Richard Lewis

Richard Lewis N M V B K Y Photo: “Here is an image I have of PVT. Richard H. Lewis of company h 4th Virginia cavalry I spoke with you on the phone awhile back about him please put it in your book if you like.”[2406] [sic] [Have PHOTO.] 11 Nov. 2003. Contacted by: Phil McCoy, 829 Spring View Drive, Mt. Sterling KY 40353. Tels: 866-286-8080 (H) 859-498-4447 (W). He has photo of Richard in uniform. Will copy and send and would like to see it in the book. Obtained from Richard Lott Furnival, descendant, in Culpeper. Phil downloaded roster from blackhorsecavalry.org. Cousin Bobbie McCoy called 2-27-2004. Image file is saved in E:\BHC Work Folder\Cavalryman Photos. Born: “… [September 20, 1836.[2407] [2408]] at “Cedar Hill,” Fauquier County”[2409] [2410] 1838 Fauquier County.[2411] Married: “[…] He married Lucinda [Margaret] Rixey, who was known as “Aunt Tiny,” and who was greatly beloved.”[2412] “Mrs. Richard Lewis died May 25, 1923 at her home, ‘Rose Dale’…”[2413] “Lucinda Margaret Lewis”, born October 30, 1845, and died May 25, 1923, is buried in the Masonic Cemetery in Culpeper.[2414] He married Lucinda Margaret Rixey (30 October 1845–25 May 1923) on 21 December 1865, “Elder William C. Lauck, a Baptist minister, officiating.” Her parents were Martha Frances (Rixey) and James Richard Rixey.[2415] Lucinda died “at her home, “Rose Dale,” and was buried in the Masonic Cemetery near Culpeper,… beside her husband.” She “was an active and consistent member of the Episcopal Church.”[2416] Died: 19 April 19 1905.[2417] “Richard Lewis was badly wounded in the knee, and tho always very active, he walked with a limp the rest of his days. He very often said he ‘hoped to die in the stirrups,’ having a horror of ever being helpless. His prayer was answered for Death came quickly April 19, 1905, at his home, ‘Rosedale,’ in Culpeper County.”[2418] Buried “Rosedale,” near Rixeyville.[2419] “Richard Lewis” is buried in the Masonic Cemetery in Culpeper.[2420] Obituary: “Hon. Richard Lewis died on Wednesday last, at his home “Rosedale,” near Rixeyville.”[2421] See Obituary Chapter. Children: [NOTE:Get rid of all the quotations in the following & set up like other entries. Keep the cemetery transcriptions as-is.] “James Richard Lewis, the only son, [was] born [on] October 21, 1866….”[2422] “James Rixey Lewis, the only son, [was] born [on] October 21, 1860.”[2423] The daughters were Frances Rixey Lewis, born 17 March 1868; Lucinda Tutt Lewis, called “Lula,” was born 3 November 1869; Mattie Marrs Lewis, born 27 October 1871.[2424] “[…] Richard Lewis’ daughters, Frances, Lucy Tutt and Martha Marrs, own and live at “Rosedale.”[2425] “James Richard Lewis”/ October 21, 1866 – December 7, 1929; “Frances Rixey Lewis”/ March 17, 1868 – April 8, 1945; “Lulu Tutt Lewis”/ November 3, 1869 – November 5, 1943; “Mattie Marrs Lewis”/ October 27, 1871 – November 3, 1941.[2426] Parents and Siblings: “…Henry Marrs Lewis and Frances Ann (Rixey) Lewis, his first wife, of “Cedar Hill,” Fauquier County, Virginia.”[2427] His siblings were William Henry Lewis (BH) and “Mary Frances,… born January 1, 1840.”[2428] He was the “eldest son of Henry Marrs Lewis and his first wife.”[2429] [NOTE:Note—story from sister indicates different family set-up. Pursue when focusing on this entry.] Two sons, two daughters. One daughter was Lucinda Lewis who wed William Worth Smith. Their mother outlived the father, Henry Marrs Lewis. If she was his first wife, how could he have had another? Parents of William Henry Lewis and Richard Lewis: Henry Marrs Lewis, born 25 Oct 1801, married Frances Anne Rixey, 1 Dec 1835.[2430] Other Family: “His grandfather was William Lewis, son of Thomas Lewis and Sarah (Hawley) Harrison, [and] married Anne Montgomery of ‘Rosemont,’ Prince William county. About the last year of the Revolution, he moved up into Fauquier county, and built first a log house on the Montgomery estate. Captain Montgomery owned many hundred acres of land, and Anne was not only a very beautiful sixteen-year old bride, but an heiress as well…”[2431] “His father was “Henry Marrs Lewis,…born October 25, 1801. Each of his brothers and sisters bore either the name of Montgomery or Marrs as a middle name for fear that during the Jeffersonian period of self-made men, and almost ridicule of ‘noble ancestry,’ they would forget ‘who they were.’”[2432] “Henry Marrs Lewis was married twice; first to, daughter of Richard Rixey of Fauquier County, who had a grant to the ‘Rock Spring’ farm from Lord Culpeper and whose wife was from the David Morehead family of Lauchope House, who owned Kent Island before Lord Baltimore…”[2433] He married second, “Lucy Ann Rixey, daughter of Charles Rixey of ‘Pleasant Hill,’ Culpeper County.”[2434] “His slaves were the most skilled in all that country. Henry, a half Indian slave, made the spurs for the immortal Black Horse Fauquier Company of the Civil War, and the sale of them was given to him by his mistress, ‘Miss Lucy Ann.’ ”[2435] Col Henry Marrs Lewis, born 25 Oct., 1801, died 9 Dec, 1853. He married Frances Ann Rixey, 1 Dec, 1835, who died 15 Mar., 1840. He married 2nd, Lucy Anne Rixey, 15 June, 1842. She was born 8 Sept., 1812 and died 7 Dec., 1904 at “Cedar Hill.” No source Richard Lewis’s wife’s parents were Martha Frances (Rixey) (16 July 1820– 15 June 1912) and James Richard Rixey (1 September 1818–24 August 1849), son of Presley Rixey of Rixeyville, who wed on 19 December 1844. James R. Rixey was orphaned at age three, raised by an uncle, wed the daughter of another uncle (his first cousin), and died at about age 31 leaving one child age four. Lucinda’s mother, Martha, gave “signal service… during the War Between the States…. She often disguised herself in old clothes and appeared in the camp of the Northern soldiers, selling pies and cakes, in order, if possible, to obtain information, which she took good care to remember and convey at the first opportunity to the Confederate Army. …[T]he information she secured was often of value to the Confederacy.” She died at age 92 at “Rose Dale” after a life of long-time charity to “the homeless… widows and orphans among her kindred….”[2436] “They lived at the beautiful old Rixey place, her father having inherited it from his grandmother, who was a daughter of Charles Rixey and Lucinda Johnson, who built and named it “Pleasant Hill.””[2437] [NOTE:who are ‘they’ here?] “James Richard Lewis, the only son … married June 2, 1896, Rose Temple Robinson, born May 17, 1875.”[2438] [2439] Their “son, James Rixey Lewis, was born at “Rosedale”. [He] married Rose Robinson,”[2440] “daughter of John Robinson of Scotland and Robinson, West Virginia.”[2441] “John Robinson… was educated for a Catholic priest, but …instead married Lizette Smith and became an oil magnate.”[2442] Rose’s sister, Beulah Robinson, married William Aquilla Lewis, Richard Lewis’s nephew.[2443] “Rose Robinson Lewis” was born May 17, 1875, and died August 1, 1943. “She was charitable”.[2444] Be consistent in quoting transcriptions. James and Rose had “only one child, Margaret Pendleton [Lewis], who was named for Margaret Pendleton, from whom she descended.”[2445] “Margaret Lewis Dyer”, born September 23, 1897, and died October 29, 1986, is buried beside “James Marion Dyer”, born April 17, 1897, and died September 6, 1978. “She also was charitable”.[2446] As none of Richard and Lucinda Margaret Lewis’s three daughters married, their son’s daughter was their only grandchild. Stories, Letters & Biographies: “Along the way, Smith had gathered vital information; captured a supply wagon,… ; and somehow managed to carry off a flag…, which he presented to General Lee.” [2447] See Stories Chapter under Channing Meade Smith, “Along the way…” “Lewis went to Fauquier… [W]ill go… myself tomorrow… I wrote to Col. Randolph for another [man].” [2448] See Letters Chapter under Channing Meade Smith. Channing wrote this report a few days before he, Richard Lewis, and another Black Horse man overcame a larger group of yankees near Catlett, Fauquier County, as described by Stuart: “He [Channing] joined Richard H. Lewis and [James Monroe Love[2449]]…”[2450] See Stories Chapter under Channing Meade Smith, Three Scouts, Five Federals. “I know you Black Horse boys pay no attention to records, but rely entirely upon your memory, … [Y]ou had better keep for the benefit of your family [this] record of General Stuart complimenting you.…”[2451] See Letters Chapter. [Acca & Rich Lewis]“Both of these scouts were educated gentlemen, well qualified to command a regiment….”[2452] “Not long ago, two youngsters, Richard Lewis and a comrade of the Black Horse Scouts, Fauquier County, got some intimation that a band of sutlers were coming up the Warrenton turnpike from Alexandria …”[2453] “[A] general in the Federal Army… saved her brothers’ horses…” [2454] See Stories Chapter. “…Channing Smith wrote two articles describing his exploits… near Grant’s own headquarters… .”[2455] See Stories Chapter under Channing Meade Smith, “What cavalry is that?” “Noiselessly raising the window they stepped upon the roof which, being covered with sleet, crackled beneath their tread… Click-click, went innumerable carbines and revolvers.”[2456] See Stories Chapter. “Mr. Richard Lewis, the present member of the House of Delegates from Culpeper County, was born in 1838, in the adjoining county of Fauquier, and was actively engaged in farming until the outbreak of the war, …”[2457] See Biographies Chapter. “Having been detailed in May, 1863 as special scout for Generals Lee and Stuart …”[2458] “In the April 14, 1921, issue of ‘The Culpeper Exponent,’…”[2459] See Stories Chapter under Channing Meade Smith. “He told me how he had captured the two Yankee officers… .”[2460] See Stories Chapter under L. A. Marstellar. CSR: “Richard H. Lewis”; 5’7”, dark complexion, black hair, dark eyes; enlisted 25 April 1861; 3rd Sgt.; 4th Sgt. 16 January 1861;[2461] captured 31 May 1862 Hanover County; Fort Delaware; exchanged 5 August 1862; detached as scout July to October 1863; absent as scout for Genl. Stuart January to April 1864; wounded 6 May 1864 the Wilderness; leg amputated [This seems to be in error. He did not lose his leg according to later accounts.]; agriculturalist, Rixeyville; member of Virginia House of Delegates; from Culpeper County. Additional Information: “Richard Lewis’s middle name was Henry….”[2462] Richard Henry Lewis. Most genealogical references do not mention a middle initial. However, some material, including later reunion reports, use one. [2463] Only his first and last names are carved in his tombstone, although middle names are given for every other family member buried beside him.[2464] On 5 May 1864, “while riding in the rear of the Confederate line of infantry which was hotly engaged with the enemy, Richard Lewis was dangerously wounded [in the knee] by a minie ball, and Channing Smith [BH] was [temporarily] left… without the assistance of Lewis’ ready coolness and unshaken courage.”[2465] Lewis had been returning with Smith from a scout within Grant’s lines. Wounded in Prince William County 1863. Agriculturalist. Rixeyville, Culpeper County.[2466] (Check # this again) “Member of Black Horse Cavelry before and all through the War. With them at Harpers Ferry. Served with Regiment until after Chancellorsville. After that, detailed as scout with Gen. J. E. B. Stuart. Severely wounded at Battle of Wilderness, May 6, 1864, bore marks of wound for rest of his life. Captured May 30, 1862. Held prisoner at Ft. Delaware till first general exchange of prisoners in Aug. 1862….”[2467] *** dates when started scouting w/ CMS; “Rich.”[2468] Listed as 4th Sgt.[2469] “Richard Lewis, Civil War Hero…”[2470] “… was a gallant soldier.”[2471] Cited for gallantry by Genl. JEB Stuart.[2472] “Richard Lewis, born at “Cedar Hill,” Fauquier County, eldest son of Henry Marrs Lewis and his first wife, was a gallant soldier.”[2473] “Richard Lewis represented Culpeper County in the Virginia House of Delegates in 1895 and 1896. He was a successful farmer, and a dealer in livestock, which he bought for shipment to the northern markets.[2474] Served with Mosby too. Look at regimental book on Mosby. Called “Dick”.[2475] Called “Dick Lewis” in story with L. A. Marstellar, and said to live near Alexandria, well within Federal lines.[2476]

One “Robert Lewis” is listed on the Confederate Election Poll, November 1861. Richard Lewis is not listed on this roster although he was enlisted with the company at the time.