Col. William J Lewis1

#6018, (4 July 1766 - 1 November 1828)
Father*Col. William Lewis1 (1724 - 1811)
Mother*Anne Montgomery1 (s 1736 - c 1808)

Family

Elizabeth Cabell
Col. William J Lewis was also known as Col. William T.2 
Birth*4 July 1766He was born on 4 July 1766 at Augusta Co., VirginiaG.3 
Marriage*say 1791He married Elizabeth Cabell, daughter of Col. Joseph Cabell and Mary Hopkins, say 1791.4 
between 1800 and 1828He lived between 1800 and 1828 at Mount Athos, near Lynchburg, Campbell Co., VirginiaG; Mount Athos was first known as Buffalo Lick Plantation. William Lewis who commanded a corps of mountain riflemen during the siege of Yorktown in 1781 built the home in 1796. The Plantation once stood near Lynchburg, Virginia on a hilltop overlooking the James River. The home was destroyed by fire in 1876. The Text of the marker reads:

MOUNT ATHOS
“Two Miles north stand massive sandstone walls and four chimney’s, the ruins of Mount Athos, overlooking a bend in the James River. The house was built about 1800, for William J. Lewis (1766-1828), on land that had bee patented in 1742 by John Bolling and called Buffalo Lick Plantation. Lewis, who bought the land from Bolling’s heirs in 1796, had commanded rifleman at Yorktown in 1781. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates (1810-1811; 1814-1817), and the U. S. Congress (1817-1819). Mount Athos stood one story high on a raised basement with a portico on the north front end and two octagonal projections on the south. It burned in 1876.”.2,5 
between 4 March 1817 and 3 March 1819He served in the U.S. House of Representatives between 4 March 1817 and 3 March 1819.3 
circa 1828He left a will circa 1828.6 
Death*1 November 1828He died on 1 November 1828 at Campbell Co., VirginiaG, at age 62.3,2 
Burial*4 November 1828He was buried on 4 November 1828 at Campbell Co., VirginiaG; est. date.3 

Citations

  1. [S632] John L. Peyton, "John Lewis and His Descendants", Virginia Historical Register and Literary Companion V:I (Jan. 1852): pp. 24-26.
  2. [S252] Wm. Terrell Lewis, Genealogy of the Lewis Family in America (Louisville, KY: The Courier-Journal Job Printing Co., 1893), p. 12.
  3. [S635] Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, online bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp, "LEWIS, William J., a Representative from Virginia; born in Augusta County, Va., July 4, 1766; attended the common schools; member of the State house of delegates; elected as a Republican to the Fifteenth Congress (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1819); died at “Mount Athos” plantation, near Lynchburg, Campbell County, Va., November 1, 1828; interment in a vault blasted out of a solid rock at the summit of “Mount Athos,” Virginia."
  4. [S642] Ruth Hairston Early, Campbell Chronicles and Family Sketches (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co. (reprint 1994), 1927), pp. 455-6.
  5. [S634] Www.waymarking.com, online www.waymarking.com, http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMK8H_Mount_Athos: "N 37° 23.110 W 079° 04.053; 17S E 671079 N 4139353. Marker Number: K-149; Marker Title: Mount Athos; Marker Location: Route 460, 500-feet west of Mount Athos Road."
  6. [S645] John Meriwether McAllister, editor, Genealogies of the Lewis and Kindred Families (Columbia, MO: E. W. Stephens Publishing Co., 1906), p. 186.