OBIT: Anthony Cresent LEWIS, 1945, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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ANTHONY C. LEWIS

  Anthony Cresent Lewis, 69, died at his home near Grantsville, Md., on 
Thursday, Dec. 20.  He was born in New York City, in 1876, a son of Mr. and Mrs. 
Newton Lewis.  He married Joan Grill in 1900, and one son was born to that 
union, John Lewis now of Johnstown, Pa.  After the death of his first wife, Mr. 
Lewis, in 1905, married Miss Mary Walls of Grantsville, who bore him twelve 
children, ten of whom survive.  They are: Frank, Claymont, Del.; Mrs. Elmer 
Miller, Grantsville; Charles, Cambridge Springs, Pa.; Joseph, Jamestown, Pa.; 
Mrs. Arthur Wright, Stoystown, Pa.; Mrs. Clyde Yommer, Jennings, Md.; Mrs. Clyde 
Colflesh, Grantsville; Ray, Baltimore; Elmer, Johnson City, Tenn., and Carl, who 
is serving in the navy in Hawaii.
  Becoming a widower a second time, Mr. Lewis, in 1943, married as his third 
wife, Mrs. J. E. Walls, of near Grantsville, who survives.  Eighteen 
grandchildren, besides the eleven children above named also survive.
  Funeral services were conducted at the Maple Grove Church of the Brethren, on 
Sunday, Dec. 23, at 10 a.m., by Rev. Ross Speicher of Accident, Md.

Meyersdale Republican, December 27, 1945