There is a book _Lewises, Meriwethers, and Their Kin_ by Sarah Travers Lewis
(Scott) Anderson, Orginally published: Richmond, VA 1938, Reprinted by
Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1984, 1995.

Meriwether Lewis is part of the Warner Hall Lewises of VA. According to the
book above...

His parents were: Warner Lewis of Lewis Level m. second, December 4, 1823,
Catherine Butler, daughter of Col. Rubin Butler of the Rev. War.

His grandparents were: Dr. John Taliaferro Lewis m. 2nd Susannah Waring

His g-grandparents were: Col. Charles Lewis of Cedar Creek, b. 1729 m. Lucy
Taliaferro, d/o John Taliaferro and Mary Catlett of "Snow Creek".

His g-g grandparents were: Col. John Lewis III baptised: Nov. 1702, m.
Frances Feilding d/o Henry Fielding of King & Queen Co., VA.

I looked in the index. There is no Exum Lewis listed. Does he have another
name? Do you know his father?

Lonny J. Watro

----- Original Message -----
From: "M. Flanagan" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 10:28 AM
Subject: Re: George Washington and Lawrence Lewis


> Article in the Sep 14, 1994 edition of the Clarkesville (VA) Courier:
> Where We Are Now
>
> What is now Grafton School began as a part of Audley Farm. Audley was
George
> Washington's home place in Clarke County, and was passed down to Martha
> Washington's family.
>
> In 1905, Mr. G.A. Bowen, of Cincinnati, Ohio, bought one of the Audley
> tracts from Mr. Carter Lewis, a Washington descendant, and built this
house
> (then called Brentwood) between 1905-1908.
>
> Mr. Bowen originally bought 45 acres and later added several other tracts
of
> the Audley land until the property consisted of 206 acres.
>
> In 1919 the property was sold to Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Harwell, who changed
> the name to Questover. They had spent many years looking for the right
house
> and now felt their "quest was over". The Harwells came from New York City.
>
> The house was sold again in 1930 to Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Crockett from
> Columbus, Ohio, and in 1946 to Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Sturm from Long
> Island, New York, who never lived in the house. In 1955 Mrs. Sturm sold
> fourteen acres and Questover to Dr. William Porter, who used the building
as
> a veterinary office. During this time horses entered by the front door and
> were operated on in the formal dining room. Dr. Porter sold the house in
> 1962 after bringing several lawsuits against his neighbors (and even a
> low-flying pilot).
>
> Questover was bought and renovated by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Nelson who came
from
> California. Mrs. Nelson used the basement as a kennel for over 100 Bassett
> hounds. It was during her tenancy that the famous shooting occurred in the
> front reception room and the house was auctioned off and repurchased.
>
> Grafton School bought Questover July 3, 1967. The addition, finished in
> December 1967, was built on the back for use as classroom and dormitory
> space. In September 1974, five duplex motel units were erected adjacent to
> the house for additional dormitories.
> . . . .
> The part about the 100 Bassett hounds intrigues me - can you imagine the
> response when someone rang the doorbell?? Maybe that happened one time too
> many, which explains the shooting in the front room ....
>
> Also, Aubrey and Kathleen (Lewis) Harwell [my great uncle/aunt] loved the
> property, but upon her death in 1825, Aubrey could no longer bear to live
> there, and moved to Birmingham, Alabama, near to where he was born. Upon
his
> death in 1942, his body was shipped to Berryville, VA, for burial at Green
> Hill Cemetery, next to his wife.
>
> As stated, Aubrey's wife Kathleen was a Lewis, and family tradition holds
> that her Lewis's were somehow related to Meriwether Lewis's family. My own
> research traces her confirmed lineage back to Exum Lewis (c1732
> VA/Nansemond - 1790 NC/Edgecombe) and Elizabeth Figures. Exum Lewis was a
> Colonel in the NC militia during the RW.
>
> Does anyone know of a relationship between these Lewises, and members of
the
> family of Meriwether Lewis?
>
> Thanx!
> Michael Flanagan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Edward James Redmond" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 3:17 PM
> Subject: Re: George Washington and Lawrence Lewis
>
>
> Ms. Kercheval Bennett:
>
> >From the Papers of George Washington:
> <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/gwhome.html>
>
>
> [Thursday December 15 1785]
>
> Thursday 15th. Thermometer at 40 in the Morng. 45 at Noon and [   ] at
> Night.
>
> Moderate & clear all the fore part of the day with the Wind at So. East,
but
> not fresh. In the Afternoon it began to lower--at Dusk turned very cloudy
> and in the Night set in to a constant rain.
>
> Mr. Shaw went up to Alexandria, after dinner, to a Ball I presume. And in
> the Evening Joseph Winzor & Willm. Kirchwall 2 of my tenants from
Frederick
> came in & stayed all Night.
>
> TENANTS FROM FREDERICK: GW had bought two lots totaling about 570 acres at
> George Mercer's 1774 sale of a 6,500-acre tract in Frederick County. The
> land, now in Clarke County, was on the Shenandoah River near the present
> town of Berryville. Late in 1784 Joseph Winzor of Maryland bargained with
> Edward Snickers, who was acting as GW's agent in the matter, for a 14-year
> lease on 172 acres of the land. Although GW preferred a shorter lease, he
> honored Snickers's agreement with Winzor for a lease commencing 1 Jan.
1785
> and ending 31 Dec. 1798, at a rent of £17 4s. per year. William
Kirchwall's
> (Kercheval) lease for 172 acres was for 13 years, commencing 1 Jan. 1786
and
> ending 31 Dec. 1798 at a rental of £17 6s. per year. Both men had their
rent
> increased slightly after the 1789 resurvey, when their farms were
discovered
> to total 1741/2 acres each (CHAPPELEAR [3], 33--36; GW to Battaile Muse,
28
> July 1785, DLC:GW; GW's rental accounts, 1788--90 and 1791, ViMtV).
>
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