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Thursday, March 6, 2008
Pictures
Rebecca Anna Fellows Lewis, Elmer E. Lewis and son Charles Martin Lewis
Eddie standing and Grandma Rebecca Ann Lewis holding Sammie
Aunt Minnie, Uncle Alf, Grandma Rebecca Ann Fellows
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Elmer Ellsworth Lewis was born, July 17, 1862 in (Pittsburgh)Keosauqua, Van Buren, Iowa. He was the oldest child of George Marion, and Sarah Jane Keller Lewis. A year later, about 1/2 mile away Rebecca Ann was born to Fullmer Wilshire and Marietta Hopkins Fellows on Aug 26, 1863.
The George Lewis farm had a nice garden of blackberries and raspberries. the Fullmer Fellows had maple trees and made maple syrup and candy.
Here in Pittsburgh, a small place, Ed as he was called and Annie, grew up and Ed must have been attracted to Ann as we shall later see.
As a teenage girl, I remember telling grandma that I needed a new pair of shoes to go to a dance, and she said "When I was a girl, I went to the dance without shoes!" However in all the pictures I have seen of her she wore long dresses and always looked well dressed. She always took pride in how she looked. When Annie was nearly 16, she and her parents and Mary Louisa were baptized, June 21, 1879.
Annies older brother, Orville Myron, had grown up with a desire to go out West. He and a friend ran away from home when he was 17 and they were gone 4 days and with onlyu 2 or 3 dollars they had little to eat and little sleep and came back home quite repentant. However, great grandfather Fellows said if he waited until he was 21, he would give him half the cropo of oats. He said he didn't do much to help as he had fever and the ague most of the time.
In 1881, Orville and his young uncle Roswell Hopkins left for the West. I believe that because Roswell, Grandmas mothers only brother, went to Logan Utah and lived there, that Great Grandfather Fellows took his family out to Utah, where maybe Orville would stay with them. This was in 1885. In the meantime, Ed, hearing that his girlfriend was leaving soon for Utah, left three months earlier for Nevada so no one could say he followed Annie out West!
Grandpa Ed once told me that he went to the P.O. and recieved a letter from Annie, so getting on his horse he began reading the letter when his horse stumbled and fell, throwing Ed off and knocked him unconscious. He said when he came too, he was still reading her letter.
In Orvilles diary he wrote, July 1885, Edd Lewis came in from Nevada. I guess that is when the Fellows were arriving also. The Fellows stayed only a few months in Logan for they left for Arizona and spent six weeks traveling there. Ed traveled with them.
There is a bill of sale to Fullmer Fellows, some land east of Mesa for $400 signed on 25th day of May 1885. On december 1, 1886 Edward E. Lewis and Rebecca Ann Fellows and William Clark and Mary Louise Fellows had a double wedding in the home of the brides parents. For their wedding dinner they had 2 large jackrabbits baked! Ed and Annie rented a small one room house with a dirt floor right in town for their first home. (On the corner of Morris and Main St.)
Later they bought several acres out east of town by the Fellows, where they raised fruit trees and did gardening. On January 26, 1888 Their first child was born, Edward Fullmer Lewis. He died before he was 2 years old. Ed was baptized August 5, 1888. On September 13, 1890 their second child was born, Charles Martin Lewis. He was their only living child for 9 years, and because of this there was a very special bond between him and his mother Annie, his father, Ed loved him very much also, he bought him a little wagon-like a buckbaord with sides on it and he thought he was just as big as anyone.
in the summer of 1895 Annies parents went back on the train to Iowa for a visit. Annie was very close to her parents and missed them greatly. She wrote to them, "It's hotter than blazes" Annie had been taking care of her parents chickens and selling the eggs, while they were gone and Ed was doing their irrigating for them. At the close of Annie's letter she wrote, "Charly says Iowa will get all the candy now!" Edd also wrote some, nearly every time that Annie wrote. He wrote that they had driven the buggy over to Phoenix and it took 3 hours! He said that he bought Annie a nice gold ring and a hammock, and an accordian for himself. Also, there was a new 4 story building in Phoenix.
In another letter that Annie wrote she said Charley had just awakened and said "Tell grandma I'm almost sick." Charley said that when Grandma Fellows came back, he would be good to her and give her one of his 2 pet chickens. Grandma Fellows I'm sure spoiled Charley and gave him candy and special attention and love so he really loved and missed her.
