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Note: The following is from "The Lewis Family of the Seventeenth Century" by John Meriwether McAllister [Call Number: CS71.L675]; Bibliographic Information: McAllister, John Meriwether. The Lewis Family. E.W. Stephens Publishing Company. Missouri. 1906.
E 1. Dr. John Terrell Lewis was born in Albemarle county, Virginia, in 1803, and emigrated to Kentucky with his father in 1819. His height is six feet three inches, weighing one hundred and fifty-five pounds, with light hair, blue eyes, fair skin and of a nervo-sanguineus temperament. He is easily excited, hopeful under almost all circumstances, cheerful almost to levity, very affable and social. His life has been an eventful one. Deprived of both parents in a few months--just at a time when he had most need of them--the care of his helpless brothers and sisters devolving upon him, many of whom soon sank into their graves, were sore trials to his young heart. He graduated in the Medical Department of Transylvania University of Kentucky in 1828, and by his indefatigable assiduousness he soon rose to eminence in his profession. He has been actively engaged in the practice of his profession up to the present time (1875) with the exception of two years spent on his farm, where he retired for the purpose of recuperating his lost health. Twelve years of his most active professional life were spent in Lexington, Ky. In 1826 he married Letitia Gardner Downing, daughter of Francis Downing, in the city of Lexington, Ky. She was born in 1806 and died in the same place in 1844...
...In 1826 Dr. John T. Lewis married Letitia G. Downing, by whom he had seven children, viz.:
F 1. David Jackson, born 1827; resides at Carrollton, Ky. He served three years and six months in the Confederate Army, but was never wounded.
F 2. Frances Downing, born 1828; married, in 1846, Dr. Joel T. Hickman, a son of Jas. Lewis Hickman and his wife, Maria Shackelford, and a grandson of Joel Hickman and his wife, Frances G. Wilson. Dr. Joel T. and his wife are third cousins. Mrs. Frances D., wife of Dr. Joel T. Hickman, died in Christian county, Kentucky, in 1861, of pulmonary consumption. She was a sprightly, interesting, beautiful and accomplished lady; pure and stainless. She passed away from this world to a home in heaven.
For the names, etc., of her children see Dr. Joel T. Hickman's posterity on another page.
F 3. John James, son of Dr. John T. Lewis, born 1831; died 1832.
F 4. Richard Thomas, son of Dr. John T. Lewis, born 1833; died 1834.
F 5. Margaret Downing, daughter of Dr. John T. Lewis, born 1835; died single.
F 6. John Terrell, Jr., son of Dr. John T. Lewis, born 1838. He was in the Provost Marshal's office in Louisville, Ky., United States service, the last year of the War of 1861.
F 7. Martha Laura, born 1840, and died 1846.
The seven children of Dr. John T. Lewis by his first wife were all born in Lexington, Ky.
His first wife having died in 1844, in 1846 he married Sarah Jane Bosworth near Lexington, Ky., and in 1847 he located in Carrollton, Ky., where he resided until his death, which occurred in 1875, caused from a fall on the ice on the Ohio river which broke his hip.
Sarah J., his second wife, died in December, 1891, aged about sixty-five years. She was a pious member of the Methodist church. Her funeral was preached by Rev. C. J. Nugent. The names of his children, by his second wife, are:
F 8. Dr. Nathaniel Bosworth, was born in 1847, and died at the residence of his mother, Mrs. Sarah Lewis, in Carrollton, Ky., on the 13th day of August, 1888, after an illness of twenty-one days, of bilious fever complicated with inflammation of the liver. In his death the public has lost an upright, moral, worthy citizen; the medical profession an estimable and zealous member, whose manly independence and integrity of character entitled him to the esteem and respect of the community in which he lived. He was born, reared and educated in Carrollton, Ky. He studied his profession under the care of his father, Dr. John Terrell Lewis; graduated in the year 1869 from the University at Louisville, and soon after located in Worthville, Ky., where he entered upon the arduous duties of his profession and established himself in the confidence of the public as a skillful and intelligent physician...
F 9. Ann Moore Madison, born in Madison, Ind., in 1850; married Wm. C. Darling in 1876.
F 10. Harriet Elizabeth, born in Carrollton in 1852.
F 11. Charles Henry, born in Carrollton in 1853.
F 12. Wm. Winslow, born in Carrollton in 1855; married Miss Nina B. Splitgerber and resides at Menardsville, Tex.
F 13. Sarah Jessie, born in Carrollton in 1863.
F 14. Martha Washington, born in Carrollton in 1866, and
F 15. George Thomas, born in Carrollton in 1868. [end]
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