History of Trigg County, Historical and Biographical, ed. W.H. Perrin,
F.A. Battey Pub. Co., Chicago, 1884. pp. 291-92. [Caledonia Precinct]

R. S. LEWIS was born in 1834, November 26, in Trigg County, Ky.  His
parents are Leonard Mary (Sims) Lewis, both natives of Virginia. The father
was a farmer, also a teacher.  His mortality ended in 1879, at the age of
eighty-three.  He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.
The mother died with the closing hours of 1834, aged thirty-two years. She
was a member of the Presbyterian Church.  These parents had nine children,
four of whom are now living.  Our subject was an orphan at any early age.
He made his home with his grandparents--Richard and Margaret Sims.  To
these aged people he feels that he owns a debt of gratitude that would be
difficult to pay.  Richard Sims was a soldier in the war of 1812.  He was
strictly honest and a man of unflinching integrity.  He was born July,
1776, being contemporary with the Declaration of Independence.  He died
in June, 1857, his age, eighty-one years.  His wife died in 1864, at the
age of eighty-six years.  Mr. Lewis' business has been teaching and
farming.  He has taught about ten years in that profession has an enviable
reputation, having in the main given general satisfaction.  He owns 100
acres of some of the very best land in Trigg County.  This competence he
has accumulated largely by his own exertions.  His outlook is very
encouraging, and he has a host of good friends.  His farm is located on the
Sinking Fork of Little River.  He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South; also of the Masonic order.

Lewis Sims
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