In other letters Annie wrote about how hot and sultry it was in Mesa, and about her sister Louisa having twin babies that both died in less than 2 weeks.
She wrote wanting her parents to come home now it was cool at night, she had 2 quilts over her, this was Sept. 9 1895. Ed wrote that this would be their last hot summer in Mesa City. However, it began cooling off and in Sept he wrote that he had bought alfalfa seed and leased 80 acres to grow alfalfa for 2 years! Before, he had said that he would sell any day now.
Hay was selling for $1.00 or $2.00 a ton, eggs 20 cents a dozen, butter 20 cents a pound. Annie canned and dried apricots, peaches, and grapes for her parents as well as herself. Ed was tired of trying to save fruit trees from lack of water and rain. Ed was tired of getting the irrigation in the middle of the night and in 1898 decided to sell his property and auctioned off furniture and even Charleys prized wagon, and they went back to Iowa. He sold his house and 20 acres for $2,000.
Everything went fine back in Iowa until early one morning Edd, with his father and a brother left to go 3 miles into town to get some grain ground into flour. It had been raining and the roads were thick with mud. They took the wagon without the buckboard and a long pole to get the mud out from between the wagon spokes every few yards. It took them all day until evening to get back home. Edd told Annie to get things packed, they were leaving for Arizona in the morning.! So they came back to Mesa.
Oct 1, 1899 Annie Marietta was born to Edd and Annie who was now 37 years old. They bought 80 acres North West of Mesa for $1,300. They built a new home and moved into it January 1, 1900. Charlie and Annie went to the Alma School. When Charlie was 18 he bought a buggy with rubber tires! He was very proud of it. He also bought a motorcycle.
Ed had 20 or more cows and sold the cream. He raised alfalfa for hay and had fruit trees, also orange, lemon, and fig trees, and he always had gardens and corn, maize and wheat. Grandma had her chickens, turkeys, guine hens and sold her eggs. They also had a dog named Jack we all loved.
Charlie courted and married Emma Vilate Johnson. They bought the west 20 acres from Edd. After only 9 1/2 years of marriage and 3 children Emma had a ruptured appendix and passed away. It was a very sad happening. Soon after Emma passed away Grandma Annie went to Charlies home and found him holding his 3 children in his arms crying, so she said "This is too much" so she helped get some clothes together and moved us into her home. Grandma was very good to us. It was no doubt it was very hard for her to take us in when she was 57 years old. It was a wonderful thing for us. Annie Marrietta had married Ledru Al Cluff and he was in the army so Auntie as we called her lived with grandma also. Ed and Annie (Grandpa and Grandma) loved to go to the timber (as grandma called it) and camp out. She was a very good cook and made scrumptious dutch oven biscuits. I remember when we went deer and turkey hunting up to clover springs above Pine, 20 miles. Grandpa and Grandma went out early and came back about 9:00 A.M. with 2 turkeys. They cleaned them and cooked them in 2 big dutch ovens and we didn't eat until about dark and I just about starved, smelling that good turkey all afternonn and waiting for the hunters to get back that evening. I remember in the summer of 1920 Grandpa and Grandma, daddy (Charlie) and Auntie, went to Cooley in the White Mountains. Uncle Al was working at the saw mill in Cooley with uncle Ben Johnson and Uncle Jim Johnson. We camped out along Paradise Creek and white river, we had a good time.
Grandpa gave Auntie 20 acres now we all lived close by Ed and Annie. In 1922 on Christmas day Charley married Rose Mildred Millett and we moved back into our home daddy built a year or two before mama died. We always loved Grandpa and Grandma Lewis. He built grandma a new home in 1921. He took Grandma to the Arizona Temple where they were sealed May 15, 1929. We had many family get togethers. The Lewis' and Cluffs met at Ed and Annies, his brother John moved here I believe around 1918. Uncle Johns family is the only one we really got to know and love.
Grandpa Edd became ill in the summer of 1934 and had trouble breathing and became so ill in the hot summer and passed away 2 weeks before his 72nd birthday.
It was very lonesome for Grandma after that, she lived 11 more years. Her Grandchildren stayed with her at nights, Sam and Cherie did quite alot of this.
