Dr. ANDERSON Meriwether Lewis

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• Fraternity: Masons

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Dr. Meriwether Lewis Anderson
Dr. Meriwether Lewis Anderson (1805-1862) studied Medicine at the University of Virginia, but graduated medical school from the University of Pennsylvania. He and Lucy Sydnor Harper married on June 16, 1831 and resided in Mississippi for a short while until returning to Locust Hill. They were childless for several years, during which time the couple served as adoptive parents for several orphaned children. Eventually, the couple parented three children: Meriwether L.(II), Charles Harper, and Mary Miller.
Dr. Lewis was also a mason, and his wife awarded the degree allowed to the wives of Masons.

Meriwether married HARPER Lucy Sydnor on 16 Jun 1831. Lucy and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Edmund Anderson
Edmund Anderson (1763-1810) was the first person to be buried at Locust Hill graveyard. He was married to Lucy Meriwether Lewis Anderson, Meriwether Lewis's sister. His mother-in-law, Lucy Meriwether Lewis Marks intended to start the graveyard to bury Meriwether, but it was too difficult for her to find someone to bring the body back from Tennesee, where he died of a gunshot wound. Edmund's death, as well as that of a neighbor, encouraged Mrs. Marks to go ahead and start the cemetery. He was the father of nine children.

Edmund married LEWIS Jane Meriwether. Jane (daughter of LEWIS William and MERIWETHER Lucy) was born on 5 Mar 1770; died on 15 Mar 1845. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Jane Meriwether Anderson
Jane Meriwether Lewis Anderson "Jane M." (1770-1845) was the last surviviving of William Lewis's children. She stayed with her mother, Lucy Meriwether Lewis Marks for the majority of her life, remaining with her in Georgia after Meriwether had returned to Virginia, and returning to live with her mother at Locust Hill after her husband, Edmund Anderson died in 1810. (Go to Edmund Anderson's grave).
She and Edmund Anderson parented nine children- Dr. Meriwether Lewis, Edmond, Jane, Anne, Sarah, Lucy Elizabeth Thornton, David, and William Lewis. McAllister, 1906

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• Military: Revolutionary War

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William Lewis was born about 1735, in Albemarle County, Virginia, the child of Robert and Jane. He married Lucy Meriwether about 1769. They had one child during their marriage. He died on November 17, 1779, in Albemarle County, Virginia, at the age of 44.

Clover Fields Cemetery Albemarle Co., VA
Lieut William Lewis Birth: 1748 VA Death: Nov. 14, 1779 Albemarle Co., VA William Lewis was the father of Capt. Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. NOTE: The dates on his gravestone, erected by the DAR many years after his burial, are questionable. He probably was born between 1734 and 1738. His wife Lucy (Meriwether) stated that he died in 14 Nov 1779 and she remarried in 1780. The existence of the 1780 inventory of his estate, tends to confirm the 1779 [death] date. Family links: Parents: Robert Lewis (1702 - 1765) Jane Meriwether Lewis (1705 - 1757) Spouse: Lucy Meriwether Marks (1752 - 1837)* Children: Jane Meriwether Lewis Anderson (1770 - 1845)* Lucinda Lewis (1772 - ____)* Meriwether Lewis (1774 - 1809)* Reuben Lewis (1777 - 1844)* Siblings: Anne Lewis* Nicholas Lewis (1734 - 1808)* Mary Lewis (Cobbs) Thomson (1735 - 1812)* William Lewis (1748 - 1779) William Lewis (1748 - 1779)* *Calculated relationship Note: TMSI [659] Burial: Clover Fields Cemetery Albemarle Co., VA Maintained by: The Meriwether Society, ... Originally Created by: Sharon Sabel Pike Record added: Feb 15, 2003 Find A Grave Memorial# 7188221 NOTE INCORRECT DATES ON GRAVESTONE SOURCE: Online @http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi

(Medical):In November of 1779, William Lewis died of Pneumonia.

Military:
Lt.

