Personal History VI -- Family Background-Lewis Side (updated)

Family Background– Lewis side (updated)
    The earliest Lewis for whom we have much knowledge is William Langston Lewis.  He and his family were living in Guilford County (now Rockingham) in 1773 just before the start of the Revolutionary War.  He was a signer of a petition regarding the location of the County Courthouse.  It is thought that he and his family were a part of group migration from coastal North Carolina.  He may have been born in England according to some sources and entered this continent in South Carolina.
    The Lewis ancestry appears to be largely from the British Isles, based on my own DNA tests and the surnames that appear on our genealogical history.  I suspect but have not proven that some of our ancestry was Scots-Irish, in addition to those who were from other parts of the British Isles.  This immigrant group was made up of families who originated in lowland Scotland, from worn-out land in the crossfire between England and Scotland, then were drawn to the Ulster province of Northern Ireland by British invitation to establish an antidote to Catholic dominance of Ireland but then abandoned, and who migrated in great masses to America in the 1700s, largely populating the upland South, and who contributed much to the ethos of this area of our country, a generally tough, self-reliant, feisty, independent, and not especially literate people.  Rockingham County in the North Carolina Piedmont has been identified as dominated by this culture during its early years.  The Scots-Irish people came to this country with allegiance to the Scotch Presbyterian kirk (church), but in the South many of their descendants gravitated to other Protestant churches, especially Baptist.  Names in our ancestry potentially with a Scots-Irish origin might include Robertson, Jackson, Johnson, Jones, Davis, Wilson, etc.
    During the Revolutionary War, William Langston Lewis was a volunteer and an officer in the Guilford County militia (the Guilford Rangers) which fought on the side of the American colonies.  He saw action in the battles for Cross Creek (Fayetteville) and Moore’s Creek bridge, was part of an expedition across the mountains to remove a threat by the Cherokee Nation (they had sided with the British), and fought in the decisive Battle of Guilford Courthouse, which badly damaged Cornwallis’ army and led to their surrender at Yorktown in 1781.
    William L. acquired ownership of several large tracts of land in the Rockingham County area as grants from the state of North Carolina.  This was land that the State confiscated from absentee British land-owners as part of the Americanizing of land titles by the North Carolina legislature during the war for independence.  He may have received some preferences in this due to his military service.  But he soon sold this property and then died prematurely leaving a widow and a number of children.
    William L.’s son John Penn Lewis had a farm on Matrimony Creek on the Henry County Virginia-Rockingham County North Carolina border.  The next Lewis generations then relocated to up on the Blue Ridge in Patrick County, Virginia, in a small community later called Vesta near the town of Meadows of Dan.  This was the living place of most for our Lewis family until my grandfather A. G. Lewis came west to Washington State in 1908.
    My grandfather, A. G.’s parents, Martin Elkanah Lewis and Letitia Mason, had eight children, including seven boys.  According to his grandson, Tom Newman, at some point, perhaps about 1886, Martin E. took his wife and younger sons to St. Louis, where he had a teaching job.  They stayed 4 years.  Letitia was sad and wanted to be near her family and returned to Virginia, while Martin E. went to Texas.  Letitia and the younger children were all living with Martin’s parents, William and Sarah Robertson Lewis, in the 1900 census, along with Letitia’s even more elderly mother, Ruth Philpott Mason.  Martin E. provided some support and returned home for visits from time to time.  That Martin E. was home in Virginia at the time of his father's death in 1914, we know because he supplied the death certificate information to the state of Virginia.  But he himself died in Dallas, Texas in 1919.
    Tom Newman was a son of Jettie, who was a the only sister of A. G., and my Dad’s first cousin.  He lived in Roanoke, Virginia.  He supplied quite a lot of Lewis genealogical information to my mother after she and my dad met him on one of their trips to Virginia after their retirement.  Wendy and I also got acquainted with their daughter Elaine while on our mission.  At that time, she was disabled and being cared for in a nursing home.  My mother called Elaine “my convert” because after their visits with her family, Elaine was taught by our missionaries and joined the Church.  Here is a short biographical sketch:
     Graduate of William Byrd High School in Vinton, VA and received a Batchelors of Science degree from Longwood College, Farmville, VA, with a major in History.  At graduation, she received a certificate to teach.  Diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis at age 27.  Worked at the Passport Office in Washington, DC and for the U. S Postal Service (Roanoke Office). Retired with a medical disability.  Interests include reading and family history.  Was a convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1978.  Spent many years as a teacher and worker in the children's program of the Church.
