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Photos by John Conway

John Conway (GGG Grandson of W.L. Lewis) was on a quest to find this cemetery. I asked Joe White if he knew anything about it and Joe thought he did. Joe found out who the current owner, made contact with him and was able to find the little cemetery. Joe and John got together, transcribed and photographed the headstones on Sunday February 8, 2009. Five headstones were found. Four of them look fairly recent but the last is in rough shape. This land is on private property, very hard to find.
For more information please contact John Conway

Located in the Jeanette Community on property of James Gibson (no longer owned by Mr. Gibson) who served as our guide. Without him our efforts in locating his graveyard would have been lost. We followed a gravel road leading from the Jeanette "New Salem’ Church to the creek and then left the gravel road and took a wagon road recently cleared, and walked another quarter of a mile. We searched through much undergrowth before locating the graves. Mr. Gibson stated that his father had let timber cutters come in a few years ago and cautioned them about the graveyard and three cedar trees which marked the graves. The trees were cut, making finding the graves much harder. We did find the stumps after searching. The four tombstones marking the Lewis graves are just alike and nice rocks, put there by members of the family in the past few years. There are nine limestone markers which could mean at least 9 others are buried there.This cemetery was indexed by Margarett Alexander, Dorotha Collett, and Blanche Tuten on December 29, 1977. A great big thanks to Mr. Gibson for his assistance.

NAME BIRTH DEATH SPOUSE PARENTS
LEWIS, Mary Washington (Thomas) 14 Feb 1815 20 Oct 1896 William L. Lewis
m 23 Oct 1834
Rockingham NC		 Jess and Mary (Robertson) Thomas
LEWIS, Polly Ann 15 Aug 1850 02 Jan 1874   William L. and Mary Washington (Thomas) Lewis
LEWIS, Robert A. 12 Aug 1835 27 Mar 1864   William L. and Mary Washington (Thomas) Lewis
LEWIS, William L. 22 May 1810 20 Feb 1873 Mary W. Thomas  
THOMAS, William J. 21 Jul 1868 23 Sep 1868   Seth and Emily G. Thomas
Seth Thomas was the brother-in-law of Wm. L. Lewis

Lewis Store at Brodies Landing
Pioneer Family William L. Lewis
William L. Lewis Deed
Mountain Oak School

Curtly Lewis, the son of W.P. "B" Lewis,
is the man who replaced the headstones at the Lewis Cemetery during the 1960's.

William L. and Mary (Thomas) Lewis
Polly and Robert Lewis - children of Wm. and Mary
William J. Thomas


Photos by John Conway
# 3 property owned by Mr. Jason Pearcy / # 4 Old Fireplace/ * Old Lewis Cemetery

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