Genealogy of the Lewis family in America, from the middle of the seventeenth century down to the present time

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GENEALOGY
Lewis Family
AMERICA,
IN
FROM THE MIDDLE OF THE SEl^ENTEENTH CENTURY
DOWN TO THE PRESENT TIME.
BY
WM. TERRELL LEWIS,
Of Perryville, Winston County, Miss.
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Published by The Courier-JournalJob Printing Co.
1893.
Copyrighted 1892.
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Departed this life at his home near Perryville, Miss.,
on the 23d day ofJanuary, 1893, in the
82d year of his age,
pttUlatn Jewell gctvi$i
TheAuthor ofthis "History ofthe Lewis Family."
"PiURlNGr a long life, extending over four score years, Mr. Lewis,
although a frail and delicate man, led an active, useful life.
He was by occupation land surveyor and planter; and by constant
exercise in the open air of a genial southern climate, and strictly
temperate habits, he invigorated his constitution and gained power
to resist the ordinary ills of the flesh. Butwhenthat grim monster
"La Grippe" seized him with a fatal grasp he was at once pros-
trated. Old and feeble he gradually sank beneath the ravages of
the disease and with quiet resignation he endured its racking pains.
His mind was calm and clear and he saw in death a relief from the
cares and anxieties of this world and rest for the body. He had
fought a good fight as a Christian soldier; he had devoted his life
to the performance of his duty to his God and to his fellow-man,
and he was not afraid to die. When the Angel of Death came to
bear his soul away, he called his weeping family to his bed-side
and in a feeble voice whispered to them his dying words, ''meet me
in heaven.''
These last words become an appropriate message from the
Author of this book to all his friends whose names are herein en-
rolled. For more than fortyyearsMr. Lewiswas engaged in gather-
ing the materials for this work. He wrote thousands of letters and
traveled hundreds of miles. To him it was a labor of love. He
was proud of his lineage. Hisdescent from theHuguenotbrothers,
who fled from religious persecution in France and found an asylum
in this land, for whose freedom their sons bravely fought, was not
his only boast. His researches in the family records and traditions
disclosed to him the fact that those manl}', noble traits of character
that so eminently distinguished the Huguenot brothers, were dis-
tinctly transmitted to their descendants even to the present genera-
tion, and therefore with high admiration and fraternal love he re-
garded every one in whose veins the Lewis blood flowed. His
dream of life was to see this book in print. Alas how sad was his
disappointment.
To each of you then, whose names he has, with so much patient
laboraffld carefulness, gathered togetherfrom all parts of theUnited
States, and perpetuated them in this book, it is fitting that his
dying words be sent as his meesage from the grave,
"MEET ME IN HEAVEN."
T. S. K.
March, 1893.