History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co.,
Chicago, 1883.  Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980.  p.
693.

R. M. LEWIS was born in Nelson County, Ky., eight miles east of
Bardstown, Oct. 8, 1829.  His parents were Henry and Linda (Linthaceme)
Lewis, natives of Kentucky.  They had a family of twelve children; ten
lived to be men and women.  R. M. was the seventh child and fifth son. 
He remained on the old homestead with his parents, in Nelson County,
until March, 1851, when he came to Daviess County, Ky., and March 18,
1854, married Miss Eliza T. McKay, in Owensboro.  She was born in
Taylorsville, Spencer Co., Ky., Jan. 14, 1833, and was a daughter of
George N. and Angeline McKay.  After Mr. and Mrs. Lewis were married he
formed a partnership with his father-in-law, and they opened a wholesale
and retail furniture store in Owensboro.  Mr. Lewis remained in this
business two years, but, owing to poor health, returned to Nelson
County, Ky., and remained on the farm some twenty months; then returned
to Daviess County, and settled on a farm in Murray Precinct, fourteen
miles south of Owensboro; remained here nine years, then moved on the
old Talbort farm.  When the Owensboro & Nashville Railway was built Mr.
Lewis gave two acres of his farm for a depot, and named it Lewis
Station.  In March, 1869, he sold his farm here and purchased his
present farm, eight miles south of Owensboro, Murray Precinct.  He and
wife are members of the United Baptist church, as were also their
parents.  They have had a family of eleven children, eight
living--George H., born Dec. 15, 1853, married Aurelia McCormick, and
resides in Murray Precinct; James, born Sept. 15, 1861; Lorena P., born
March 5, 1863; Leander, born Aug. 2, 1864, married William H. McCormick,
June 22, 1882, and resides in Masonville Precinct; William V., born Aug.
23, 1866; Sana B., born March 5, 1869; Nannie G., born Dec. 8, 1870;
Kate H., born July 10, 1873.  Mr. Lewis owns a fine stock-farm of 150
acres, where he resides, eighty acres under cultivation.  He has owned
and bred some of as fine rece-horses as there have been in the county. 
He owned the celebrated stallion "Corbeau," trotter and pacer, sired by
Leach's imported Canadian stallion "Corbeau." His dam was the
thoroughbred stallion, "Old Frank."  This stallion "Corbeau" was the
sire of "Billy Boice." "Cora Paine," "Little George," "White Face" and
others.  The horses are not only celebrated for their speed and bottom
but for their good sense and gentleness.  Mr. Lewis kept the old
stallion six years, and owned him when he died.  He died aged
twenty-seven years, and was a good saddle-horse up to within two weeks
of his death.  Mr. Lewis still breeds, buys and ships road and track
horses.  He always loved horses, and showed a taste for them at an early
age.  He drove four horses when seven years old, and has handled horses
ever since.  He has been breeding horses for the past twenty-two years. 
He has been a member of the Baptist church since eleven years old, and
was made Deacon of this church when twenty-three years old, and at
twenty-four was made Assistant Superintendent of the Sabbath-school. 
For the past five years he has been Superintendent of the Sabbath-school
at Oak Grove, and for two years never missed but one Sabbath's
attendance.  In politics he was first a Whig, and since that time has
been a supporter of the Democratic party.  He has always been known and
respected as a representative man, a lover of peace and quiet, and in
many instances has proven himself a peace-maier.  His uncle, Thomas J.,
and his grandfather were both State Senators from Kentucky.

Lewis Linthaceme McKay McCormick Linthicum
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Nelson-KY Taylorsville-Spencer-KY

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