Daughter of Dr. Harvey Lewis and Angelina Leathers.
Her father's ancestral line is documented to Charlemagne. The Lewis family is descended from William I, Henry I, Geoffrey V, Henry II, John I, Henry III, and Edward I. Both George Washington and the Lewis family are descended from Sir Thomas Dymoke. The Lewis family is descended from George Washington through his mothers (Mary Ball) sister Frances Ball. The Lewis family is descended from Major Edward Dale and Lady Diana Skipwith of The Jamestown Colony.
Her mother's ancestral line are German and immigrated in 1717 and 1733, settling in the Germanic Colonies of Virginia, and their descendants ending up in Kentucky.
Family Bible:
Angelina Leathers Lewis
was born December 20th
1842 Tuesday 1/2 past 8
Married widower Matthew B. Sellers I on April 15, 1868, in Covington, KY. Annie was 26 years of age and Matthew Sellers was 68. She is of a Baptist affiliation and Matthew of Episcopal affiliation.
They had 4 children (Matthew Bacon II [1869], Harvey Lewis [1872], Samuel Campbell [1874], and Annabel [1879]). Her husband died a year after Annabel was born at the age of 80.
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In the 1850 Census for Livingston County, Kentucky, The Lewis family was living in dwelling #259 in Smithland: Harvey Lewis (physician, 41), Angelin Lewis (34), John M. (14), Ben Lewis (12), Charles Lewis (10), Angleine Lewis (7), Harvey Lewis (5), Sarah Lewis (3), and Hiram Lewis (3 months).
She grew up as a child in Smithland, Kentucky. Later when the family moved back to Covington that overlooks the Ohio River and the City of Cincinnati, there were no bridges crossing the river to Cincinnati. But in 1856, construction of the Cincinnati-Covington Bridge began and pedestrians were allowed to cross to near completion in December 1866, when Annie Lewis was 24 years old. There is no doubt that as a child that Annie Lewis and her parents crossed over the Ohio River by barge or ferry to visit relatives or explore Cincinnati. Annie spent her teenage years in Covington during the Civil War and became accustomed to the presence of Union troops occupying the City.
1860 Census indicates Annie at the age of 16, her mother Angelina Leathers Lewis died in 1855, her father Dr. Harvey Lewis died in 1857, was living in Cincinnati with her aunt and uncle, Caroline and Ralph McCracken. At the start of the Civil War, she, along with her cousins would have traveled to Vanceburg, Kentucky and gather in the summers to visit with their great-grandmother, Lucy Neville Blakemore Bragg (1764-1862), and listen to the stories of she told of her sitting on the lap of George Washington as a child, as she spoke to her mother in the kitchen, and of her brothers fighting in the Revolutionary War in George Washington's 2nd Virginia Regiment.
When Annie Lewis was 21 years old living in Covington, Kentucky in February of 1863, General James B. McPherson of the Union Army was occupying the Oakland Plantation in Lake Providence, Louisiana, home of her future husband Matthew B. Sellers I.
During Annie's childhood, the last of the Revolutionary War veterans lives were celebrated until she reached the age of 27, when Daniel Bakeman died in 1869 at an age of 109.
In January of 1867, Annie Lewis at the age of 26 and her brother Dr. Hiram Leathers Lewis, were in Philadelphia caring for the ailing Elizabeth Cash, wife of Matthew B. Sellers I. On Elizabeth Cash's deathbed, she begged Matthew to return to Philadelphia, which he did, selling the Oakland Plantation. She asked him to marry Annie Lewis. A year following the passing of Elizabeth Cash, Annie Lewis married Matthew B. Sellers in Covington, Kentucky.
Following the death of her husband Matthew in 1880, as her three sons and daughter became of age, they lived together in a rented apartment, so that son Matthew could attend Harvard University.
Her first child Matthew B. Sellers II aeronautical experiments and flights at Blakemore , Grahn, Kentucky, was on land that she purchased from her cousins in 1888. The tracts of land had been previously owned by kin of Annie Lewis. Specifically, Sarah McGlasson Leathers, other children of Elizabeth Lewis McConnell and Hiram White Leathers, and others kin to the Lewis's.
Her later years were enjoyed traveling with her children in Europe, and home stays in Baltimore and in Grahn, Kentucky.
The family is all at rest together at the cemetery in Baltimore, with exception to her son Matthew II.
