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Louise Travers Lewis

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Louise Travers Lewis

Birth
Clarke County, Virginia, USA
Death
20 Jan 1912 (aged 48)
Rome, Città Metropolitana di Roma Capitale, Lazio, Italy
Burial
Berryville, Clarke County, Virginia, USA Add to Map
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Area S, Lot 242
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-- died in Rome --
The Manassas Journal
Manassas, Virginia
February 2, 1912 (page 8)
To Bring Body From Rome.
Arrangements have been made to bring the remains of Miss Louise Travers Lewis from Rome to her home place, Berryville, Clarke county, for burial in the cemetery where many of her ancestors are interred.
She died in Rome last week of typhoid fever, having contracted the disease about Christmas while on a pleasure trip. Her sister, Mrs. Edwin A. Stevens, of Hoboken, N. J., was with her at the time.
Miss Lewis, who was 45 years old, was a daughter of Major George Washington Lewis, of the Confederate Army, and her grandmother, Eleanor Parke Custis, was a niece of George Washington.
She was a second cousin of Gen. Robert E. lee, and her mother was formerly Miss Emily Contee Johnson, of Baltimore. She leaves three sisters and four brothers.
-- Transcribed by Morgan Breeden, RELIC Volunteer, Bull Run Regional Library, Manassas, VA
-- died in Rome --
The Manassas Journal
Manassas, Virginia
February 2, 1912 (page 8)
To Bring Body From Rome.
Arrangements have been made to bring the remains of Miss Louise Travers Lewis from Rome to her home place, Berryville, Clarke county, for burial in the cemetery where many of her ancestors are interred.
She died in Rome last week of typhoid fever, having contracted the disease about Christmas while on a pleasure trip. Her sister, Mrs. Edwin A. Stevens, of Hoboken, N. J., was with her at the time.
Miss Lewis, who was 45 years old, was a daughter of Major George Washington Lewis, of the Confederate Army, and her grandmother, Eleanor Parke Custis, was a niece of George Washington.
She was a second cousin of Gen. Robert E. lee, and her mother was formerly Miss Emily Contee Johnson, of Baltimore. She leaves three sisters and four brothers.
-- Transcribed by Morgan Breeden, RELIC Volunteer, Bull Run Regional Library, Manassas, VA

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