Lyman Phillip Lewis was born in Genasee county, state of New York, on the third day of April, 1828. In the year 1835, the family moved to Marion county, Ohio. In this same year, when he was at the tender age of seven, he lost his mother thru an accident and was thus deprived of what is so precious in a boy's life, the companionship, teaching and sympathy of a mother.
When fourteen years of age, his father moved to Knox county, Illinois, where young Lyman Lewis completed his education in the high school. At the age of twenty-one, he was married to Miss Phebe A. Palmer, also of Knox county, on July 21, 1849. Five children, four daughters and a son, were born to this union. Two of these, the son and a daughter, preceded their father into the great beyond by a number of years., Etta A. Lewis, who died in 1888 at Holyoke, Colorado, and Lawren P. Lewis, who died at Holdrege, Nebraska, in 1895.
Receiving the appointment of Postmaster at Truro, Knox county, where all the children were born, he held this position for eight years.
Being unable to serve in the War of the Rebellion on account of disability, he served his country for three years as enrolling officer. Nevertheless, his companions and friends of the Army loved to call him "comrade."
In the spring of 1864, he moved with his family to Iowa City, Iowa, where the oldest children attended college. The next year, Brooklyn, Iowa became their home. Here he engaged in farming and stock raising for nineteen years. After a year's residence each at Mason City and Grinnell, the ill health of a daughter took the family west to Holyoke, Colorado, in the spring of 1888. Here a new home was built and Mrs. Lewis, becoming one of the proprietors of the North Holyoke Addition in 1890, engaged in real estate for a number of years.
When in 1889, Phillips, a new county, was set off from Logan county, the governor of the state appointed Mr. Lewis as county coroner. To this office he was continuously elected for nineteen years, when he resigned.
During his sojourn in Colorado he held other offices of public trust, including those of sheriff, justice of the peace and clerk of the district court. All these years of service were characterized by devotion to the office and duty and fearless loyalty to truth and right.
In the brief biography which he himself penned in 1910, he writes with pride and satisfaction of their golden wedding anniversary in 1899. It was the first celebration of the kind in the county, and he recalls with pleasure the surprise of it all, the presents, the dinner and the program.
The wife and mother died on March 7, 1906. Then came what so often comes with death and makes it a tragedy in human life, that is, the breaking up of the home. Mr. Lewis was alone. It was characteristic of him that he would make the most of life as it came to him. He would not be a burden to anyone. For two years he lived alone.
In 1908 he came to his daughter, Mrs. Amanda Palmer of Fairmont, Nebraska. For the past eight years this has been his home. The thoughtfulness, concern and love of his daughter have been a blessing and a comfort in his declining years.
The sadness of the loneliness of age is offset by this beautiful picture, that of the child becoming the comforter and sustainer of one who was himself the child's early comforter and sustainer. And now the children in turn have need of this help as the aged parent has left them. But he is of most blessed memory and this shall be their consolation.
The relatives present were: Three daughters, Mrs. Amanda Palmer, Fairmont, Nebraska, Mrs. Ella Palmer, Salem, Oregon, Mrs. Emma Shuler, Lincoln, Nebraska; a daughter-in-law, Mrs. Eva Lewis , Norfolk, Nebraska; a brother-in-law, Allen Millen, Republic, Kansas; grandchildren and great-grandchildren, Mr. and Mrs. W.C. Roeder and son Lesley, St. Joseph, Missouri, Otto Lewis, Falls City, C.L. Shuler, Lincoln, Mrs. C.E. Zumwalt and three children, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Palmer and two children, Fairmont.
Fillmore Chronicle (Fairmont) November 3, 1916 page 2.
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Son of Kenyon and Sally (Porter) Lewis.
Cause of death: Arterial Sclerosis.
Lot Owner: Perry Palmer and Mrs. Amanda Palmer.
