LEWIS, SAMUEL, born Feb. 16, 1767, in Pennsylvania, about sixteen miles above Philadelphia, on the Delaware river. He crossed the Allegheny mountains on horseback five times, and was married on the Kanawha river, West Virginia, about 1799, to Sally Floro, who was born there in 1785. They moved in 1814, to St. Francis county, Mo., and from there to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving May, 1830, in what is now Cotton Hill township. They had children in West Virginia, in Missouri, and in Sangamon county, making a total of fifteen. In June, 1844, Mr. Lewis moved his family to Delaware county, Iowa. Mrs. Sally Lewis died there in 1847, aged sixty-two years. Her mother lived to be one hundred and six years of age, and was living at Strawberry, Texas, at the time of her daughter's death. Samuel Lewis died in Iowa, Aug. 9, 1867, being in his one hundred and first year. His mother lived to be one hundred and fourteen years old. Of their fifteen children, six only are living--four of them in Iowa. One only resides in Illinois, the seventh child.

ALFRED, born March 26, 1823, in St. Francis county, Missouri, raised in Sangamon county, married March 14, 1850, in Loami, to Eliza J. Abell, a granddaughter of Adam Barger. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis had nine children in Sangamon county, four of whom died young. SARAH S., MARIA A., JOHN S., LOUISA F. and CORNELIA E. J. live with their parents. Alfred Lewis made his home in Sangamon county, near Breckinridge mill, until the fall of 1872, when he moved to Taylorville for the purpose of educating his children, and now resides there. He carries the first month's wages he ever earned in his pocket to the present time. It is in the shape of a watch.