Her father's ancestral line is documented to Charlemagne. The Lewis family is descended from William I, Henry I, Geoffrey V, Henry II, John I, Henry III, and Edward I. Both George Washington and the Lewis family are descended from Sir Thomas Dymoke. The Lewis family is descended from George Washington through his mothers (Mary Ball) sister Frances Ball. The Lewis family is descended from Major Edward Dale and Lady Diana Skipwith of The Jamestown Colony.
Her mother's ancestral line are German and immigrated in 1717 and 1733, settling in the Germanic Colonies of Virginia, and their descendants ending up in Kentucky.
Family Bible:
Angelina Leathers Lewis
was born December 20th
1842 Tuesday 1/2 past 8
Married widower Matthew B. Sellers I on April 15, 1868, in Covington, KY. Annie was 26 years of age and Matthew Sellers was 68. She is of a Baptist affiliation and Matthew of Episcopal affiliation.
They had 4 children (Matthew Bacon II [1869], Harvey Lewis [1872], Samuel Campbell [1874], and Annabel [1879]). Her husband died a year after Annabel was born at the age of 80.
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In the 1850 Census for Livingston County, Kentucky, The Lewis family was living in dwelling #259 in Smithland: Harvey Lewis (physician, 41), Angelin Lewis (34), John M. (14), Ben Lewis (12), Charles Lewis (10), Angleine Lewis (7), Harvey Lewis (5), Sarah Lewis (3), and Hiram Lewis (3 months).
She grew up as a child in Smithland, Kentucky. Later when the family moved back to Covington that overlooks the Ohio River and the City of Cincinnati, there were no bridges crossing the river to Cincinnati. But in 1856, construction of the Cincinnati-Covington Bridge began and pedestrians were allowed to cross to near completion in December 1866, when Annie Lewis was 24 years old. There is no doubt that as a child that Annie Lewis and her parents crossed over the Ohio River by barge or ferry to visit relatives or explore Cincinnati. Annie spent her teenage years in Covington during the Civil War and became accustomed to the presence of Union troops occupying the City.
1860 Census indicates Annie at the age of 16, her mother Angelina Leathers Lewis died in 1855, her father Dr. Harvey Lewis died in 1857, was living in Cincinnati with her aunt and uncle, Caroline and Ralph McCracken. At the start of the Civil War, she, along with her cousins would have traveled to Vanceburg, Kentucky and gather in the summers to visit with their great-grandmother, Lucy Neville Blakemore Bragg (1764-1862), and listen to the stories of she told of her sitting on the lap of George Washington as a child, as she spoke to her mother in the kitchen, and of her brothers fighting in the Revolutionary War in George Washington's 2nd Virginia Regiment.
When Annie Lewis was 21 years old living in Covington, Kentucky in February of 1863, General James B. McPherson of the Union Army was occupying the Oakland Plantation in Lake Providence, Louisiana, home of her future husband Matthew B. Sellers I.
During Annie's childhood, the last of the Revolutionary War veterans lives were celebrated until she reached the age of 27, when Daniel Bakeman died in 1869 at an age of 109.
In January of 1867, Annie Lewis at the age of 26 and her brother Dr. Hiram Leathers Lewis, were in Philadelphia caring for the ailing Elizabeth Cash, wife of Matthew B. Sellers I. On Elizabeth Cash's deathbed, she begged Matthew to return to Philadelphia, which he did, selling the Oakland Plantation. She asked him to marry Annie Lewis. A year following the passing of Elizabeth Cash, Annie Lewis married Matthew B. Sellers in Covington, Kentucky.
Following the death of her husband Matthew in 1880, as her three sons and daughter became of age, they lived together in a rented apartment, so that son Matthew could attend Harvard University.
Her first child Matthew B. Sellers II aeronautical experiments and flights at Blakemore , Grahn, Kentucky, was on land that she purchased from her cousins in 1888. The tracts of land had been previously owned by kin of Annie Lewis. Specifically, Sarah McGlasson Leathers, other children of Elizabeth Lewis McConnell and Hiram White Leathers, and others kin to the Lewis's.
Her later years were enjoyed traveling with her children in Europe, and home stays in Baltimore and in Grahn, Kentucky.
The family is all at rest together at the cemetery in Baltimore, with exception to her son Matthew II.