William married MERIWETHER Lucy. Lucy (daughter of MERIWETHER Thomas and THORNTON Elizabeth) was born on 4 Feb 1752 in North Garden, Albemarle, Virginia, USA; died in 1837 in North Garden, Albemarle, Virginia, USA; was buried in North Garden, Albemarle, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Lucy Meriwether Lewis Marks
Lucy Meriwether was born at Cloverfields on February 4, 1752. She married William Lewis of Locust Hill; he died in 1779 and she married Captain John Marks six months later. Lucy Meriwether was well known in Albemarle County throughout her adult life. Besides being the mother of the famed explorer, she had medical skills and often rode throughout the county to treat the sick. Even into old-age, she thought nothing of riding several miles to go treat an ill acquaintance.
She is reported to have notable culinary and intellectual skills as well. She could not afford many books, but collected a small library throughout her life. In her will, she was careful to address the dispersion of the books among her offspring; appraisers valued the total collection at the modern equivalent of several hundred dollars.
With regards to her cooking, Thomas Jefferson reportedly remarked "Merriwether Lewis' mother made very nice hams-better than even Monticello could produce."
A male acquaintance once described her as having a perfect person and complimented her on having "activity beyond her sex." She even scared away a crowd of rowdy British soldiers during the time that she lived at Locust Hill, her husband's family's home, with a rifle. That rifle came in handy as well when a hunting party from Locust Hill failed to kill a deer. A deer however had been cornered onto the grounds of Locust Hill by the party hounds, and Mrs. Lewis-Marks shot it and turned it into a succulent dinner before the party even returned.
Lucy Meriwether Lewis Marks gave birth to Jane Meriwether Lewis, Meriwether Lewis, Lucinda Lewis (who died in childhood) and Reuben Lewis while married to William Lewis and John Marks and Mary Garland Marks while married to Captain John Marks. Both Reuben and John (II) grew up to become doctors, taking after their mother's medicinal abilities.
Lucy Meriwether Lewis Marks was widowed a second time in 1791. She returned to Albemarle for good, and Locust Hill became her property after Meriwether's mysterious death in 1809. She started the Locust Hill Graveyard in 1810, probably on the hopes that she could have Meriwether's body re-interred there from Tennessee, and because her son-in-law Edmund Anderson and a neighbor died that year and needed to be buried. She lived there until her death in 1837 with her widowed daughter Jane Lewis Anderson.

Buried:
She started the Locust Hill Graveyard in 1810, probably on the hopes that she could have Meriwether's body re-interred there from Tennessee, and because her son-in-law Edmund Anderson and a neighbor died that year and needed to be buried. She lived there until her death in 1837 with her widowed daughter Jane Lewis Anderson.

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Robert Lewis was born on May 4, 1702, in Gloucester County, Virginia, the child of John and Elizabeth. He married Jane Meriwether and they had one son together in 1735. He then married Elizabeth Thornton in 1757 in Louisa County, Virginia. He died on January 10, 1765, in Albemarle County, Virginia, at the age of 62, and was buried in Rivanna, Virginia.

Children
John LEWIS b: 31 AUG 1726 in "Chemokins", St. Peters Parish, New Kent County, Virginia
Jane LEWIS b: 1 Jan 1727/8 in Hanover County, Virginia
Elizabeth LEWIS b: 1729 in Hanover County, Virginia
Anne LEWIS b: ABT 1731 in Virginia
Mary LEWIS b: ABT 1732 in Virginia
Nicholas LEWIS b: 19 Jan 1733/4 in "Belvoir", Hanover County, Virginia
Charles LEWIS b: Between 27 Apr 1734 and 1 Sep 1736 in Virginia
William LEWIS b: ABT 1735 in Virginia
Mildred LEWIS b: 1 SEP 1737 in Albemarle County, Virginia
Robert LEWIS b: ABT 1739 in Virginia
Sarah LEWIS b: ABT 1745 in "Belvoir", Albemarle County, Virginia
Isabella LEWIS

