Caroline Lewis (maiden name: Richards) was born in Pennsylvania in November 1839. According to census records, she attended school as a child and learned to read and write. She married George Washington Lewis sometime before the Civil War. The couple had seven children, including: Albert, born September 15, 1859; Emma, born in 1863; and Elmer, born in 1867. The names of 4 other children are unknown. After the war, George returned to Mercer County, where he worked as a farmer. Near the end of their lives, their daughter Emma's three children — Joseph, Elizabeth, and Ollie Stoney — came to live with the Lewises following Emma's death. Caroline died on October 6, 1902. She is buried along with her husband at White Chapel Cemetery in Mercer County.
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1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, and 1900 U.S. Federal Censuses for George W. Lewis or Caroline Lewis (Richards); Death Certificate for Albert Lewis, accessed through Ancestry.com; Roland Barksdale-Hall, African Americans in Mercer County (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2009); "Caroline Lewis," Findagrave.com (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/103998265).
