Parents Olive Augustus Lewis & Elizabeth Jane Howe
Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at Trinity Methodist church for William O. lewis, 79, Ritzville pioneer who died Sunday morning at his home here. The Rev. Clifford Knight officiated. Burial was in the Ritzville cemetery. Mr. Lewis had been in ill health since he was sturck by an automobile while walking across the highway about ten years ago, but he had apparently been feeling fairly well last week.
A resident of Adams county since 1886, he practiced law here for some time and also dealt in real estate. At one time he was a newspaper publisher and serverd two years as county auditor.
William Oliver Lewis was born Sept. 9, 1864, at Dryden, Michigan, where he spent his boyhood and attended school. He was graduated from Oliver college at Battle Creek, Michigan and taught school for two years afterward at Imly City, Mich., On November 28, 1886 he was married to Miss Helen Victoria Skinner, who survives him.
Shortly after the wedding, he came west, spending the winter near Athens, Oregon. The next spring he and Mrs. Lewis homesteaded on Rattlesnake Flat, 17 miles south of Ritzville, residing there until 1894. He farmed and taught school at the pioneer Fletcher school house. In 1894 he was elected county auditor and moved to Ritzville to asume his new duties. He was reelected in 1896 and when his term expired, he took over the editorship and management of the Ritzville Times, a position which he held for one year. The following year, Mr. Lews entered partnership with O. R. Holcomb, pioneer Ritzville attorney, and complete his law education in the former judge's office. He was admitted to the bar in 1901.
Becoming active as a real estate dealer, one of Mr. Lewis' hobbies was to help open up new country and he is responsible for many land sales in the Ephrata country and also in the Fairfield distrcit in south central Idaho. Always active in politics, he was chairman of the state republician central committe in 1916. After he was struck by an automobile ten years ago he was force to retire from active business life but has since maintained his home here.
Besides his widow, he is survived by three sons, Maj. O. A Lewis of Portland Oregon; Ray of Yakimia and Fred, in the Aleutians with a construction company; and three daughters, Alice and Ruth of New York City and Mrs. Harriet Emerson of Ritzville. A son, Benjamin, and a daughter, Leah, preceded him in death.
Ritzville Journal Times Juen 24, 1944. Sue Gardner & gapwork90
Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at Trinity Methodist church for William O. lewis, 79, Ritzville pioneer who died Sunday morning at his home here. The Rev. Clifford Knight officiated. Burial was in the Ritzville cemetery. Mr. Lewis had been in ill health since he was sturck by an automobile while walking across the highway about ten years ago, but he had apparently been feeling fairly well last week.
A resident of Adams county since 1886, he practiced law here for some time and also dealt in real estate. At one time he was a newspaper publisher and serverd two years as county auditor.
William Oliver Lewis was born Sept. 9, 1864, at Dryden, Michigan, where he spent his boyhood and attended school. He was graduated from Oliver college at Battle Creek, Michigan and taught school for two years afterward at Imly City, Mich., On November 28, 1886 he was married to Miss Helen Victoria Skinner, who survives him.
Shortly after the wedding, he came west, spending the winter near Athens, Oregon. The next spring he and Mrs. Lewis homesteaded on Rattlesnake Flat, 17 miles south of Ritzville, residing there until 1894. He farmed and taught school at the pioneer Fletcher school house. In 1894 he was elected county auditor and moved to Ritzville to asume his new duties. He was reelected in 1896 and when his term expired, he took over the editorship and management of the Ritzville Times, a position which he held for one year. The following year, Mr. Lews entered partnership with O. R. Holcomb, pioneer Ritzville attorney, and complete his law education in the former judge's office. He was admitted to the bar in 1901.
Becoming active as a real estate dealer, one of Mr. Lewis' hobbies was to help open up new country and he is responsible for many land sales in the Ephrata country and also in the Fairfield distrcit in south central Idaho. Always active in politics, he was chairman of the state republician central committe in 1916. After he was struck by an automobile ten years ago he was force to retire from active business life but has since maintained his home here.
Besides his widow, he is survived by three sons, Maj. O. A Lewis of Portland Oregon; Ray of Yakimia and Fred, in the Aleutians with a construction company; and three daughters, Alice and Ruth of New York City and Mrs. Harriet Emerson of Ritzville. A son, Benjamin, and a daughter, Leah, preceded him in death.