Daughter of Dr. Harvey Lewis and Angelina Leathers.
Her father's ancestral line is documented to Charlemagne. The Lewis family is descended from William I, Henry I, Geoffrey V, Henry II, John I, Henry III, and Edward I. Both George Washington and the Lewis family are descended from Sir Thomas Dymoke. The Lewis family is descended from George Washington through his mothers (Mary Ball) sister Frances Ball. The Lewis family is descended from Major Edward Dale and Lady Diana Skipwith of The Jamestown Colony.
Her mother's ancestral line are German and immigrated in 1717 and 1733, settling in the Germanic Colonies of Virginia, and their descendants ending up in Kentucky.
Family Bible:
Angelina Leathers Lewis
was born December 20th
1842 Tuesday 1/2 past 8
Married widower Matthew B. Sellers I on April 15, 1868, in Covington, KY. Annie was 26 years of age and Matthew Sellers was 68. She is of a Baptist affiliation and Matthew of Episcopal affiliation.
They had 4 children (Matthew Bacon II [1869], Harvey Lewis [1872], Samuel Campbell [1874], and Annabel [1879]). Her husband died a year after Annabel was born at the age of 80.
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In the 1850 Census for Livingston County, Kentucky, The Lewis family was living in dwelling #259 in Smithland: Harvey Lewis (physician, 41), Angelin Lewis (34), John M. (14), Ben Lewis (12), Charles Lewis (10), Angleine Lewis (7), Harvey Lewis (5), Sarah Lewis (3), and Hiram Lewis (3 months).
She grew up as a child in Smithland, Kentucky. Later when the family moved back to Covington that overlooks the Ohio River and the City of Cincinnati, there were no bridges crossing the river to Cincinnati. But in 1856, construction of the Cincinnati-Covington Bridge began and pedestrians were allowed to cross to near completion in December 1866, when Annie Lewis was 24 years old. There is no doubt that as a child that Annie Lewis and her parents crossed over the Ohio River by barge or ferry to visit relatives or explore Cincinnati. Annie spent her teenage years in Covington during the Civil War and became accustomed to the presence of Union troops occupying the City.
1860 Census indicates Annie at the age of 16, her mother Angelina Leathers Lewis died in 1855, her father Dr. Harvey Lewis died in 1857, was living in Cincinnati with her aunt and uncle, Caroline and Ralph McCracken. At the start of the Civil War, she, along with her cousins would have traveled to Vanceburg, Kentucky and gather in the summers to visit with their great-grandmother, Lucy Neville Blakemore Bragg (1764-1862), and listen to the stories of she told of her sitting on the lap of George Washington as a child, as she spoke to her mother in the kitchen, and of her brothers fighting in the Revolutionary War in George Washington's 2nd Virginia Regiment.
When Annie Lewis was 21 years old living in Covington, Kentucky in February of 1863, General James B. McPherson of the Union Army was occupying the Oakland Plantation in Lake Providence, Louisiana, home of her future husband Matthew B. Sellers I.
During Annie's childhood, the last of the Revolutionary War veterans lives were celebrated until she reached the age of 27, when Daniel Bakeman died in 1869 at an age of 109.
In January of 1867, Annie Lewis at the age of 26 and her brother Dr. Hiram Leathers Lewis, were in Philadelphia caring for the ailing Elizabeth Cash, wife of Matthew B. Sellers I. On Elizabeth Cash's deathbed, she begged Matthew to return to Philadelphia, which he did, selling the Oakland Plantation. She asked him to marry Annie Lewis. A year following the passing of Elizabeth Cash, Annie Lewis married Matthew B. Sellers in Covington, Kentucky.
Following the death of her husband Matthew in 1880, as her three sons and daughter became of age, they lived together in a rented apartment, so that son Matthew could attend Harvard University.
Her first child Matthew B. Sellers II aeronautical experiments and flights at Blakemore , Grahn, Kentucky, was on land that she purchased from her cousins in 1888. The tracts of land had been previously owned by kin of Annie Lewis. Specifically, Sarah McGlasson Leathers, other children of Elizabeth Lewis McConnell and Hiram White Leathers, and others kin to the Lewis's.
Her later years were enjoyed traveling with her children in Europe, and home stays in Baltimore and in Grahn, Kentucky.
The family is all at rest together at the cemetery in Baltimore, with exception to her son Matthew II.
