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 1757 - 1840 (83 years)
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| Name |
John Lewis |
| Title |
Major |
| Birth |
30 Sep 1757 |
Albermarle County, Virginia  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
4 Nov 1840 |
Bartow County (Formerly Cass County), Georgia |
| Person ID |
I135 |
Georgia Revolutionary War Graves |
| Last Modified |
25 May 2009 |
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| Notes |
- John Lewis was born September, 1757, in Albemarle County, Virginia, the son of John Terrell Lewis and Sarah Taliaferro. He served two tours of duty, three months each in 1776, in unspecified units. The next year, in 1777, John enlisted as a Private in Captain John Marks’ company in a Virginia Regiment commanded by Col. Charles Lewis (relationship unknown) and later commanded by Col. William Davies. John fought in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown and Monmouth. Sometime around 1780, he moved to Carolina and made another three month enlistment under Major General Nathanial Green while he was encamped at the High Hills of Santee. It was under Nathanial Green that he served when Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown in October of 1781.
On December 22 of 1784, John Lewis married Ann Berry Earle in Rutherford County, North Carolina. Rutherford County is in the western foothills of North Carolina and, at the time, was on the very edge of Cherokee Indian lands. By 1834 John and his family were living in Anderson District of South Carolina, which is a little south of Rutherford, NC, and abutting what was then Franklin County, GA. The Cherokee were being pushed further west and north in Georgia. And it appears that John’s family always lived on the very edge of the frontier. By 1836, at the age of 79, John continued west to Cass County, Georgia, where he and his wife Ann spent their final years with their youngest son. John Lewis died on 4 November 1840.
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