George Wythe Lewis

Birth Date

1815-02-09

Death Date

1865-07-19

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Frankfort, Kentucky, and Lexington, Kentucky, editor. Spotsylvania County, Virginia, native. Son of John Lewis and Jean Wood Daniel Lewis. Married Mary Jane Todd. Father of Joseph Bullock Lewis, John Franklin Lewis, William Todd Lewis, and George Alexander Lewis. Editor of the Frankfort Roundabout in Frankfort in 1860. Editor of the National Unionist in Lexington with Joseph B. Lewis. Died in Danville, Kentucky.

Lewis, William Terrell, Genealogy of the Lewis Family in America, From the Middle of the Seventeenth Century Down to the Present Time (Louisville, KY: The Courier-Journal Job Printing Co., 1893), 407. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, District 1, p. 92. "Only a Scrap of Paper. But it Brings Up the Past Very Vividly," Frankfort Roundabout, 17 Nov 1894, 4. Find A Grave, "George Wythe Lewis (1815-1865)," Memorial #144004049, https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=144004049&ref=acom (accessed April 10, 2017).

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