John McClanahan Lewis

John McClanahan Lewis

• John McClanahan Lewis was born on 18 April 1802 in Virginia.
• He married Susan Ann Madison Bowyer on 18 September 1831 in Fincastle, Virginia.
• On Sunday, 23 April 1848, Green Wood recorded in his travel journal: [It is] 50 miles from Montgomery to Houston, nearly South course. Went from Montgomery nearly East five miles through rich prarie with pinewoods in Sight on each Side crossed a lttle creek & came to piny wood gravelly lands mixed with with oak & hickery & post oak to West San Jacinto a small Stream large enough in High water for flat Boats 8 miles east of Montgomery, passed into pine timber, tall Shortleaf pine mixed with oak of all kinds near this creek or little river & one Small Black Prarie with pine & gravel on each Side & from there through pine Woods two miles to General Lewis, who has rich Black Prarie & cane land on San Jacinto adjoining the pineywoods Stayed with him that night, Sunday night. Says there is a League of land adjoining him 3/4 of which is rich Black Prarie & cane land & the Balance pine land. Monday morning 24th: Still about 45 or 50 miles from Houston on our way to Trinity River and will go Through the league above mentioned which belongs to Neil Martin [of] Nacogdoches. The land two miles South is Said by Genl Lewis to be poor pine land for twenty miles towards Houston, a new road passes through it. Genl Lewis Showed us Through the League of land. We saw the finest Black Prairie we have ever passed through, 400 or 500 Acres lying finely in one unbroken piece & 200 or more adjoining with only a Small Bottom between. From what we saw & what he told us, Think it the best league of land we have seen. . . .
• By deed dated 9 April 1849 in Montgomery County, Texas, Neal Martin of Nacogdoches County sold to John McClanahan Lewis and his wife Susan M. Lewis of Montgomery County, for the sum of $10,000, his entire headright league of land in Montgomery County, except a survey of 320 acres (4,108 acres) on the eastern end sold earlier to William Hulon. Witnessed by Jonathan Stark Collard and N. W. Hulon, recorded 28 June 1849.
• John McClanahan Lewis and Susan Ann Madison Bowyer appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Montgomery County, Texas. Other members of the household included William Eldon McKinley Lewis, A. Clinton Lewis, John McClanahan Lewis Jr. and Ianthe Alabama Lewis.
• John McClanahan Lewis and Susan Ann Madison Bowyer appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Montgomery PO, Montgomery County, Texas. Other members of the household included William Eldon McKinley Lewis, Frances A. Arnold, A. Clinton Lewis, John McClanahan Lewis Jr. and Ianthe Alabama Lewis.
• He was a farmer, according to the 1860 census.
• John McClanahan Lewis died on 8 May 1862 at age 60 in Montgomery County, Texas.
• His wife Susan Ann Madison Bowyer became a widow at his death.

• Last Edited: 18 May 2013