Lewis Family Records

Wayne County, North Carolina
Records of Clerk of Court,.
Will Book R.  9 - Page 460.

Will of Urban Lewis, dated August 13, 1841, probated February Court 1847- John Lewis, Executor- names: son John, son William, wife Susan, and seven daughters: Eliza Martin, Polly Martin, Fannie Denmark, Bethania Lewis, Patience Lewis, Susan Lewis and Elizabeth Lewis.

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Wayne County, North Carolina
Register of Deeds Records,
Book 10, Page 44.

Deed for 20 acres - dated 1813 - from William Lewis___ “In consideration of the natural love and affection which I, William Lewis, have and do bare to my said, son Urbain Lewis— a certain tract or parcel of land situated, lying and being in the County of Wayne and part in Duplin County”—Joins Mason Sunbies, Brooks Swamp, his own land, and on Sleepy Creek - Signature witnessed by Ezekial Slocumb and Ulle Lewis, and proved before the May Court 1813.

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This is to certify that I, L. Polk Denmark, personally remember the many visits to our home by my grandmother Patience Lewis Denmark, that all my life I have know that her sister Bethania Lewis married Henderson Martin of Mount Olive, North Carolina, and that when my father, James William Denmark returned from the Civil War in 1855, at the age of 18, he left the farm near Dudley, North Carolina, and lived for a year with “Uncle Henderson and Aunt Theny Martin,” so he could attend the school there with the Martin children.

In the January 1911, issue of the Wake Forest Student (Benefactor’ Number,) page 373, in his autobiography he tells about this move toward gaining his education.

I furthermore certify that I personally abstracted the records of Wayne County Will Book R. 9 - Page 460, and Deed Book 10, Page 44, from the records in the State Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina.

                                   L. Polk Denmark

Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 9^th day of February, 1950.  Virginia S. Herring

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