COLONEL RICHARD LEWIS
D7. Colonel Richard Lewis, son of John and his wife, Sarah Taliaferro, was born in 1765, in Albemarle county, Virginia. He was upward of six feet high, with light hair, blue eyes and fair complexion. He emigrated to Rutherford county, North Carolina, with his father before the Revolutionary war, and was a saddler by trade. After the close of the Revolutionary war there were but four offices within the gift of the people of hte county ; three of those offices were conferred upon three of the Lewis brothers, viz.: Major John Lewis was elected Sheriff of the county; Charles Lewis was elected as Representative of the county in the State Legisalture, and Colonel Richard Lewis was elected Clerk of the County Court. He was a member of the convention that revised the Constitution of North Carolina. He married Sarah Miller, daughter of General James Miller and his wife, Agnes Miller, in 1789. ...
... Richard Lewis and his wife were members of the Methodist-Episcopal church. They finally moved from Rutherford county, North Carolina, and settled near Pendleton, S.C., on Seneca river, where he died in 1831, and she a few years afterward. Their remains were interred at the Stone church (Hopewell), near Pendleton, S.C.
Colonel Richard Lewis and his wife, Sarah Miller, had nine children, ...