     Obituary
NEWMAN, Nancy Elaine  Nov 13, 2019
November 8, 2019 Nancy Elaine Newman, 70, of Roanoke, Va., went to be with her Heavenly Father on Friday, November 8, 2019. She is survived by her loving brother-in-law, Jack Smith; and very special friend, Darla Anderson [from the Roanoke ward].  Services will be held at 2 p.m. on Friday, November 15, 2019, at Oakey's Vinton Chapel. Interment to follow at Fair View Cemetery.
    My grandmother, India Agee’s family, had lived in the Floyd/Montgomery County area of Virginia for a number of generations.  (Floyd County lies just northeast of Patrick County and was formed out of Montgomery County in 1831.)  The Agee name (pronounced A G just like the letters say) is French.  They were members of a Protestant religious group called the Huguenots.  The Huguenots suffered severe persecution at the hands of the Catholic majority in the late 16th century, and many escaped to Holland and England, and then immigrated to America.  Our ancestors lived initially in a Huguenot settlement in Manikin Town in Goochland County, Virginia, but from there, moved into the mountains of southwestern Virginia.  Religion-wise the Huguenots were Calvinist, but seemed not to have maintained a unique church for themselves in America.  Our Agee ancestors appeared to have found a religious home in the emerging Primitive Baptist faith.
    There is also a second Huguenot line further back in our Agee ancestry, with the surname of Bilbo or Bilbeau.
    There were also English lines in my grandma’s paternal ancestry.
    Many of the ancestors of my Grandma Lewis’ mother came from a German Lutheran background.  We found lots of records for them in the old Zion Lutheran church of the town of Floyd, in Floyd county and before that Montgomery country, Virginia.  The surnames included the names Gilham, Epperly (Eberle), Guttekinst, Sauer, Beheler.  Some of these early church records were in German.  I do not know in what time period these persons came to America.
    The marriage of A G Lewis to India Agee was the second for both of them.

My grandfather, A. G. Lewis
    Aubrey Gordon Lewis was born April 22, 1880 in Vesta, Patrick, Virginia, the son of Martin Elkanah Lewis and Letitia A. Mason.  He died 2 Feb 1950 in White Salmon, Klickitat, Washington.  He was buried in the Mt. Adams Cemetery, Glenwood, Klickitat, Washington.
    A.G.’s first wife was Laura Belle Justice who he married on 17 Apr 1902 in Meadows of Dan, Patrick, Virginia.
    Regarding Laura Belle Justice Lewis and a child born to A.G.'s first marriage, a letter from Eugene Newman, dated 6 Jul 1963, states "My mother [Jettie Lewis Newman] said that she [Laura Belle] died in Jan 1903 and the baby died and was not named."  However, our cousin Marylin Davis reported to my sister Dorothy that the baby lived, was cared for by relatives and when A.G. and India went west, to Washington state, they eventually lost track of the child.  "I asked her if she were interested in some of genealogy that we have been finding, and she said that once when she was sick, she had spent the day with Grandma and Grandpa Lewis.  She always wondered why she was so dark, and they told her that she had French ancestry through the Agees.  They were evidently talking about other things when Grandpa told her that he had been married before, and his wife, Laura Belle Justice, died in childbirth, leaving him with a baby girl.  He said that he had to work and was having to travel and couldn't care for her.  Her family took her, and he somehow lost touch with them because of his and their moves.  I had the impression that Grandma was in on this conversation, so must have thought all this was true.  It's strange that they would then tell our mother as she was collecting family history that this child was stillborn."  (Recorded by REL 3 Nov 2003, revised 29 Jul 2007.)
