Ancestry of
Meriwether Lewis
Lewis and Clark Expedition
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- Grandmother of Meriwether Lewis — 3rd Generation
- Ahnentafel No:
- 7
- Father:
- Francis Thornton Jr.
- Mother:
- Mary Taliaferro
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- Death Date:
- BY 30 Oct 1774
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- Spouse Name:
- Thomas Meriwether
- Marriage Date:
- 1735
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- Child:
Lucy Meriwether (Ahnentafel No:3 )
Elizabeth Thornton
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Additional marriages for Elizabeth Thornton
- Spouse:
- Robert Lewis
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Sources for Elizabeth Thornton
- 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), 18, 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.