The Lewman family of Clark County, Indiana was one of the most prominent families during the mid 1800's and came to the area from North Carolina. The first identified to come to Clark County, Indiana, was Moses Lewman, believed to be the son of Aaron Lewman. He was born in 1762 and died in 1820, and was laid to rest in the Union Cemetery in Utica Township, Clark County, Indiana.

Prior to their arrival in Indiana, Moses married Elizabeth Cash, the daughter of John Cash and Rachel (Dawson) in about 1798. Elizabeth was born in 1769 in Maryland and had seven children by Moses, all of which were born in North Carolina.

After the death of her husband, Elizabeth probably lived with one of her children as she is listed in her son John's household in 1850, residing in Charlestown. Elizabeth died five years later in 1855 and was also buried in Union Cemetery.

See also transcription of Aaron's Last Will and Testament dated 1824.

1. Cecelia Lewman - born about 1797.

2. John B. Lewman - born 02 Oct 1802; died on 10 Nov 1884.

3. Silas Lewman - born about 1805-1808.

4. Milas Lewman - born 04 Oct 1807; died on 19 Nov 1887.

5. Elizabeth "Betty" Lewman - born about 1808 in North Carolina. She was was counted in the 1850 Utica Twp., Clark Co., IN census listed as age 42. Listed with her was her husband, Joseph Trichler, whom she married on 16 Nov 1826. According to the census, Joseph was born about 1788 in Pennsylvania, listed as age 62 in 1850.

6. Isaiah Lewman - born 11 Apr 1811; died on 17 Jul 1860.

7. Nancy Lewman was born about 1809-1815.

JOHN B. LEWMAN (Moses, John) was born on 02 Oct 1802 in North Carolina. He married (1) Mary Grisamore, the daughter of Jacob Grisamore and Sarah (Treichler). Mary was born on 01 Jul 1808 in Berks Co., Pennsylvania, died on 01 Jul 1848 in Clark County, Indiana and was buried in Union Cemetery.

John was enumerated in the 1850 Charlestown, Clark Co., Indiana census, and was residing in Utica Township during the 1860-1880 census. In 1870, he appears to be listed with a second wife Catherine who was age 55 born in Kentucky, along with son John W. age 22; and a possible stepson James Aiken, who was age 17.

The 1880 census verifies Catherine as his wife, and a check on marriage records for Clark county, show a John Lewman married to Catherine Howard on 09 January 1866. John died on 10 Nov 1884 in Clark Co., Indiana and was buried beside his first wife in Union Cemetery.

1. George Lewman - born about 1834; was listed as the oldest child in the 1850 household, may possibly be the same George listed as 25 yr old medical student in the Charles Gable Charlestown residence in 1860. He married Mrs. Ada Brown who was enumerated with him along with her son John J. Brown in the 1880 census.
2. Sarah E. Lewman - born about 1836 in Indiana; counted in the 1850 Charlestown, Clark Co, IN census, and the 1860 Utica Twp., Clark Co., Indiana census in which she is living with her widowed father
3. Nancy Jane Lewman - born about 1838 in Indiana. She was counted in the 1850 in Charlestown, Clark Co, IN census. It is uncertain if she is "Anna" or this person refers to Mary Ann in the 1860 census - age 8, residing in father's household.
4. Mary Ann Lewman - born about 1839 in Indiana. She was counted in the 1850 in Charlestown, Clark Co, IN census, it is unknown if Nancy or she is "Anna" in the 1860 census - age 18, residing in father's household.
5. Jacob Lewman - born 02 Mar 1840. He died on 26 Apr 1848 and was buried in Union Cemetery, Clark Co., IN.
6. John C. Lewman - born about 1843.
7. James Nathan Lewman - born on 15 Jul 1846 in Clark Co., IN; died there 27 Oct 1848 and was buried in Union Cemetery.

1. Elizabeth Lewman - born on 05 Jan 1846 in Clark County, Indiana. She is listed with her parents in the 1850-1860 census records before her death on 11 Sep 1865. She is buried in Union Cemetery, Clark Co., IN.
2. Sarah Lewman - born in 1847 in Indiana. She is enumerated with her parents throughout the census records of 1850-1880, apparently never having married.

1. Samuel Prather Lewman - born 30 Jul 1834; died on 26 Jul 1907.
2. Elizabeth Rachaell Lewman - born 16 Dec 1835; died on 21 Mar 1929.
3. Edith "Edy" A. Lewman - born on 09 Dec 1840; died on 09 Oct 1889.
4. Thomas Jefferson Lewman - born in 1846; died in 1912.
5. Nancy Katherine Lewman - born about 1848.

