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Subject: [NYCHAUTA] Lewis in Chautauqua County
Date: 6 Mar 2004 14:37:01 -0700

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Surnames: Lewis
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Elijah Lewis, 255;
Elizabeth Lewis, 647;
George W. Lewis, 186, 205;
Harriet Lewis, 44;
Hiram Lewis, 227
Lucy W. Lewis, 439;
Lydia Lewis, 524

Note; there is a Lewis Cemetery in Ellery noted in my documentation. I have not found any links via my materials for you.

>>>History of Chautauqua County NY (1894) By Hon. Oben Edson

Pomfret, Page 482; George W. Lewis
I can only name a few of the men who have departed but who have lived useful and honorable lives and have left their impress for good upon this community: Ebenezer A. Lester, John Crane, Philo H. Stevens, Alva H. Walker, Daniel W. Douglass? Elisha Norton, Orson Stiles, Stephen ill. Clement, Joel R. Parker, Elijah Risley, William Risley, Levi Risley, Horace White, Roselle Greene, Lewis B. Grant, David Barrell, Aaron I,. Putnam, George C. Rood, William C. Graham, James Gillis, Henry C. Frisbee, George W. Lewis, Frederic A. Redington, Daniel J. Pratt, J. Condit Smith, Robert McPherson, Charles J. Orton, Alva Colburn, Charles Burritt, Almond B. Madison, Arnold Kingsbury, John B. McLenathan.



>>>History of Chautauqua Co, NY From Its 1st Settlement to the Present Time (1875) By Andrew Young

Pioneer Period, Page 37; Mr. Lewis (no first name)
The chief and nearly the last event of the war in which the people of Chautauqua participated was the burning and battle of Buffalo…
…In the affair the regiment lost James Brackett, of Mayville, an early member of the bar of Chautauqua county, killed and scalped by the Indians; Joseph Frank, of Busti, shot through the head and scalped; Mr. Pease and Mr. Lewis, from Pomfret; Aaron Nash, Mr. Bover and Mr. Hubbard, from Hanover, with several others, shared the same fate.

Sinclairville, page 129; Elijah Lewis
The northeast part of the town was the last settled. Alanson Straight, the first to begin improvement, settled about 1832 upon lot 24. In 1832 Nelson Chase located upon lot 16, and Nathan Penhollow on lot 15. Calvin Abbey, Elijah Lewis, William W. Wood, Neri Crampton, Daniel Hoisington, Henry Smith, William Luce, G. R. Matthewson, Peter Odell and Nelson Mansfield were early settlers there. John Wilkes, who came in 1851, built the first sawmill in 1865. Upon his farm the last bear was killed in the town. James Hopkins, Patrick Doran and Garret Wheeler, from the west of Ireland, came about 1840. Others from Ireland settled a little later.

ELMER WALTER POWERS, M. D., Page 329
No name stands higher in medical circles at Westfield, Chautauqua County, N. Y., than that of Dr. Elmer Walter Powers, who has been engaged in practice here for a number of years and established an enviable reputation both for his ability as a physician and for the high standard of professional ethics which he has consistently maintained. Dr. Powers was born Dec. 9, 1870, at Panama, N. Y., a son of Joel and Harriette M. (Lewis) Powers, the former still surviving.

Lydia Lewis Fuller, Page 408
VII) Nelson Hopson, son of Lyman Hopson, was born in Hartfield, Chautauqua county, N .Y., June 27, 1832, and died Oct. 5, 1909, 100 years after his grandfather first came to Chautauqua county. He was a successful and substantial farmer, and both he and his wife were members and liberal supporters of the Methodist Episcopal church of Mayville. Politically he was a Prohibitionist, and did active work for the party. He married, March 29, 18j2, Marilla Fuller, born Dec. 12, 1828, died at Mayville, April 8, 1913, daughter of Joseph and Lydia (Lewis) Fuller. Children, all born in Hartfield, N. Y.: Nancy Viola, born March 17, 1853; Newel1 Philo, born Feb. 18, 1855; Harry Benjamin, of whom further; and Jane, born Sept. 28, 1858.

Lydia Lewis Ross, Page 424
Welcome Franklin Ross [a civil war veteran] was born in the town of New Albion, Cattaraugus County, N. Y., April 13, 1843, the son of Joseph F. and Lydia (Lewis) Ross, was educated in the public school of his native place. [More available for Welcome]

Elizabeth Lewis Bargar, Page 531
John D. Bargar, born Sept 20, 1829, died June m, 1889, at Charlotte, Chautauqua county, NY; he married Elizabeth Lewis, and lived the greater part of his life on a farm about two miles north of Sinclairville; a son, George L., was born to them in 1847. [More on Bargar available]



>>> Chautauqua Co Directory (1873-4) by Hamilton Child
Lewis, Geo. W., (Fredonia,) agent Wheeler & Wilson Sewing machine, corner Mechanic and Chestnut.

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