George Richard Lewis (1800-43) moved to Kanawha County, {W}Va. with his family c1812. He traveled extensively throughout the south and west while working as a government surveyor and later operated a hotel in Union County, Ky. He married in 1833, Eliza Bayless (1809-43) in Morganfield, Ky. She was the widow of Senator John McLean, of Illinois. They moved to Missouri c1835. Four children were Ellen Eliza (1834-86), Jeanette (1837-43), Harold Bayless (1839-63) who died in the civil war in Memphis, and George Bayless Lewis (1842-) who as an orphan was taken to California by his aunt Maria Turner [Baylis] [Lewis] Tutt and may have taken her last name.

George Richard Lewis' father was Howell Lewis (1771-1822), ninth son of Col. Fielding (1725-81) and Betty Washington Lewis (1733-97), who was born in Culpeper County, Va. He inherited 1,500 acres from George Washington and moved in 1812 to near Charleston, [W.]Va. He married in 1795, Ellen Hackley Pollard (1776-1855), daughter of Robert and Jael Underwood Pollard, of Richmond, Va. Their twelve children were Betty Washington (1796-1866) who married in 1818, attorney Col. Joseph Lovell (1793-1835) who served in the Virginia House of Delegates, 1819-21, 1824; Robert Pollard (1798-1853); George Richard (1800-43) who married in 1833, Eliza Bayless (1809-43); Ellen Jael (1802-50) who married (1) in 1819, Robert McAmey Steele (-1827), of Charleston, [W.]Va., and (2) in 1843, Dr. Spicer Patrick (1791-1884); twins Jane (1805), and Frances Fielding (1805-88) who married in 1822, Humphrey Brooke Gwathmey (1794-1852), of Richmond; Virginia (1806-43) who married in 1825, Robert Ammon Hereford (1796-1860/9), of Mason County, [W]Va.; Howell, Jr. (1808-83) who married in 1831, Emily Grace Burch (1812-66); Mary Ball (1810); John Edward (1811-69) who married in 1840, Mary Maxwell Drinan (c1817-); Dr. Lawrence (1813-78), of Osceola, Mo., who married (1) in 1843, Mary Ferguson (-1845), and (2) in 1853, Mary Emeline Reynolds (1828-1911); and Henry Daingerfield Lewis (1816-55).

See Albert Welles, The Pedigree and History of the Washington Family (New York, 1879), 178-179, 202-207; Merrow Egerton Sorley, Lewis of Warner Hall (Baltimore, 1935), 248-265; Dr. Justin M. Glenn, The Washingtons, A Family History, Volume One, Seven Generations of the Presidential Branch (Savas Beatie, El Dorado Hills, Ca. 2014), I: 160; James Houston Barr III, Lt. Colonel Nathaniel Pope, c1610-1660, of Virginia, Ancestor of Washington, Governors and Legislators, History of His Descendants (Louisville, Ky. 2018), 22.