James West Lewis
b. Nov 1835, South Carolina
d. 20 Mar 1904
& Sophia Adeline Milwee
b. 5 Mar 1839, Anderson District, South Carolina
d. 30 Dec 1926, Vernon, Willbarger, Texas
m. 28 Feb 1867
|--Sophia Caroline Lewis
|----b. 2 Dec 1868, South Carolina
|----d. 1932
|---& James A. Puckett
|----b. Oct 1861, Texas
|----d. bef 1930
|----m. 1888
|--Samuel Millwee Lewis
|----b. 2 Feb 1871, South Carolina
|----d. 19 Apr 1942
|---& Edith Cederia Sparks
|----b. 29 Dec 1880, Alabama
|----d. 21 Feb 1975, Slaton, Lubbock, Texas
|----m. 1908
|--Robert Lewis
|----b. 3 Mar 1873, South Carolina
|----d. bef 1880
|--Blake Henry Lewis*
|----b. 10 Jun 1875, South Carolina
|----d. 20 Jan 1962, Vernon, Wilbarger Co., Texas
|---& Mary Nancy “Mollie” Starr
|----b. Nov 1877, Missouri
|----d. 20 Jul 1917, Vernon, Wilbarger Co., Texas
|----m. 3 Mar 1900, Vernon, Wilbarger Co., Texas
|--Blake Henry Lewis*
|----b. 10 Jun 1875, South Carolina
|----d. 20 Jan 1962, Vernon, Wilbarger Co., Texas
|---& Florence Belzora Osborne
|----b. 29 Feb 1884, Callihan, McMullen Co., Texas
|----m. 22 Aug 1925
|--David J. Lewis
|----b. 22 Apr 1877, Texas
|----d. 7 Jul 1961, Los Angeles, California
|---& Alice A. McKinney
|----b. 26 Feb 1882, Texas
|----d. 11 Dec 1966, Los Angeles, California
|--Manning Hyson Lewis
|----b. 17 Oct 1879, Texas
|----d. 21 Oct 1964, Wichita Falls, Wichita, Texas
|---& Myrtle Mae Kincheloe
|----b. 10 Apr 1886, Hamilton Co., Texas
|----d. 2 Dec 1961, Vernon, Wilbarger Co., Texas
|----m. 15 Aug 1905, Vernon, Wilbarger Co.,
This is the family of my great-grandmother Martha E. Lewis’ oldest brother, James West Lewis. I initially did not know if this James West Lewis was the same as the James W. Lewis I had identified as her brother, but when I saw that one of his sons was named Manning, I knew he was the correct person. This Manning was named for James’ and Martha’s brother Manning, who died in the Civil War. (The latter was named for his grandfather, Manning Poole, whose given name was his mother’s maiden name.) I suspect that son Samuel was named for another Lewis brother who also died in the Civil War and who served in the same unit as James, the 4th Regiment, SC Infantry, Company B.
This Lewis family probably moved from South Carolina to Texas in the same year as the other Lewis siblings who moved (1877, possibly earlier in the year, however), but settled first in Travis County and then in Wilbarger County instead of Dallas County, where the other Lewis siblings settled. Wilbarger County is only one county over from Baylor County, where James’ nephew Kirby Runion Moore, my grandfather, moved in 1917, so I wonder if the cousins were aware that they lived so near to one another.
Sophia Adeline Millwee was a cousin of James West Lewis; if I remember correctly, she was his first cousin once removed.
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Friday, September 4, 2009
Sunday, February 8, 2009
High School Years (courtesy of Genea-Musings)
Thanks to Randy Seaver at Genea-Musings for this one.
1. What was your school's full name, where was it, and what year did you graduate? Seymour High School, Seymour, Texas, 1972.
2. What was the school team nickname, and what are/were your school's colors? Panthers, maroon and white.
3. What was the name of your school song, and can you still sing it? Don’t remember the name (perhaps “Panthers’ fame shall ne’er be broken”?), but I can still sing it, and if you want to hear it, watch The Last Picture Show (1971). They needed a school song that sounded really corny (this tune was a common one), so we copied the music for them and sent it over.
4. Did you have a car? How did you get to and from school? No car. Sometimes I walked, sometimes my mother drove me.
5. Did you date someone from your high school? Or marry someone from your high school? Were you considered a flirt? Not really. No. No.
6. What social group were you in? Nerds and geeks, especially band nerds.
7. Who was/were your favorite teachers? Ms. Gilbert and Ms. Greeley in English, Mr. Eakins for math, Miss Sperberg for band, and Miss Brown for history and government. I liked a lot of my teachers there.
8. What did you do on Friday nights? Mostly hang out, except in the fall , when the band played at the football games.
9. Did you go to and have fun at the Senior Prom? I think so (can’t remember very well).
10. Have you been to reunions, and are you planning on going to the next reunion? No, I live too far away (but I like to hear about them).
1. What was your school's full name, where was it, and what year did you graduate? Seymour High School, Seymour, Texas, 1972.
2. What was the school team nickname, and what are/were your school's colors? Panthers, maroon and white.
3. What was the name of your school song, and can you still sing it? Don’t remember the name (perhaps “Panthers’ fame shall ne’er be broken”?), but I can still sing it, and if you want to hear it, watch The Last Picture Show (1971). They needed a school song that sounded really corny (this tune was a common one), so we copied the music for them and sent it over.
4. Did you have a car? How did you get to and from school? No car. Sometimes I walked, sometimes my mother drove me.
5. Did you date someone from your high school? Or marry someone from your high school? Were you considered a flirt? Not really. No. No.
6. What social group were you in? Nerds and geeks, especially band nerds.
7. Who was/were your favorite teachers? Ms. Gilbert and Ms. Greeley in English, Mr. Eakins for math, Miss Sperberg for band, and Miss Brown for history and government. I liked a lot of my teachers there.
8. What did you do on Friday nights? Mostly hang out, except in the fall , when the band played at the football games.
9. Did you go to and have fun at the Senior Prom? I think so (can’t remember very well).
10. Have you been to reunions, and are you planning on going to the next reunion? No, I live too far away (but I like to hear about them).
Monday, February 2, 2009
Memory Monday: Mementos from my Mother's School
The other day I was reading a post entitled, “School Souvenir from Old Bosna School” on Becky Jamison’s blog Grace and Glory. At first I felt some envy, because I have so little from my parents’ schools, but as I began to give some thought to it, I realized that at least in my Mother’s case, I actually do have a few things: pictures, some class lists, and even a map in the books Salt Pork to Sirloin: The History of Baylor County; a couple of pictures of what remains of my mother’s school (called Corn School); and a couple of cards with a pasted flower design that my mother made, probably in first grade.
Here are the cards:
Mom’s name is written on one side: Madelene Moore – the spelling was actually Madeline. Written on the other side of one card in Mom’s handwriting is: “I made this in school when I was a little child.”
Here are a couple of pictures, generously provided by my cousin Vernetta Mickey, of the foundation and cornerstone of Corn School, which was located in Bomarton, Baylor County, Texas, and attended by my mother and Vernetta's father, Horace Floyd. Our parents lived on adjacent farms; my grandmother, Eula Floyd Moore, and Vernetta’s grandfather, King David Floyd, were brother and sister and used their inheritance money to purchase side-by-side farms here in 1917.
I cannot reproduce the pictures from Salt Pork to Sirloin, but here is what Volume I has to say about Corn School:
“Corn No. 17, 1908-1940
The Corn School District when first organized in 1908 consisted of the Cartwright School and the Miller Creek School. The Corn School house had two locations, both of them were in or near the south part of the Portwood Hart Ranch in the southwest quadrant of the county.
… In 1921-22 the school had 72 pupils but from then on the enrollment began to decline and in 1940 it was annexed to the Bomarton School District.”
Corn School must have gone up to the 8th grade; after that I believe students would have attended Bomarton High School. My mother quit after the 8th grade; she had to wait until early December each year to start school because she had to help pick cotton until then and it was difficult to have to try to catch up year after year. I believe her younger brother Pete, the third youngest of 11 children, was the first to graduate from high school.
Here are the cards:
Mom’s name is written on one side: Madelene Moore – the spelling was actually Madeline. Written on the other side of one card in Mom’s handwriting is: “I made this in school when I was a little child.”
Here are a couple of pictures, generously provided by my cousin Vernetta Mickey, of the foundation and cornerstone of Corn School, which was located in Bomarton, Baylor County, Texas, and attended by my mother and Vernetta's father, Horace Floyd. Our parents lived on adjacent farms; my grandmother, Eula Floyd Moore, and Vernetta’s grandfather, King David Floyd, were brother and sister and used their inheritance money to purchase side-by-side farms here in 1917.
I cannot reproduce the pictures from Salt Pork to Sirloin, but here is what Volume I has to say about Corn School:
“Corn No. 17, 1908-1940
The Corn School District when first organized in 1908 consisted of the Cartwright School and the Miller Creek School. The Corn School house had two locations, both of them were in or near the south part of the Portwood Hart Ranch in the southwest quadrant of the county.
… In 1921-22 the school had 72 pupils but from then on the enrollment began to decline and in 1940 it was annexed to the Bomarton School District.”
Corn School must have gone up to the 8th grade; after that I believe students would have attended Bomarton High School. My mother quit after the 8th grade; she had to wait until early December each year to start school because she had to help pick cotton until then and it was difficult to have to try to catch up year after year. I believe her younger brother Pete, the third youngest of 11 children, was the first to graduate from high school.
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