Charles Lewis

Brief Life History of Charles

When Charles Lewis was born in 1885, in Union, Newton, Mississippi, United States, his father, James W Lewis, was 32 and his mother, Leora Adelaide Germany, was 31. He lived in Beat 5, Smith, Mississippi, United States in 1900 and Beat 4, Covington, Mississippi, United States in 1910.

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Family Time Line

James W Lewis
1853–
Leora Adelaide Germany
1854–1938
Susan E. Lewis
1877–
Mattie Lewis
1889–
Edward Lewis
1878–
Maggie Lewis
1881–
Lillie Lewis
1883–
Mary Ann Lewis
1883–
Thad A Lewis
1885–
Charles Lewis
1885–
Elizabeth Leta Lewis
1887–1930
Thomas Isaac Lewis
1891–1976

Sources (2)

  • Charles Louis in household of J W Louis, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Chales W Lewis, "United States Census, 1910"

World Events (8)

1886

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

1907 · Boll Weevil Destroys Most the Cotton Crop

When the boll weevil threatened most the Mississippi Delta, it put the state’s cotton crop in peril. By the time the boll weevil reached Mississippi it had already destroyed four million bales of cotton. This added up to $238 million at the time or about 6 billion in present day. The boll weevil depends on cotton for every stage of its life.

1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress

Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.

Name Meaning

English: from the Middle English, Old French personal name Lewis, Leweis, Lowis, from ancient Germanic (originally West Frankish) Hludwig (itself from hlōd- ‘fame, famous’ + wīg- ‘battle’). This was Latinized as Ludovicus and Chlodovisus, which were gallicized as Clovis or Clouis, French Louis. The name may also appear as Lawis, Laweys, Lawes, by unrounding of the vowel of Lowis on the analogy of the variation between Low and Law as pet forms of Middle English Lourence alias Laurence. This surname is also very common among African Americans. See Laws 2 and compare Lawrence .

Welsh: adopted for the Welsh personal name Llywelyn (see Llewellyn ).

Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Lughaidh ‘son of Lughaidh’. This is one of the most common Old Irish personal names. It is derived from Lugh ‘brightness’, which was the name of a Celtic god.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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