Son of James and Ailsey Forrester Lewis. In Mason County (now Fleming County), KY, on November 17, 1801 Charles married Elizabeth (Betsy) Bragg, daughter of Capt. Thomas Bragg and Lucy Neville Blakemore.
He was a farmer, slave-holder, having listed for taxation 20 slaves in 1810. He was commissioned by Governor Garrard as one of the first justices of the peace for Greenup County in 1803. In 1804, Charles was involved with the building of turnpikes and roads in Greenup County, and collected tolls. Before his death in 1814, he collected tolls from the operation of the ferry that crossed the Big Sandy River in Catlettsburg, Kentucky. In 1806, the court allows him to superintend the building of the courthouse, and later building the public jail in Greenup. In 1807, Charles became interested in the "salt works" along the Little Sandy River, south of Grayson, and lived and raised his family on what became the "Old Vincent Farm". He sunk a number of salt wells and the salt he manufactured was shipped by his slaves on flat boat or canoe down the Little Sandy River to the Ohio River and to Maysville, where the salt and boat were sold. The slaves then would walk back to the farm following a Buffalo Trail. He purchased the Old Story Farm at Gregoryville in 1812 and built a house as an addition to the original log structure built in 1795.
He served as Sheriff from 1810-1811 for Greenup County and became the county's first Senator. He died of Cholera while serving in office at Frankfort.
Said to have been buried in the Old Frankfort Cemetery in an unmarked or mass grave. Frankfort’s earliest cemeteries lay buried and forgotten at the base of Fort Hill, no more than three blocks from Kentucky’s Old State Capitol. Construction activities “rediscovered” this integrated burial ground in 2002. Prior to finishing the redevelopment of the area, the graves were reinterred to Leslie Morris Park.
Photographs of the second home of Charles N. Lewis I built in 1812 attaching to the log structure built by John Story in 1795. His home was once visited by Andrew Jackson in March 1829 to rest from the hard journey and to water his horses, while on his way to Washington, D.C. from his home in Tennessee to be inaugurated as 7th President of the United States. Was the stopping place for people who drove livestock to the market at Richmond, Virginia.
He was a farmer, slave-holder, having listed for taxation 20 slaves in 1810. He was commissioned by Governor Garrard as one of the first justices of the peace for Greenup County in 1803. In 1804, Charles was involved with the building of turnpikes and roads in Greenup County, and collected tolls. Before his death in 1814, he collected tolls from the operation of the ferry that crossed the Big Sandy River in Catlettsburg, Kentucky. In 1806, the court allows him to superintend the building of the courthouse, and later building the public jail in Greenup. In 1807, Charles became interested in the "salt works" along the Little Sandy River, south of Grayson, and lived and raised his family on what became the "Old Vincent Farm". He sunk a number of salt wells and the salt he manufactured was shipped by his slaves on flat boat or canoe down the Little Sandy River to the Ohio River and to Maysville, where the salt and boat were sold. The slaves then would walk back to the farm following a Buffalo Trail. He purchased the Old Story Farm at Gregoryville in 1812 and built a house as an addition to the original log structure built in 1795.
He served as Sheriff from 1810-1811 for Greenup County and became the county's first Senator. He died of Cholera while serving in office at Frankfort.
Said to have been buried in the Old Frankfort Cemetery in an unmarked or mass grave. Frankfort’s earliest cemeteries lay buried and forgotten at the base of Fort Hill, no more than three blocks from Kentucky’s Old State Capitol. Construction activities “rediscovered” this integrated burial ground in 2002. Prior to finishing the redevelopment of the area, the graves were reinterred to Leslie Morris Park.
Photographs of the second home of Charles N. Lewis I built in 1812 attaching to the log structure built by John Story in 1795. His home was once visited by Andrew Jackson in March 1829 to rest from the hard journey and to water his horses, while on his way to Washington, D.C. from his home in Tennessee to be inaugurated as 7th President of the United States. Was the stopping place for people who drove livestock to the market at Richmond, Virginia.
