David Lewis

1847 - Abt 1920  (72 years)

• Name	David Lewis
  Born	9 Apr 1847	Tippecanoe County, Indiana
  Gender	Male
  Died	Abt 20 Mar 1920	Watseka, Iroquois County, Illinois
  Buried	Onarga, Ilinois
  Person ID	I114	The Riner Tree
  Last Modified	17 Apr 2009

  
  

  Father	James Alpheus Lewis,   b. 18 Dec 1811, Pennsylvania ,   d. 30 Aug 1855, Onarga, Iroquois County, Illinois  (Age 43 years)
  Mother	Lydia Patton,   b. 2 Oct 1818, Butler County, Ohio ,   d. 7 Mar 1882, Burr Oak, Jewell, Kansas  (Age 63 years)
  Married	7 Aug 1834	Tippecanoe County, Indiana   [1]
  Notes	Marriage License: consent from her mother Abigail Patton and her brother (Joseph) Henry Patton. ------------------------------------------------------- Letter from Jeanne Shafer Bedwell: The letter and information about the Patton Family Bible from Mary Jane Lewis Riner Ziby was compiled by a Kansas researcher in 1944. The original letter along with the bible data is in the Patton file in the Tippecanoe County Historical Society in Tippecanoe County, Indiana. The Patton genealogy information from this file was printed in the Ohio Genealogy Magazine in 1962 and is all over the Internet. I mention this in case researchers are interested in the original documents. The James Lewis family, James and Lydia Patton Lewis and their seven children, moved from Tippecanoe County, Indiana to Iroquois County, Illinois in 1853. I think they settled near Milford. James died in 1855. Three of their sons, Thomas, Calvin, and William, joined Company M of the 9th Regiment of the Illinois Cavalry and served from 1861-1864. After the Civil War, around 1870, Thomas and Calvin Lewis pioneered in Burr Oak, Kansas. The youngest daughter, Mary Jane Lewis, married William Riner, son of Daniel and Mary Riner of Onarga. Later Calvin Lewis married Belle Hunt Frye, daughter of Mary Riner Clayton and granddaughter of Daniel and Mary Riner. The children of the Patton family were born in Butler County, Ohio and the children of James and Lydia Patton Lewis were born in Tippecanoe County, Indiana. Most of the surviving children of the Daniel Riner and James Lewis families settled in Burr Oak, Kansas in the 1870s-1880s. Charlie Lewis is the son of Calvin and Belle Hunt Lewis. Dan Lewis is the son of Calvin and Belle Hunt Lewis Elleen Lewis Tegley is the daughter of Charlie Lewis Thomas Lewis is the son of James and Lydia Patton Lewis and the brother of Calvin Lewis. Diana Skeels Harper lived in Onarga and is buried there. Robert Richland Skeels married Susannah Riner in Onarga. They later settled in Burr Oak, Kansas. Their children were Daniel Henry Skeels and Mary Skeels Grubbs. John W.Grubbs had a large farm near Onarga from the 1850's on. Several of his children settled in Burr Oak, Kansas after 1870. I recently received the family picture album and am slowly scanning the pictures from the 1880's-1900. This album was the property of Susannah Riner Skeels and later her daughter Mary Skeels Grubbs, who married Harvey J. Grubbs, son of John W. Grubbs. Calvin and Belle Hunt Lewis were my great-grandparents. My great-aunt, Mattie Lewis Grubbs, pasted many of the oldest obits on pieces of cardboard, including the one of Daniel Riner from 1885. She sent them to my mother back in the 1970's and I found them in my mother's papers. It took me several years to figure out who all of these people were. Most of their photos are in the album above or in the 1965 History of the Burr Oak Methodist Church. " Onarga was very dear to the Burr Oak folks and visited and mentioned with much fondness."
  Family ID	F3876	Group Sheet

  
  

• Notes

  James Edwards household, 1880 U.S. Census, Illinois, population schedule, Iroqouis County, dwelling 148, family 169, p. 15 James Edwards David Lewis W M 32 boarder IN IN IN David Lewis household, 1920 U.S. Census, Illinois, population schedule, Iroquois County, Crescent Township, dwelling 104, family 104, January 18, 1920. Lewis, David, head, M W 70 S yes yes Indiana, Ohio, Ohio Onarga Leader and Review March 16, 1920 The body of David Lewis of Watseka was brought here for burial Monday. Two brothers, Thomas and Cal of Burr Oak, Kansas accompanied the body. The brothers ages are eighty and eighty-two. Cal is a brother-in-law of Mrs. W. W. Loudon. Watseka Republican March 24, 1920 David Lewis, who came to Watseka some five weeks ago seriously ill, died at the Iroquois Hospital last Friday night, chronic liver trouble being the immediate cause of his death. He was 73 years of age. The deceased came with his parents to Iroquois County from Indiana in 1854 and had lived here since. At one time he farmed eighty acres south of Crescent City and at the time of his death was possessed of considerable money and good paper. He was a bachelor. Thomas and Calvin Lewis of Burr Oak, Kansas, brothers, were at his side when he died. Funeral was Monday afternoon and the remains were buried at Onarga.

  
  

• Sources

  [S50199] Tippecanoe County, Indiana, Marriage Records, Book.