ISAIAH LEWMAN (Moses, John) was born on 11 Apr 1811 in Iredeil County, North Carolina. He married Rachel (Coombs) on 08 Nov 1837 in Clark County. Rachel was born on 13 Jun 1812 in Indiana, died 06 Oct 1882 and was buried in Union Cemetery.

They were enumerated together in 1850 and 1860, residing in Utica Township, but Isaiah died on 17 Jul 1860 and Rachel appears thereafter without him. He was also buried in Union Cemetery.

1. James A. Lewman - born about 1840.
2. Mary Ann Lewman - born on 24 Jul 1842; died on 11 Feb 1883.
3. Sarah A. Lewman - born about 1844-1845 in Indiana. She was counted in the 1850-1870 Utica Twp., Clark Co., Indiana census records - listed as Anna in 1860
4. John F. Lewman - born in April 1848 in Indiana. John was counted in the 1850-1860 census residing in Utica Twp., Clark Co., IN, and residing in Charlestown in the 1870-1900 census records. He married Anna Carr on 03 Nov 1870 in Clark Co., Indiana, Anna having been born in November 1850. They had no children.
5. Catherine Lavina Lewman - born about 1848.

NANCY LEWMAN (Moses, John) was born about 1809-1815 in North Carolina. She married Henry Stacy on 25 Jun 1829 in Clark Co., Indiana. Henry was born about 1802 in Indiana and died before 1870 in Clark Co., Indiana.

Nancy was enumerated in the 1850-1860 census records with her husband and children residing in Utica Township, but in 1870 she was listed alone, but living next door to her son, John W. Stacy.

1. John W. Stacy - born about 1835.
2. Nancy Jane Stacy - born about 1841; married Solomon L. Jacobs on 01 Jan 1860 in Clark Co., Indiana and were the parents of Sallie Jacobs who was born about 1861 in Clark Co., Indiana and was residing with her grandmother in Utica Township in 1880.
3. Christian Stacy - born about 1846 in Indiana; she was enumerated in a census in 1850 in Utica Twp. and is probably the same as "Anna" listed in the 1860. She may have married John D. Young on 15 Feb 1870 in Clark Co., Indiana.

1. John Halbert Lewman - born in February 1872 in Clark Co., Indiana; married Clara Hartwell on 03 Jun 1896 in Clark Co., Indiana.

2. Emory C. Lewman - born in February 1878 in Clark Co., Indiana.

3. Walter Lewman - born in September 1882 in Clark Co., Indiana.

4. Mary B. Lewman - born in September 1887 in Clark Co., Indiana.

SAMUEL PRATHER LEWMAN, son of Milas and Nancy (Prather), was born on 30 Jul 1834 in Indiana. He married Ann Eliza Holman, the daughter of Andrew Mitchell Holman and Lavina (Bowen) on 03 Apr 1860 in Clark County, Indiana.

He was educated at the schools in Utica Township until he mastered the studies taught there, and then went to the Z. B. Sturgus Academy at Charlestown. From there he went to Oberlin College in Ohio where he graduated and was known as a debater of much force and decided to become a lawyer. He studied under Captain Thomas Ware Gibson, of Louisville, who was the father of Charles H. Gibson and Judge George H.D. Gibson. He attended law school in Louisville until he his junior year, but decided to give up law for farming after his marriage.

He became the owner of one of the finest farms in Southern Indiana. Tilling the soil was believed by him to be a hard way to make a living, so he turned his attention to dairy farming in1864, and converted his cornfields into pastures. He increased his capacity and by 1882 he was furnishing Louisville with a large part of its supply of milk - his sales for that year being more than 25,000 gallons.

Samuel died on 26 Jul 1907 at his home near Union Church in Utica Township. His wife Ann died on on 02 March 1919. [ Family Reunion Photo ; Reunion Photo ]

1. Alice "Ella" Lewman - born in July 1861 in Clark Co., Indiana; married Charles Schalk on 05 Nov 1889 in Clark Co., Indiana, he having been born in Kentucky in April of 1853 and worked as a carpenter.

2. Horace "Edward" Lewman - born about 1863 in Clark County, Indiana. [ Photo ]

3. Milas M. Lewman - born on 06 Dec 1866 in Clark County, Indiana; died on 18 Dec 1918.

4. Nora L. Lewman - born about 1869 in Clark County, Indiana; married L. Otto Graves in Clark County on the 5th of November 1889.

5. Jessie Lewman - born on 28 Oct 1872 in Clark County, Indiana.

6. Theodocia Burr Lewman - born 20 May 1875 in Clark County, Indiana; died on 30 May 1946.

7. Benjamin Lewman - born about 1879 in Utica Twp., Clark County, Indiana.

1. Emma Bowen - born on 30 Jan 1858 in Clark Co., Indiana; she died on 01 Mar 1863 in Charlestown, and was buried in Union Cemetery.

