Posted by Shirley Tomlin on September 05, 19102 at 23:00:43:
According to an interview of my great grandfather,Jefferson Franklin Lewis, he was born near
Lawrence County Courthouse, SC July 4, 1837 which I
assume was really Laurens County. He enlisted in the
Confederacy in Troy,Montgomery County, North Carolina.
He married Margarette Jane Overton and they had two
daughters born in Montgomery County, North Carolina
Henryetta Elizabeth and Oriana Adilaide. Oriana
apparently died young. The family left North Carolina
with a brother of Margarette Jane, John Martin Overton,
to go to California. They were in Missouri a couple
of years where Fannie Matilda, Martha Tero, and Robert
Lee were born. Then they changed their mind and
decided to come to Texas. They were censused in the
1880 census of Washington County, Texas. They later
moved to Travis County, Texas. It appears from census
of neighboring family that his father's name was
Thomas Lewis and mother's name was Emaline. I would
like to know Emaline's maiden name. Also anything
about her family tree of Thomas Lewis' family tree.