    Here is more discussion about this child.  Assuming that Marylin's report was true I attempted to see what if I could confirm from the family history records.  First, I tried to find Laura Belle's family origins.  Her marriage record named her mother as B. Justice.  No father was named.  Was she born out of wedlock?  The surname Justice was not common among families living in Patrick County and vicinity and seemed to have been spelled in more than one way, for example Jestes.  I found one large Justice family living in the area, that of John Justice and wife Mary Ann "Polly" Hollingsworth. They had at least 11 children, who appeared in the 1850 and 1860 census records, and whose birth years ranged from about 1840 to 1859.  John, the dad, appear to have died in the Civil War.  A 1870 census record remains for Polly and youngest children.
    Most of the other children established families in Patrick county or the near vicinity.  I was impressed that this was a family that struggled.  They were mostly not literate.  There were census years lacking records.  An teenage older sister was living away from home as a housekeeper for another family.  I found a record of an illegitimate child in one of the next-generation families.
    Then I paid more attention to the name of the youngest child of John and Polly, Elizabeth, born about 1859.  Could this be the B. Justice who was the mother of Laura Belle, the B standing for Betsy or Betty?  If true, that would probably confirm that Laura Belle was illegitimate, with no dad in the picture.  I have not yet discovered records for Elizabeth after 1870, nor have I found any records for Laura Belle before her marriage to my grandfather, on 17 Apr 1902. The marriage record gives her age as 18, indicating that she was born about 1884.  There should have been at least an 1880 census record for her mother and a 1900 census record for Laura Belle. (Remember that the records for the 1890 census were destroyed in a 1921 fire in the Commerce Department building in Washington, DC). But I have not been able to locate any records naming either of these two ladies and I have tried to document all the next generation Justice families, plus have gone through 1910 Patrick County census records line-by-line.
    I did find one possible lead.  I found an intriguing census record for a John and Polly Justice granddaughter, named Jerusha Ada or Addie Fain Justice Wilson.  Her mother was an older sister of Elizabeth, Louise Justice who married Daniel Fain.  In 1910
Ada and her husband, Joseph N. Wilson, were listed as having an adopted daughter Luellen, whose age was in line with the age of a possible daughter of A G and Laura Belle Lewis.  Here is the record:
1910 U S Census for Blacksburg, Montgomery, Virginia (Sheet 16A, hh# 200/210, 17 May)
Joseph N Wilson  Head M W age 35  Mg1 for 13 years   b.VA   Fa b.VA   Mo b.VA  Carpenter
Ada G Wilson     Wife F W age 31  Mg1 for 13 years 0 children   b.VA   Fa b.VA   Mo b.VA
Louellen Wilson  Adopted-Dau F W age 6   b.VA   Fa b.UNK   Mo b.UNK
    At this point I have not been able to find more records about this Louellen person.  Her adoptive mother died in 1918 and the records for her father are indecisive.  I have yet to find any later records for for Luellen Wilson or Louellen Lewis.  I considered that she might have died and be buried near her mother, but could find no death or record there.  Good Virginia death and marriage records exist for her whole lifetime but I did not find anything with her name.
    The following is a summary of the lives of A. G. and India, composed by my mother.
Aubrey and India (Agee) Lewis came to Glenwood, Klickitat County, with their three children in the Spring of 1908.  They were from Meadows of Dan in the top of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Southern Virginia.  Their ancestors had come from the British Isles before the Revolutionary War.  One branch of the family also came from France, and another from Germany by way of Pennsylvania.
    “Aubrey Lewis was born April 22, 1880 and India Agee, January 10, 1884.  They were married March 16, 1905.  They traveled by train to The Dalles, Oregon, and then by steamboat on the Columbia river to Lyle, Wash.  Then by wagon they went over the hills to the Glenwood valley.  At first they lived in a house on “Snake Island” near Lakeside, and A. G. drove a team freighting lumber to White Salmon for Ed Huffsmith.  They used to enjoy fishing for catfish in the old canal.
