Maybe one day our cousin will add to again I hope his writings will have permission to add here, – I hope – of the most wonderful research by a wonderful researcher on our much beloved David Lewis son of our John Lewis – we do not want any John Lewis but our own. He is wonderful.

DNA Genealogy Stories and friendships old and new

Thanks to Mike, Cossette and my dear beloved Buddy Jackson and his sister Joyce and our cousin Devin and dear Nash. I hope they all – each one will write anything Lewis they wish to add into this story of our shared Lewises. Mine is Baylis Washington Harrison Lewis and his wife Sarah Anne Rebecca Gillespie Lewis.

Baylis and Sarah died in 1915 within months of each other. Cousin Nash still lives in the house. Paw, my grandfather Harry, who reared me was born in 1898 and spent wonderful time with Baylis and Sarah and heard and then relayed their stories. Our cousins Buddy and Joyce have this wonderful photos of Baylis and Sarah.

Let them begin this family saga and today the love of begetting ancestry and history and herstory can include so many branches of this wonderful Virginia family – from Wales. No, they are not Vikings they are Welshmen and I will go to my grave citing the many pieces of Wales in the place they settled and and named… as Wales…

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The Men of Matadequin – a must for the history of those precious miles up the rivers. So much changed where I physically looked for the dirt they walked on once I could follow the great work of this research.

In the library of Virginia much of the records for any man named John Lewis seems to have wound up in on e file – that of John Lewis of Warner Hall. I was taught not to speak ill of the dead and so i have nothing to say, much. But a gold digger is a gold digger.

The man was never our John Lewis – there can not have been two John Lewis Jr’s with different lives, our cousin M Lewis Monroe argues – and that is a fact.

Our John Lewis is in the map list coming up the Pamunkey River and just after David Crawford’s land on the Pamunkey’s west side.

I am more afraid of falling now and I have always been afraid of being shot for trespassing, but there is a farm in Hanover County, just south of town and it has a road that runs back to the river and you can just smell the Lewis land.

Next to Page’s warehouse, next to the (old) Hanover Court House, up from David Crawford – nailed it.