1st wife of Lewis Maxwell

. . . Lewis Maxwell, third son of Thomas and Jane Lewis, born in 1790, was a member of congress from 1827 to 1833, and was a man of no small means for his time. Being an early surveyor, as before mentioned, he entered large
tracts of land all over this part of the state, and as he left no heirs much of his fortune fell to his nephew, Franklin Maxwell.
In 1844, he was first married to Miss Safronia Wilson, and his second wife, whom he married in 1859, was Miss Jane Pritchard, daughter of Peter Pritchard, of White Oak. He died near Weston In Lewis county in 1865, and his widow who was many years his junior is now Mrs. Wiley of Fairmont.
Robert Maxwell, the fourth son of Thomas and Jane Lewis, was born on Fegruary 19, 1791, and on March 19, 1812, he was married to Miss Rebecca Eastlack, who was born on November 6, 1792, and died at their home in Ohio, on May 9, 1843. After her death he returned to Lost creek in Harrison county, where he contracted two subsequent marriages, and where he died on February 5, 1844.
His children were as follows and all were born of the first union: Thomas J., Frances B. (Mrs. Wm. Boggs), Jane Lewis, and Amy, who died in childhood, Rebecca H. (Mrs. Joseph Lefevre), Meiggs L., Caroline A. (Mrs. B. F. McMillian), Mary Melvina (Mrs. Alexander Ireland), Robert C., and Emma Ann (Mrs. Sylvanus Page), all of whom reside, and rest, in Ohio, and other Western states. Caroline, Meiggs, and Rebecca, alone survive.145