Isaac Houston Lewis 1851 - 1905

Born January 22, 1851, son of William Barnett Lewis (1810-1888) and Mary McGhee (1811-1884), in Stewart County, Tennessee.

Married Minnie Beatrice Rogers in Waverly, Illinois in 1886.




Children:

William Lewis m. 1. Anna Van Siverginton 2. Sadie ?
Mary Lewis m. Roy Reineke
BERTHA ESTELLE LEWIS m. EDGAR ANDREW ARNOLD
George Lewis m. Helen ?

Died July 9, 1905 in Montgomery County, Illinois.


From the St. Louis Christian Advocate, July 26, 1905:

A Good Man Gone

Rev. I.H. Lewis was born in Stewart County, Tenn., January 22, 1851, where he grew to manhood around the parental home. He was converted and united with the M.E. Church, South, in early life; was licensed to preach at the age of 21; came to and was admitted in the Illinois Conference of the same church in 1878. In due time he was ordained deacon and elder by Bishop J.C. Keener. Here he spent the last and perhaps the best twenty-seven years of his life. During these years he has filled circuit and station work and at our last conference he was appointed by Bishop Smith to the Salem District, and it is reported that here, as in other works he had served, he was very popular, doing the work of a presiding elder as a workman that needeth not be ashamed, until the early spring, when he became unable to longer travel his District. He, with his family, came to their home near Waggoner, Illlinois, where for three months he suffered, but patiently and hopefully endured as seeing One invisible and all the time kept in touch with his preachers and their work by corresponding with them. On Sunday morning, July 9, after calling his his own dear loved ones to him and bidding them good by, he also called all present and gave them words of comfort as to his condition and then passed away in the triumphs of the gospel he had preached to others -- aged 54 years, 5 months and 17 days. He was married to Miss Minnie Rogers, the only daughter of the sainted Theodore Rogers, Nov. 16, 1886. To this union was born five children, the eldest dying in infancy. Four -- Willie, Mary, Bertha and George -- are left with their kind mother to mourn the loss of a kind and effectionate father and a faithful and true husband. Besides these he leaves five brothers, three sisters, together with Sister Lewis' mother and brothers and the preachers of the Illinois Conference to feel their loss in his death and add tears of sympathy with the bereaved. Surely a good man has fallen. Funeral services at New Hope Church, on the Girard Circuit, Monday evening, conducted by the writer, assisted by Revs. O.E. Lockart of Kinmundy, Ill., G.M. Buford of McVey and H.D. Denning of Nilwood, which services were attended by a large and sympathetic congregation. The body was laid to rest in Sulpher Springs Cemetary to await the resurrection of the just. Will Nashville Advocate please copy the above.

W.D. Blaylock, P.C.