JOSEPH ROBERT LEWIS
CHILDREN Elbert Avery Lewis Perry Madison Lewis William Jesse Lewis Robert Fulton Lewis Eva Kate Lewis |
BORN 16 Oct 1880 9 Apr 1885 12 Aug 1889 31 Aug 1897 27 Mar 1902 |
DIED 27 Mar 1958 12 Aug 1916 31 Oct 1943 8 Feb 1966 23 Nov 1983 |
Joseph Robert "Rob" Lewis was born on 5 January 1854 in Wayne County, Georgia (now Brantley), the son of James Bryant Lewis and Letitia McCool. He was a young boy during the Civil War, and could only watch his older brothers go off to fight and die for the South. He was a farmer, working lands inherited from his father and purchased from the other heirs. In the early 1900s when Rob was in his prime, national headlines told of the digging of the Panama Canal. He may have seen some of his friends leave for Panama to answer the nationwide appeal for workers on the project. Good pay was offered to those who would go. Rob, however, remained on his farm throughout his life. He married Mary Ann Johns on 24 October 1878 in Wayne County.
Rob Lewis died on 17 April 1930. His son, William Jesse Lewis, was the Administrator of his estate. They are buried in the Lewis Cemetery at Raybon, Georgia in Brantley County.