Son of James and Ailsey Forrester Lewis. In Mason County (now Fleming County), KY, on November 17, 1801 Charles married Elizabeth (Betsy) Bragg, daughter of Capt. Thomas Bragg and Lucy Neville Blakemore.
He was a farmer, slave-holder, having listed for taxation 20 slaves in 1810. He was commissioned by Governor Garrard as one of the first justices of the peace for Greenup County in 1803. In 1804, Charles was involved with the building of turnpikes and roads in Greenup County, and collected tolls. Before his death in 1814, he collected tolls from the operation of the ferry that crossed the Big Sandy River in Catlettsburg, Kentucky. In 1806, the court allows him to superintend the building of the courthouse, and later building the public jail in Greenup. In 1807, Charles became interested in the "salt works" along the Little Sandy River, south of Grayson, and lived and raised his family on what became the "Old Vincent Farm". He sunk a number of salt wells and the salt he manufactured was shipped by his slaves on flat boat or canoe down the Little Sandy River to the Ohio River and to Maysville, where the salt and boat were sold. The slaves then would walk back to the farm following a Buffalo Trail. He purchased the Old Story Farm at Gregoryville in 1812 and built a house as an addition to the original log structure built in 1795.
He served as Sheriff from 1810-1811 for Greenup County and became the county's first Senator. He died of Cholera while serving in office at Frankfort.
Said to have been buried in the Old Frankfort Cemetery in an unmarked or mass grave. Frankfort’s earliest cemeteries lay buried and forgotten at the base of Fort Hill, no more than three blocks from Kentucky’s Old State Capitol. Construction activities “rediscovered” this integrated burial ground in 2002. Prior to finishing the redevelopment of the area, the graves were reinterred to Leslie Morris Park.
Photographs of the second home of Charles N. Lewis I built in 1812 attaching to the log structure built by John Story in 1795. His home was once visited by Andrew Jackson in March 1829 to rest from the hard journey and to water his horses, while on his way to Washington, D.C. from his home in Tennessee to be inaugurated as 7th President of the United States. Was the stopping place for people who drove livestock to the market at Richmond, Virginia.
He was a farmer, slave-holder, having listed for taxation 20 slaves in 1810. He was commissioned by Governor Garrard as one of the first justices of the peace for Greenup County in 1803. In 1804, Charles was involved with the building of turnpikes and roads in Greenup County, and collected tolls. Before his death in 1814, he collected tolls from the operation of the ferry that crossed the Big Sandy River in Catlettsburg, Kentucky. In 1806, the court allows him to superintend the building of the courthouse, and later building the public jail in Greenup. In 1807, Charles became interested in the "salt works" along the Little Sandy River, south of Grayson, and lived and raised his family on what became the "Old Vincent Farm". He sunk a number of salt wells and the salt he manufactured was shipped by his slaves on flat boat or canoe down the Little Sandy River to the Ohio River and to Maysville, where the salt and boat were sold. The slaves then would walk back to the farm following a Buffalo Trail. He purchased the Old Story Farm at Gregoryville in 1812 and built a house as an addition to the original log structure built in 1795.
He served as Sheriff from 1810-1811 for Greenup County and became the county's first Senator. He died of Cholera while serving in office at Frankfort.
Said to have been buried in the Old Frankfort Cemetery in an unmarked or mass grave. Frankfort’s earliest cemeteries lay buried and forgotten at the base of Fort Hill, no more than three blocks from Kentucky’s Old State Capitol. Construction activities “rediscovered” this integrated burial ground in 2002. Prior to finishing the redevelopment of the area, the graves were reinterred to Leslie Morris Park.
Photographs of the second home of Charles N. Lewis I built in 1812 attaching to the log structure built by John Story in 1795. His home was once visited by Andrew Jackson in March 1829 to rest from the hard journey and to water his horses, while on his way to Washington, D.C. from his home in Tennessee to be inaugurated as 7th President of the United States. Was the stopping place for people who drove livestock to the market at Richmond, Virginia.
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