Ancestry of
Meriwether Lewis

Lewis and Clark Expedition

Thomas Meriwether

View famous kin of Thomas Meriwether

• • Grandfather of Meriwether Lewis — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 6 
  • Father:
  • David Meriwether 
  • Mother:
  • Anne Holmes   
  • Birth Date:
  • 1714 
  • Birth Location:
  •  
  • Christening Date:
  •  
  • Christening Location:
  •  
  • Death Date:
  • 1756 
  • Death Location:
  •  
  • Burial Date:
  •  
  • Burial Location:
  •  
  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Thornton
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1735 
  • Marriage Location:
  •  
  • Child:

  Lucy Meriwether (Ahnentafel No:3 )

• Sources for Thomas Meriwether

  • ¹ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1987, Vol. 4, p. 26.
  • ² Davis, Lottie Wright, Records of Lewis, Meriwether and Kindred Families; Genealogical Records of Minor, Davis, . . ., Columbia, MO: Artcraft Press (1951), 51, 154, 156.
  • ³ Dorman, John Frederick, Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5, 4th ed., Vol. 2, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2005), 557.
  • ⁴ McAllister, John Meriwether, ed. and Lura Boulton Tandy, Genealogies of the Lewis and Kindred Families, Columbia, Missouri: E. W. Stephens Publishing Company (1906), 41.
  • ⁵ Stanard, W. G., "The Thornton Family", The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 4, No. 3 (January 1896), 158.
  • ⁶ Stephens, Lucinda Frances Hammack, Crawford Genealogy: "sine labe nota", Macon, Ga: J. W. Burke Company (1936), 11.
  • ⁷ Wikipedia, "Meriwether Lewis", (accessed 03/20/2010).
  • ⁸ Wurts, John S., Magna Charta, New York: Brookfield Publishing Company (1893), 491.