Smith Cemetery ~ Lydia Lewis ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
Lewis, Lydia
LAST: Lewis FIRST: Lydia MID: 
GENDER: F MAIDEN NAME: Aebi TITLE: 
BORN: 28 Oct 1884 DIED: 15 May 1982 BURIED: 18 May 1982 (Smith Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Iowa
DEATH PLACE: Dallas, Polk Co, Oregon
NOTES: 
Marriage of Parents - John Aebi & Anna Blome md 12 Apr 1880, Warren twp, Poweshiek Co, Iowa
Father is buried in Amity cemetery; mother is buried in Lee Mission cemetery with her 2nd husband August Fleischmann
1900 OR CENSUS - Lydia Aebi (b Oct 1883, Iowa) enumerated with widowed mother Anna (b Aug 1859, Germany, immigrated 1876, mother of 5 children, all living) and 4 siblings, Hulda (b Jan 1881, Iowa), Edwin (b Sept 1886, Washington), Harry (b May 1891, Oregon) & Benjamin (b May 1894, Oregon)
MARRIAGE - ca 1905, to Claude M. Lewis
1910 OR CENSUS - Lydia Lewis (26y, b Iowa; mother of 2 children, both living) enumerated with husband of 5 years Claud M. (34y, b Oregon)  and 2 children, Hulda Leone (1y, b Oregon) & James E. (2m, b Oregon)
OBITUARY: 
Lydia Lewis, 98, of 664 SE Jefferson Street, Dallas, died Saturday morning, May 15, at her home. She was born in Amity, the daughter of John and Anna Aebi on Oct 28, 1884. She married Claude Lewis in Lewisville. She resided in Amity and Lewisville before moving to Dallas in the 1930s. She was employed as a cook and was a member of the Dallas Evangelical Church of North America. She was preceded in death by her husband, Claude, and one son James Lewis. Surviving are one daughter, Leone Thiesies of Sheridan; one brother, Harry Aebi of Santa Cruz, Calif; two grandsons and two great-grandsons. Services were held 2 pm, Tuesday, May 18, at the Bollman Funeral Home with the Rev Dan Rowell officiating. Burial was in the Smith Cemetery, Monmouth.
Itemizer Observer, Wednesday, May 19, 1982
INSCRIPTION: 
Lewis
Lydia
1884-

[shares marker with Claude M. Lewis]
SOURCES: 
1900 OR CENSUS (Yamhill Co, Belleview, ED 159, sheet 12A)
1910 OR CENSUS (Polk Co, Luckiamute, ED 244, sheet 4A)
Itemizer Observer, Wednesday, May 19, 1982
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