Her father's ancestral line is documented to Charlemagne. The Lewis family is descended from William I, Henry I, Geoffrey V, Henry II, John I, Henry III, and Edward I. Both George Washington and the Lewis family are descended from Sir Thomas Dymoke. The Lewis family is descended from George Washington through his mothers (Mary Ball) sister Frances Ball. The Lewis family is descended from Major Edward Dale and Lady Diana Skipwith of The Jamestown Colony.
Her mother's ancestral line are German and immigrated in 1717 and 1733, settling in the Germanic Colonies of Virginia, and their descendants ending up in Kentucky.
Family Bible:
Angelina Leathers Lewis
was born December 20th
1842 Tuesday 1/2 past 8
Married widower Matthew B. Sellers I on April 15, 1868, in Covington, KY. Annie was 26 years of age and Matthew Sellers was 68. She is of a Baptist affiliation and Matthew of Episcopal affiliation.
They had 4 children (Matthew Bacon II [1869], Harvey Lewis [1872], Samuel Campbell [1874], and Annabel [1879]). Her husband died a year after Annabel was born at the age of 80.
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In the 1850 Census for Livingston County, Kentucky, The Lewis family was living in dwelling #259 in Smithland: Harvey Lewis (physician, 41), Angelin Lewis (34), John M. (14), Ben Lewis (12), Charles Lewis (10), Angleine Lewis (7), Harvey Lewis (5), Sarah Lewis (3), and Hiram Lewis (3 months).
She grew up as a child in Smithland, Kentucky. Later when the family moved back to Covington that overlooks the Ohio River and the City of Cincinnati, there were no bridges crossing the river to Cincinnati. But in 1856, construction of the Cincinnati-Covington Bridge began and pedestrians were allowed to cross to near completion in December 1866, when Annie Lewis was 24 years old. There is no doubt that as a child that Annie Lewis and her parents crossed over the Ohio River by barge or ferry to visit relatives or explore Cincinnati. Annie spent her teenage years in Covington during the Civil War and became accustomed to the presence of Union troops occupying the City.
1860 Census indicates Annie at the age of 16, her mother Angelina Leathers Lewis died in 1855, her father Dr. Harvey Lewis died in 1857, was living in Cincinnati with her aunt and uncle, Caroline and Ralph McCracken. At the start of the Civil War, she, along with her cousins would have traveled to Vanceburg, Kentucky and gather in the summers to visit with their great-grandmother, Lucy Neville Blakemore Bragg (1764-1862), and listen to the stories of she told of her sitting on the lap of George Washington as a child, as she spoke to her mother in the kitchen, and of her brothers fighting in the Revolutionary War in George Washington's 2nd Virginia Regiment.
When Annie Lewis was 21 years old living in Covington, Kentucky in February of 1863, General James B. McPherson of the Union Army was occupying the Oakland Plantation in Lake Providence, Louisiana, home of her future husband Matthew B. Sellers I.
During Annie's childhood, the last of the Revolutionary War veterans lives were celebrated until she reached the age of 27, when Daniel Bakeman died in 1869 at an age of 109.
In January of 1867, Annie Lewis at the age of 26 and her brother Dr. Hiram Leathers Lewis, were in Philadelphia caring for the ailing Elizabeth Cash, wife of Matthew B. Sellers I. On Elizabeth Cash's deathbed, she begged Matthew to return to Philadelphia, which he did, selling the Oakland Plantation. She asked him to marry Annie Lewis. A year following the passing of Elizabeth Cash, Annie Lewis married Matthew B. Sellers in Covington, Kentucky.
Following the death of her husband Matthew in 1880, as her three sons and daughter became of age, they lived together in a rented apartment, so that son Matthew could attend Harvard University.
Her first child Matthew B. Sellers II aeronautical experiments and flights at Blakemore , Grahn, Kentucky, was on land that she purchased from her cousins in 1888. The tracts of land had been previously owned by kin of Annie Lewis. Specifically, Sarah McGlasson Leathers, other children of Elizabeth Lewis McConnell and Hiram White Leathers, and others kin to the Lewis's.
Her later years were enjoyed traveling with her children in Europe, and home stays in Baltimore and in Grahn, Kentucky.
The family is all at rest together at the cemetery in Baltimore, with exception to her son Matthew II.
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