Ella Hadyn Abercrombie

b. 27 March 1865, d. 20 December 1937
  • Ella Hadyn Abercrombie was born on 27 March 1865 in Huntsville, Walker County, Texas.
  • She was known as Hadyn.
  • Leonard Anderson Abercrombie and Lavinia Afton Chilton appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Huntsville, Walker County, Texas. Other members of the household included Ella Hadyn Abercrombie, James Buford Abercrombie, Mary Lee Abercrombie, Lavinia Chilton Abercrombie and Frances Amelia Abercrombie. Also in the household were three domestic servants.
  • Leonard Anderson Abercrombie and Lavinia Afton Chilton appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Walker County, Texas. Other members of the household included Ella Hadyn Abercrombie, Lavinia Chilton Abercrombie, Frances Amelia Abercrombie, William Chilton Abercrombie, Leonard Anderson Abercrombie and Corinne Afton Abercrombie.
  • She married John H. Lewis on 12 April 1886 in Walker County, Texas.
  • John H. Lewis and Ella Hadyn Abercrombie appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Mineral Wells, Palo Pinto County, Texas. Other members of the household included Leonard Dodson Lewis, Elaine Chilton Lewis and Frances E. Lewis. Also in the household was one female domestic servant.
  • Ella Hadyn Abercrombie became a widow at the between 1900 and 1910 death of her husband.
  • Ella Hadyn Abercrombie appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Denton, Denton County, Texas, at 157 Hickory street. Other members of the household included Leonard Dodson Lewis, Elaine Chilton Lewis and Frances E. Lewis. Leonard also is enumerated as a university student boarding in Hobart, Kiowa County, Oklahoma.
  • She was a school teacher, according to the 1910 census.
  • Lawrence Shannon Cook and Frances E. Lewis appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in El Paso, Texas, at 2714 Silver. Other members of the household included Ella Hadyn Abercrombie.
  • Ella Hadyn Abercrombie died on 20 December 1937 at age 72 in El Paso, Texas, at Hotel Dieu . Her death was officially witnessed by Frances E. Lewis.
  • The following appeared on 20 December 1937 in the El Paso Herald-Post: Mrs. Haydn Abercrombie Lewis died today at a local hospital. She was 73 and had lived in El Paso 13 years.
         Mrs. Lewis is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Hannnon Cook; another daughter, Mrs. George W. Morrel and a son Leonard Lewis.
         Funeral services will be held Wednesday morning at St. Clement's Church, Rev. DuBose Murphy officiating. Arrangements have not been fully completed. The body is at Peak-Hagedon Mortuary.
         Surviving Mrs. Lewis also are three sisters: Mrs. Mary Finch, of Pasadena; Mrs. Gentry Waldo of Houston; and Mrs. Robert Lovett, whose husband is chairman of the board of the Union Pacific railroad.
  • At the time of her death Ella Hadyn Abercrombie was living in El Paso, Texas, at 316 East Rio Grande.
  • She was interred at Evergreen Alameda Cemetery, El Paso, Texas.
  • Last Edited: 15 Jun 2012

Family: John H. Lewis b. October 1849, d. between 1900 and 1910