William Clifford LeMaster and Lella Edith Lewis

Located a genealogy online that contained some information on the LeMaster and Lewis families that may be of use to those researching this line. The book was located online here.  The following was found on page 207:

WILLIAM C. AND LEELA E. (LEWIS) LeMASTER (5) 

Leela Edith Lewis, daughter of Morgan B. and Hattie (Hoover) Lewis, 

was born April 9, 1876, near West Grove, Penn Township, Jay County, Indiana. 

William Clifford LeMaster, son of Luman Walker and Mary K. (Chew) 

LeMaster, was born September i, 1870, at Rose Hill, Darke County, Ohio. 

Leela E. Lewis and William C. LeMaster were united in marriage Aug- 

ust 20, 1892, in Penn Township, Jay County, Indiana. 

TO THEM WERE BORN 

Name Birth Death 

Gladys Armoral LeMaster October 20, 1893 

Leela Lewis LeMaster March 20, 1897 

Gladys A. was born in Jay County, Indiana, and Leela at Elyria, Loraine 

County, Ohio. 

A short time after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. LeMaster moved to 

Elyria, Loraine County, Ohio, where Mr. LeMaster accepted a position in the 

Old Savings Deposit Bank, which office he held until 1901, when he resigned 

and became cashier for the Elyria Savings and Banking Company. 

Mrs. LeMaster is a graduate from the common schools of Penn Town- 

ship. She is a member of the First Congregational Church, of Elyria, Ohio. 

Mr. LeMaster is of French and English descent. His father comes of a 

Methodist family of French descent, from Loraine, France. The name was 

originally LeMaitre. His mother was from New Jersey and is of English 

descent. After a common school education Mr. LeMaster attended the Normal 

College at Portland, Indiana, two terms, after which he taught in the public 

schools of Madison Township. Jay County, Indiana, one year. He then went 

to Oberlin, Ohio, where he graduated from the business college, January, 1892.

William Clifford LeMaster was my paternal great-uncle, son of Luman Walker LeMasters and Mary Keziah Chew.  He married Lella Edith Lewis, daughter of Morgan B. Lewis and Hattie Hoover August 20, 1892 in Jay County, Indiana.  I have enjoyed tracing his life journey from Elyria, Ohio to Colorado where he died July 26, 1922.

Wordless Wednesday: Daddy's Girl

Corinne & Travis LeMaster, Sept 2011

FindAGrave Success: Rev. Nathaniel Chew (1786-1866)

Thanks to FindAGrave volunteer, Natalie Herdman, I now have a photograph of the tombstone of my paternal 4x great-grandfather, Rev. Nathaniel Chew (1786-1866).  The memorial erroroneously states he died in 1868.


Nathaniel was the son of Nathaniel CHEW and Sarah SPRINGER, and was born in Gloucester County, New Jersey. He was a Methodist preacher, or circuit rider.  He died January 24, 1866 in Mahaska County, Iowa.


Nathaniel was married three times.  The first time circa 1805 to Keziah DRIVER; the second circa 1812 to Mary WEST (1795-1848); and thirdly December 10, 1848 in Iowa to Nancy MOSIER.  Have much to research in regards to his marriages, I descend through his wife Mary West.