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Martrom Lewis
19 Oct 1794 – 8 Apr 1862
| Birth | 19 Oct 1794 |
| Death | 8 Apr 1862 |
| Cemetery | Lewis Cemetery Crescent , St. Louis County , Missouri , USA |
| Added by | Andrew T on 28 May 2019 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/190234247 |
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The Tri-Weekly Republican, St. Louis, Missouri, 14 April 1863: OBITUARY, Martrom Lewis, whose death occurred on the 8th instant, at his premises near Gloness, St. Louis County, as briefly announced in the Republican, was among the oldest inhabitants of St. Louis County. He was born on the south branch of the Potomac, the 19th of October, 1795, and was brought by his father from Virginia to St. Louis County, when but then a year old, where he was bred, and where he lived to the day of his death, a period of more than sixty-seven years. His was one of that family of the same name who was connected with the Washington family. He married Miss Elizabeth Darby in 1822 in Bonhomme, St. Louis County, in the year 1815 - the widow who now survives him. Mr. Lewis was a man of retiring habits, always declining and never seeking office, which he did in every relation of life, as a worthy example to all. It is perhaps not any job too much of Mr. Lewis, that is the long life which he has led, he has lived and died without an enemy. In the early part of the present country, when a very young man, he volunteered as a Ranger under Governor Howard, and was in active service for a whole year in protecting the then thin and sparsely settled country from Indian warfare and depredations - the tomahawk and scalping knife. Mr. Lewis has lived in St. Louis County since 1796, and in this same county has had extended over him the jurisdiction of the French and Spanish authorities, at the time the flags and emblems of those sovereignties from the eastern bank of the Mississippi. Surrounding them, without changing his family residence, he came again under the flag of his native land as a citizen of the United States, in the territory of Louisiana - Upper Louisiana, the Territory and which territories, State and Federal , he has supported and maintained. If the esteemed citizen, respect and good opinions of his neighbors be an evidence of the respect in which Mr. Lewis was held by his neighbors, then indeed may he be said to have led a most blessing and upright life. For more than forty years he had been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
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On reverse He was a devoted Methodist for more than 45 years and the pioneer of Missouri crossing the Mississippi river at St. Louis January 5, 1795 when the population of St. Louis was only 200.
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- Augustus Washington Lewis 1824–1859 FaG
- Philander Preston "Phi" Lewis Sr 1825–1902 FaG
- Rufus Augustus Lewis 1827–1906 FaG
- Martrom Darby Lewis 1836–1910 FaG
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