Mary Johannah Lewis

Brief Life History of Mary Johannah

When Mary Johannah Lewis was born on 15 October 1851, in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States, her father, John Moss Lewis, was 22 and her mother, Martha Jane Crismon, was 20. She married Jesse Daugherty Hobson on 27 September 1869, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. She died on 16 February 1920, in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in City of Mesa Cemetery, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States.

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Family Time Line

Jesse Daugherty Hobson
1850–1922
Mary Johannah Lewis
1851–1920
Marriage: 27 September 1869
Hattie May Hobson
1870–1947
Clara Johanna Hobson
1872–1873
Ida Catherine Hobson
1874–1954
Jesse Lewis Hobson
1877–1951
Emily Ann Hobson
1879–1952
Lydia Miriam Hobson
1882–1969
Charles Benjamin Hobson
1884–1884
Walter Scott Hobson
1886–1951
John Franklin Hobson
1888–1940
Gertrude Eola Hobson
1890–1956
Russell Earl Hobson
1892–1937

Sources (31)

  • Joanna Lewis, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Mary J. Hobsen, "Arizona Deaths, 1870-1951"
  • Johanna Lewis in entry for Lydia Dye, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Record of Members (Worldwide), 1836-1970"

World Events (8)

1853

Historical Boundaries: 1853: San Bernardino, California, United States

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

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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Mary Johanna Lewis Hobson/Life summary and News article of death

MARY JOHANNA LEWIS HOBSON Mary Johanna Lewis was born October 15, 1851, in San Bernardino, California. Her father and mother John Moss and Martha Jane Crismon Lewis had gone with grandfather Cha …

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