Williamson Vaughn LEWIS

Sources:

FindAGrave.com, Entry for son George B Lewis
Genforum Message Board
Ancestry Discussion Boards
American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) (Ancestry.com)
1850 US Federal Census Dist 3, Robertson, Tennessee
1860 US Federal Census District 11, Weakley,Tennessee
1870 US Federal Census District 11, Weakley,Tennessee
Maxim-Diversons.com (http://www.maxim-diversions.com/genealogy/PearlDiving/gp327.html), Unverified, includes exact dates of children)

Notes:

                   NOTES:  
    These children are all connected by an article in the Boston Transcript from 9 Aug 1916, indexed in the AGBI.  The text of the article was not located, but the names were all indexed together from the same article. Biographical data comes from son George B. Lewis' bio in the History of Todd County, KY. Details in notes.

Biographical data comes from son's bio in the History of Todd County, KY:
History of Todd County, Kentucky, ed. J. H. Battle, 1884, F. A. BatteyPublishing Co., 1884, pp. 296-97. [Elkton Precinct]GEORGE B. LEWIS is the eighth of a family of eleven children, born to Williamson V. and Clarkie Lewis (nee Bell). These parents were each natives of Chatham County, N. C., where they grew to maturity and were married. They removed to Tennessee and settled in Robertson County in 1819. There the mother died August 4, 1831. The father died in Weakley County, Tenn., in 1874, at the age of eighty-three years. His second marriage was to Sarah P. Freeman, by whom he had eight children. George B. was born in Robertson County, Tenn., February 8, 1824. He was reared to manhood in his native county, and after a residence of a few years inNew Providence, Tenn., he removed, in 1851, to Elkton, Todd County, which as been his home most of the years since. He is now engaged inthe mercantile business on the north side of public square, and is the owner and proprietor of the Elkton City Mills. He was married in 1852 to Miss Lizzie Kennedy, daughter of Esq. W. T. Kennedy, who was born in Todd County in December, 1830. Their family consists of seven children, viz.: Anna B., Mary C. (wife of Robert B. Kendall), Mattie P. (wife of Ben E. Boone), Emma G., Laura T., Lizzie J. and Herbert G. Lewis. Robert B. Kendall was born in 1843, in Mississippi. He was united in marriageto Mary C. Lewis, which union has resulted in the birth of four children: Flora Bell, Lizzie K., Jessie and George Lewis Kendall.