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LDS IGI Index, Missouri
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Eva Gayler located a marriage record for Robert Lewis and Mary Carmen, giving their marriage date as 20 March 1863, having been married by Thomas M. Rash, Justice of the Peace. Doesn't seem like an 11-year old would have been getting married yet....
Robert was mentioned in his father's will as follows "it is my will and desire that my son Robert M. Lewis share said home place with his mother during her lifetime."
"Notice of Application. STATE OF MISSOURI, County of Atchison,} ss In the Probate County of Atchison county, Mo. The State of Missouri to Albert Butler, Administrator of the estate of Susan Lewis, deceased. William H. Lewis, Elizabeth Fidelia Weller and Philip Weller, her husband, Otis C. Lewis, Robert M. Lewis, Carilla B. Coles and Frank Coles, her husband, Wilson Williams, William Hunter and Albert H. Hunter,
GREETING: You are hereby notified that application by petition has been made to the Probate Court of Atchison county, in the State of Missouri, by John H. Allen and Albert P. Allen, for an order of said court for t he division of partition of the personal property of Susan Lewis, late of said county, deceased, in equal parts in kind between said John H. Allen and Albert P. Allen and William H. Lewis, Elizabeth Fidelia Weller and Philip Weller, her husband, Otis C. Lewis, Robert M. Lewis, Carilla B. Coles and Frank Coles, her husband, Wilson Williams, William Hunter and Albert H. Hunter, as children, grand children and only heirs of said deceased, and that said applicant on will be heard at the court house in the city of Rock Port, the county seat of said county, on the 1st day of April, adjourned term thereof, to be held on the 14th day of April, 1884, and such order will be made in the premises as may be meet and proper. FRANK M. JOSLYN. Judge Probate Court."--14 Feb 1884, The Atchison County (MO) Mail
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Living with dad and grandparents
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The name of William Lewis appears in the July 16, 1881 issue of the Atchison County Journal, Rockport, Missouri as an entry in the fall term docket of the Probate Court. The "Administrator or Guardian" listed were A. B. Durfee and John Dopf. His death therefore was sometime before this. The FHC Ancestral CD file gives the date reported here.
DEATH OF WILLIAM LEWIS (Hamburg IA Times 1874)
"Last Saturday morning closed the earthly career of one of our most prominent men and, in many respects, the most noted character on the Missouri slope. We refer to William Lewis, who died at seven O'clock, October 31st, after an illness of several weeks; and although in looking back over his past life and recalling the amount of labor he has performed, the dangers he has encountered, and the hardships he has borne during three score years and ten, we are compelled to wonder that the end did not come more quickly, still the first brief announcement of his death cast a gloom over the entire community.
"Being one of the first white men who dared to invade this almost unexplored region, he has been closely identified with its interests during a third of a century, and his name is a familiar household word in half the families on the Missouri slope. His eventful career through all the varied phases of a pioneer life would seem more like fiction than reality, were it not for the thousands of acres which his hands have transformed from a trackless prairie into beautiful farms, which are the pride and glory of our western country, and will prove a lasting monument to his memory.
"Mr. Lewis was a peculiar man. Ignorant of every thing pertaining to books, his early education being confined to the rifle, axe and plow, yet, his natural good sense and sound judgment were more useful to him here, than would the diplomas from a half dozen colleges. Brave as the bravest, he was not the man to flee from any danger, and he was never known to ask a quarter from any living man. He would not allow himself to think for a moment that anyone could possibly whip him in a fight or swindle him in a bargain. Bur generous to a fault he never struck a fallen enemy, or rejoiced over the misfortunes which overtook any who had injured him.
"At the commencement of the war, when it was dangerous for any man to walk these streets until he had taken the oath of allegiance to the Confederate Government, Uncle Bill took a bold and decided stand for the old Union, and risked, not only his property, but his life in defense of those principles which he deemed right and just. Uncle Bill was genial and sociable, in his disposition, and even the terrible energy which he carried into every conflict was toned and softened down by his love for the humorous, which no anger could suppress, and no danger could obliterate. A story which was published in Harper's Magazine in 1863 illustrates Uncle Bill as he appeared when hailing a Missouri Steamer, which bore the stars and bars. His orders to 'round to', were ignored and it was only when Old Bill's stentorian voice ordered the boys behind the masked battery to 'blow the old shell out of the water,' said order being backed by the black and frowning muzzle of a twelve ponder, which poked its nose through the branches, that the valiant Captain gave the order to round to. Imagine his surprise when he found the battery to consist of a piece of rusty stovepipe mounted on two wheels, and 'manned' by a couple of ten year old boys.
"But he is now gone, and the record of his life shows what may be accomplished by a man unaided, except by his own industry, energy and manhood. Of him it may truthfully be said, that he died as he had lived, beloved by his friends and respected by his enemies".