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Author: JohnSullivan4726
Surnames: LEWIS, DENT, COUCH,
Classification: queries
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The Martin Lewis indicated in the original Biography post 19 Jun 1999 must be tempered
with information of another MARTIN LEWIS born Ashe Co., NC, son of JAMES LEWIS 1771NC-1865
KY & Sarah Sally Couch 1773NC-1864KY.
MARTIN LEWIS & wife DRUCILLA DENT became land owners in 1820's of BOONE County,
Indiana (which was by land sold for warrants of GOLD by the US Government of lands owned
by Native Americans)
MARTIN LEWIS married Drucilla Dent, April 18, 1835 in Clinton of Boone Co., Indiana,
daughter of Walter Dent.
Martin Lewis was one of the first people to own land, also one of the first twelve men to
serve on a jury in Boone Co.
Land Records:
Fire destroyed Recorders records Oct. 11 1856. Land records from US &
State of Indiana & Crawfordsville Land District records -
Oct. 22, 1833 Book 2 SE SE Sec 3-17N-2E 40 acres
Mar. 23, 1835 Book 2 NE SE 3-17N-2E 40 acres
W/2 NW/4 2-17N-2E 36 acres
NE/4 SE/4 3-17N-2E 40 acres
E/2 NE/4 10-17N-2E 80 acres
MARTIN LEWIS died 1847 in Boone Co., Indiana
Will, Probate, Dated 1847
Notes for wife Drucilla Dent:
Drucilla was 62 years old in 1880 census.
Children claimed of Martin Lewis are:
i. Lucinda Lewis.
ii. Rachel Jane Lewis.
iii. Sarah Ann Lewis.
iv. William Lankston Lewis, born December 28, 1836 in Boone County Indiana; died January
22, 1906 in Verdigris Twp., Wilson Co., Kansas.
v. Walter D. Lewis, born January 1840; died June 11, 1848 in Boone Co., Indiana, (age 8
years, 4 months, 22 days, )
NOTES for son Walter D. Lewis:
Son of Martin Lewis & Drucilla Dent Lewis
Burial: Fuller Cemetery, 3/4 mi. So. of Jamestown, Boone Co., (on Ross road, North edge of
Eel River Twp. Probably section 15). Land belonged to "Samuel Lewis" in year
1904)
Children claimed of Martin Lewis and Drucilla Dent are:
vi. John N. Lewis, born 1841 in Boone Co., Indiana.
vii. Margaret J. Lewis, born 1843.
viii. Albert N. Lewis, born 1845 in Boone County Indiana; died July 02, 1923 in Advance,
Indiana.
ix. Charlotte Lewis, born 1852 in Boone County Indiana.
Charlotte & husband John P. Lewis (a Cousin) in Wilson County Kansas in the 1895 State
Census. Also found widow Drucilla Dent Lewis living with her son William Langston Lewis
& wife Emily Catherine (Palmer) Lewis.
Son Walter D. Lewis: Burial: Fuller Cemetery, 3/4 mi. So. of Jamestown, Boone Co., IND.
Query: Can anyone identify the genealogy of SAMUEL LEWIS that owned the Fuller Cem. lands
in 1904 of Indiana.
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