Captain James Wilson Lewis - Genealogy of the Lewis Family in America by Wm. Terrill Lewis of Perryville, Winston County, Miss.

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1/4/2018 at 6:20 PM

James Wilson Lewis, son of Col. James, was born in 1785. His height was
about six feet one and a half inches, with light hair, blue eyes and fair complexion. He
was a lawyer by profession and yvtxs a member of the Masonic fraternity. He married
Martha Figuers about the year 1814, daughter of Major Figuers, of Wilson county,
Tennessee. Major Figuers was a gentleman of high standing and great respectability. J.
Wilson Lewis died, childless, in Wilson county, Tennessee. His widow married a Mr. Helm,
of Wilson county, Tennessee.

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1/4/2018 at 6:35 PM

Hmmm....now, is that one of the "English Helm"s, or the "German Helm"s? There's a bunch of both, and they all kept spreading out till they got to the West Coast. Along the way some of them picked up a terminal S and became Helmses. :-D

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Captain James Wilson Lewis - Genealogy of the Lewis Family in America by Wm. Terrill Lewis of Perryville, Winston County, Miss.

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