Lea Lewis

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*Born in Big Spring, Howard County, Texas. Parents: Curtis E. Lewis (b. Bremen, Haralson, Georgia, USA) and Frankie 'Fran' Costley Lewis (b. Buchanan, Haralson, Georgia, USA . One younger sibling, Nancy Kaye Lewis (m. Allen Pierce Smith), also born in Big spring, Texas.
*Retired Educator (English, Drama/Speech)
*Writer (Poetry, Christian/Historical Fiction, Memoir, and Family History)
*Descendant of the Lewis, Kierbow, Long, Costley, Hilburn, Kelley, and Swann families of Haralson County, Georgia; and the Steelman (also Stillman), Moody, Mitchell, Treglawn, and Collier families of Polk County, Georgia. There are many ancestral names beyond these, but these are the family names to the forth and fifth generations of my family lineage.
*Traced ancestry to the British Isles (Ireland, Scotland, England), and Finland through the Kierbow line on my father's side. Native American (Cherokee on my mother's side; traced through the Steelman/Hilburn/Costley/Shepard/Watkins line.)
*Involved in family history and research for close to two decades.

*Born in Big Spring, Howard County, Texas. Parents: Curtis E. Lewis (b. Bremen, Haralson, Georgia, USA) and Frankie 'Fran' Costley Lewis (b. Buchanan, Haralson, Georgia, USA . One younger sibling, Nancy Kaye Lewis (m. Allen Pierce Smith), also born in Big spring, Texas.
*Retired Educator (English, Drama/Speech)
*Writer (Poetry, Christian/Historical Fiction, Memoir, and Family History)
*Descendant of the Lewis, Kierbow, Long, Costley, Hilburn, Kelley, and Swann families of Haralson County, Georgia; and the Steelman (also Stillman), Moody, Mitchell, Treglawn, and Collier families of Polk County, Georgia. There are many ancestral names beyond these, but these are the family names to the forth and fifth generations of my family lineage.
*Traced ancestry to the British Isles (Ireland, Scotland, England), and Finland through the Kierbow line on my father's side. Native American (Cherokee on my mother's side; traced through the Steelman/Hilburn/Costley/Shepard/Watkins line.)
*Involved in family history and research for close to two decades.

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