda," age 31)

1855 CERTIFICATE from Westland Monthly Meeting, Washington County, Pennsylvania to Plainfield Monthly Meeting, Belmont County, Ohio (according to the following source)

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN QUAKER GENEALOGY, Volume IV, Ohio, by William Wade Hinshaw:

WESTLAND Monthly Meeting, Washington County, Pennsylvania:

Page 45: "1855, October 25, Charles W. & w. Lydia Ann, & ch. Isaac, John Ira & William Harvey, gct Planefield MM"
["gct" means "granted certificate to"]
[Plainfield MM means Plainfied Monthly Meeting, which was in Belmont County, Ohio]

1856 CERTIFICATE for Charles and Lydia (according to the following source)

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN QUAKER GENEALOGY, Volume IV, Ohio, by William Wade Hinshaw:

PLAINFIELD Monthly Meeting, Belmont County, Ohio:

Page 340: "January 17, Charles & w, Lydia, & ch. Isaac, John Ira & Wm. Harvey, rocf Westland MM, dtd 1855, October 25"
["rocf" means "received on certificate from"
[Westland MM means Westland Monthly Meeting, which was in Washington County, Pennsylvania]

1860 CENSUS, Ohio, Belmont County, Smith Township, P. O. Centerville (September 6) ("Charles W.," age 42, "Farmer") (wife "Lydia," age 41) (in the household are children "Isaac," age 19; "John ' J. ' age 15; "William H.," age 8; "Mary A.," age 5; "Julia E.," age 3 ... and Charles' mother, "Mary S. Lewis," age 78)

1863 REGISTRATION, Civil War Draft, Ohio, Belmont County, Smith Township, 16th Congressional District (June) ("Charles W. Lewis," age 44, "Farmer," born in Pennsylvania) (Class 2)

1870 CENSUS, Ohio, Belmont County, Smith Township, P. O. Powhatan Point (June 9) ("Charles W.," age 51, "Farmer") (wife "Lydia A.," age 50) (In the residence are "John I.," age 24, "Works on farm"; "Mary J.," age 23, "Helps mother-in-law"; "Mary A.," age 15, "Attending School"; "Charles S.," age 5, "Attending School"; and Charles' mother, "Mary S. Lewis," age 88, "Infirm")


1870 DEATH of mother, Mary S. (Allum) Lewis (in October)

1880 CENSUS, Ohio, Belmont County, Smith Township ("Farmer")

1888 DEATH, Charles Wheeler Lewis, at 70 years 3 months 14 days

(Cleveland was President when Charles W.heeler Lewis died in 1888, but late in the year Benjamin Harrison was elected "the nation's 23rd." George Eastman developed a camera called Kodak, along with the slogan, "You push the button, we do the rest." Theodore Roosevelt published RANCH LIFE AND THE HUNTING TRAIL. John Philip Sousa, conductor of the Marine Corps Band, composed "Semper Fidelis." The worst blizzard in memory hit the nation that included New England and the western states of Nebraska, the Dakotas, Minnesota, Montana and Wyoming. Snow drifts in New Hampshire were as high as 15 feet. Downed telegraph and telephone wires left towns isolated. Hundreds of deaths were reported from exposure, pneumonia and influenza.)




OBITUARY (Charles) from THE BELMONT CHRONICLE, St. Clairsville, Belmont County, Ohio, Thursday, November 29, 1888:

CHARLES W. LEWIS, an old and well-known citizen, residing near Lewis' Mills, died suddenly from heart disease on Tuesday evening, aged 71 years. Deceased was a native of Virginia (sic), but was a resident of this county during the greater portion of his life. He was a man who was very generally esteemed as being upright and honorable. He was a good citizen, an obliging neighbor, an affectionate parent and a kind husband. A wife and six children, all grown, two daughters and four sons, are bereft by his death.




NOTES:

Charles W. Lewis was born in Pennsylvania, not Virginia (Virginia is stated in his obituary)

Charles W. Lewis and his wife Lydia actually had 8 children but, as stated in his obituary, 6 lived to adulthood

Charles married Lydia Ann GREGG, daughter of John S. GREGG and Mary HATCHER, on February 14, 1840 in Goshen Meeting, Belmont County, Ohio. (Lydia Ann GREGG was born in August 1819 in Belmont County, Ohio and died after 1880.)