There is Lake Meriweather there, possible named for her family

Colonel Robert Lewis married Jane Meriwether, the daughter of Nicholas Meriwether II and Elizabeth Crawford, and established a new estate at Belvoir. This was the first of 11 intermarriages between the Meriwether and Lewis families. Robert Lewis amassed a large amount of land in Goochland and Albemarle Counties throughout his life, which he later divided among his children. He acquired the land in Ivy Depot, VA in 1740. Locust Hill, the childhood home of Meriwether Lewis, was built on this land, and Meriwether's father was the first Lewis to inhabit it. (Meriwether, 1964)

Col Robert Lewis
Birth: May 4, 1702 Gloucester Co., VA
Death: Jan. 10, 1765 VA

Robert Lewis was the third son of Col. John Lewis and Elizabeth Warner. He was born at Warner Hall in Gloucester County, the family home of his mother. He married Jane Meriwether (1705-1757), the daughter of Nicholas Meriwether and Elizabeth Crafford. They had eleven children. Robert Lewis had land in Gloucester but he deeded that to his eldest son, John Lewis of "Halifax" and opted, along with his father-in-law, Nicholas Meriwether, to push out to unoccupied lands in the Piedmont area of Virginia. "Both took out grants for themselves of thousands of acres, being good judges of fertile, well watered selections." (Anderson, p. 62) In 1736, he obtained a grant for 4,000 acres on the Hardware River, and in 1740, he took a grant for 6,500 acres on Ivy Creek. Along with other grants, he accumulated a total of 21,660 acres, enabling him to bequeath land to all of his children. He also held an interest in 100,000 acres in Greenbrier County (now West Virginia). He built his home, "Belvoir," in the part of Louisa County that joined Albemarle County in 1761, apparently near the location of this cemetery. He served in the House of Burgesses 1744-1746 and was County Lieutenant for Louisa County. After his wife's death, Robert Lewis married Elizabeth Thornton in 1761, grandmother of Meriwether Lewis. Elizabeth's 1st husband Thomas was a son of Jane Meriwether's brother David.
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Parents:
John Lewis (1669 - 1725)
Elizabeth Warner Lewis (1672 - 1720)
Spouses:
Jane Meriwether Lewis (1705 - 1757)
Elizabeth Thornton Lewis*
Children:
Anne Lewis*
Nicholas Lewis (1734 - 1808)*
Mary Lewis (Cobbs) Thomson (1735 - 1812)*
William Lewis (1748 - 1779)*
William Lewis (1748 - 1779)*
Siblings:
John Lewis (1692 - 1754)*
Charles Lewis (1696 - 1779)*
Catherine Lewis (1702 - 1705)*
Isabella Lewis Clayton (1706 - 1742)*
*Calculated relationship
Burial: Belvoir Family Cemetery Rivanna, Albemarle Co., VA
Created by: Kaaren Crail Vining
Record added: Jan 15, 2006

Robert Lewis of "Belvoir" (1702 - 1765) & Jane Meriwether
Robert Lewis was the third son of Col. John Lewis and Elizabeth Warner. He was born at Warner Hall in Gloucester County, the family home of his mother. He married Jane Meriwether (1705-1745/55), the daughter of Nicholas Meriwether and Elizabeth Crawford. They had eleven children. Robert Lewis had land in Gloucester but he deeded that to his eldest son, John Lewis of "Halifax" and opted, along with his father-in-law, Nicholas Meriwether, to push out to unoccupied lands in the Piedmont area of Virginia. "Both took out grants for themselves of thousands of acres, being good judges of fertile, well watered selections." (Anderson, p. 62) In 1736, he obtained a grant for 4,000 acres on the Hardware River, and in 1740, he took a grant for 6,500 acres on Ivy Creek. Along with other grants, he accumulated a total of 21,660 acres, enabling him to bequeath land to all of his children. He also held an interest in 100,000 acres in Greenbrier County (now West Virginia). He built his home, "Belvoir," in the part of Louisa County that joined Albemarle County in 1761. He served in the House of Burgesses 1744-1746 and was County Lieutenant for Louisa County. Of their eleven children, two played key roles in Lucy Meriwether Lewis Marks' life:
William Lewis of "Locust Hill" was Lucy's first husband.
Nicholas Lewis, who inherited "The Farm" from his grandfather Nicholas Meriwether, married Lucy's first cousin, Mary Walker, daughter of Dr. Thomas Walker and Lucy's aunt, Mildred Thornton
Of the remaining nine children, six of them married other Lewises.
After his wife's death, Robert Lewis married Elizabeth Thornton, Lucy's mother, in 1761.

