VERNON VERE LEWIS was the son of EDGAR WEBSTER LEWIS and CARRIE MAE BROWNELL of Albion, Calhoun Co, Michigan, where VERE was born. His parents were divorced when he was in his late teens and his mother remarried to EDGAR BARBER after she returned to Michigan. MAE died in MI in 1922.
In 1910, at age 17, VERNON was living as a boarder at the home of OTIS and LIZZIE POND in Jackson City, Jackson Co., MI. At that time he worked in an auto factory as a "switch boy" on the "electric road" according to the census.
On 26 July 1913 VERE married LELA DOSSON in Jackson, MI. LELA suffered from bad health such that they felt she would do better in a dry climate, which the Willamette Valley of western Oregon did not provide. VERE and LELA moved across the Cascade Mountains to Hermiston, OR to live with VERE'S father EDGAR LEWIS in 1917-18. VERE then made two or three trips to Echo, OR before finally settling permanently with LELA on a ranch in the Stanfield area near Hermiston, OR in Sept of 1923.
Their known children:
1) Mona Pauline Lewis (1916–2013)
2) Harry Dosson Lewis (1924-1994)
The family farmed near Stanfield, not far from Hermiston, for many years. VERE'S father EDGAR and stepmother Alice KELLY are buried in Olney cemetery, Pendleton, Umatilla Co., OR.
VERE was married to LELA until her death on 20 Dec 1954. He later married ORREL CAMPBELL HUGHES (b. 25 Jan 1904 - d. 23 Feb 1998). VERE was always a farmer and later a farm manager. He managed some dairy farms and continued to practice general farming like his father had done, producing whatever the market called for.
Sources: Federal censuses for 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, and 1940. View Source
Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867-1952. Oregon Marriages, 1906-1920.
Military: WW I draft registration card, U.S. World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942.
Family history. SS death index.
In 1910, at age 17, VERNON was living as a boarder at the home of OTIS and LIZZIE POND in Jackson City, Jackson Co., MI. At that time he worked in an auto factory as a "switch boy" on the "electric road" according to the census.
On 26 July 1913 VERE married LELA DOSSON in Jackson, MI. LELA suffered from bad health such that they felt she would do better in a dry climate, which the Willamette Valley of western Oregon did not provide. VERE and LELA moved across the Cascade Mountains to Hermiston, OR to live with VERE'S father EDGAR LEWIS in 1917-18. VERE then made two or three trips to Echo, OR before finally settling permanently with LELA on a ranch in the Stanfield area near Hermiston, OR in Sept of 1923.
Their known children:
1) Mona Pauline Lewis (1916–2013)
2) Harry Dosson Lewis (1924-1994)
The family farmed near Stanfield, not far from Hermiston, for many years. VERE'S father EDGAR and stepmother Alice KELLY are buried in Olney cemetery, Pendleton, Umatilla Co., OR.
VERE was married to LELA until her death on 20 Dec 1954. He later married ORREL CAMPBELL HUGHES (b. 25 Jan 1904 - d. 23 Feb 1998). VERE was always a farmer and later a farm manager. He managed some dairy farms and continued to practice general farming like his father had done, producing whatever the market called for.
Sources: Federal censuses for 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, and 1940. View Source
Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867-1952. Oregon Marriages, 1906-1920.
Military: WW I draft registration card, U.S. World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942.
Family history. SS death index.
VERNON VERE LEWIS was the son of EDGAR WEBSTER LEWIS and CARRIE MAE BROWNELL of Albion, Calhoun Co, Michigan, where VERE was born. His parents were divorced when he was in his late teens and his mother remarried to EDGAR BARBER after she returned to Michigan. MAE died in MI in 1922.
In 1910, at age 17, VERNON was living as a boarder at the home of OTIS and LIZZIE POND in Jackson City, Jackson Co., MI. At that time he worked in an auto factory as a "switch boy" on the "electric road" according to the census.
On 26 July 1913 VERE married LELA DOSSON in Jackson, MI. LELA suffered from bad health such that they felt she would do better in a dry climate, which the Willamette Valley of western Oregon did not provide. VERE and LELA moved across the Cascade Mountains to Hermiston, OR to live with VERE'S father EDGAR LEWIS in 1917-18. VERE then made two or three trips to Echo, OR before finally settling permanently with LELA on a ranch in the Stanfield area near Hermiston, OR in Sept of 1923.
Their known children:
1) Mona Pauline Lewis (1916–2013)
2) Harry Dosson Lewis (1924-1994)
The family farmed near Stanfield, not far from Hermiston, for many years. VERE'S father EDGAR and stepmother Alice KELLY are buried in Olney cemetery, Pendleton, Umatilla Co., OR.
VERE was married to LELA until her death on 20 Dec 1954. He later married ORREL CAMPBELL HUGHES (b. 25 Jan 1904 - d. 23 Feb 1998). VERE was always a farmer and later a farm manager. He managed some dairy farms and continued to practice general farming like his father had done, producing whatever the market called for.
Sources: Federal censuses for 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, and 1940. View Source
Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867-1952. Oregon Marriages, 1906-1920.
Military: WW I draft registration card, U.S. World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942.
Family history. SS death index.
In 1910, at age 17, VERNON was living as a boarder at the home of OTIS and LIZZIE POND in Jackson City, Jackson Co., MI. At that time he worked in an auto factory as a "switch boy" on the "electric road" according to the census.
On 26 July 1913 VERE married LELA DOSSON in Jackson, MI. LELA suffered from bad health such that they felt she would do better in a dry climate, which the Willamette Valley of western Oregon did not provide. VERE and LELA moved across the Cascade Mountains to Hermiston, OR to live with VERE'S father EDGAR LEWIS in 1917-18. VERE then made two or three trips to Echo, OR before finally settling permanently with LELA on a ranch in the Stanfield area near Hermiston, OR in Sept of 1923.
Their known children:
1) Mona Pauline Lewis (1916–2013)
2) Harry Dosson Lewis (1924-1994)
The family farmed near Stanfield, not far from Hermiston, for many years. VERE'S father EDGAR and stepmother Alice KELLY are buried in Olney cemetery, Pendleton, Umatilla Co., OR.
VERE was married to LELA until her death on 20 Dec 1954. He later married ORREL CAMPBELL HUGHES (b. 25 Jan 1904 - d. 23 Feb 1998). VERE was always a farmer and later a farm manager. He managed some dairy farms and continued to practice general farming like his father had done, producing whatever the market called for.
Sources: Federal censuses for 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, and 1940. View Source
Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867-1952. Oregon Marriages, 1906-1920.
Military: WW I draft registration card, U.S. World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942.
Family history. SS death index.
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