May 16, 1945
When I copied the family record from “Dave Patton’s” Bible it was in the possession of Mrs. Jennie (Mary Jane) Lewis Aldrich, 1159 Garfield, Topeka, Kansas. I called upon her at her house on Jan. 29, 1944. It was her 94th birthday. She was not able to give me much data that I felt I could depend upon, only a few points which I give you in quotes here:
“ My father, James Lewis, was buried in the timber in Iroquois Co, Illinois.”
“William Riner, my first husband, was buried in Topeka, Kansas Cemetery.”
”My mother and her father’s sister were buried in Baker Cemetery, Jewel Co, Kansas.”
“I was born in Tippecanoe Co., Indiana ten miles east of Lafayette near Dayton, Indiana. I moved to Illinois when I was three years old.”
“This was my grandmother’s Bible.”
“My first husband and my three brothers served in the Civil War.” (end of quotes)
Mrs. Mary Jane (Jennie) Lewis Riner Aldrich b. Jan 29, 1850, died in November 1944. It is probably that the Dave Patton Bible is now in the possession of Burt Brown, 114 W. 15th Topeka. Mrs. Aldrich’s nephew.
(Mrs. J.C.) Melville Harper
Dave Patton Bible Record
Holy Bible
containing the Old and
New Testaments
Phildalphia
Printed and Published
by M. Carey
No. 121 chestnut Street
1815
Family Record
Page 1
Marriages
Dave Patton and Abigail
Marsh, his wife was married December 2nd 1794.
John S. Patton and Jane
Bull his wife was married October 18, 1825.
[my ? appears to show
there was something difficult to read. I took it to be ‘A.D’
Joseph H (?) Patton and
Amanda, his wife, was married June 5, 1834.
James Lewis and Lydia
his wife was married August the 7th 1834
Alpheus Lewis and Mary
Louisa his wife was married September 23,1856 (?)
William Riner and Mary
Jane his wife was married December 31, 1867
end of page 1
Page 2
Births
Uriah Beery (?) born 20th
day of February 1811 [spelling of Beery was uncertain]
Matilda born Aug 1812
Sara Louisa born July
1814
Births of David Patton Family
David Patton was born March
16, 1772
His wife Abigail was born
June 13, 1776
Elizabeth Patton 1st daughter
was born May 6, 1796
John S. Patton 1st son
was born May 6, 1793
Christopher D. Patton
was born June 7, 1801
Jacob M. Patton 3rd son
was born Jan 30, 1803
William Patton 4th son
was born Nov 26, 1806
Robeson M. Patton 5th
son was born Oct 4 1808
J. Henry Patton 6th son
was bon July 30, 1811
Lydia Patton b. Oct. 2,
1818
Mary Jane Lewis was b.
Jan 29, 1850
end of page 2
Page 3
James Lewis was born December
18 in the year of our Lord 1811
Alpheus Lewis first son
was born September the 19th in the year of our Lord 1835
Thomas Lewis 2nd son was
born Dec 29 in the year of our Lord 1837
Calvin Lewis 3rd son was
born Dec 29 in the year of our Lord 1840
William Lewis 4th son
was born Feb. 25 in the year of our Lord 1840
Sarah Ann Lewis 1st daughter
was born March 29 in the year of our Lord 1844
David Lewis fifth son
was born April 9 in the year of our Lord 1847
Deaths
Jacob Been (spelling of Been uncertain) departed this life the 6th day of July and year 1816
William Patton died Nov.
12, 1807
David Patton died September
17, 1821 was in the fiftieth year of his age
John Stoten Patton departed
this life September 28, 1935
Elizabeth Kemp departed
this life Aug. 23, 1841, aged 65 years, 1 mo &10 days
end of page 3
Page 4
Deaths
James Lewis departed this
life Aug. 30, 1855
Lydia Lewis died [Mch?]
1882
Look up tombstone in Baker
Cemetery
End of Bible Record
Notes in connection with the Patton-Lewis family from Clerk of County Court of Iroquois Co. Ill. He states that there was an estate of
Elias Brown who died April
27, 1884
“Widow Catherine Brown
and children
Samuel
William
John
Margaret Freeman
Phoebe Lewis
Celestia Lewis
Dora Lewis
daughters of Louisa Lewis, deceased
Record {Executors] A. Page
192, Iroquois, Co. IL
* Catherine Brown is said
to have been Catherine Stout
Mary Louisa Brown
b. 9-16- 1838
dt Thom and Elizabeth
[Bowdle}Brown d. 8-17-1886 Onarga, IL cemetery
mar 9-23-1856
[?] Bible record
*Alpheus Lewis b.
9-19-1835 Bible record
d. at 34 yr, 9 mo, 3d Onarga Cemetery record
Phoebe Jane Brown
b. 10-20-1849 Watseka, IL
dt Thos and Elizabeth
[Bowdle] Brown d. 9 1894 Burr Oak, Jewel
Co., KS
mar 6-23-1868
Iroquois Co, IL Mar Book A, page 18
*William Lewis b
2-24-1842 Tippecanoe Co, IN near Dayton
d. 4-9-1883 said to be buried at Perrysville, Vermilion Co, Ind
*Sons of James and Lydia (Patton) Lewis
The Lewis family of record
here is the family of Thomas and Anna Lewis, who
moved to Sheffield Township
around 1830. (land patent April, 1829). The land patent states that
Thomas Lewis lived in Butler County, Ohio at the time of issue.
Thomas Lewis (a.1778-1870)
Anna Lewis (a.1778-1870) They are buried in
Baker Cemetery, Sheffield
Township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana.
Their children were:
- Henry B. Lewis (1797-1889)
( lived in Clinton County) Buried in Baker
Cemetery near his parents
Elizabeth Lewis Miller
(1803-1881) m. George Miller in Butler Co., Ohio.
Buried in Burr Oak, Kansas
Jane Lewis Mattix ( 1808--??) m. Jacob Mattix---prob in Butler Co., Ohio
James Alpheus Lewis (1811-1855) Buried in Iroquois County, Illinois
My line: James
Alpehus Lewis and Lydia Patton were married in Tippecanoe
County on August 7, 1834
(consent from her mother Abigail Patton and her
brother Joseph Henry Patton).
Lydia Patton Lewis was born in Butler County,
Ohio and died in Burr
Oak, Kansas (1818-1882)
The children of James
and Lydia Lewis were all born in Sheffield Township,
Tippecanoe County, Indiana.
Alpheus Lewis (1835-1872) buried in Ornarga, Illinois (m. Mary
Louisa
Brown)
Thomas Lewis (1837-1934) buried in Burr Oak, Kansas
Calvin Lewis (1840-1926) buried in Burr Oak, Kansas
William Lewis (1842-1883) buried in Onarga, Illinois (m. Phoebe Brown)
Sarah A. Lewis (1844-1910) buried in Kansas (m. Benjamin Brown)
David Lewis (1847-1920) buried in Onarga, Illinois
Mary Jane (Jenny) Lewis (1850-1944) buried in Burr Oak, Kansas (m.
William
Riner, m. Ziby Aldrich)
* note: Mary Louisa and Phoebe Brown were sisters.
My grandmother Hazel Lewis
Parsons (1895-1993) was the next to youngest
child of Calvin Lewis
(from his third marriage).