Grandpa was a school trustee and was able to get a piano for the Alma school when no one else would. Mary Davis said when she needed anything for the school she asked Edd Lewis. Also Mason Davis said that he and Ardon Staples were ward teachers to Edd and Annie when they were quite young and how kind Edd always was and made them feel at home and unafraid to teach.
The George Lewis farm had a nice garden of blackberries and raspberries. the Fullmer Fellows had maple trees and made maple syrup and candy.
Here in Pittsburgh, a small place, Ed as he was called and Annie, grew up and Ed must have been attracted to Ann as we shall later see.
As a teenage girl, I remember telling grandma that I needed a new pair of shoes to go to a dance, and she said "When I was a girl, I went to the dance without shoes!" However in all the pictures I have seen of her she wore long dresses and always looked well dressed. She always took pride in how she looked. When Annie was nearly 16, she and her parents and Mary Louisa were baptized, June 21, 1879.
Annies older brother, Orville Myron, had grown up with a desire to go out West. He and a friend ran away from home when he was 17 and they were gone 4 days and with onlyu 2 or 3 dollars they had little to eat and little sleep and came back home quite repentant. However, great grandfather Fellows said if he waited until he was 21, he would give him half the cropo of oats. He said he didn't do much to help as he had fever and the ague most of the time.
In 1881, Orville and his young uncle Roswell Hopkins left for the West. I believe that because Roswell, Grandmas mothers only brother, went to Logan Utah and lived there, that Great Grandfather Fellows took his family out to Utah, where maybe Orville would stay with them. This was in 1885. In the meantime, Ed, hearing that his girlfriend was leaving soon for Utah, left three months earlier for Nevada so no one could say he followed Annie out West!
Grandpa Ed once told me that he went to the P.O. and recieved a letter from Annie, so getting on his horse he began reading the letter when his horse stumbled and fell, throwing Ed off and knocked him unconscious. He said when he came too, he was still reading her letter.
In Orvilles diary he wrote, July 1885, Edd Lewis came in from Nevada. I guess that is when the Fellows were arriving also. The Fellows stayed only a few months in Logan for they left for Arizona and spent six weeks traveling there. Ed traveled with them.
There is a bill of sale to Fullmer Fellows, some land east of Mesa for $400 signed on 25th day of May 1885. On december 1, 1886 Edward E. Lewis and Rebecca Ann Fellows and William Clark and Mary Louise Fellows had a double wedding in the home of the brides parents. For their wedding dinner they had 2 large jackrabbits baked! Ed and Annie rented a small one room house with a dirt floor right in town for their first home. (On the corner of Morris and Main St.)
Later they bought several acres out east of town by the Fellows, where they raised fruit trees and did gardening. On January 26, 1888 Their first child was born, Edward Fullmer Lewis. He died before he was 2 years old. Ed was baptized August 5, 1888. On September 13, 1890 their second child was born, Charles Martin Lewis. He was their only living child for 9 years, and because of this there was a very special bond between him and his mother Annie, his father, Ed loved him very much also, he bought him a little wagon-like a buckbaord with sides on it and he thought he was just as big as anyone.
in the summer of 1895 Annies parents went back on the train to Iowa for a visit. Annie was very close to her parents and missed them greatly. She wrote to them, "It's hotter than blazes" Annie had been taking care of her parents chickens and selling the eggs, while they were gone and Ed was doing their irrigating for them. At the close of Annie's letter she wrote, "Charly says Iowa will get all the candy now!" Edd also wrote some, nearly every time that Annie wrote. He wrote that they had driven the buggy over to Phoenix and it took 3 hours! He said that he bought Annie a nice gold ring and a hammock, and an accordian for himself. Also, there was a new 4 story building in Phoenix.
In another letter that Annie wrote she said Charley had just awakened and said "Tell grandma I'm almost sick." Charley said that when Grandma Fellows came back, he would be good to her and give her one of his 2 pet chickens. Grandma Fellows I'm sure spoiled Charley and gave him candy and special attention and love so he really loved and missed her.
In other letters Annie wrote about how hot and sultry it was in Mesa, and about her sister Louisa having twin babies that both died in less than 2 weeks.
