Elvey Lewis

Title

Elvey Lewis

Aliases

None listed

Date

3 March 1883-12 June 1908

Description

Regiment: 14 United States Colored Heavy Artillery
Company: C
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date and place: 1 March 1864 at Newbern, North Carolina, United States
Mustered-out date and place: 11 December 1865 at Fort Macon, North Carolina, United States

Other locations listed during time of service: Morehead City, Carteret County, North Carolina, United States; Fort Monroe, Elizabeth City County, Virginia, United States
Comrades mentioned: James Smith; Richard Weaver; King Outlow; Henry Saxton; Albert ashe; Bryant Manly

Giles Lewis

Name(s) of spouse(s): Sallie Smith; Sarah Lester Smith
Children: Nancy Ann Lewis Reed (born 1 March 1867); Eleanor Lewis (born 3 March 1871); Oliver Lewis (born 7 July 1873); John Lewis (born 10 October 1875); James Lewis (born 1 September 1877); Bertie Lewis (born 8 February 1879); Anna Lewis (born 15 April 1887); Geno Lewis (born 15 September 1888)

Veteran's birth date and location: 17 August 1842 at Hartford County, North Carolina, United States
Plantation(s): Not listed
Enslaver(s): [This soldier was a Free Person of Color]

Parents of veteran: Elvey and Frances Lewis
Other listed family members: Giles Lewis (brother); Mary E. Lewis (sister-in-law)

Wife's place of birth: Not listed
Wife's enslaver: Not listed
Wife's parents: Not listed
Wife's other family members: Jasper Keen (second-cousin)

Creator

Department of the Interior Bureau of Pensions

Publisher

National Archives and Records Administration

Type

Document

Format

Portable Document Format

Language

English

Coverage

United States of America

Rights

Public Domain | All records should be cited as coming from the Center Family History at the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, United States.