2. Mary E. Bowen - born about 1859-1860 in Clark Co., Indiana.

3. Charles Bowen - born about 1862 in Clark Co., Indiana.

4. Addie Bowen - born in 1864 in Clark Co., Indiana.

5. Milas Lewman Bowen - born on 09 Apr 1866 in Clark Co., Indiana; died on 21 Mar 1957.

6. Ellen "Ella" Bowen - born in 1868 in Clark Co., Indiana.

7. Walter Bowen - born about 1873 in Charlestown, Clark Co, Indiana.

8. Nancy Bowen - born about 1876 in Clark Co., Indiana.

9. Laura Bowen.

THOMAS JEFFERSON LEWMAN, son of Milas and Nancy (Prather), was born in 1846 in Indiana. He married Mary Elizabeth Steelman, the daughter of James and Nancy on 02 February 1882 in Clark Co., Indiana. Mary was born in January of 1854 in Ohio.

Thomas died in 1912, and his widow Mary was residing with their son Frank in 1920. They were laid to rest in Union Cemetery, Clark County, Indiana.

CHILDREN OF
THOMAS J. LEWMAN & MARY E. (STEELMAN)

1. Cash Anderson Lewman - born on 07 Mar 1885; died on 29 Dec 1961.

2. Frank S. Lewman - born in October 1887; died in 1954.

1. Milas Smith - born about 1872 in Clark Co., Indiana.

2. Kate Smith - born about 1874 in Clark Co., Indiana.

3. Cora Smith - born about 1877 in Clark Co., Indiana.

4. Elmer Smith - born about 1879 in Clark Co., Indiana.

1. Clara Lewman - born about 1875 in Clark County, Indiana.

2. Ida L. Lewman - born born about 1878 in Clark County, Indiana; married James Bottorff on 01 January 1898 in Clark County.

3. Myrtle Lewman - born in October 1879 in Indiana; she married James Heistard on 09 Dec 1900 in Clark County, Indiana.

CATHERINE LAVINA LEWMAN, daughter of Isaiah and Rachel (Coombs), was born about 1848 in Indiana. In the 1850 census she was listed as age two in 1850; and as "Lavina" age 12 in 1860. It is speculated, though not verified, that she could be the Catherine living next door to Silas and Lucinda, and wife of Charles N. Harris. There is a marriage record for a Charles N. Harris married to a Catherine E. Harbold on 13 February, 1868, so as noted, this may or not be Catherine.

There was a Charles N. Harris and his wife Catherine were living next door to the John W. Stacy household in 1870 and had one daughter, Lydia, who was age one. The later census records would indicate that this Charles and Catherine were the parents of: Lydia E., Sarah E. born about 1871; Maggie M. born February 1875; and Addie born October 1877.

THEODOCIA BURR LEWMAN, daughter of Samuel P. & Ann Eliza (Holman), was born on 20 May 1875 in Clark Co., Indiana. She married James Beverly James, son of William James and Elizabeth "Lizzie" (Daily) in 1901 in Charlestown, Clark County, Indiana. [Photo]

James was born on 13 Aug 1875 in Charlestown, and had established a funeral home in 1910, but did not fully devote his time to it for a number of years. He was employed by the Louisville & Nashville Railroad for several years. He served as postmaster at Charlestown under President Woodrow Wilson, and was a grandson of David W. Daily, who was said to have been the first white child born at Charlestown Landing after the family had settled there in about 1796.

James passed away on March 28th, 1955 and was laid to rest at Charlestown Cemetery. His wife, Theodocia, preceded him in, passing away on 30 May 1946. They were the parents of David L. James who was born 14 August 1901 and passed away on 08 February 1967. Their grandson, David James, is the contributor to many of the photos on this website, and much of the Lewman data.

CASH ANDERSON LEWMAN, son of Thomas J. & Mary E. (Steelman), was born on 07 Mar 1885 in Charlestown, Clark Co., Indiana. He married Susan M. Bottorff on 07 Oct 1908 in Clark County, she having been born 04 Jan 1885 and was the daughter of Calvin and Edith (Crum). They were the parents of: Ruth, Mary Catherine who passed away 1937; Viola Mae; Lois Irene who died at age 24; Edith Rachel; Clara Belle; Cash Richard; and Sue Ann Lewman.

Cash passed away on 29 Dec 1961; and Susan on 09 Mar 1985. They were laid to rest at Union Cemetery, Clark Co., Indiana.