A Bit Of History
My Earliest Ancestors To Arrive In America
George Lewis
What's Behind a Name
Lewes/Lewis
"The Men of Kent"
Early History of Scituate, Massachusetts
Following is a link that tells of just a few of the changes that
Barnstable endured over the next two centuries as written by Amos Otis.
To Make A Long Story Short
Robinson Lewis (Benjamin's son) born in Barnstable moved his
family to Stonington, New London County in Connecticut. Little is known of Robinson. He
was listed as "Lost at Sea" in 1814. Robinson's widow, Polly (Havens) Lewis followed the eldest
son who had moved to Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania in 1815. Polly moved the family sometime prior to 1820
as she was listed on the 1820 Federal Census as living in Harford, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania in 1820.
Thurston Lewis, a son of Robinson and Polly and my GreatGreatGreat Grandfather
started his family in Gibson Township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. To Thurston and his wife Maribah
(Tennant) Lewis was born a son, Nathan. Nathan and his wife Rhoda (Carpenter) Lewis had seven children, one of
them a son named James. James and his wife Louisa (Riker) Lewis had four children. My Grandfather William Thurstin
Lewis (Sr.) being the third. It was William who moved West eventually landing in Bowling Green, Ohio and married my
Grandma, N. Yeaulalah (Coller) Lewis and together gave birth to my father, Ray Lewis.
Mr Otis was a
native of Barnstable and spent many years examing records and collecting material to write
about the history of Barnstable. Mr. Otis also compiled biographical sketches of some of the
first families of Barnstable. Our Lewes' amongst them. His papers were published in 1888 and
a copy of them reside in The Library of Congress in Washington D.C..
Genealogical Notes - written by Harriet Southworth (Lewis) Barnes
Lewes (Lewis) Family Genealogical Notes
While researching my Olds Family line I came across a wealth of
information and thought it to good to pass up. Annette (Olds) Green was my Great Great Great
Grandmother on my Mom's side of the family. I was amazed in reading the notes of Edson B.
Olds about the history of this pioneer family. There are two webpages dedicated to the Olds Family.
Bowling Green, Ohio - *My* Hometown
Please visit.... Bowling Green, The Crystal City
The panoramic map was a popular cartographic form used to depict U.S. and Canadian cities and towns during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Known also as bird's-eye views, perspective maps, and aero views, panoramic maps are nonphotographic representations of cities portrayed as if viewed from above at an oblique angle. Although not generally drawn to scale, they show street patterns, individual buildings, and major landscape features in perspective.
To be able to view the image of the bird's-eye view of Bowling Green I am
going to have to direct you away from this website to the website for the Library of Congress
Panoramic Maps Collection. Once there, you can either view the
Panoramic Map of Bowling Green
or download the map to your computer to view at your leisure. I will say this, it is much easier to
navigate around the map if you download it. You aren't limited to the small window size of the
image like you are on the Library of Congress website. To download the map you will also need
to download a software program known as
MrSID
made available through the Library of Congress. It is well worth the effort!!! You will be able to ZOOM right in
on any part of the image you want. It's pretty neat.
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It would be impossible to thank all the people
who like myself, have been researching our families lineages and have shared information making it possible
to be able to put together this website. My Aunt Olive, Olive (Lewis) Todd. Aunt Olive has shared pictures
with me and gave me enough information that I was able to do all of this. Without her memories, I would
never have known where to begin on our Lewis family. Thank you Shirley Dunn and Gary Russell for helping me
over one of my hurdles. Both Gary and Shirley are distant cousins from the Van Buskirk family. The same to
Harry Biesecker from Gibson, PA for taking the time to go to the Gibson Cemetery and taking pictures of
tombstones of family members for me. Also, Kate Johnson who helped steer me in the right direction on my
Criswell line. Another shout out and thank you goes to Jim Snow who traveled around ceneteries in Edgerton,
Ohio to take pictures of several family tombstones for me... I also have to thank my Uncle Stan and cousins,
Marlene (Brown) Turner and Myrna Criswell for sharing pictures with me. The pictures mean so much to me.
Most importantly, none of this would have been possible without Hank Priebe, the love of my life.
Thanks for processing my pictures, cleaning up my images, retreiving what I've lost and etc., etc., etc.....
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