She wrote wanting her parents to come home now it was cool at night, she had 2 quilts over her, this was Sept. 9 1895. Ed wrote that this would be their last hot summer in Mesa City. However, it began cooling off and in Sept he wrote that he had bought alfalfa seed and leased 80 acres to grow alfalfa for 2 years! Before, he had said that he would sell any day now.
Hay was selling for $1.00 or $2.00 a ton, eggs 20 cents a dozen, butter 20 cents a pound. Annie canned and dried apricots, peaches, and grapes for her parents as well as herself. Ed was tired of trying to save fruit trees from lack of water and rain. Ed was tired of getting the irrigation in the middle of the night and in 1898 decided to sell his property and auctioned off furniture and even Charleys prized wagon, and they went back to Iowa. He sold his house and 20 acres for $2,000.
Everything went fine back in Iowa until early one morning Edd, with his father and a brother left to go 3 miles into town to get some grain ground into flour. It had been raining and the roads were thick with mud. They took the wagon without the buckboard and a long pole to get the mud out from between the wagon spokes every few yards. It took them all day until evening to get back home. Edd told Annie to get things packed, they were leaving for Arizona in the morning.! So they came back to Mesa.
Oct 1, 1899 Annie Marietta was born to Edd and Annie who was now 37 years old. They bought 80 acres North West of Mesa for $1,300. They built a new home and moved into it January 1, 1900. Charlie and Annie went to the Alma School. When Charlie was 18 he bought a buggy with rubber tires! He was very proud of it. He also bought a motorcycle.
Ed had 20 or more cows and sold the cream. He raised alfalfa for hay and had fruit trees, also orange, lemon, and fig trees, and he always had gardens and corn, maize and wheat. Grandma had her chickens, turkeys, guine hens and sold her eggs. They also had a dog named Jack we all loved.
Charlie courted and married Emma Vilate Johnson. They bought the west 20 acres from Edd. After only 9 1/2 years of marriage and 3 children Emma had a ruptured appendix and passed away. It was a very sad happening. Soon after Emma passed away Grandma Annie went to Charlies home and found him holding his 3 children in his arms crying, so she said "This is too much" so she helped get some clothes together and moved us into her home. Grandma was very good to us. It was no doubt it was very hard for her to take us in when she was 57 years old. It was a wonderful thing for us. Annie Marrietta had married Ledru Al Cluff and he was in the army so Auntie as we called her lived with grandma also. Ed and Annie (Grandpa and Grandma) loved to go to the timber (as grandma called it) and camp out. She was a very good cook and made scrumptious dutch oven biscuits. I remember when we went deer and turkey hunting up to clover springs above Pine, 20 miles. Grandpa and Grandma went out early and came back about 9:00 A.M. with 2 turkeys. They cleaned them and cooked them in 2 big dutch ovens and we didn't eat until about dark and I just about starved, smelling that good turkey all afternonn and waiting for the hunters to get back that evening. I remember in the summer of 1920 Grandpa and Grandma, daddy (Charlie) and Auntie, went to Cooley in the White Mountains. Uncle Al was working at the saw mill in Cooley with uncle Ben Johnson and Uncle Jim Johnson. We camped out along Paradise Creek and white river, we had a good time.
Grandpa gave Auntie 20 acres now we all lived close by Ed and Annie. In 1922 on Christmas day Charley married Rose Mildred Millett and we moved back into our home daddy built a year or two before mama died. We always loved Grandpa and Grandma Lewis. He built grandma a new home in 1921. He took Grandma to the Arizona Temple where they were sealed May 15, 1929. We had many family get togethers. The Lewis' and Cluffs met at Ed and Annies, his brother John moved here I believe around 1918. Uncle Johns family is the only one we really got to know and love.
Grandpa Edd became ill in the summer of 1934 and had trouble breathing and became so ill in the hot summer and passed away 2 weeks before his 72nd birthday.
It was very lonesome for Grandma after that, she lived 11 more years. Her Grandchildren stayed with her at nights, Sam and Cherie did quite alot of this.
Grandpa was a school trustee and was able to get a piano for the Alma school when no one else would. Mary Davis said when she needed anything for the school she asked Edd Lewis. Also Mason Davis said that he and Ardon Staples were ward teachers to Edd and Annie when they were quite young and how kind Edd always was and made them feel at home and unafraid to teach.
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