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From: "Mark Lewis" <>
Subject: Re: REDDEN/LEWIS
Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 17:44:15 -0400


Looking for information on the Lewis family of ES of VA. Any information
would certainly help. Thanks.

Mark Lewis ()

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> From: Bill Lankford <>
> To: Lower DelMarVa area genealogy list
<>
> Subject: Re: REDDEN/LEWIS
> Date: Saturday, May 03, 1997 1:09 PM
>
> I could not ascertain from your letter whether or not your interest
extends
> toi the Lewis family of ES of VA on which group I do have information
> although not on Reddens.
> Regards,
> -Bill Lankford---------
> > From: Richard Leamer <>
> > To: Lower DelMarVa area genealogy list
> <>
> > Subject: Re: REDDEN/LEWIS
> > Date: Saturday, May 03, 1997 11:47 AM
> >
> > Dear Mark,
> >
> > I am still attempting to track down my REDDEN family. On another mail
> list,
> > I contacted Alicia Whitehead, and she sent me a great deal of
> information
> > placing the person I believe to be my great grandfather, James
Washington
> > REDDEN, in the family of Nehemiah REDDEN, born c. 1812. She had been
> given
> > this genealogy by someone else, and it said that this Nehemiah was the
> son
> > of Nehemiah REDDEN, grandson of Nehemiah Redden who died in 1795. I
had
> > written down the titles of two monographs in the Library of Congress on
> this
> > family written by Richard Stephen Uhrbrock, and went there on Monday to
> > track them down. In these short books, which I have xeroxed, the
lineage
> of
> > these Nehemiahs is traced, but Mr. Uhrbrock goes off to trace his own
> > lineage descending from the 2nd Nehemiah's eldest son Stephen. He only
> says
> > that the 3rd Nehemiah was born "posthumously", as his wife was pregnant
> when
> > Nehemiah II died in 1830. He could not have been the father of the
family
> I
> > need.
> >
> > I have located in the census the family of Nehemiah born c. 1812, and
> all
> > the details of that family jibe with what Alicia Whitehead told me.
> > However, his father must have been someone other than the Nehemiah in
the
> > line Mr. Uhrbrock wrote about.
> >
> > Since these books were written in the 60's and Mr. Uhrbrock was born in
> > 1894, I am sure he is not around anymore. But he quotes correspondence
> with
> > Mark C. Lewis of Parksley, VA dated January 21, 1957. I assume that
this
> > would be your father, but wondered if you might have any information on
> this
> > confusing family. I need to get over to Salisbury again to do a lot
more
> > research, but when I saw that name I was thinking, Mark Lewis, I know
> that name!
> >
> > Any tidbits of information would be appreciated! Nehemiah seems to
have
> > been a very popular name back then!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >

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