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- !MARRIAGE LICENSE STATE OF MISSOURI... COUNTY OF IRON ...This License authorizes any Judge of a Court of Record or any Justice of the Peace, or any licensed or ordained Preacher of the Gospel, who is a Citizen of the United States, or who is a resident ofand a Pastor of any Church in this State to solemnize Marriage between Fred Lewis of Des Arc in the County of Iron and State of Missouri who is over the age of twenty-one years, and Ethel M. Miller of Des Arc in the County of Iron and State of Missouri who is over the age of eighteen years. This is to certify that I did on the 27th day of May unite in marriage Fred Lewis and Ethel M. Miller.
Witness My Hand, as Circuit Clerk and exOfficio Recorder of Deeds with the Seal of Office hereto affixed at my Office in Ironton No this 23rd day of may 1916.
J.M. Hawkins, Circuit Clerk and exOfficio Recorder of Deeds
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STATE OF MISSOURI, COUNTY OF IRON ...This is to Certify, that the undersigned, Fred Lewis and Ethel M. Miller did, at Des Arc in said County, on the 27 day of May A. D. 1916 unite in Marriage the above named persons, and I further certify that I as legally qualified under the Laws of the State of Missouri to solemnize Marriages.
Eld. H. J. Wray.
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The foregoing Certificate of Marriage was filed for Record in my office on the
26 day of June A.D. 1916
J. M. Hawkins, Circuit Clerk and exOfficio Recorder of Deeds
(Copy of certificate obtained from Carolyn Keathley McBurney in June 1991)
!NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
DES ARC ITEMS
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lewis called while at their old home last Sunday, and said they were all well contented with the new home over at the Cape. (IRON COUNTY REGISTER newspaper... Ironton, Missouri ...January 5, 1939)
!NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lewis and son from Cape Girardeau were here last week to visit his brother, James Lewis and family. They had been to Ironton to visit his sister, Mrs. Tyler Keathley who is ill but we are glad to report her as improved. (DES ARC HARKENINSS column ...THE MOUNTAIN ECHO newspaper ...Ironton, Iron County, Missouri ...Thursday, May 12, 1955)
!OBITUARY
FRED LEWIS, 77, CAPE BUSINESS MAN, DIES, BORN AT ANNAPOLIS
Fred Lewis, 77 years old, president of the Wimpy’s DriveIn and Market, 800 North Kingshighway, Cape Girardeau, died Tuesday night, July 22, at 6:10 at a hospital there where he had been admitted Saturday from the family home at 819 West Cape Rock Drive. Mr. Lewis had been in failing health three months.
Funeral services were conducted last Thursday afternoon at 2 at First Presbyterian Church Cape Girardeau, by the pastor. Rev. C.E. Mount. Interment was in Memorial Park Cemetery.
Pallbearers, all nephews, were Buford Lewis, Howard Lewis, Darwin Lewis, Russell Lewis, Elvis Lewis and Orville Lewis.
Surviving relatives are his wife, Mrs. Ethel Lewis; four sons, Frank, Francis, Freeman and Billie J. Lewis, all of Cape; two daughters, Mrs. Truman Howard and Mrs. E. Lawrence Bahn of Cape Girardeau and 11 grandchildren.
Two brothers surviving are J.M. Lewis of Des Arc and W.W. Lewis of Flat River.
Born January 16, 1881, at Annapolis, he Married Miss Ethel Miller on May 27, 1916. Mr. Lewis engaged in farming until they moved to Cape Girardeau in 1938 from Des Arc. In 1942, he and two of the sons, Freeman and Billie opened the present place ofbusiness. The son, Frank, joined the firm in 1948.
Mr. Lewis was a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Cape Girardeau..
(Thursday, July 31, 1958...Copy of newspaper clipping was received in September 1992 from Mary Lu Politte. She obtained the article from Naomi Lewis Zager)
!NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
Mrs. James Lewis and Darwin Lewis, Mrs. Everett Seal, Mr. and Mrs. Buford Lewis attended the funeral of Fred Lewis at Cape Girardeau last week. Mr. Lewis was born and reared on a farm near Des Arc and had many friends here. His funeral was held from the Presbyterian Church at Cape Girardeau where he was an active member. He leaves his widow, Mrs. Ethel Lewis and a number of children and grandchildren. We sympathize with the bereaved ones.
(THE MOUNTAIN ECHO newspaper ...Ironton, Iron County, Missouri... July 31, 1958)
Research notes courtesy of Linda E. Lewis, George Lewis Descendants, published October 1992.
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