    “They bought some land out on Sage Flat and over the years cleared off the big pine trees, and later on farmed it.  Water was a big problem, especially in the late summer and when the snow pack was low some winters.  A.G. worked hard to get more water to the valley by helping to form Hell Roaring Ditch Co.  A canal was built to carry the water from Hell Roaring creek on Mt. Adams and some of the Big Muddy and smaller creeks down to the farms. It took years and much time and money to build but the valley really depends on it now.  Meanwhile he operated grocery stores for a living, three years in Centralia and then in Glenwood, where about 50 bands of sheep came through on the way to the Mt. Adams range and needed supplies.  In 1925 they moved to Bingen where they had a grocery store and a wholesale feed business for several years.  They bought groceries and feed by the carload, as trains were the main transportation and hardly anyone had trucks or cars.
    “When the irrigation water came through they moved back to the ranch for about ten years, then they sold out and spent their retirement in Bingen.  A.G. enjoyed going after the mail and visiting with old friends.  Everywhere they lived India had a garden and flowers as she had a natural talent for them.  She enjoyed having the family get together and loved to cook for them.  Through the years out in Glenwood they enjoyed going to the old church at Lakeside, especially on Mother's Day, when people would come from all over for a program and pot luck.  In the early days the children would play one-o-cat while the older folks were inside having services.
    “The children of the Lewises are: Nancy (Kidd), Clarence, Grace (Davis), Harold, Edna (Woosley), Russell, Virginia (O'Grady) and Lorene (Ladiges).  (Written about 1980 by Hazel Lewis) “
    Here is the obituary for Aubrey Gordon Lewis:
    RITES HELD FOR A.G. LEWIS
    Aubrey Gorden Lewis was born in Vesta, Virginia on April 22, 1880. He married India Agee, March 16, 1905 in Meadows of Dan, Virginia and they moved to Glenwood in 1908.
    He bought 80 acres of brush and timber from the state and cleared and improved the land.  Over the years he operated grocery stores in Centralia, Glenwood and Bingen.  In 1948 he sold the ranch and retired to Bingen. He passed away at Skyline Hospital in White Salmon on February 2.   In April of this year he would have been 80 years of age.
    He is survived by his wife India and three sons, Clarence of Glenwood, Washiigton, Harold of Bingen, Washington, Russell of American Lake; and five daughters; Mrs. Henry Ladiges Jr., of Glenwood, Mrs. M. J. O'Grady of Hermiston, Oregon, Mrs. Verley Woosley of Hood River, Mrs. W. M. Davis of Glenwood, Washington and Mrs. Walter Kidd of Portland, Oregon and 17 grandchildren.
    He is also survived by a brother, Elmer, and a sister, Mrs. Jettie Newman, both of Vesta, Virginia.
    The funeral was held last Friday, February 5 at Gardners; burial was at the Glenwood cemetery and Kenneth O. Shellbach officiated.
(The Enterprise, White Salmon, WA., February 11, 1960, page 8)

My Grandmother, India Ada Melinda Agee:
    India Ada Melinda Agee was born 10 Jan 1884 in Floyd County, Virginia to John Thomas Agee and Mary Gilham Epperly.  She died 1 Jun 1966 in Bingen, Klickitat, Washington and was buried in the Mt. Adams Cemetery, Glenwood, Klickitat, Washington
    Here is a record of first marriage, to William Percy “Billy” Pendleton.
     Marriage: 23 Jul 1898. India A. Agee (age 16, of Floyd Co.) and Wm P. Pendleton (age 21, of Floyd) s/ of J. W. & Rosa B. Pendleton (Floyd Co. Va. Marriages).
    Notice that her age was given as age 16.   With a birthdate of Jan. 10, 1884, she was really only 14 when she first married.  This age was not too unusual for girls in that time and place.  The reported age of 16 probably means that she had parental permission.
    A year and a half later, 29 Mar 1900, Billy and India had a daughter that they named Nancy Olivia.
    Billy Pendleton died 9 Oct 1903 in Floyd County, Virginia, I understand, of tuberculosis, leaving India as the 19 year old Widow Pendleton, with a 3 year old daughter.  India married A. G. Lewis on March 16, 1905.  They first lived in a cabin on a hillside which was in Floyd County but just a few hundred feet north of the Patrick county line with closest town being Meadows of Dan.  While there she bore two more children, my father Clarence and my aunt Gracie.
