Dr James Lewis

My Great Grandfather practised medicine in Afton, Iowa. He attended a new-fangled medical school in Philadelphia with his brother Nathan. It was called Electic Medicine. His father was a revolutionary soldier, S. Samuel Lewis 1766-1851 and his mother was Cassandra Le Seur 1772-1851. They married in Harpers Ferry & lived in Virginia, So Carolina in 1806, Paint Lick, Kentucky 1811, Decatur Co, IN in 1822 where he built a log cabin, then they moved to Brighton, Iowa in 1845. James parents are buried in Hillcrest Cemetary, Brighton.