ROBERT ANDREW "ANDY" LEWIS

ROBERT ANDREW (ANDY) LEWIS, son of Mary Melissa "Polly" Strain, daughter of James Benjamin Henry Strain, son of Robert Fulton Strain, was born July 2, 1861, in Palo Pinto, Parker County, Texas, and died August 9, 1931, in Ontario, San Bernadino County, California. He is buried in Deming, New Mexico.

Robert Andrew (Andy) Lewis married Mary Josephine Curry on August 11, 1884, in Eastland County, Texas.

Children of Robert Andrew (Andy) Lewis and Mary Josephine Curry are:

1. Lulu Mae (Lula) Lewis, born May 1886; died 1975. She married Payton L. (Jack) Smyer in 1903.

2. Minnie Maude (Dutch) Lewis, born March 1888; died 1977. She married Jasper Virgil (Mike) Yeargin.

3. Mary Elizabeth (Bess) Lewis, born February 1890; died 1968. She married Robert (Bob) Russell.

4. Robert Marshall Lewis, born April 1892; died 1910 in Deming, New Mexico. Buried in Lewis Flats Cemetery, Deming, New Mexico.

5. Henry Elbert (Hence) Lewis, born August 1899; died July 21, 1980 in Indio, San Bernadino County, California. He married Emma LaFond.

6. Theodore Roosevelt Lewis, born 1903; died February 1, 1979 in Riverside, California. He married Ruth Calhoun.

7. Cecil Lewis, born 1905; died 1906 in Deming, New Mexico. Buried in Lewis Flats Cemetery, Deming, New Mexico.

8. Opal Katheryn Lewis, born April 5, 1908; died December 24, 1948.