Born: 19 Aug 1785 Barnstable, MA

Married: 18 May 1806  Montpelier, Washington Co., VT

Died: 08 Nov 1873 Carroll Co., IL

FATHER

Solomon Lewis

MOTHER

Susanna Linnell

HUSBAND

Asa Church

CHILDREN

1. Wesley Church
    b. 13 Feb 1807 Vermont
    m. 9 Oct 1828 Amy Chipman,  Ohio
    m. 1849 Jane Hayes Cummins
    d. 2 Sep 1867  Carroll   Co., IL

2. Aurilla Church
    b. 08 June 1809 Vermont
    m. 12 Jul 1827 John Jaggers,  OH
    m. 7 Dec 1840 John Gilmore, IN
    d. 8 Apr 1863 Vermillion, IN

3. Edward Lewis Church
    b 05 Sept 1811Vermont
    m. 6 May 1830 Kitturah Belt, OH
    m. 28 Aug 1849 Leah Fecky, Carroll, IL
    d. 22 Feb 1886  Fontanelle, Adair, IA

4. Abyah Church |
    b 11 April 1813 Vermont
    d. 09 May 1844

5. Truman Church
    b. 13 Nov 1815 Ohio
    m. 22 Dec 1836 Elizabeth Ghomley
    m. 7 Jul 1864 Margaret Arno
    d. 8 Jul 1893 Hillsboro, Vernon, Wisconsin

6. Harvey Church
    b. 13 March 1818 Ohio
    m. 29 Dec 1840 Jane Hendrickson, Vermillion, IN
    d. 6 Mar 1906 Parkston, Hutchinson, SD

7. John McKinley Church
    b. 16 Sept 1819 Ohio
    m. 6 Aug 1841 Sarah A Delap, Green Co., Wisconson
    d. 20 Sep 1906, South Sioux City, Dakota, NE

8. Anson Church
    b. 10 Sept 1821 Ohio
    m. 21 Jan 1841 Rhoda Hendrickson, Vermillion, IN
    m. 12 Dec 1867 Frances Gans, Green Co., Wisconsin
    d. 5 MAr 1901 Milford, Seward, Nebraska

Lydia Lewis
by Susan Brooke
Feb 2023

According to the family bible kept by Asa and Lydia Church, Lydia Lewis was born 14 Aug 1785. (1) Her parents were living in Barnstable, MA and did not move to Montpelier, VT until about 1800.  She married Asa Church in Montpelier on 18 May 1805. (2) He was seventeen and she was twenty years old.  After their marriage Asa and Lydia moved to Chittenden Co., Middlesex, VT and by the 1810 census they had a son and a daughter.  Lydia's parents and brothers were living close by. Their first four children were born in Vermont and then they moved to Licking County, OH where they resided until 1829.  By this time she had eight children and they moved again to Indiana.  Her parents were back in Montpelier.  Her father died in 1839 leaving her two dollars. (3)
Lydia and her husband moved several times.  They left Indiana for Greenbay Wisconsin in 1842 and in 1855 they moved to Carroll Co. IL  Her husband, Asa Church, died 4 Sep 1857 in Carroll Co. IL.  In 1860 Lydia was living with her son, Edward L. Church, in Freedom, Carroll Co., IL. (4)  Her age was listed as 76 and her place of birth MA.  There is no known record of Lydia in the 1870 census. Her son Edward was still living in Freedom, IL but Lydia was not listed as living in that household.  Her son Anson was living in the same county, but she is not listed with him in the 1870 census either.  All her other children were either deceased or living in either Iowa or Wisconsin.  Lydia died 8 Sep 1873 (5)  and was buried in Freedom, Carroll, IL. (6)  She was 88 years old.

Sources

(1) Family Bible

Transcriptions in Bible Asa Church was born in the year of our Lord 1789 September the 4 Day Lydia Church was born in the year of our Lord 1785 August the 14 Day Asa and Lydia Church Was married on May the 18 Day Ad 1806 Wesley Church Was born February the 13 Day Ad 1807 Aurila Church Was born June the 8 Day Ad 1809 Edward L. Church Was born September the 5 Day Ad 1811 Abyah Church Was born April the 11 Day Ad 1813 Fallson? Church Was born November the 13 Day 1815 Harvey Church was born March the 15? Day Ad 1818 John M? Church was born September the 16 Day Ad 1819 Anson? Church was born September the 10 Day Ad 1821

(3) Will of Solomon Lewis  in which he bequeathed "my son, Lathrop Lewis one dollar, my granddaughter Sally Harp, daughter of my son Edward Lewis, deceased, one dollar, my son Shubael Lewis all my wearing apparel, my son Solomon Lewis one dollar, my son Josiah Lewis one dollar, my daughter Phebe Gallison seven dollars, my daughter Lydia Church two dollars, my daughter Susanna Hatch two dollars, my daughter Rebeca Clifford two dollars". The rest went to his son, William Lewis. The estate was appraised at $226.60.		Will of Solomon Lewis  pg 1 BK J, pages 397 and 398 found in Montpelier Court House.	Will of Solomon Lewis pg 2 in which he bequeaths two dollars to his daughter Lydia Church
Will was written 13 May 1837 and probated 28 Mar 1840 Solomon Lewis died 16 Sep 1839		Will of Solomon Lewis pg 3	Will of Solomon Lewis pg 4

(4) 1860 Census Freedom, Carroll, IL 

(6) Findagrave

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