    I visited the site of that cabin in 1901 after some meetings in Washington D.C.  Agee relatives in the area took me to the place.  We drove about an eighth of a mile south from the Mabry mill on the Blue Ridge parkway and pulled off on the side of the parkway. It was an easy hike of about 150-200 yards along the side of the hill westward to the site of the Lewis cabin.  I saw the remains of the fireplace and chimney of the Lewis cabin.  Foundation timbers were visible. The house was perhaps 15x20 feet in size.  I think I recall someone saying that it had two rooms.  A short way from the back of the house, I observed nearby a large Laurel (Rhododendron) bush and also a small gully just in front of the Laurel bush. That was the start of a small spring where the family got their water. It trickled down (northward) to a creek called  the Laurel Fork.  This site was east of the divide in Appalachians (the top of the ridge ), so the Laurel Fork, fed into Big Reed Island Creek, which ran west to the New River which became the Kanawha River and flowed through West Virginia to the Ohio River, which emptied into the Mississippi River, which flowed to the Gulf of Mexico, 1000 miles away.
    On my visit I also was able to observe a nearby site on the Laurel Fork where India’s father, John Thomas Agee, had owned and operated a grist mill that served farmers in the surrounding area and also see an old Agee family cemetery, which contained many family graves.
    This was her obituary:
DEATH CALLS INDIA LEWIS WHO WAS GIVEN CHOICE OF LIVING IN BINGEN
    Funeral services for Mrs. India Ada Lewis, 82, Bingen were held at 1 p.m. Tuesday, June 7 at Gardner's Chapel, White Salmon. The Rev. Kenneth Schellbach of Clatskanie, Ore. officiated. Burial was in Mt. Adams Cemetery, Glenwood.
    Bearers were sons and sons-in-law: Clarence Lewis, Harold Lewis, Verley Woosley, Henry Ladiges, Wallace Davis and Maurice O'Grady.
    India Ada Agee (who chose to live in Bingen because she loved it) was born Jan. 10, 1884 at Floyd, Virginia and was married to the late Aubrey Gordon Lewis on March 16, 1905 at Meadows of Dan, Va. where India's father owned a grist mill that is still in operation -- or was when Mr. and Mrs. Lewis celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1955.
    In April 1908 Mr. and Mrs. Lewis left their home on the crest of the Blue Ridge Mts. and moved west to Glenwood Valley in Washington where "A.G." bought 80 acres of sagebrush and timber for the state for $1085 and sold it 40 years later for $16,000.
    After freighting lumber and produce from Glenwood to Bingen from 1908-11, "A.G." moved his family to Centralia where he ran a store for three years before returning to Glenwood and building a house.
    The following fall, he started a grocery and feed store in Glenwood which he operated until 1915 [REL: 1925 is correct] when the Lewis family moved to Bingen to put their children in a better school [REL: I am doubtful about this latter being a motivation since he moved back to Glenwood while Lorene was still school age] and started another grocery which he sold to Tom Norby in 1936 to return to his beef and dairy ranch in Glenwood.
    When illness forced him to give up farming in 1948 "A.G." told India the she could choose their next place to live. She chose Bingen. After Mr. Lewis died on  Feb. 2, 1960 she continued to occupy their home where she died of a heart attack Wednesday night, June 1.
    She is survived by eight children, 17 grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren and one sister, Mrs. Frances Colburn of Meadows of Dan, Va.
    Her children, in chronological order, are Nancy, Mrs. Walter Kidd of Portland; Clarence of White Salmon; Grace, Mrs. W.M. Davis, Glenwood; Harold, postmaster of Bingen, [WA]; Edna, Mrs. Verley Woosley, Bingen; Russell, Spanaway, [WA], Virginia, Mrs. [Maurice] J. O'Grady, Hermiston, Ore.; and Lorene, Mrs. Henry Ladiges, Jr., Glenwood.
(The Mt. Adams Sun, Bingen, WA., June 9, 1966, page 4)

What I Remember about My Lewis Grandparents
    I remember my Grandma Lewis as being always jolly, positive, accepting, and encouraging.  She seemed pleased to have her grandchildren around.  Sometimes we were allowed, when little, to sleep over at her house all in a big bed in an upstairs bedroom.  She made it a happy gathering place for her family.
