William Hendricks LEWIS^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]}

1837 - 1905  (67 years)

• Name	William Hendricks LEWIS
  Birth	14 Oct 1837	Carlinville, Macoupin, Illinois   [6]
  Gender	Male
  Death	5 Aug 1905	Lewiston, Cache, Utah   [6]
  Burial	8 Sep 1905	Lewiston, Cache, Utah
  Person ID	I4203	HHDHA
  Last Modified	2 Nov 2014

  
  

  Father	Neriah LEWIS,   b. 29 Apr 1816, Hickory Flat, Simpson, Kentucky d. 22 Jul 1890, Richmond, Cache, Utah (Age 74 years)
  Mother	Rebecca HENDRICKS,   b. 23 Dec 1817, West Fork of Drakes Creek, Simpson, Kentucky d. 6 Nov 1854, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah (Age 36 years)
  Marriage	5 Jan 1836	, Simpson, Kentucky   [7]
  Notes	Alternate sealing date 28 Mar Endowment House
  Family ID	F1982	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Martha Narcissa PETTY,   b. 8 Nov 1837, , Benton, Tennessee d. 21 Mar 1905, Lewiston, Cache, Utah (Age 67 years)
  Marriage	21 Nov 1856	Fort Herriman, Salt Lake, Utah   [7]
  Children	1. Neriah Robert LEWIS,   b. 7 Dec 1863, Richmond, Cache, Utah d. 23 Jan 1935, Lewiston, Cache, Utah (Age 71 years)   2. William Hendricks LEWIS,   b. 16 Sep 1857, Fort Harriman, Salt Lake, Utah, USA d. 25 Jul 1955, Richmond, Cache, Utah, USA (Age 97 years)   3. Rebecca Alvira LEWIS,   b. 1 Nov 1859, Richmond, Cache, Utah, USA d. 30 Jul 1935, Logan, Cache, Utah, USA (Age 75 years)   4. Margaret Elizabeth LEWIS,   b. 31 Oct 1861, Richmond, Cache, Utah, USA d. Jan 1863 (Age 1 year)   5. Marion Albert LEWIS,   b. 27 Oct 1867, Richmond, Cache, Utah, USA d. 9 Dec 1928, Lewiston, Cache, UT (Age 61 years)   6. Louisa Lousina LEWIS,   b. 25 Dec 1869, Richmond, Cache, Utah, USA d. 12 Jan 1959, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT (Age 89 years)   7. Adaline LEWIS,   b. 23 Dec 1872, Richmond, Cache, Utah, USA d. 8 Oct 1924, Lewiston, Cache, UT (Age 51 years)   8. Franta Eugene LEWIS,   b. 13 Dec 1876, Lewiston, Cache, Utah, USA d. 13 Jan 1938 (Age 61 years)   9. Martha May LEWIS,   b. 18 Sep 1879, Lewiston, Cache, Utah, USA d. Sep 1883 (Age 3 years)   10. Jedediah Grant LEWIS,   b. 3 Jun 1884, Lewiston, Cache, Utah, USA d. 1 Feb 1963, Franklin, Franklin, Idaho, USA (Age 78 years)   11. Evaline LEWIS,   b. 23 Dec 1892, Richmond, Cache, Utah, USA d. 7 Sep 1910 (Age 17 years)
  Family ID	F1014	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Oct 2018

  
  

  Family 2	Eda Elizabeth STANDAGE,   b. 30 Apr 1853, Millard, Fillmore, Utah d. 23 Nov 1916, Lewiston, Cache, Utah (Age 63 years)
  Marriage	12 Apr 1869	Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA   [7]
  Children	1. Henrietta Armina LEWIS,   b. 4 May 1870, Lewiston, Cache, Utah, USA d. 21 Sep 1885 (Age 15 years)   2. Joseph Henry LEWIS,   b. 28 Apr 1874, Lewiston, Cache, Utah, USA d. 1 Aug 1943 (Age 69 years)   3. Claira (Clara) LEWIS,   b. 4 Jun 1879, Lewiston, Cache, Utah, USA d. 12 Dec 1885 (Age 6 years)   4. George Arthur LEWIS,   b. 29 Jun 1882, Lewiston, Cache, Utah, USA d. 23 Nov 1947, Rigby, Jefferson, Idaho, USA (Age 65 years)   5. Edith Maud LEWIS,   b. 5 Jan 1885, Lewiston, Cache, Utah, USA d. 15 Mar 1920 (Age 35 years)   6. Josephine Pearl LEWIS,   b. 28 Apr 1887, Lewiston, Cache, Utah, USA d. 1 Jan 1915, Lewiston, Cache, Utah, USA (Age 27 years)
  Family ID	F1033	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Oct 2018

