Sketch of Charles A. Lewis, St. Charles County, Missouri

>From "A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri, with numerous
sketches, anecdotes, adventures, etc., relating to Early Days in 
Missouri" by William S. Bryan and Robert Rose, Published by Bryan,
Brand & Co., St. Louis Missouri, 1876.
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Capt. John Lewis and his wife, whose maiden name was Peggy Frog, were
natives of Ireland.  They came to America and settled in Virginia, and
their son, Charles A., married Judith Turner, by whom he had: Mary,
Timothy P., Margaret, Catharine E., Isabella S. and Louisa.  In 1817
he removed to St. Charles County and settled on "the point."  Mary,
the eldest daughter, married Samuel Watson, and rode on his horse be-
hind him to their home, carrying all of her wardrobe in her lap. Tim-
othy P. died single.  the rest of the children, except Louisa, returned
to Virginia with their mother, after the death of their father.  Louisa
married William Ferguson, for whom Ferguson Station in St. Louis County
was named.  The land was first owned by Charles A. Lewis, who sold it
for six dollars per acre, and moved to St. Charles County.  Mr. Fergus-
on gave ten acres of the land to the railroad company, to secure the
station.  Mrs. Lewis once saved her house from burning by having a 
churn of buttermilk convenient.  She kept some of her clothes in a 
large chest, and one evening while looking through them with a torch
in her hand, the clothes caught fire, and they and the chest were en-
tirely consumed, and the house would have been burned except for the
churn of buttermilk, which Mrs. Lewis used in extinguishing the flames.	

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