NameLEWIS, Sarah Myra
, 5G Grandaunt
Misc. Notes
Sarah Myra Lewis, daughter of Mourning Mills, married Reverend David Hilliard, for many years a Methodist preacher, but he joined the Baptist Church about 1853.
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Misc. Notes
Reverend David Hilliard, for many years, was a Methodist preacher, but he joined the Baptist Church about 1853.
He was a soldier in the war of 1812. He resided for some years at Spartanburg, South Carolina. He and his wife both died in Asheville, North Carolina; he in 1870, and she in 1871.
He graduated in medicine after attending lectures in Philadelphia in 1849 and 1850. He once fought a duel with a Mr. Hynes. The difficulty grew out of a political difference.
They had the following children: William Lewis, Ann Eliza, Sarah Maud, Mary Jane, Sophia Melinda, and James Henry Hilliard. Dr. William Lewis Hilliard was born in 1823, married Miss Margaret Love and resided at Asheville.