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Mary Isabelle <I>Brewer</I> Lewis

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Mary Isabelle Brewer Lewis

Birth
Independence County, Arkansas, USA
Death
29 Jan 1961 (aged 97)
Wellington, Collingsworth County, Texas, USA
Burial
Dodson, Collingsworth County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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Old Section Plot 106 Grave G
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Mary Isabelle Brewer was born March 18, 1863 in Independence County, Arkansas. She was the daughter of G. W. and Sarah Wooldridge Brewer. Her father took the family to Missouri during the Civil War, then moved back to Cave City, Arkansas, where she grew up. She married Thomas Jefferson Lewis September 16, 1885 at Cave City, Arkansas.

Mary learned to spin and weave and she helped shear the sheep and card the wool. At the age of 15 she spun the thread, wove the cloth, cut and sewed a suit of clothes for her father.

She was 23 years old when she married T. J. Lewis, a school teacher from a neighboring family. Her wedding dress of white percale cost five cents per yard, and she made it. A short time before she married, she hired out to a neighbor and picked enough cotton to buy a pair of scissors and a side saddle.

In 1901 the family moved to Rockwall County, Texas. They lived there for four years before moving on to Collingsworth County in 1905. Mary passed away January 29, 1961, age 97.

Her children were: Arthur Talmadge Lewis, Naomi Dell Lewis Kesler, Sarah S. Lewis Camp, Grace Isabelle Lewis Camp, Rosa Lewis Ingle, George Robert Lewis, William Claude Lewis, and Eunice Thelma Lewis McWhorter. One son, Allison, died age nine in Arkansas.

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Mary Isabelle Brewer was born March 18, 1863 in Independence County, Arkansas. She was the daughter of G. W. and Sarah Wooldridge Brewer. Her father took the family to Missouri during the Civil War, then moved back to Cave City, Arkansas, where she grew up. She married Thomas Jefferson Lewis September 16, 1885 at Cave City, Arkansas.

Mary learned to spin and weave and she helped shear the sheep and card the wool. At the age of 15 she spun the thread, wove the cloth, cut and sewed a suit of clothes for her father.

She was 23 years old when she married T. J. Lewis, a school teacher from a neighboring family. Her wedding dress of white percale cost five cents per yard, and she made it. A short time before she married, she hired out to a neighbor and picked enough cotton to buy a pair of scissors and a side saddle.

In 1901 the family moved to Rockwall County, Texas. They lived there for four years before moving on to Collingsworth County in 1905. Mary passed away January 29, 1961, age 97.

Her children were: Arthur Talmadge Lewis, Naomi Dell Lewis Kesler, Sarah S. Lewis Camp, Grace Isabelle Lewis Camp, Rosa Lewis Ingle, George Robert Lewis, William Claude Lewis, and Eunice Thelma Lewis McWhorter. One son, Allison, died age nine in Arkansas.

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