Children on Samuel and Susan/Susannah Layman Lewis:

This information is from The Jackson County Advertiser Newspaper Sunday May 14, 1972 and the article is Echoes of the Past.

It was supplied by William Lewis of Alabama....Thanks William.

The article states that Samuel was of Scotch-Irish descent, was born in Halifax County, VA, Feb. 1791, came to Newport, East Tennessee, with his father at an early date, married there Susan Layman, of Dutch descent, born 1806; died there 1863. To this union were 12 children;

1. Asa Perry Lewis

2. Eliza Jane Lewis

3. Martha Ann Lewis

4. John Canada Lewis

5. Daniel Marion Lewis

6. Melvina Elizabeth Lewis

7. Griffie Layman Lewis

8. William Commodore Lewis

9. James Martin Lewis

10. Samuel Jones Lewis b. June 17, 1848 married Julah/Jalah Wood b. April 18, 1847 had Lowery Layman Lewis b. 3 Sept. 1869 d. 26. Sept. 1922 married Georgina unknown b. 29 July 1870 d. 4 March 1953 both were buried Fairlawn Cemetery in Stillwater, Payne Co., Oklahoma (their daughter Ruth M. Lewis Ridenour, was born 6 Nov. 1909 and died 12 Mar. 1960 and is also buried in the same cemetery.

11. Susan Melvina Lewis

12. Anderson Vincent Lewis.

The article states that Samuel and two sons Daniel Marion and Anderson Vincent Lewis are buried in Union Cemetery near Woodville.

Susan Melvina Lewis married John Swearengin; she is buried at Larkinsville, Alabama. One son went of Mississippi and one went to Kentucky.

William C. Lewis sold groceries and later, 1887 added drygoods, in Woodville. After a few years, he went to Fort Worth, Texas. He was section foreman at Woodville, when the Southern railroad track was made a standard, May 31, 1886, by making the track narrower. It was done in Memphis. His son Lafayette Lewis married Snow Stephens (believed to be Sallie C. Stephens Lewis). They moved to Texas.

James M. Lewis , (b. 1843, d. 1933) married Sarah C. Stephens, sister to Snow and Henry D. Stephens. They resided in Celina, Texas, reared a daughter, Laura Jane, and a son Lowery Lafayette Lewis who resides in Collin County, Texas.

Anderson V. Lewis (1851 - 1886) married Caldonia Kennamer, (1851-1913), daughter of Abe Kennamer and Elizabeth Hodges. Children: (1) Susan E. Lewis, (2) Charles O. Lewis, (3) Arthur G. Lewis, (4) Frances Lewis, (5) Maggie Jane Lewis.