Historical Sketches of Kentucky by Lewis Collins, Maysville, KY. and J. A. & U. P. James, Cincinnati, 1847. Volume 1. Reprinted 1968. Unknown County. The Poets and Poetry of Kentucky, page 578. LEWIS F. THOMAS Was a native of Maryland, born about 1815; was a citizen of Kentucky for less than two years, in 1839-40; was editor of several newspapers; published a volume of his poems in 1842, and other in 1848; in 1838, wrote a successful drama, "Osceola," and in 1859, another, "Cortez The Conqueror;" settled at Washington city in the practice of law. [Note: Poem shown - "Memory."] Thomas = MD Washington-DC http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/unknown/thomas.lf.txt