  
  

  Family 3	Julia Maria TAGGART,   b. 18 Feb 1865, Richville, Morgan, Utah, USA d. 5 Jun 1924, Logan, Cache, Utah, USA (Age 59 years)
  Marriage	14 Mar 1886	Logan, Cache, Utah, USA   [7]
  Notes	Alternate sealing date 14 Mar 1886 Logan
  Children	1. Lorin LEWIS,   b. 15 Dec 1887, Afton, Lincoln, Wyoming, USA d. Burley, , Idaho, USA   2. Dow LEWIS,   b. 9 Apr 1890, Lewiston, Cache, Utah, USA d. 1 Aug 1951, Logan, Cache, Utah, USA (Age 61 years)   3. Leora LEWIS,   b. 12 Mar 1894, Lewiston, Cache, Utah, USA d. Abt 1990 (Age 95 years)   4. Jared (Jed) Taggart LEWIS,   b. 16 Aug 1897, Lewiston, Cache, Utah, USA d. 13 Nov 1957, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA (Age 60 years)   5. Oneita LEWIS,   b. 18 Sep 1900, Lewiston, Cache, Utah, USA d. Oakland, Alameda, California, USA   6. Irene LEWIS,   b. 30 Mar 1903, Lewiston, Cache, Utah, USA
  Family ID	F1004	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Oct 2018

  
  

