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!CENSUS:1790 Rutherford Co, NC pg 116 Richard LEWIS age 16+ (bef 1774)
"1-1-2-0-9";
CENSUS:1800 Rutherford Co, NC pg 123 Richard LEWIS age 26-44 (1755/74)
"10010-21110";
CENSUS:1810 * Rutherford Co, NC pg 113 Richard LEWIS *;
CENSUS:1820;
CENSUS:1830;
CENSUS:1840;
CENSUS:1850;

!REFERENCE:History of Old Tryon and Rutherford County, NC " Col. Richard LEWIS was a son of John and Sarah TALIAFERRO LEWIS and was born
in Albermale County, VA, about 1765 He was upwards of six feet high, with
light hair blue eyes and fair complexion. he emigarted to Rutherford County,
N.C., with his father before the Revolutionary War and was a saddler by
trade. After the close of the war three of Rutherford County's public office
were held at one time by the Lewis brothers. Col. Richard LEWIS was elected
clerk of the court of pleas and quarter session on October 9, 1787, to
succeed Felix WALKER, resigned. He was also a member of convetion held in
1789 to consider the constitution of the Untied States. he married Sarah
MILLER, daughter of Gen. James MILLER, and his wife, Agnes MILLER, in 1789.
Gen Miller and his wife were consins. They emigrated from Ireland, and he
was an office in the Revolutionary War and commanded at the siege of Augusta,
GA., and after the war represented Rutherford County as a senator in the
General Assembly. General Miller reared two daughters: Sarah married Col.
Richard LEWIS and the other married James ERWIN, of Rutherfordton. Richard
LEWIS and his wife were members of the Episcopal church. they finally moved
from Rutherford County, N.C. and settled near Pendleton, SC on the Seneca
River, where he died in 1831 and she a few days later. their remains were
interred at the stone church (Hopewell) near Pendleton SC. Col Richard LEWIS
and his wife, Sarah MILLER, had nine children. The eldest, Mary Mansfield
LEWIS was born in Rutherford County in 1790. She was the first graduate of
Salem Academy, Forsyth County NC. Her father sent to London, England, for a
piano and sent it to Salem for her especial benefit; it being the first piano
in this part of the state. She was afterwards educated in Raleigh and became
quitge an accomplished lady, was modest and unassuming, was a true patriot,
and when the war of 1861 came on she worked early and late making clothes for
the soldiers. She died of heart disease in 1872. She married Hon. John
McDOWELL, of Pleasant Garden, McDowell County, NC, afterwas of Rutherford
County. He was born in 1787, a son of Gen. Joseph McDOWELL, one of the heros
of Kings Mountain, and a grandson of John McDOWELL. Hon. John McDOWELL
represented Rutherford County in the house of commons, and ws for several
years a Councillor of State. He resided on the north side of Broad River,
above Island Ford, where he died in 1855. They had eleven children.
(Essential facts of the above sketch gathered from Genealogy of the Lewis
Family in America, pp. 305-306)";

!CENSUS:1790 Rutherford Co, NC pg 116 w/Richard LEWIS no ages (bef 1790);
CENSUS:1800 Rutherford Co, NC pg 123 w/Richard LEWIS age 26-44 (1755/74);
CENSUS:1810;
CENSUS:1820;
CENSUS:1830;
CENSUS:1840;
CENSUS:1850;