Greenbrier County, West Virginia Biography of CHARLES CAMERON LEWIS This biography was submitted by Sandy Spradling, E-mail address: <SSpradling@aol.com> This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. All other rights reserved. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the WVGenWeb Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.net/wv/wvfiles.htm History of Greenbrier County J. R. Cole Lewisburg, WV 1917 p. 104-107 CHARLES CAMERON LEWIS. Writing of his father, John Dickinson Lewis, who was born in Bath county, Virginia, June 6, 1800, Charles C. Lewis mentions him as the grandson of Col. Charles Lewis, who was killed at the battle of Point Pleasant, October 10, 1774 (see former sketch). This Col. Charles Lewis was born in Augusta county, Virginia, in 1736. He was the youngest son of John Lewis, the pioneer, and brother of Gen. Andrew Lewis, great-greatgrandfather of Mrs. C. V. Stacy, and was also of the number who fell at Point Pleas-ant. In 1760, Col. Charles Lewis married Sarah Murry, and left seven children, viz., Elizabeth, Margaret, John, Mary, Thomas, Andrew, and Charles (the father of Charles C. Lewis), who was born in Augusta county, Virginia, in 1774, probably on September uth, as in the will of Col. Charles Lewis, dated August 10, 1774, just before starting on his march to Point Pleasant, he provides for the unborn child of his wife, Mary. This unborn child was Charles Lewis, who served with distinction under Gen. Anthony Wayne, in 1795, in his Indian campaign in the West, as a lieutenant, as is attested to by his commission, dated August 7, 1795, and signed by General Washington, and now in possession of his descendant, P.S. Lewis, of Mason county, West Virginia. After Wayne's campaign he resigned from the army and returned to Bath county, where, in 1799, he married Jane Dickin-son, a daughter of Col. John Dickinson, who commanded a com-pany in Col. Charles Lewis' regiment and was wounded in the bat-tIe of Point Pleasant. Lieut. Charles Lewis died in September, 1803, aged twenty-nine years, leaving two children, John D. Lewis, born June 6, i8oo, and Charles Cameron Lewis, born April 27, 1802. John D. Lewis was brought, an infant in his mother's arms, to Mason county, now in West Virginia, where he remained until his mother's second marriage, with Capt. James Wilson, in i8~, when he was brought to Charleston. At the proper age he was placed in school with Mr. Cru tch field, where he received his early education, afterwards taking a course in Latin and the higher branches of mathematics under Gen. Lewis Ruffner. After leaving school he returned to Mason county, to the farm owned by his brother, Charles, and himself. At about the age of twenty-two he sold his half-interest in the farm to his brother and returned to Kanawha county, and for a short time was employed by Dickinon & Shrewsbury as salt maker. He then engaged in the manufacture of salt himself and remained in the business until 1856. When the Civil war broke out, and the price of salt advanced, he again engaged in the manufacture of salt until 1866, when he returned to his farm in Kanawha and Nicholas counties. John D. Lewis was married four times. First to Sally, a daughter of Joel Shrewsbury, who died a year or two after her marriage, leaving one son, Joel S. Lewis. His second wife was Ann, a daughter of Col. William Dickinson, who left three children, Sally, Charles, Sarah, who died when quite young, and Mary. His third wife was Betty, a daughter of Jacob Darneal, who left two children, Julia and William. His fourth wife was Mrs. Sally Spears. He died December 26, 1882, aged eighty two years and six months, generally lamented, especially by the poor, to whom he was always a warm friend and helper. Charles Cameron Lewis, now 'one of the leading business men in Charleston, W. Va., was a native of Kanawha county, horn April 15, 1839. He was reared there and educated in the private schools and Mercer Academy. He was the son of John D. Lewis, owner of large tracts of coal and salt lands, and pioneer in salt manufacture, the manufacture of which was continued by the son, engaged with the father, until 1869. In 1870 he became president of the Kanawha Valley Bank, of Charleston, W. Va., a position he filled for fifteen years. In 1885 he, with P. H. Noye, organized the wholesale grocery house of P. H. Noye & Company, one of the largest of the kind in the State, of which he is still president. Charles C. Lewis became a member of the Kanawha Riflemen, a well known organization of spirited young Virginians of the Old Dominion, upon first call to arms in 1861. He became a member of this company in 1859 and took part in the engagement at Scary Creek, July 7, 1861, and in a skirmish at Ripley. After the Con-federate troops had been withdrawn by General Wise to Kanawha Falls, Mr. Lewis was granted an honorable discharge upon the request of his father, whose elder son, Joel S. Lewis, was also a member of the Riflemen. The latter continued in the service with the Twenty-second regiment during the war, with the exception of a period of cavalry service, at which time he was held as a prisoner of war at Camp Chase, Ohio. October 19, 1864, Charles C. Lewis was married to Miss Elizabeth Wilson, and to this union were horn six children, viz., Charles Cameron Lewis, Jr., John Dickerson, Virginia Wilson, Elizabeth Josephine, Anne Dickinson, Goodrich Wilson. Miss Virginia Wilson Lewis married Charles Stacy, of Richmond, Va., March 25, i89i. He was a son of Thomas Stacy, a manufacturer of furniture, who came from England and settled in Richmond in 1901. Charles Stacy came to Greenbrier county and in 1902 they built Lynnhurst, their beautiful residence. Four children were born of this union, namely, George Palmer Stacy, Charles Lewis, Elizabeth Josephine and Virginia Lewis.