Ritzville Journal Times Juen 24, 1944. Sue Gardner & gapwork90
Parents Olive Augustus Lewis & Elizabeth Jane Howe
Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at Trinity Methodist church for William O. lewis, 79, Ritzville pioneer who died Sunday morning at his home here. The Rev. Clifford Knight officiated. Burial was in the Ritzville cemetery. Mr. Lewis had been in ill health since he was sturck by an automobile while walking across the highway about ten years ago, but he had apparently been feeling fairly well last week.
A resident of Adams county since 1886, he practiced law here for some time and also dealt in real estate. At one time he was a newspaper publisher and serverd two years as county auditor.
William Oliver Lewis was born Sept. 9, 1864, at Dryden, Michigan, where he spent his boyhood and attended school. He was graduated from Oliver college at Battle Creek, Michigan and taught school for two years afterward at Imly City, Mich., On November 28, 1886 he was married to Miss Helen Victoria Skinner, who survives him.
Shortly after the wedding, he came west, spending the winter near Athens, Oregon. The next spring he and Mrs. Lewis homesteaded on Rattlesnake Flat, 17 miles south of Ritzville, residing there until 1894. He farmed and taught school at the pioneer Fletcher school house. In 1894 he was elected county auditor and moved to Ritzville to asume his new duties. He was reelected in 1896 and when his term expired, he took over the editorship and management of the Ritzville Times, a position which he held for one year. The following year, Mr. Lews entered partnership with O. R. Holcomb, pioneer Ritzville attorney, and complete his law education in the former judge's office. He was admitted to the bar in 1901.
Becoming active as a real estate dealer, one of Mr. Lewis' hobbies was to help open up new country and he is responsible for many land sales in the Ephrata country and also in the Fairfield distrcit in south central Idaho. Always active in politics, he was chairman of the state republician central committe in 1916. After he was struck by an automobile ten years ago he was force to retire from active business life but has since maintained his home here.
Besides his widow, he is survived by three sons, Maj. O. A Lewis of Portland Oregon; Ray of Yakimia and Fred, in the Aleutians with a construction company; and three daughters, Alice and Ruth of New York City and Mrs. Harriet Emerson of Ritzville. A son, Benjamin, and a daughter, Leah, preceded him in death.
Ritzville Journal Times Juen 24, 1944. Sue Gardner & gapwork90
Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at Trinity Methodist church for William O. lewis, 79, Ritzville pioneer who died Sunday morning at his home here. The Rev. Clifford Knight officiated. Burial was in the Ritzville cemetery. Mr. Lewis had been in ill health since he was sturck by an automobile while walking across the highway about ten years ago, but he had apparently been feeling fairly well last week.
A resident of Adams county since 1886, he practiced law here for some time and also dealt in real estate. At one time he was a newspaper publisher and serverd two years as county auditor.
William Oliver Lewis was born Sept. 9, 1864, at Dryden, Michigan, where he spent his boyhood and attended school. He was graduated from Oliver college at Battle Creek, Michigan and taught school for two years afterward at Imly City, Mich., On November 28, 1886 he was married to Miss Helen Victoria Skinner, who survives him.
Shortly after the wedding, he came west, spending the winter near Athens, Oregon. The next spring he and Mrs. Lewis homesteaded on Rattlesnake Flat, 17 miles south of Ritzville, residing there until 1894. He farmed and taught school at the pioneer Fletcher school house. In 1894 he was elected county auditor and moved to Ritzville to asume his new duties. He was reelected in 1896 and when his term expired, he took over the editorship and management of the Ritzville Times, a position which he held for one year. The following year, Mr. Lews entered partnership with O. R. Holcomb, pioneer Ritzville attorney, and complete his law education in the former judge's office. He was admitted to the bar in 1901.
Becoming active as a real estate dealer, one of Mr. Lewis' hobbies was to help open up new country and he is responsible for many land sales in the Ephrata country and also in the Fairfield distrcit in south central Idaho. Always active in politics, he was chairman of the state republician central committe in 1916. After he was struck by an automobile ten years ago he was force to retire from active business life but has since maintained his home here.
Besides his widow, he is survived by three sons, Maj. O. A Lewis of Portland Oregon; Ray of Yakimia and Fred, in the Aleutians with a construction company; and three daughters, Alice and Ruth of New York City and Mrs. Harriet Emerson of Ritzville. A son, Benjamin, and a daughter, Leah, preceded him in death.
Ritzville Journal Times Juen 24, 1944. Sue Gardner & gapwork90
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