Info on Robert Lewellen

Information from Joan Kimball (of Carthage, Missouri) on the Lewellens:

1) Jasper County Land Records (earliest records available = 1841) has a land transaction for:
Robert Lewellen from Isaac Gibson on the 30th Sep 1848.

2) No mention of Robert Lewellen in all three Jasper County Histories

3) List of Lewellens in all 6 cemetery records:

• Lewallen, Mary 1856-1917 wife of E.E. (Avilla Cemetery)
• Lewellen, Elizabeth 1872-1920
• Lewellen, Benj.
• Lewellen, Lewis Clark 7 Jun 1891-4 Sept 1908
• Lewellen, Clark 1851 (avilla cemetery)
• Lewellen, John 3 May 1852-25 Aug 1890
• Lewellen, Carrie A 1889-1896 dau. of J.H. (Ga. City Cemetery)

4)No Lewellens in Dale County Histories

5) No will from Probate Courts. Dicy Lewellen was appointed guardian of the following children in 1854: William, Stephen, James, Joseph, Robert, Jane, Nancy.

There are several entries in the book on the adm. of the estate mostly the appointment of John Hornback as the administrator. These are written in a book and no one knows where the papers are.

Other Probate Records:

A. Jan 11, 1853 John Hornback was appointed administor and Dica Lewelleln relinquishes her right to be administrator. $800 ___ & John Gibson & Hames Hornback were securities.

B. Nancy Bayneems against Robert Lewellen est. for $9.07

C. William ___ against Robert Lewellen est. for $5.57

D. William G. Burden against Robert Lewellen est. for $12.75

E. Lorenzo Speegle against Robert Lewellen est. for $4.25

F. John Walker against Robert Lewellen est. for $20.00

G. Rice & Chenault against Robert Lewellen est. for $1.82

6) There are 2 Jasper County Marriages for up through 1861:

Smith, Daniel & America Elinor Lewellen 20 Aug 1856

Lewellen, William & Mary Ledford 7 Mar 1858

Lewellen's in Upper Monongahela Valley, West Virginia

Found this today on the internet:

Genealogical and Personal History of the Upper Monongahela Valley, West Virginia, Under the Editorial Supervision of Bernard L. Butcher ... With an Account of the Resurces and Industries of the Upper Monongahela Valley and the Tributary Region By Bernard Lee Butcher, James Morton Callahan: "The earliest known ancestor of the Jones family was the JONES mother of Jacob Jones who married second Samuel Lewellen and removed with him from near Wilmington Delaware to Loudoun county Virginia where they lived until about"1770 The Lewellens then moved across the mountains and settled on Cheat river establishing the old Lewellen Ferry in Monongalia county Virginia now West Virginia near the Pennsylvania line Samuel Lewellen obtained a grant of land there in 1771 and his name is prominently mentioned in the old records among the early settlers of the county Of the children of Samuel Lewellen the names of the following have been preserved Philip Jacob Benjamin Thomas David Asa Mary Samuel Doctor who is said to have been the eighth child Their descendants settled in West Virginia western Pennsylvania and Indiana and were scattered throughout the United States II Jacob Jones born in Wilmington Delaware"

2nd Marriage of Ellen Brantley Lewellen

From Lloyd McConnell of Fayetteville, Arkansas, April 13, 1978:
"Today I found where A.J. Brown, 62, of Cherokee County, Oklahoma married Ellen Brantley, 45, on December 16th 1906 at Fayettefille, Arkansas. J.F. Leake, was the Justice of the Peace."

A.J. Brown was the second husband of Ellen Brantley Lewellen.

Robert & Abigail Lewellen, 1856

I don't know where this family fits into my Lewellen line either, but this document is from settlement book 17 page 550 for Robert Lewellen's estate w/ Abigail Lewellen as the administratrix

Land Record of Jacob Lewellen of Hardin County, KY

Click here: Land Record of Jacob Lewellen

shows that Jacob was in Hardin County, KY in 1799

Will of Samuel Lewellen

Click here: Will of Samuel Lewellen

I don't know where this Samuel Lewellen fits in my Lewellen line, but thought I'd post it anyway:

Samuel Lewellen, record made 22 Jan 1822, proved 9 Dec 1822
bequests to Wife: Patty, and Children: Nancy Walton Spreg, Thomas D. Lewellan, Catherine Riggs, Mary Everett, and Saml R Lewellen
mentions Wm Doughtery
Executors : Wife Patty, and Danl McCalister
Witnesses: James Harrison, Richard Pilcher

1850 Census, Leopold, Perry, Indiana HH1024

Found ths today as I was searching for Johnson's in Perry, Indiana. Don't know if it fits in anywhere but I wanted to record it somewhere . . .

1850 Census, Leopold, Perry, Indiana HH1024
Sylvester Lewallen, 38, M, Kentucky
Lucinda Lewallen, 37, F, Kentucky
Catharine, 18, F, Indiana
Sarah, 16, F, Indiana
Thomas, 14, M, Indiana
James, 12, M, Indiana
John, 10, M, Indiana
Matilda, 6, F, Indiana
William, 3, M, Indiana