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Spouse: George Stanley HELGESON - 2 (1892)
Father: John Lort LEWIS - 19 (1846)
Mother: Catherine Mary LEWIS - 18 (1852)
Siblings: William Lort LEWIS - 20 (1881)
Siblings: Frederick Robert LEWIS - 21 (1882)
Siblings: Lewis Mortimer LEWIS - 22 (1883)
Siblings: Adelaide Ann LEWIS - 23 (1886)
Siblings: Florence Matilda LEWIS - 24 (1888)
Siblings: Catherine Margretta LEWIS - 25 (1891)
Children: George Lewis HELGESON - 4 (1923)
Children: Robert Stanley HELGESON - 5 (1926)
Children: John Wesley HELGESON - 6 (1930)
Children: Paul Lort HELGESON - 1 (1932)
Paternal Grandfather: William LEWIS - 38 (1814)
Paternal Grandmother: Adelaide Matilda BUSHELL - 39 (1811)
Maternal Grandfather: William Mortimer LEWIS - 63 (1826)
Maternal Grandmother: Anne LEWIS - 64 (1828)
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Here is a letter from Rose Veletta Lewis Helgeson to her niece, Dorothy Walton Bishop, wherein she tells of her father's three brothers.
I don't know too much about my father's side of the family, except that two of his sisters married into well known families. One was a countess, and one married a Milford Haven, the family to which Prince Phillip (Queen Elizabeth's husband) belongs. I don't even know his sister's first names but I know he had three brothers, George Lewis, William Lewis, and Lewis Lewis. Lewis Lewis was Chief Engineer on Queen Victoria's yacht. He never married. William Lewis came to America and I visited him and his wife, Aunt Hettie, in 1914. They had two sons, Myrl and George.
In 1924 or 1925 George (Helgeson) and I exchanged pulpits with a Methodist minister whose church was in Piedmont, West Virginia. This young man's family were members of our church in Montevideo, Minnesota, and they used to come to Montevideo to see his parents nearly every summer. One year he and George decided that we would go and serve his church for a month and he would come and live in our parsonage and serve our church. It was a great experience for us and our four boys. Paul was about three and a half years old. When we were back East that summer we visited Myrl and George Lewis who lived in Lyndhurst, New Jersey, just across the Hudson River from New York City. Both Myrl and George worked for the Post Office Department. Myrl passed away several years ago but I still keep in touch with George. We also saw George in 1957 when Uncle Mortie, Aunt Edith, my George and I went to Europe. We spent about a week in New York City before sailing and George Lewis came on two different days to be with us. He is not married and since he retired, he sold his home in Lyndhurst, NJ, and moved to Garnett, Kansas to be near his only relatives, Myrl's only child, Roberta, and Myrl's wife Isobel who lives with her married daughter Roberta. We always exchange letters at Christmas and on some special occasions.
I'm sorry that I do not know exact birth dates of all my brothers and sisters but I do have a birth certificate from Wales for brother Will and got the information about his death from Dorothy Bishop. Your Aunt Kathryn (sic, see below) is ordering a foot-marker for his grave for us and this accounts for me having correct information on him. I think most of the rest of the family arrived about two and a half years apart. You could get information about my sister Florence from my niece Rose Byam, 3040 Paula Drive, Santa Monica, CA 90405, and about my sister Addie from Jack Myers at Evanston, Wyoming. And for more information about Mortie, write to his daughter Vivian, 14880 South West Division Street, Beaverton, Oregon 97005.
Footnote: She refers to "Aunt Kathryn" but I believe she means "Cousin Kathryn," Kathryn Rose Lewis, daughter of Frederick Robert Lewis and Mary Wilhelmina Danielson.