CAMPBELL COUNTY, VA - HISTORY - Campbell Chronicles and Family Sketches
			Family  Sketches - Lewis
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                   CAMPBELL CHRONICLES and FAMILY SKETCHES

              Embracing the History of CAMPBELL COUNTY, VIRGINIA
                                  1782-1926
                                By R. H. EARLY
                              With Illustrations
                              J. P. BELL COMPANY
                           LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 1927


Lewis

  Col. William J. Lewis was the son of Col. Wm. Lewis, of Sweet Springs, and
grandson of John Lewis, the first settler in Augusta county. Col. Wm. J. Lewis
commanded a corps of riflemen called "Sons of the Mountain," at Yorktown in
1781; he married Elizabeth, daughter of Col. Joseph Cabell and his wife, Mary,
the daughter of Dr. Arthur Hopkins of Goochland and Albemarle.

  There is a deed from Archibald Bolling dated Oct. 8, 1796, conveying to Wm. J.
Lewis a tract of land called the Buffalo Lick plantation in Campbell on the
Fluvanna river, 80O acres beginning at the mouth of a small gutt called
Slippery, on the river bank to Horsley's lines and Archie's creek, according to
its meanders, and including a mill seat, thence down the Fluvanna river.

  Col. Lewis lived upon this land, which he purchased from Bolling, on James
river about ten miles from Lynchburg. His residence, called Mt. Athos, was
destroyed by fire some years ago and valuable heirlooms belonging to the
Robertson family, then owners, were lost in it. Lewis was a leading member of
Virginia Legislature for many years; and from 1817-19 represented his district
in Congress. He died in 1828 and was buried at the summit of the mountain he
loved, at a spot selected by himself for a vault which was blasted out of solid
rock. Mrs. Lewis moved to Kentucky after the death of her husband and died there
in 1855; they left no children. A sister of Mrs. Lewis, Mary H. Cabell, married
John Breckenridge and moved near Lexington, Ky.: these were the grandparents of
Gen. John C. Breckenridge.

  In 1806 Virginia, the daughter of Ann Cabell and Robert C. Harrison, was born
in the home of her uncle, Col. Lewis, at Mt. Athos, and she was named for the
state which her parents were then preparing to leave. She was reared in Kentucky
and married David Castleman at Castleton, near Lexington, Ky.

  Judge John Robertson owned and resided at Mt. Athos, and while still held by
his family, it was burned and not rebuilt. The property was divided and sold to
Messrs. Logan and Herndon.

  James Lewis patented land on the south side of Roanoke river adjoining Gilliam.


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