    She always kept a garden, and grew as much as she could, in the cold Glenwood climate, of vegetables like string beans and corn to feed her family.
    Usually she was in the kitchen.  But she had a card game called Pitch that she liked to play with us.
    I think that she was inwardly religious and approved when members of her family did religious things, although she did not attend service regularly at the Glenwood church.  She might have attended regularly, if someone had been more forward to provide transportation since she herself didn’t drive.  The Glenwood church was about a mile away from their house.
    When still living in Glenwood, before moving to Sunnyside in Yakima valley, her sister Olivia would pick her up for Sunday school.  I have a remembrance of the pair sitting together and both singing the hymns in high pitched squeaky voices.  I think my mother explained that this was the style used in their old Primitive Baptist congregations in Virginia.
    I understand that she was never baptized as a Primitive Baptist.  They were rather fussy and only baptized persons in their adulthood, and then only after the person had had some sort of conversion experience.  I also understand that they have had a terrible time holding on to their youth, and in many places in the South today there are unused Primitive Baptist churches and many less congregations than there used to be.  In fact, there was such an empty Primitive Baptist church on a major rural intersection no more than a mile from our Mt. Zion Branch building in our mission. Also, the Primitive Baptist church that Claudia Agee Harris attended in Meadows of Dan was only occasionally used, only when traveling ministers of the church came through. (Claudia was the daughter of Eden Agee, brother to Grandma Lewis.  Wendy and I were acquainted with her daughter Virginia Hodges, and visited her in Roanoke, VA, while on our mission.)
    Later, while living in Bingen, our missionaries found Grandma Lewis, and tried to teach her.  My mother said that she was positive and liked the elders and the doctrine they were teaching, until she found out she would have to give up her coffee to join, and that ended any further discussion.
    My cousins liked our Grandma a lot, and invented a name for her–Joy Joy Bunny.  We also had a name for our Grandpa–Skunky.  Sometimes when we saw him we would hold our noses when he came into the room.  The emphasis in our interactions with our Grandpa was almost entirely joking and teasing.  I recall that he sometimes played tricks on unwary grandchildren.  For example, he got a couple of forks from the kitchen and had a child sit down on the floor–it was linoleum– with legs spread apart.  Then he poured some flour or created a puddle of water in between the child’s legs.  He had the child take a fork in each hand with the tines downward.  He had a towel or rag in his hand.  He then challenged the child to keep him from wiping up the mess, and maybe feinted moving in to do this which the child generally resisted by poking at his hand with a fork.  Then quickly he would grab the child by the feet and pull them through the mess so that their bottom end and pants wiped up the water or flour.  I would never allow him to trick me, but some of my cousins fell for his jokes.
    I sometimes compared his personality to a character call “Boss Hog” in an old TV show called the Dukes of Hazard.  He was loud and obnoxious in a Southern way.  He retained his Southern drawl throughout his life.  But he had men friends who liked him and could laugh and joke with them.
    These were the Lewis children, in order of birth:
    1. Nancy Olivia Pendleton, born 29 Mar 1900 in Burks Fork Dist., Floyd, Virginia.
She married Walter E. Kidd  23 Jun 1926, in Vancouver, Clark, Washington.  They had no children.  She died 28 May 1981 in Clackamas County, Oregon.
    Although her father was William Pendleton, she was raised as a member of the Lewis family.  Aunt Nancy qualified herself to teach school and I believe she was a much loved elementary school teacher in Portland, Oregon.  I had special feelings about her also, because she also sent me a birthday card, and seemed to take a personal interest in me (and I suppose each of the other cousins also).  Aunt Nancy was a religious person, and attended some kind of Bible church in Portland.
    Her marriage seemed a little strange.  They lived apart most of the time.  Walter was an academic type and eventually acquired a Ph.D. in English literature.  He taught at various universities across the country.  He would usually come back to their home in Portland during summer vacations.
    2. Clarence Monroe Lewis, born 24 Jan 1906 in Floyd County Virginia (near Meadows of Dan).  Married Hazel Lufkin Davenport 18 Jan 1931 in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon.  They had three children, Donald, Robert, and Dorothy.  He died 14 Sep 1990.
