LEWIS, William W.

Date of birth:  1819 – Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio
Date of death: 14 Jul 1896 – Franklin, Johnson County Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, July 17, 1896,
Volume XXXVII Number 1, page 2 column 5

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Death of an Old Resident.

Wm. W. Lewis, the well-known real estate man died at 11 o’clock Tuesday night at his room over S. A. Wilson’s office. He had been sick only a few days of dysentery. Owing to Mr. Lewis’ extreme age and enfeebled condition, the disease would not yield to any med­ical agents. Funeral services were held yesterday morning at 8:30 o’clock at the Presbyterian church, conducted by Rev. T. N. Todd. Burial at Greenlawn.

Deceased was born at Zanesville, O., April 20, 1820. Oct. 4, 1853, he was married in this city to Mary J. Herriott, daughter of Ephraim Herriott, Rev. Jas. W. McKee officiating. Mrs. Lewis died in 186?, leaving one son, Ira, now of Laporte, Ind. Mr. Lewis had never re­married. He was a man of quiet genial manners, and one who merited and possessed the respect of all. His form had long been a familiar one in Frank­lin, and in his death Franklin loses an­other of its “old and respected citizens.”

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The Franklin Democrat, Friday,July 17, 1896,
Volume XXXVII Number 1, page 1 column 2

PERSONAL AND LOCAL.

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Ira Lewis, of Laporte, was called here this week by the sickness and death of his father, W. W. Lewis.

Link to William W. Lewis’s grave

Note: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920 page 119, referencing Book H-18, page 4, records that W. W. Lewis, a seventy-seven-year-old white male, died 14 Jul 1895 in Franklin.

Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson