Elizabeth (Warner) Lewis (1672 - 1720)

Born 24 Nov 1672 in Chesake, Gloucester County, Colony of Virginia

Ancestors

Wife of John Lewis — married about 1692 in Colony of Virginia [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 6 Feb 1720 at age 47 in Warner Hall, Gloucester County, Colony of Virginia

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Biography

Elizabeth (Warner) Lewis, the third daughter of Augustine Warner II, became the wife of John Lewis^[1][2] and inherited Warner Hall. They moved there about 1702 from Chemokines, New Kent County.^[3]

Born November 24, 1672 at "Chesake"^[4][5] at Warner Hall, Gloucester County, Virginia

Parents Augustine Warner (1642-1681) & Mildred Reade (1643-1686)^[6]

Marriage in 1692 to Col. John Lewis (1669-1725) at Warner Hall, Gloucester County, Virginia.^[2][3]

Elizabeth was the mother of fourteen children, according to her gravestone. The "names of nine of them are known from records in Hening' s Statutes-at-Large and in the Parish Register of Abingdon Parish, Gloucester (in which Warner Hall was located)."^[3]

Children cited in various sources were:

1. John Lewis, born before 1694 in New Kent County.^[7][8]
2. Charles Lewis, born before 1696 in New Kent County.^[7][8]
3. Mildred Lewis (c1700-1733), married (1) John Howell, (2) Dr. John Brown, (3) Col. Henry Willis.^[8][9]
4. Robert Lewis, born at Warner Hall, in August 1704.^[7][8]
5. Catherine, baptized 2 November 1705. Twin to Elizabeth, died young.^[8]
6. Elizabeth, baptized 2 November 1705. Twin to Catherine, died young.^[8]
7. Elizabeth, born 6 May 1706 or 1700-1749, m John Kennon Bolling.^[8]
8. Isabella, baptized 18 December 1707.^[8]
9. Anne, baptized 14 February 1712.^[8]
10. Mary^{[citation needed]} (no baptismal or any records have been found to show that she was the daughter of John and Elizabeth Warner Lewis), married Major Throckmorten.^[8]

Elizabeth (Warner) Lewis died February 5, 1720 at Warner Hall, Gloucester County, Virginia.^[3][10]

Burial

Elizabeth is buried in the Warner Hall Colonial Family Cemetery^[1] with her husband, John Lewis, at Naxera, Gloucester County, Virginia.^[3][11]

Gravestone

Alternate transcriptions^{[11][5][6][12]}

See Gravestone and Death Date concerning whether she died on the 5th or 6th of February.

Warner Hall

Elizabeth became the owner of Warner Hall after her brother Robert died childless about 1701.^[13][3]

Elizabeth and Councillor John Lewis's oldest son, John, inherited Warner Hall.^[7][3]

For generations, the Lewises lived at Warner Hall, and members of the family migrated to all parts of the United States. Their descendants built Belle Farm, Eagle Point, Abingdon, Severby, Severn Hall, and Kenmore, all in Virginia.^[1]

See Warner Hall for the home's history.

Notes

Warner Hall Graveyard, Ancestry link, jpg

John Lewis, Ancestry link, jpg

Col George Reade and Elizabeth Martiau Reade had at least eight children, the oldest being their daughter Mildred, who married Col Augustine Warner, Junior.

Colonel Augustine Warner Sr. was born November 28, 1610 and immigrated to Virginia as early as 1628 but before 1642. His coat of arms is of the Welsh family Warner. He is believed to have acquired the land where he built Warner Hall in 1635. He married a woman named Mary whose maiden name is not known. They had a son Augustine Warner Junior and a daughter Sarah.

Colonel Augustine Warner Senior’s daughter Sarah married Lawrence Townley and is the great-great-great grandmother of General Robert E. Lee.

Augustine Warner, Junior, also known as Speaker Warner, inherited Warner Hall when his father died.He was Speaker of the Assembly / Burgess, and later was elevated to one of 12 members of the Governor’s Council. He married Mildred Reade, daughter of Col George Reade and granddaughter of Nicholas Martiau. They had three sons and three daughters. Their three sons died without children, so Warner Hall transferred to their oldest daughter, Elizabeth, wife of Councilor John Lewis.

Elizabeth’s younger sister Mildred Warner married Lawrence Washington. Their son Augustine Washington was the father of George Washington

Elizabeth’s youngest sister Mary Warner married John Smith and is the 7x great-grandmother of Elizabeth, Queen of England, and 8x great-grandmother of Charles, Prince of Wales.

Historic Cemetery there? Councilor John, Elizabeth, her parents buried there. (photos)

Councilor John and Elizabeth’s oldest son John II inherited Warner Hall. John II’s oldest son, Warner Lewis, inherited Warner Hall. John II’s third son, Fielding Lewis, was a great patriot in the revolution supplying many of the cannons to General Washington’s army, married George Washington’s sister Betty, and had his residence at Kenmore. The Kenmore estate is well preserved today and is open to the public to visit.

There are many Vestry meeting notes in New Kent Parish mentioning Councilor John, and some of the meetings were held at his home Chemokens. Another prominent vestyman was Captain Nicholas Meriwether, whose daughter Jane married Councilor John’s third son Robert.

Sorely Notes:

Speaker Warner married Mildred Reade. Their daughter Elizabeth was born 1672 at Chesake in Glocester County, before Speaker Warner moved to Warner Hall in 1674.

Speaker Warner died June 19, 1681, at age 39. A portrait of Speaker Warner hung in the library of William and Mary college in 1935.

Mildred Reade Warner died in 1694. One son predeceased her. Two other sons died after her and did not have children, so Warner Hall reverted to eldest daughter Elizabeth upon death of last son.^[14]

Research Notes

Gravestone and Death Date

Four sources are listed with transcriptions of her gravestone, three listing her death as 5 Feb 1719/20 and one listing 6 Feb 1719/20:

• 5th Day of February 1719/20^[11] [image]
• 5th Day of February 1719/20^[5] [no image]
• 5th Day of February 1719/20^[6] [no image]
• 6th Day of February 1719/20^[12] [with image]

Of the two images, the Find a Grave image is higher resolution.

The day does appear to be 6th in the Find a Grave image. Spratlin-29 18:09, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} http://home1.gte.net/mimieric/Augustine.html no longer online: Augustine Warner I (1610-1674) and Warner Hall (via archive.org's WayBack Machine)
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls. database on-line. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6} Lewis of Warner Hall: The History of a Family, Including the Genealogy of Descendants in Both the Male and Female Lines, Biographical Sketches of Its Members, and Their Descent from Other Early Virginia Families, compiled by Merrow Egerton Sorley. Pgs 47-60. Lewis of Warner Hall: The History of a Family, Including the Genealogy of Descendants.
4. ↑ Born "at Chesake" is from her tombstone. It is possibly a contraction for "Chesapeake" (area where Warner Hall was built). Sorley says "We have seen that the first Augustine Warner acquired lands at "Cheesecake" or "Chesake", Gloucester County, in 1652."
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} Tyler, Lyon G. "Inscriptions on Old Tombs in Gloucester Co., Virginia." The William and Mary Quarterly. Vol. 2, No. 4 (Apr., 1894), p. 227
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2} Civil Registry Office: Virginia Vital Records. Virginia, U.S., Extracted Vital Records, 1660-1923 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2017. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors. Archived Tombstone Inscription (share link)
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3} Family Notes on Councilor John Lewis, Lewis at Home by Mark Lewis
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 8.8 8.9} Lewis of Warner Hall: The History of a Family, Including the Genealogy of Descendants in Both the Male and Female Lines, Biographical Sketches of Its Members, and Their Descent from Other Early Virginia Families. United States: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1979. Pgs 58-59. Their Children
9. ↑ John Fredrick Dorman, Adventurers of Purse and Person, Fourth edition Volume 2, pg 556 (accessed 12 February 2020).
10. ↑ MyHeritage
11. ↑ ^{11.0 11.1 11.2} Find A Grave: Memorial #7656611 for Elizabeth Warner Lewis (1672–1720).
12. ↑ ^{12.0 12.1} Transcription as posted at "Augustine Warner Family Cemetery," which does show "1719/1720". The transcription in Tyler also shows both years, with 17 followed by 19 over 20. Tyler's transcription also appears to reflect more accurately the line breaks on the tombstone.
13. ↑ Warner Hall
14. ↑ Portraits of the Warner and Lewis Famalies

See also:

• History of Warner Hall, Inn at Warner Hall

See also - other family trees:

• Find A Grave: Memorial #181986968 for Mildred “Widow Brown, Widow Howell” Lewis Willis (1691–1733) (memorial only, no gravestone photo).