• Notes

  NAUVOO RECORDS: Members, LDS, 1830-1848, by Susan Easton Black, Vol 28, pp 140-145 VARIANTS: Death-date: 5 Aug 1905; 9 Sep 1905 Name transcribed from the Iowa Branches Members Index 1839 - 1859, Volumes I & II by Ronald G. Watt. Historical Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1991. Copyright by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. HHFO: D011110030308-S1F DW record number: 10271 1963: 143 DW record number: 10271 See separate PAF data files for history and descendant information. NAUVOO RECORDS: Members, LDS, 1830-1848, by Susan Easton Black, Vol 28, pp 140-145 VARIANTS: Death-date: 5 Aug 1905; 9 Sep 1905 Name transcribed from the Iowa Branches Members Index 1839 - 1859, Volumes I & II by Ronald G. Watt. Historical Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1991. Copyright by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. HHFO: D011110030308-S1F DW record number: 10271 1963: 143 DW record number: 10271 See separate PAF data files for history and descendant information. 1963: 143 DW record number: 10271 See separate PAF data files for history and descendant information. DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM HENDRICKS LEWIS Pre-release 0.9 JUNE, 1994. Created with PAF 2.2; 7 FEB 1991 update. Distributed by the Henry Hendricks Family Organization: Larry Hendricks 2372 S. Bountiful Blvd. Bountiful, UT 84010 $10.00 donation suggested IMPORTANT INFORMATION The information contained in these files is as accurate as we can possibly make it; however, there still may be errors. Any corrections or new information will be gratefully accepted. Updates to these files may be made at various times. Notification of updates will be made through "The Hendricks Herald" newsletter available from the Henry Hendricks Family Organization and through the William Hendricks Lewis family organizations. The Henry Hendricks Family Organization assumes that the users of these data files are familiar with the PAF programs and have obtained legal copies of the program and the accompanying instructions. Please refer any questions about PAF and how to use the various programs to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Family History Department or to your local PAF specialists. AN EXPLANATION OF THE IDENTIFICATION NUMBERS The identification numbers used in this file are birth order codes indicating the relationship each individual has to William Hendricks LEWIS. Within the note file for each individual will also be found the Henry Hendricks Family code showing the relationship to Henry HENDRICKS, the HENRY HENDRICKS GENEALOGY (1963) index number and Dale Walker's data index number when available. ID letter codes have the following meaning: D Descendant S1 Spouse 1 SF Spouse's Father SM Spouse's Mother X Extended ID for those beyond the fifth generation ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ William Hendricks LEWIS HHFO: D11030301 1963: 143 DW record number: 10271 William's father and mother, who were married quite young, removed to Illinois, where they made a new home and were prosperous for about nine years. William writes: "In the winter of 1846-47 my uncle David Lewis came to my father's house and preached the gospel to my parents. My father accepted the same, and a few weeks later sold out and moved to Nauvoo, where the family stopped with my father's and mother's people for about two weeks. We then started for the great unknown west, traveling through Iowa to the Missouri river. I was present when Colonel Allen and other United States officers called for the Mormon Battalion, and I saw the wives and mothers of these soldiers left on the bleak prairie without a protector and with scarcely food enough to eat. A rude flat boat was constructed on which we crossed the Missouri river. We then joined Bishop George Miller's company and continued our journey westward, hoping to reach the Rocky Mountains that same season; but after traveling a few hundred miles, winter came on, and meeting some Ponca Indian Chiefs, who told us that they had grass, timber and water, and that we had better winter with them, we accepted their kind offer, left the trail we had been following, and wintered with them. It was a cold bleak winter, and we suffered much from the want of food. About eighty persons of our company died of black leg or scurvey, and were buried without coffins. We had a little corn in camp, which the women would grind on a hand mill, and there were at times as many as twenty or thirty persons waiting their turn to grind. When we first arrived at the place where we wintered, some two or three hundred young warriors came on horseback to serenade our camp; they rode at full speed in single file, and in their war paint, fired their guns as they came, not forgetting to give the Indian War Whoop. This made it very exciting for our people, many of whom had never seen and Indian before. Just at that moment the old chief appeared on the scene in great excitement, waving his hands and giving the word of command, saying that a war party of Pawnees was at their camp, killing their women and children. On hearing