At the time he made his Will, he was living in Fredericksville Parish,Louisa County. In the document, he named sons John, Nicholas, Robert,Charles, and William; daughters Jane Meriwether, Mary Cobbs, MildredLewis, Sarah Lewis, Ann Lewis (wife of John Lewis), Children "nowliving" were named as John Lewis, Jane Meriwether, Aaron Lewis,Nicholas Lewis, Mary Cobbs, Mildred Lewis, Robert Lewis (infant),Charles Lewis, William Lewis, Sarah Lewis. A daughter ElizabethBarrett was referred to as deceased. The absence of his wife fromthis document indicates she was also already deceased.

Robert married MERIWETHER Jane in 1725 in Greenville, Augusta, Virginia, USA. Jane (daughter of Col MERIWETHER Nicholas, Jr. and CRAWFORD Elizabeth) was born about 1705 in Greensville County, Virginia; died before Sep 1757; was buried in Cismont, Albemarle County, VA ("Belvoir"). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married:
Jane died before Sep 1757 in Albemarle County, probably at "Belvoir." About 1758, Robert Lewis married Elizabeth (Thornton) Meriwether, widow of Jane's nephew, Thomas Meriwether. There were no children by this marriage and Robert died before December 1765, when his will was proved. (Robert was the paternal grandfather and Elizabeth was the maternal grandmother of Capt. Meriwether Lewis. The Meriwethers & Lewises of the day liked to keep family connections close.)

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I am looking over some of the documents I have on my ancestors, who served in the Revolutionary War, and took note of the signatures. For some reason they just jumped out at me, and I thought they would be of interest to the list.

The Document I have is from Ambrose Lewis, who is the brother of my direct ancestor Charles Lewis. Ambrose and Charles served in the Revolutionary War as Seamen and Foot Soldiers. The document I have is a certification that Ambrose Lewis, is entitled to the proportion of land allowed a Sailor of the State Navy for three years service, and it is signed (it looks like December, or September), 21st 1783. There are two signatures, one is Thomas Meriwether, and the other is Benjamin Harrison. I believe this is the Thomas Meriwether who married his cousin Jane Meriwether.

Benjamin Harrison was the governor of Virginia at that time. Ambrose Lewis went to Washington DC after his pension was suspended. It was there that he petitioned the senate to have his military service at the Battle of Camden SC added to the record. He finally won, but his land bounty certificate was used by his heirs.

This short document has quite a bit of historical information on it.

Anita


Col. David Meriwether married Ann Holmes and had a son, Thomas. This Thomas Meriwether married Elizabeth Thornton, and had 11 children, including Lucy Meriwether , the mother of Meriwether Lewis. Ann also gave birth to Colonel Nicholas Meriwether (the first Meriwether to live at Cloverfields with his wife, Margaret Douglas) (Anderson, 1984) , Francis, David, Mary, Elizabeth, Sarah, Ann, Mildred, Thomas, and Jane. You will notice by now that the Meriwether family tended to recycle the same name every generation, and occasionally more than once a generation. This has become very confusing to genealogists. Many have confused which Nicholas married who, and who exactly was Meriwether Lewis' grandfather. This presentation streamlines the family to list those who directly pertain to the explorers to clarify the connections.

Thomas married THORNTON Elizabeth. Elizabeth and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]