Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Lewis, Caleb 
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

Washington Township
p. 747 & 748

Caleb Lewis, deceased, was born in Greenbriar County, Va., a son of George and 
Leah Lewis, natives of Virginia. Caleb came to the then new Northwest when a 
young, unmarried man. He located at Salisbury, Wayne County, about 1813, and 
was employed in the grocery store of Israel Abrams a number of years, a 
portion of the time also working at the carpenter's trade. He married Mary, 
daughter of Levi and Rachel (Fields) Willetts, and soon after located on land 
he had purchased south of Centreville, where he lived till 1831, when he 
removed to Washington Township and located three miles east of Milton, and in 
1868 he removed to Milton. He was a Representative in the State Legislature 
from Wayne County, elected on the Republican ticket, and held many responsible 
offices of the township. He possessed a broad range of practical knowledge, 
and good executive ability. He was an active member of the Christian church. 
He in later life was possessed of a large property, acquired by judicious 
management and application to business. Mr. Lewis died Feb. 24, 1870, aged 
seventy-seven years and two days. His wife preceded him six months, aged sixty-
six years. They had a family of ten children, seven of whom are living---Mrs. 
Vashti Drury, Mrs. Leah V. Scott, Mrs. Sarah Hurst, Mrs. Mary J. Ferguson, 
Mrs. Maria Hurst, John M. and Mrs. Minerva Jones. Levi, William and Mrs. 
Melissa A. Petty are deceased. Sarah was married in 1848 to Dixon Hurst, a 
native of Wayne County, and a son of John and Elizabeth Hurst. They removed to 
Fayette County, Ind., where Mr. Hurst died Jan. 12, 1858, aged thirty-five 
years. They had three children---A1ice H., wife of H. M. Gresh; Horace L., 
residing on the old homestead in Fayette County, and Mary, deceased.

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