this the warriors broke their serenade and went at full speed to their own camp, where they had a desperate battle with their enemy. They fought like demons for their wives and children; their war chief was killed and I have never before or since listened to such howling and mourning. During the fall and early winter we dug roots, which we called hog potatoes, to eat; they were a great help to us. As soon as winter broke up, we made our way back to Winter Quarters, where we remained and farmed during that season. We then moved on to the Iowa side of the Missouri river, and lived there one year. My parents next moved down into Platte Co., Missouri (near St. Joseph) where we remained for two years. Having there earned sufficient means to purchase a good outfit to come to the Valley, we started for Utah in April 1851. At Winter Quarters we joined Orson Pratt's company with James Cummings as captian of one hundred and Ormus Bates captain of fifty. A short distance out on the plains we left the old road and went around the Elkhorn which compelled us to travel about five hundred miles without a road. We had a successful trip, and arrived in Salt Lake City 7 Oct. 1851. My father puchased a home in the 15th Ward, Salt Lake City, and we farmed the following season. In the fall of 1852 we moved to Centerville, Davis Co., Utah, but returned soon afterwards to Salt Lake City, where my mother died in the fall of 1854. My father was left with my mother's four children and her brother's two orphan children--six motherless children in all. Then came a hard struggle to make a living. I worked at whatever I could get to do, and finally obtained employment from Captain Wm. H. Hooper, and did fairly well. The captain seemed to think a good deal of me. I attended meetings in the old tabernacle regularly for ten years, and listened with delight to Pres. Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, and the old Apostles and veterans of the Prophet Joseph's time; they spoke with power, and I learned to love them, and to cherish their teachings. Leaving the city to assist my father on his farm in Fort Herriman, I became acquainted with a young lady, Martha Narcissa PETTY, whom I married in Nov. 1856. Henry Herriman, one of the Seven Presidents of Seventies, performed the ceremony." Martha was a daughter of Robert Cowen and Margaret (Jefferson) Petty. "I built us a snug little home in Fort Herriman, though we commenced married life without a dollar in pocket. But we never wanted for anything that we could not pay for, and for ten years we were never indebted to anyone. I participated in the Echo Canyon war, and also in the move south. Returning from the south with the main body of the people, I engaged in farming and was getting along very well, when I concluded to go to Cache Valley. I arrived there July 18, 1859. We followed an Indian trail through Wellsville, and arriving on the spot where Richmond now stands, I staked off a claim and in company with my brother-in-law, a boy of some sixteen years, and a neighbor by the name of A. F. Stewart, I put up fifty tons of hay. We then returned to Fort Herriman, loaded up some ox teams with lumber for floors and roofs, and retunrned to Cache Valley to put up our log cabins. After building them, we considered them very comfortable, for they had lumber floors and roofs. Returning once more to Fort Herriman, I sold out there, and moved my family to our new home where Richmond now stands. We arrived there Oct. 31, 1859. On the day after our arrival, my oldest daughter, Rebecca A. Rawlins, was born. About two weeks later Apotle Orson Hyde and Ezra T. Benson came to my home and ordained me a High Priest and set me aprt as a mamber of the High Council in the Cache Valley Stake, which position I held about twelve years. In the meantime I officiated in many different callings, such as Ward teacher, minute man, and in various callings. in 1864 I went down to the Missouri River after the poor Saints; and in 1872 I was called to be Bishop in the Lewiston Ward." Lewiston was named in his honor. As the presiding officer in Lewiston for nearly 29 years, Bishop Lewis witnessed the growth of that settlement from a small hamlet, consisting of only four cabins built in the desert, to one of the most fourishing settlements in the mountains. When the settlements in Cache Valley were divided and organized into three Stakes of Zion, Bishop Lewis was chosen and set apart as president of the Benson Stake which embraced all of the settlements on the north end of Cache County. This was in April 1901. He continued in this capacity until his death on 5 Sept. 1905. --HENRY HENDRICKS GENEALOGY, pp. 59-61 The following notes provided by Douglas S. Pike: Source: 1. Oneita (LEWIS) VAN NOY -daughter. 2. Archive records submitted by Keith Howard LEWIS, 2820 T St., Sacramento, CA., 3. Lorin LEWIS William established the community of Lewiston on assignment from the First Presidency, was first President of the Benson Stake, and political leader of community. He was rebaptised 16 Aug 1875. 1963: 143 DW record number: 10271 Sealing: to parents may be 12 Feb 1885 in Logan, UT

  
  

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  [S40] Downloaded from http://EarlyLDS.com, version 2006-09-01, snowdr@gmail.com. [S55] Internet Link - BYU Winter Quarters Project - http://winterquarters.byu.edu. [S56] Internet Link - Pioneer Research Group Project - http://www.pioneerresearchgroup.org. [S59] Black, Susan Easton, Compiler, LDS - Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:1830-1848, 50 vols., (LDS Church, Salt Lake City, 1990), 1830-1848, by Susan Easton Black, Vol 28, pp 140-145. [S61] Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia. Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia Volume 1William Hendricks LEWIS, president of the Benson Stake of Zion, is the son of Neriah Lewis and Rebecca Hendricks, and was born Oct. 14, 1837, in Macoupin county, Ill. His parents were raised in Simpson county, Kentucky. His father was a descendant of a family of three Welsh brothers who emigrated from Wales to America in an early day and who took part in the Revolutionary war. It is said that twenty-two men of the Lewis family fought in one battle under General Geo. Washington. William's father and mother, who were married quite young, removed to Illinois, where they made a new home and were prosperous for about nine years. Pres. Lewis writes: "In the winter of 1846-47 my uncle David Lewis came to my father's house and preached the gospel to my parents. My father accepted the same, and a few weeks later sold out and moved to Nauvoo, where the family stopped with my father's and mother's people for about two weeks. We then started for the great unknown west, traveling through Iowa to the Missouri river. I was present when Colonel Allen and other United States officers called for the Mormon Battalion, and I saw the wives and mothers of these soldiers left on the bleak prairie without a protector and with scarcely food enough to eat. A rude flat boat was constructed on which we crossed the Missouri river. We then joined Bishop George Miller's company and continued our journey westward, hoping to reach the Rocky Mountains that same season; but after traveling a few hundred miles, winter came on, and meeting some Punca Indian chiefs, who told us that they had grass, timber and water, and that we had better winter with them, we accepted their kind offer, left the trail we had been following, and wintered with them. It was a cold bleak winter, and we suffered much from the want of food. About eighty persons of our [p.299] company died of black leg or scurvy, and were buried without coffins. We had a little corn in camp, which the women would grind on a hand mill, and there were at times as many as twenty or thirty persons waiting their turn to grind. When we first arrived at the place where we wintered, some two or three hundred young warriors came on horseback to serenade our camp; they rode at full speed in single file, and in their war paint, and fired their guns as they came, not forgetting to give the Indian war whoop. This made it very exciting for our people, many of whom had never seen an Indian before. Just at that moment the old chief appeared on the scene in great excitement, waving his hands and giving the word of command, saying that a war party of Pawnees was at their camp, killing their women and children. On hearing this the warriors broke their serenade and went at full speed to their own camp, where they had a desperate battle with their enemy. They fought like demons for their wives and children; their war chief was killed, and I have never before or since listened to such howling and mourning. While in this camp our corral of wagons (which was a very large one, containing our cattle and horses) was broken one night by the stampeding of the cattle, which ran over the wagons, as though there was nothing in the way, and made kindling wood of most of our vehicles and their contents. Two boys or young men were sleeping under one of the wagons at the time, but an old iron pot, which stood under the axletree, saved their lives. During the fall and early winter we dug roots, which we called hog potatoes, to eat; they were a great help to us, but later the frost became so intense (the ground freezing three or four feet deep) that there could be no more digging of roots. When the cattle died of hunger and cold, some of the people would dress, boil and eat some of the meat. As soon as winter broke up, we made our way back to Winter Quarters, where we remained and farmed during that season. We then moved on to the Iowa side of the Missouri river, and lived there one year. My parents next moved down into Platte county, Missouri (near Saint Joseph), where we remained for two years. Having there earned sufficient means to purchase a good outfit to come to the Valley, we started for Utah in April, 1851. At Winter Quarters we joined Orson Pratt's company, with James Cummings as captain of one hundred, and Ormus Bates, captain of fifty. A short distance out on the plains we left the old road and went around the Elkhorn, which compelled us to travel about five hundred miles without a road. We had a successful trip, and arrived in Salt Lake City Oct. 7, 1851. My father purchased a home in the 15th Ward, Salt Lake City, and we farmed the following season. In the fall of 1852 we moved to Centerville, Davis county, but returned soon afterwards to Salt Lake City, where my mother died in the fall of 1854. My father was left with my mother's four children and her brother's two orphan children—six motherless children in all. Then came a hard struggle to make a living. I worked at whatever I could get to do, and finally obtained employment from Captain Wm. H. Hooper, and did fairly well. The captain seemed to think a good deal of me. I attended meetings in the Old Tabernacle regularly for ten years, and listened with delight to Pres. Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball and the old Apostles and veterans of the Prophet Joseph's time; they spoke with power, and I learned to love them, and to cherish their teachings. Leaving the city to assist my father on his farm in Fort Herriman, I became acquainted with a young lady (Martha Petty), whom I married in November, 1856. Henry Harriman, one of the Seven Presidents of Seventies, performed the ceremony. I built us a snug little home in Fort Herriman, though we commenced married life without a dollar in pocket. But we never wanted for anything that we could not pay for, and for ten years we were never indebted to any one. I participated in the Echo Canyon war, and also in the move south. Returning from the south with the main body of the people, I engaged in farming and was getting along very well, when I concluded to go to Cache valley. I arrived there July 18, 1859. We followed an Indian trail through Wellsville, and arriving on the spot where Richmond now stands, I staked off a claim, and in company with my [p.300] brother-in-law, a boy of some sixteen years, and a neighbor by the name of A. F. Stewart, I put up fifty tons of hay. We then returned to Fort Herriman, loaded up some ox teams with lumber for floors and roofs, and returned to Cache valley to put up our log cabins. After building them, we considered them very comfortable, for they had lumber floors and roofs. Returning once more to Fort Herriman I sold out there, and moved my family to our new home where Richmond now stands. We arrived there Oct. 31, 1859. On the day after our arrival, my oldest daughter Rebecca A. Rawlins was born. About two weeks later Apostles Orson Hyde and Ezra T. Benson came to my house and ordained me a High Priest and set me apart as a member of the High Council in Cache Valley Stake, which position I held about twelve years. In the meantime I officiated in many different callings, such as Ward Teacher, minute man, and in various callings. In 1864 I went down to the Missouri river after the poor Saints; and in 1872 I was called to be Bishop in the Lewiston Ward." As the presiding officer in Lewiston for nearly twenty-nine years, Bishop Lewis witnessed the growth of that settlement from a small hamlet, consisting of only four cabins built in the desert, to one of the most flourishing settlements in the mountains. When the settlements in Cache valley were divided and organized into three Stakes of Zion, Bishop Lewis was chosen and set apart as president of the Benson Stake, which embraces all the settlements on the north end of Cache county. Pres. Lewis is still young in heart and strong in body, and has no doubt a long career of usefulness yet before him. [S13] Allen, Marguerite Hendricks, Henry Hendricks Genealogy, (Henry Hendricks Family Organization, Third Ed. 1995), Fifth Generation pp. 66-67., JSMB US/CAN Book 929.273 H384a. [S26] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index (R), (FamilySearch™ International Genealogical Index v5.0).