Death Notice, 27 Oct 1916 The State Herald, CO
Obit. 3 Nov 1916 The State Herald, CO
Lyman Phillip Lewis was born in Genasee county, state of New York, on the third day of April, 1828. In the year 1835, the family moved to Marion county, Ohio. In this same year, when he was at the tender age of seven, he lost his mother thru an accident and was thus deprived of what is so precious in a boy's life, the companionship, teaching and sympathy of a mother.
When fourteen years of age, his father moved to Knox county, Illinois, where young Lyman Lewis completed his education in the high school. At the age of twenty-one, he was married to Miss Phebe A. Palmer, also of Knox county, on July 21, 1849. Five children, four daughters and a son, were born to this union. Two of these, the son and a daughter, preceded their father into the great beyond by a number of years., Etta A. Lewis, who died in 1888 at Holyoke, Colorado, and Lawren P. Lewis, who died at Holdrege, Nebraska, in 1895.
Receiving the appointment of Postmaster at Truro, Knox county, where all the children were born, he held this position for eight years.
Being unable to serve in the War of the Rebellion on account of disability, he served his country for three years as enrolling officer. Nevertheless, his companions and friends of the Army loved to call him "comrade."
In the spring of 1864, he moved with his family to Iowa City, Iowa, where the oldest children attended college. The next year, Brooklyn, Iowa became their home. Here he engaged in farming and stock raising for nineteen years. After a year's residence each at Mason City and Grinnell, the ill health of a daughter took the family west to Holyoke, Colorado, in the spring of 1888. Here a new home was built and Mrs. Lewis, becoming one of the proprietors of the North Holyoke Addition in 1890, engaged in real estate for a number of years.
When in 1889, Phillips, a new county, was set off from Logan county, the governor of the state appointed Mr. Lewis as county coroner. To this office he was continuously elected for nineteen years, when he resigned.
During his sojourn in Colorado he held other offices of public trust, including those of sheriff, justice of the peace and clerk of the district court. All these years of service were characterized by devotion to the office and duty and fearless loyalty to truth and right.
In the brief biography which he himself penned in 1910, he writes with pride and satisfaction of their golden wedding anniversary in 1899. It was the first celebration of the kind in the county, and he recalls with pleasure the surprise of it all, the presents, the dinner and the program.
The wife and mother died on March 7, 1906. Then came what so often comes with death and makes it a tragedy in human life, that is, the breaking up of the home. Mr. Lewis was alone. It was characteristic of him that he would make the most of life as it came to him. He would not be a burden to anyone. For two years he lived alone.
In 1908 he came to his daughter, Mrs. Amanda Palmer of Fairmont, Nebraska. For the past eight years this has been his home. The thoughtfulness, concern and love of his daughter have been a blessing and a comfort in his declining years.
The sadness of the loneliness of age is offset by this beautiful picture, that of the child becoming the comforter and sustainer of one who was himself the child's early comforter and sustainer. And now the children in turn have need of this help as the aged parent has left them. But he is of most blessed memory and this shall be their consolation.
The relatives present were: Three daughters, Mrs. Amanda Palmer, Fairmont, Nebraska, Mrs. Ella Palmer, Salem, Oregon, Mrs. Emma Shuler, Lincoln, Nebraska; a daughter-in-law, Mrs. Eva Lewis , Norfolk, Nebraska; a brother-in-law, Allen Millen, Republic, Kansas; grandchildren and great-grandchildren, Mr. and Mrs. W.C. Roeder and son Lesley, St. Joseph, Missouri, Otto Lewis, Falls City, C.L. Shuler, Lincoln, Mrs. C.E. Zumwalt and three children, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Palmer and two children, Fairmont.
Fillmore Chronicle (Fairmont) November 3, 1916 page 2.
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Son of Kenyon and Sally (Porter) Lewis.
Cause of death: Arterial Sclerosis.
Lot Owner: Perry Palmer and Mrs. Amanda Palmer.
Death Notice, 27 Oct 1916 The State Herald, CO
Obit. 3 Nov 1916 The State Herald, CO
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