    3. Grace Mary Lewis, born 31 Dec 1907 in Floyd County Virginia (near Meadows of Dan).  Married Wallace Marion Davis 31 May 1930 in Vancouver, Clark, Washington.  She had two children, Marylin and Evelyn.  She died 20 Mar 1983, in The Dalles, Wasco, Oregon.
    Aunt Gracie went to college and got a teacher’s certificate and was my first grade teacher.  She taught this class in Glenwood Schools for many years.  She was a member of the Presbyterian church, and served on the board of  Elders of the Glenwood church. Wallace ran a dairy farm in Glenwood.  I recall that he became increasingly unhappy and difficult over the years and a trial to Gracie and Evelyn.
    Dorothy and I were good friends to Marylin (note the unusual spelling) and Evelyn and liked to be with them at out Grandma’s place, although they were several years older than us.  They were both pretty girls and popular at school, especially Evelyn.  Marylin was engaged to be married and lost her fiancé to a tragic drowning.  She married another, but did not have any children.  Her husband died young.  She had a lot of love for and was close to nieces and nephews of her husband.
    Evelyn contracted epilepsy in her later teens years and began to have major seizures.  These were never effectively controlled.  She lived with her parents and became increasingly debilitated from falls and from the epilepsy over the years until she passed away at age 55.
    4. Harold Wilson Lewis, born 5 Nov 1913 in Glenwood, Klickitat, Washington.  Married Fern  Janet Baker, 28 Aug 1940 in Vancouver, Clark, Washington.  They had one son, Bruce.  Harold died 21 Mar 1996, in Hood River, Hood River, Oregon.
    Harold served in the military in World War II and was postmaster in Bingen, for many years.  I do not recall much else about them.
    5. Edna Letitia Lewis, born 7 Aug 1915, in Glenwood, Klickitat, Washington. Married 1) Edwin Harris (divorced, no children), and 2) Verley Roosevelt “Wig” Woosley, 31 Dec 1936 in Vancouver, Clark, Washington.  They had two children, Roger and Terry.  She died 18 May 1994 in Vancouver, Clark, Washington.
    I remember Edna as being a nice and kindly person.  She and her husband Wig were active members in some Protestant church.
    We liked Roger a lot.  I remember staying at his house a time or two when his family lived in Hood River.  Roger was always friendly and outgoing and fun to be with as a young man.  We have become reacquainted with him and his wife at family reunions.
    6. Russell Thomas Lewis, born 7 Apr 1917, in Glenwood, Klickitat, Washington.  Never married.  Died 5 Mar 1991, in Tacoma, Pierce, Washington.
    Uncle Russell became disabled because of his World War II experiences in the South Pacific and spent his entire adult life in an institution for veterans, in American Lake, Washington.
    7. Virginia Lillian Lewis, born 21 Jul 1919, in Glenwood, Klickitat, Washington. Married Maurice James “Micky” O’Grady, 4 Sep 1937, in , Skamania, Washington.  They had seven children, Judith, Barbara, Maurice Jr., Maureen, Dennis, Terence, and Karen.  She died 28 Sep 1994, in Silverton, Marion, Oregon.
    The dad, Micky, was a barber.  For much of the time when I was younger they lived in Hermiston, Oregon, then later in Portland.  We knew Judy and Barbara a little as they were closest to our own age.  Judy was trained as a nurse and married a doctor who was raised in Magna, Utah.  I recall that he had attended Judge Memorial High school, then went to medical school in Oregon.
    8. Anna Lorene Lewis, born 25 Jan 1924, in Glenwood, Klickitat, Washington. Married Henry Carl Ladiges, Jr., in Vancouver, Clark, Washington.  They had three children, Kathleen, Warren, and Anita.  She died 13 Apr 2018 in Glenwood, Klickitat, Washington.
    I remember Lorene as being friendly and kind.  She hosted Memorial Day Lewis family reunions at their farm in Glenwood.  We became reacquainted with her and her children, as we attended some of these reunions.  I also formed an adult friendship with Kathleen in the last few years.