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Jackson Browne

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William Nelson Lewis

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Jackson Browne — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 18 
  • Father:
  • Wait Lewis 
  • Mother:
  • Eloisa Tomlinson   
  • Birth Date:
  • 21 Jan 1812 
  • Birth Location:
  • Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 5 Mar 1880 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Jackson Presbyterian Cemetery, Jackson, Wayne, Ohio 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Ann B. Flanders
  • Marriage Date:
  • 9 Oct 1836 
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  • Child:

  Diantha Rose Lewis (Ahnentafel No:9 )

• Sources for William Nelson Lewis

  • ¹ California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994, FHL No 5597691, Image 462, Death certificate for daughter Diantha Rose Browne.
  • ² Federal Census, OH, Wayne County, 1850, Milton, Image 25 of 34.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 11/10/2023).
  • ⁴ Ohio, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1774-1993, 27 OCT 1859, Marriage license for Frederick W Brown and daughter Diantha Rose Lewis.
  • ⁵ Chandler, George, The Chandler Family: The Descendants of William and Annis Chandler Who Settled in Roxbury, Mass., 1637, Worcester, Massachusetts: Press of Charles Hamilton (1883), 703.
  • ⁶ Chapin, Gilbert Warren, The Chapin Book of Genealogical Data with Brief Sketches of the Descendants of Deacon Samuel Chapin, Vol. 1, Hartford, Connecticut: Chapin Family Association (1924), 1246.