Jackson County GaArchives Biographies.....Arthur, Lewis ca 1794 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Candace (Teal) Gravelle http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00023.html#0005680 November 25, 2006, 11:30 am Author: "The Carroll County Times" from "The Jefferson News" Carrollton, Carroll Co., Georgia NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, JANUARY 9, 1880 GEORGIA News THE OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAINS Georgia has produced a great many remarkable men but none, we dare assert, more so than Mr. Lewis Arthur who resides in Jackson county. According to the Jefferson News: He was born in Virginia and is now in his eighty-sixth year. He served in the War of 1812 and has been married twice. By his first wife, Miss Nancy Hartsfield of Clarke county, he had sixteen children. From a recent trip among his offspring, he found them all to number one hundred and fifty-six living and thirty-nine dead. Twenty- four of his grandchildren are married and he says thirty-one more are ready to marry. Seven of his daughters are grandmothers and one of his grand daughters is a grandmother. His great granddaughter is called "Greaty." Nine of his offspring were born in the present year. He says with great pride, and justly too, that all of his family are able to take care of themselves. Mr. Arthur has been a notable man in his time, being noted for his muscular powers and has had many a rough and tumble fight in the good old days, when everybody engaged in fist and skull fights upon muster and court days. We think the showing made by this gentleman rather remarkable and uncommon. It is not often that such large families are raised from one couple and that a man is allowed to see his offspring of the third and fourth generations before he is gathered to his Father. Mr. Arthur is still hale and hearty and says he can managed the most of his grandchildren. His present health promises many years of life still to this patriarch. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/jackson/bios/arthur902gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb