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Agatha Strother Lewis

Agatha Strother Lewis

Female 1779 - 1852  (73 years)

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  • Name Agatha Strother Lewis 
    • Daughter of Andrew Lewis, (1758-1844) and Maria Walton
    Born 15 Mar 1779  Augusta, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died 14 Jun 1852  Roanoke, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried McClanahan Cemetery Roanoke, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Person ID I19121  My Reynolds Line
    Last Modified 12 Apr 2019 

    Father Colonel Andrew Lewis,   b. 1759, Augusta County, Virginia Colony Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1844, Salem, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 85 years) 
    Mother Maria Walton,   b. Est 1760,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Family ID F7237  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Col. Elijah McClanahan,   b. 20 Apr 1770, Botetourt, County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Dec 1857, Roanoke, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 87 years) 
    Married 1 Sep 1795  Botetourt County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [9, 10
    • Children of Elijah McClanahan and Agatha Strother Lewis: mentioned in Elijah McClanahan's' Will:

      Elizabeth Madison McClanahan Cox, 1799-1891
      Lucy Anne McClanahan Johnston, 1809-1888
      *Agnes Lewis McClanahan Ingles, 1812-1888[Agnes is not her name; she is Agatha (for her mother)
      Nancy McClanahan Bass, 1814-1903
      Catherine McClanahan Ingles [then Jones], 1817-1887
      Frances Lewis McClanahan Miller, 1819-1860

      Not mentioned is Sarah 'Sally' White; [named in Father's Will] Jane Lewis, wife of James N. Lewis also Named in Father's Will
    Children 
    +1. Elizabeth to Missouri McClanahan,   b. 28 Feb 1799, Botetourt Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Apr 1891, St. Clair County, Missouri Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 92 years)
     2. Mary Thomas McClanahan,   b. 17 May 1805, Botetourt County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Mar 1871, Christiansburg, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 65 years)
     3. Lucy Anne McClanahan,   b. 18 Nov 1809, Botetourt County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Feb 1888, Roanoke, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 78 years)
     4. Agatha Lewis 'Agnes' McClanahan,   b. 1812, Botetourt Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1888, Radford, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 76 years)
     5. Nancy McClanahan,   b. 1814, Botetourt, or Augusta County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Sep 1903, Christiansburg, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 89 years)
     6. Frances Lewis 'Fannie' McClanahan,   b. 1816, Montgomery County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 May 1860, Christiansburg, Montgomery County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 44 years)
     7. Jane McClanahan,   b. Est 1821, Roanoke, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1896, Santa Rosa, Florida Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 75 years)
     8. William diy McClanahan,   b. Est 1800, Augusta Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Sep 1821, Augusta County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 21 years)
    Last Modified 4 Feb 2022 
    Family ID F7089  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Photos
    Memorial Elijah and Agatha McClanahan
    Memorial Elijah and Agatha McClanahan
    sign19100ElijahandAgathaMcClanahan.jpg

    Documents
    Nancy McClanahan Bass-Obit
    Nancy McClanahan Bass-Obit
    The Times Dispatch
    Sep 15, 1903
    Map of Part of Augusta County, Colony of Virginia 1755-1760; Shows Tinkling Spring Church, Fort Chiswell, and Fort Dickinson
    Map of Part of Augusta County, Colony of Virginia 1755-1760; Shows Tinkling Spring Church, Fort Chiswell, and Fort Dickinson
    Map_of_Augusta_County_1755-1760.jpg
    Last Will and Testament of Elijah McClanahan [husband of Agatha Lewis]
    Last Will and Testament of Elijah McClanahan [husband of Agatha Lewis]
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    Last Will and Testament of Elijah McClanahan Page 2
[husband of Agatha Lewis]
    Last Will and Testament of Elijah McClanahan Page 2 [husband of Agatha Lewis]
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    Last Will and Testament of Elijah McClanahan Page 3 [husband of Agatha Lewis]
    Last Will and Testament of Elijah McClanahan Page 3 [husband of Agatha Lewis]
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    Last Will and Testament of Elijah McClanahan Page 4 [husband of Agatha Lewis
    Last Will and Testament of Elijah McClanahan Page 4 [husband of Agatha Lewis
    wElijahMcClanahan04.jpg
    Last Will and Testament of Elijah McClanahan Page 5 [husband of Agatha Lewis]
    Last Will and Testament of Elijah McClanahan Page 5 [husband of Agatha Lewis]
    wElijahMcClanahan05.jpg
    Col Elijah McClanahan-Tribute
    Col Elijah McClanahan-Tribute
    Central Presbyterian
    Dec 12,1857

    Histories
    Elijah McClanahan-Proposed Monument
    Elijah McClanahan-Proposed Monument
    The News Leader
    Oct 21, 1998

  • Sources 
    1. [S32] Find-A-Grave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=88797905.
      Agatha Strother Lewis McClanahan
      Birth 15 Mar 1779, Augusta Virginia
      Death 14 Jun 1852 (aged 73), Roanoke, Va
      Burial: McClanahan Cemetery, Roanoke City, Virginia

    2. [S80] Google Books, https://books.google.com/books?id=_UU3AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA27&lpg=PA27&dq=william+mcclanahan+married+sarah+neeley&source=bl&ots=3IXR8bnmca&sig=MJ9Asso72qpEpAhKlE03-83PgFE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjgiMD6y9fWAhXD5yYKHYaQBfkQ6AEITTAG#v=onepage&q=william%20mcclanahan%20married%20sarah%20neeley&f=false.
      Offspring of William McClanahan, Sr. and Sarah [Nealey] his wife.
      Elijah b. 20 Apr 1770; m. 3 Sep 1795, Agatha Strother Lewis, d/o Col. Andrew Lewis, who then lived on Bent Mountain; 12 offspring. Col. Andrew Lewis was fourth s/o General Andrew Lewis.

    3. [S100] Internet Source, http://showalter.blogspot.com/2011/03/.
      Elijah McClanahan
      1998.26.59
      February 1830
      Final page of a letter from George Hancock in Louisville, Kentucky, to Edward Watts near Salem, Virginia, regarding the account between John Tompkins and Hancock, including several bonds of Elijah McClanahan, and instructions for the money when the bonds come due

      1998.26.60
      December 6, 1829
      Letter from George Hancock in Louisville, Kentucky, to Edward Watts near Big Lick (now Roanoke), Virginia, regarding several matters of business, including bonds, debts, payments, estates, and lawsuits, and also Hancock's intention of returning to Virginia in the spring; he mentions Henry Edmundson, J. W. Richardson, William Lewis (whom he expected to see in Ohio but missed), Jacob Flegar (whom he saw in Fincastle, Virginia), Backus, Wood (the master commissioner in the estate of John Caswell Griffin), Grabil (or Graybill) and Wilson (whom he is suing in chancery), Allen Taylor, James Littlepage Woodville, Elijah McClanahan, and William C. Williams.
      1998.26.67
      August 30, 1831
      Deed for the sale of a 250-acre tract of land to Edward Watts by Elijah McClanahan as executor of James Mason, the land lying south of the Roanoke River near the eastern border of Botetourt (now Roanoke) County, Virginia; also mentions William and Samuel Seagraves and Peter and Jacob Kefauver.
      1998.26.68
      January 22, 1832
      Statement of the account of Elijah McClanahan with Edward Watts, showing $14.60 due on a note after payments to the heirs of Rowland Madison and carriage of flour to Pattonsburg (now Buchanan), Virginia, and Lynchburg, Virginia.
      1998.26.30
      1830s?
      List of title papers belonging to Edward Watts, for land conveyed to him by Adams, Breckinridge, Douglas, Eskridge, Langhorne, Lewis, McClanahan, Mills, Nofsinger, and Pitzer.
      Breckinridge to Watts No 4 p 154
      same to same 4 " 348
      Adams to ~~ 11 " 415
      Eskridge M. to ~~ 16 " 469
      McClanahan to ~~ 17 " 2
      Pitzer to ~~ " 154
      Lewis to ~~ " 432
      Langhorne to ~~ 18 337
      Nofsinger to ~~ 19 435
      Mills to ~~ 21 586
      Douglas to 21 629
      Division of A. Lewis land Book C page 322

      1998.26.31
      August 1-2, 1820
      Plat and land division among the heirs of Andrew Lewis; the heirs include Jane (McClanahan) Lewis, Sarah Nealy (Lewis) Wood, John Lewis, William Lewis, Patsy Lewis, Samuel Lewis, Emeline Lewis, Eliza Lewis, and Jane Anne Lewis; the land was in Botetourt (now Roanoke) County, lying roughly between the Great Road (Orange Avenue, route 460) and Mill Branch (now Lick Run). The text of this document is contained in 1998.26.12, 1998.26.31 and 1998.26.32. The first is incomplete, lacking the plat at the beginning and a few lines at the end. The third has some additional information at the end. There are trivial differences in the texts.
      1998.26.48
      March 1826
      Note for $100 from Drury Childers, George Bright and William Muse to the estate of William McClanahan, witnessed and signed, and receipted as paid in full by Elijah McClanahan, for the rent of Glade Creek mill.
      1998.26.01.b
      August 5, 1817
      Copy of a land agreement between Edward Watts and William McClanahan, by which McClanahan sold to Watts his remaining interest in land bought by William Watts, Edward?s father, from John Breckinridge; the land adjoins holdings of the Evans family.
      1998.26.02
      March 1, 1786
      Plat and survey of land in Botetourt (now Roanoke) County for William McClanahan; the land adjoins holdings of John Breckinridge, the Evans family, and John Meux, and was assigned to McClanahan by William White. The land lay partly along Peter Evans? Big Spring Branch (Crystal Spring), flowing into the Roanoke River.
      1998.26.03
      December 6, 1792
      Indenture, or deed, between John Neeley and Susanna his wife and James Neeley and Catherine his wife of the one part, and Peter Evans of the other part, for sale of property in Botetourt (formerly Augusta, later Roanoke) County; some missing parts in 1998.26.01.a. The purpose of this document appears to be to clear the title of the three tracts of land described, each of 400 acres. They had been granted to Mark Evans by patent in 1748. On the death of Mark Evans, his eldest son Daniel Evans inherited the property, and in 1751 sold it to Peter Evans, whose kinship is not specified but who must have been a younger son or brother of Mark Evans. However, Daniel Evans's two daughters, Susanna and Catherine, were coparceners, which is to say, they shared in the inheritance. As a result, they had a legal claim to the property, but in this document of 1792 they in effect confirm their father's sale. The two sisters had both married men named Neeley (the spelling varies), who also therefore shared the claim. John and James Neeley may have been brothers, but that is not specified here.
      1998.26.05
      April 30, 1806
      Copy of a deposition by Daniel McNeill in a lawsuit over land by John Breckenridge against Mark Evans and others; like 1998.26.03, this document attempts to settle disputed claims over land along the Roanoke River in present Roanoke County, Virginia, and known as ?The Barrens?. Among the claimants and surveyors mentioned are William Carvin, John Poag, William Preston, Francis Smith, the heirs of William Watts, Daniel Evans, Peter Evans, James Neelley, Robert Breckenridge, John Neilley and his wife Susanna Evans, and James Neilley and his wife Catherine Evans.


    4. [S126] United States Archives, http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/roanoke/cemeteries/mcclanahan.txt.
      Roanoke County VA Archives Cemeteries....McClanahan Cemetery
      ************************************************
      Glenna Garnand Garner January 13, 2009
      MCCLANAHAN CEMETERY - Roanoke County, VA
      Located: on a Knoll on the East Side of 24 Street between Loudon Ave and Melrose Ave.
      TAKEN FROM TOMBSTONES, OBITS, DEATH RECORDS AND TOMBSTONE RECORDS TAKEN
      PRIOR TO 1920 BY THE ROANOKE VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND WPA SURVEY:

      MCCLANAHAN, Agatha Strother Lewis 13 Mar 1779 - 14 Jun 1852 Wife of Elijah; Grand-daughter of General Andrew Lewis
      MCCLANAHAN, Elijah, COLONEL 20 Apr 1770-01 Dec 1837 (Death Record Has Died 01 Dec 1857; Age 87 Yrs 7 Mos 10 Days; Wid of Agatha; Son of William & Sally McClanahan; Informed By E B McClanahan)
      MCCLANAHAN, John No Date - 16 Jul 1854 Age 1 Yr 9 Mos 6 Days; Son of E B & F E

    5. [S130] Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah_McClanahan.
      Bibliography

      Breckenbridge, James. 1783-1904. Papers. Abstract: Correspondence (chiefly relating to Breckinridge's legal career and his land speculation in western Virginia and Kentucky), legal papers, deeds, militia orders and returns, receipts, accounts, and other papers. Includes description of iron works in Wythe County, Va., Mutual Assurance Society receipts, and rates charged by ordinary keepers (1770). Topics mentioned in correspondence include Virginia and U.S. politics, local elections, War of 1812, settlement of Kentucky and Tennessee, Indian wars, slavery, and Virginia militia, with specific references to formation of Kentucky government, congressional sessions of 1793-1797 and 1805-1812, the Kentucky Resolutions (1798), troubles with squatters in Indian territory, expeditions against Indians (1791 and 1813), collection of whiskey taxes, excise taxes, the national bank, internal improvements, trial of Aaron Burr, mill owned by Breckinridge, and support of two illegitimate children. Correspondents include John Breckinridge, Robert Breckinridge, William Breckinridge, Henry Clay, Francis Walker Gilmer, Peachy R. Gilmer, George Hancock, Andrew Jackson, James Madison, John Marshall, Elijah McClanahan, James McClung, Francis Preston, John Preston, William Preston, Martha Jefferson Randolph, Archibald Stuart, and Bushrod Washington.
      National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. "Villa Heights".
      Roanoke Times. March 20, 2018. "Historic mansion in northwest Roanoke added to state landmarks register."
      White, H. M. The McClanahans. 1716. Abstract: Family history and genealogy compiled by White of the McClanahans, a Scotch-Irish family that settled in Virginia after 1716. The book describes the family's involvement in the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War. Included is information on the Poage family.
      References

      "William McLenachan's Will, 1820." Kegley, F. B. Kegley's Virginia Frontier: The Beginning of the Southwest, the Roanoke of Colonial Days, 1740-1783, with Maps and Illustrations. Roanoke, Virginia: Southwest Virginia Historical Society, 1938. Pages 532-533.
      Summers, Lewis Preston, George W. L. Bickley, and Charles B. Coale. Annals of Southwest Virginia, 1769-1800. Baltimore, Maryland: Clearfield Company, 1929. Page 383.
      Summers, Lewis Preston, George W. L. Bickley, and Charles B. Coale. Annals of Southwest Virginia, 1769-1800. Baltimore, Maryland: Clearfield Company, 1929. Page 448.
      White, H. M. The McClanahans. 1894. [1] Chapter IV. Also pages 40-42. Roanoke, Virginia. The Stone Printing and Manufacturing Company. 1894.
      Summers, Lewis Preston, George W. L. Bickley, and Charles B. Coale. Annals of Southwest Virginia, 1769-1800. Baltimore, Maryland: Clearfield Company, 1929. Page 462.
      Writers' Program (U.S.). Roanoke, Story of County and City. [Roanoke]: [Stone Print. and manufacturing Co.], 1942. Page 330.
      Findagrave.com
      Summers, Lewis Preston, George W. L. Bickley, and Charles B. Coale. Annals of Southwest Virginia, 1769-1800. Baltimore, Maryland: Clearfield Company, 1929. Page 934.
      Kagey, Deedie Dent. When Past Is Prologue: A History of Roanoke County. Roanoke, Va: Roanoke County Sesquicentennial Committee, 1988. Page 132..
      Kagey, Deedie Dent. When Past Is Prologue: A History of Roanoke County. Roanoke, Va: Roanoke County Sesquicentennial Committee, 1988. Page 106.
      Cox, Ray. 2017. Early Roanoke County founder rests at well-groomed gravesite. Roanoke Times. Apr 10, 2017.
      Kagey, Deedie Dent. When Past Is Prologue: A History of Roanoke County. Roanoke, Va: Roanoke County Sesquicentennial Committee, 1988. Page 705.
      Kagey, Deedie Dent. When Past Is Prologue: A History of Roanoke County. Roanoke, Va: Roanoke County Sesquicentennial Committee, 1988. Page 107.
      Virginia. Alleghany Turnpike Company Records. 1847.
      Roanoke Times. March 20, 2018. "Historic mansion in northwest Roanoke added to state landmarks register."
      National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. "Villa Heights". Section 7, page 5.
      Findagrave.com
      Bibliography

    6. [S47] Newspaper Article, https://www.roanoke.com/news/early-roanoke-county-founder-rests-at-well-groomed-gravesite/article_fe5bbde1-f44b-5da4-90bd-4a9c547988be.html.
      The Roanoke Times (Roanoke.com)
      Early Roanoke County Founder Rests at Well-Groomed Gravesite
      The McClanahan Cemetery was restored by the Historical Society of Western Virgiia, a Boy Scout service project and jail trustees.
      A short walk up a gentle hill just off Melrose Avenue and 24th Street Northwest in Roanoke City reveals a site of just one example of the society's beneficiaries, a restored graveyard linked to the earliest days of Roanoke County.




    7. [S40] Will, https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/9085/images/007646193_00076?treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=Tkn326&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&pId=1505606.
      Will of Elijah McClanahan
      written 18 September 1856
      Probate Date: December Court 1857
      Page 76 of Document reflecting
      Page 114-117 of Roanoke Virginia Wills, Mixed Records, Volume One 1838-1903


    8. [S32] Find-A-Grave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/88797960/elijah-mcclanahan.
      Col Elijah McClanahan
      Birth 20 Apr 1770
      Virginia
      Death 1 Dec 1857 (aged 87)
      Virginia
      Burial
      McClanahan Cemetery
      Roanoke, Roanoke City, Virginia
      Died, in Roanoke County, on the 1st day of December 1857, COL. ELIJAH MCCLANAHAN, in the 88th year of his age.
      When one leaves this workd who, like Col. McClanahan, has so long and so well fulfilled the duties of a citizen and of Christian, it is not only becoming but highly proper that some friend should make a public record of his virtues. Even in a worldly point of view, few men have lived to better purpose. For more than sixty years he has been associated with the public men and with public measures in Botetourt and Roanoke counties, during the whole of which long period he has enjoyed the confidence and regard of his fellow citizens. He was a respected magistrate and member of the Court, for perhaps forty years; and represented the county of Botetourt in the General Assembly of Virginia, at a time (1808) when that was not an empty honor--when the Barbours, Giles', Tazewells, Breckinridges, and other leading men of the State controled her public councils; and while Col. McClanahan had not the advantages of education, yet he possessed a native vigor of intellect, and dignity of manner that won respect even among the more cultivated and refined. He was also an officer in the war of 1812, and marched to Norfolk when danger from disease was greater than from active service against the enemy.
      He was an affectionate husband and father, a cordial, generous friend, an energetic and useful citizen, greatly beloved by his immediate friends and neighbors for his uniform kindness; and was a judicious counsellor to all who sought his advice. In fact he was never better pleased than when acting in the blessed office of peace-maker, in which character he was eminently successful.
      But valuable as such qualities are, it was as a Christian that Col. McClanahan's character shone brightest. No higher evidence can be given of his earnest, devoted piety, than the fact that of a family consisting of nine daughters, all have been for many years active and useful members of the church of their honored father; and his children's children (of whom the number is very large) enjoy the blessing of being promised to the seed of the faithful. Among the hallowed memories of the writer connected with his visits to his aged friend in his last sickness, one of the most pleasing is, that of seeing seven daughters ministering with affectionate interest around the bed-side of their venerable father, and joining in the songs of Zion that were so precious and comforting to the dying saint.
      About forty-six years ago, Col. McClanahan connected himself with the Presbyterian Church, under the ministry of Rev. Robert Logan, who was then the only Presbyterian minister in this part of the Valley. Soon afterwards he was elected a ruling elder, the duties of which office he discharged with great fidelity, being "ready to every good work." In him not only his own church, but the cause of Religion in its largest sense, has lost a most liberal friend. He was one of those "cheerful givers" whom "the Lord loveth," and was never weary in well doing. Long looked up to, and venerated as a Christian Patriarch, he has now "come to his grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in his season." The circumstances of his death were such as we might expect from one who had kept life's highest and noblest end in view. No one could be with him in his last days, and hear his expressions of humble, but unwavering trust in the Lord his Redeemer, without feeling that--
      "The chamber where the good man meets his fate."
      Is privileged beyond the walks of common life."
      There was a holy atmosphere about the room as he bore his dying testimony to the value and power of the religion he had so long lived before his fellow men. Having served his generation by the will of God, he has been "gathered to his fathers in the confidence of a certain faith, in the comfort of a reasonable, religious and holy hope, in favor with God, and in perfect charity with the world."
      "Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his." J.
      Col. Elijah McClanahan (20 Apr 1770 - 1 Dec 1857)

      From The Central Presbyterian, Vol. 2, No. 50, dated 12 Dec 1857

    9. [S46] Marriage Record/Certificate, https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE113575&vid=FHD&vid=FHD.
      McClanahan, Elijah m. Agatha Lewis, 1 Sep 1795 Botetourt Co., VA

    10. [S32] Find-A-Grave.com.
      Children of Elijah and Agatha Lewis McClanahan:
      Elizabeth Madison McClanahan Cox, 1799?1891
      Mary Thomas McClanahan Montague, 1805?1871
      Lucy Anne McClanahan Johnston, 1809?1888
      Agnes L McClanahan Ingles, 1812?1888
      Nancy McClanahan Bass, 1814?1903
      Catherine McClanahan Ingles, 1817?1887