Marty and Karla Grant

!NOTES:I (Marty Grant) am not related to this person as far as I've been able to determine.
(1) I am a Horry Co., SC Lewis researcher, so I'm interested for this reason.
(2) This person is an uncle/aunt of my uncle Joe Skipper;


!REFERENCE:
http://www.martygrant.com/
http://www.martygrant.com/genealogy/


!NOTES:"A History of Marion County, South Carolina", W. W. Sellers, 1902. pp 480-483 covers the Lewis family. An extract from pp 480-481:
"Lewis.-This family were from Ireland, and settled in Virginia. A son of this family, named William, came to South Carolina before the Revolution; he married Miss Mourning Vampelt, a Hollander. Tradition informs us that her father and she came from Holland together, leaving his family in Holland; they came, as it seems, prospecting, and got down into South Carolina, where they met up with William Lewis, and soon an attachment (mutual) sprang up between the two young people, and they got married; whereupon old man Vampelt went back to Holland for his family, and was never afterwards heard of. William Lewis settled in Horry County ; they had and raised seven sons and two daughters ; the sons were William, James, Isaac, Hardy, Joel, Jonathan and Patrick; the girls were Polly and Zilpha. Of these, Polly married Averitt Nichols, of Columbus County, N. C, and was the mother of the late venerable Averitt Nichols, of Nichols, S. C. The other daughter, Zilpha, married William Gerald, of Horry. Of the sons, Hardy, Joel and Jonathan settled in Marion County Hardy on Little Pee Dee, below Gilchrist's Bridge, Joel and Jonathan higher up the river, on the south side, near where Miller's Church now stands ; and James at Allen's Bridge."

!NOTES:"A History of Marion County, South Carolina", W. W. Sellers, 1902. p 483:
"Joel Lewis, the brother of old Jonathan, and one of the seven brothers, married Ruth Norton, grand-aunt of Hon. James Norton; they moved to Mississippi, about 1818; and thence, years afterwards, to Texas. This ascertained from recent correspondence with Mrs. Minerva Lewis Jones, the youngest and only surviving child of old Joel and his wife, Ruth, and who resides at Gonzales, Gonzales County, Texas."

!CENSUS:1810 Marion Dist., SC pg 14 Joel Lewis age 26-44 (1765/84)
00010-10100-0-1;

!NAMED-WILL:14 May 1811 Horry Co., SC William Lewis, proven 23 Aug 1811.
Daughter Polley Nichols.
Daughter Salley Nichols.
Son James Lewis.
Son Isaac Lewis.
Son Hardy Lewis.
Son Jonathan Lewis.
Son Joel Lewis.
Son Elisha Lewis.
Daughter Zilpha Lewis.
Son Patrick Lewis.
Wife Morning Lewis.
Granddaughter and Grandson, heirs of William Lewis, deceased:
Salley Lewis, Evrit Lewis.
Executors: Sons James Lewis, Hardey Lewis, Jonathan Lewis and Joel Lewis.
Witnesses: Samuel Garrell, Benj. Lewis, Cathron X Garrell
Transcription of Will at Three Rivers Historical Society website:
<http://www.hchsonline.org/wills/wl.html>

!CENSUS:1820 x

!CENSUS:1830 Rankin Co., MS pg 167 Joel Lewis age 40-49 (1780/90)
1001001-322201;

!CENSUS:1840 x

!CENSUS:1850 * Rankin Co., MS # 494/494
Joel Lewis 69 Farmer $6200 SC
Sarah 40 KY
Caroline 25 MS
Everett 23
Minerva 20
Hugh 17 Student
Almeda Whaler 12 f
Lodice 39 f KY
Mary Goodson 11 MS;

!CENSUS:1860 x

!REFERENCE:"A History of Marion County, South Carolina" by W.W. Sellers, Esq.
1902. Pg 475 - 480;

!NOTES:"A History of Marion County, South Carolina", W. W. Sellers, 1902. p 483:
"Joel Lewis, the brother of old Jonathan, and one of the seven brothers, married Ruth Norton, grand-aunt of Hon. James Norton; they moved to Mississippi, about 1818; and thence, years afterwards, to Texas. This ascertained from recent correspondence with Mrs. Minerva Lewis Jones, the youngest and only surviving child of old Joel and his wife, Ruth, and who resides at Gonzales, Gonzales County, Texas."

!CENSUS:1850 * Rankin Co., MS # 494/494
Joel Lewis 69 Farmer $6200 SC
Sarah 40 KY
Caroline 25 MS
Everett 23
Minerva 20
Hugh 17 Student
Almeda Whaler 12 f
Lodice 39 f KY
Mary Goodson 11 MS;

!CENSUS:1860 * Gonzales Co., TX;

!CENSUS:1870 * Gonzales Co., TX;

!CENSUS:1880 * Gonzales Co., TX with sister M. A. Jones;

!CENSUS:1850 * Rankin Co., MS # 494/494
Joel Lewis 69 Farmer $6200 SC
Sarah 40 KY
Caroline 25 MS
Everett 23
Minerva 20
Hugh 17 Student
Almeda Whaler 12 f
Lodice 39 f KY
Mary Goodson 11 MS;

!CENSUS:1860 * Gonzales Co., TX;

!CENSUS:1850 * Rankin Co., MS # 494/494
Joel Lewis 69 Farmer $6200 SC
Sarah 40 KY
Caroline 25 MS
Everett 23
Minerva 20
Hugh 17 Student
Almeda Whaler 12 f
Lodice 39 f KY
Mary Goodson 11 MS;

!CENSUS:1860 * Gonzales Co., TX;