Funeral of T. J. Lewis Tomorrow
Funeral services for Thomas J. Lewis, who died Saturday afternoon at 3:30, at his home 1008 East Washington Street, will be held at the Jones & McElhinney funeral parlors Tuesday afternoon at three o'clock, and will be conducted by Dr. W. W. Bowers of the Methodist Church. The hour was changed today from 2:30, as had been previously announced. The casket will be opened to friends of the family at the funeral parlors this evening from 7 to 9, and tomorrow afternoon until the hour of the service. Burial will be at Elm Grove cemetery.

Mr. Lewis had been in failing health for the last ten years, and for five years, ever since coming to Washington, had been practically helpless. Paralysis was the cause of death.

Because of the confinement to his home all the time of his recent residence in Washington, Mr. Lewis was not well known in this community of the late years, but earlier in his life had been a resident of the county, and there are many who are grieved by his death. For a number of years he was in business in Indiana, and leaves a large number of friends in the towns where he lived in that state. He was a man of strict uprightness of character, of absolute integrity and a splendid type of citizen. He was a member of the Methodist Church of Washington, and held his membership in the Masons, the Modern Woodmen and the Royal Neighbors at Roann, Ind.
Thomas Jefferson Lewis was born October 14, 1858, in Delaware County, Indiana, a son of Jesse and Martha Smith Lewis, who came with their family to Washington County, Iowa, in 1865, locating on a farm south of Washington, in the Shiloh neighborhood. He was married February 28, 1881 to Rosa E. Beenblossom. They lived for a time on a farm near Ainsworth, and later lived in Ainsworth from 1890 to 1899. when they removed to Roann, Ind., where he was in the lumber business until 1915. Later he was in the same line of business at Mulberry, Ind., selling out because of ill health and coming to Washington five years ago to spend the remainder of his life.
Surviving him are his widow and these children: Mrs. Vesta Hensler of Roann, Ind., Mrs. Daisy Westhafer of Tulsa Okla., J. Lloyd Lewis of Des Moines, and Miss Edna Lewis, formerly school nurse here, now of Des Moines. Brothers and sisters who survive are Melvin P. Lewis of Brighton, George E. Lewis of Grinnel, S. C. Lewis of Mulberry, Ind., James W. Lewis of Oskaloosa, and Mrs. Alice McAtlin of Oskaloosa. A brother M. W. Lewis of Akron, Colo., died last February.

The Evening Journal, Washington Iowa, September 28, 1925.
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Thomas Jefferson Lewis.

Thomas Jefferson, second son of Martha Smith and Jesse Lewis, (daughter of Esther Ann Carter, daughter of Isaac P. Carter), was born Oct. 14, 1858, Wheeling, Delaware county, Ind.; died 19

In the seventh year of his age he moved with his parents to Washington county, Iowa. Here he grew to manhood on a busy farm where the boys had a team and plow as soon as they were able to manage one. Attending school only during the winter, did not give him a very good education, but he makes good use of what he has as he is passing through life. After he was of age, he helped during the winter to cut and haul wood to the
town of Washington, a business that they engaged in and that brought them considerable money besides clearing the land.

Rosa E.Beenblossom, daughter of Abraham and Mary(Sparr) Beenblossom, was born March 26, 1863, Washington county, la.; died 19

She grew to womanhood in the neighborhood where she was born, in good society of religious people and where she could attend school and church and enjoy privileges that many were deprived of some years ago. Her mother dying, she and her sister had charge of the housework for a few years.

Thomas Jefferson Lewis and Rosa E. Beenblossom were married Feb. 27, 1883, Washington county, Iowa. To this union four children were born:

Dollie Arvista, August 8, 1884, Washington county, Iowa: died 19 .
Daisy Grace, June 21, 1886, Washington county, Iowa; died 19
Jesse Lloyd, Nov. 18, 1888, Washington county, Iowa; died 19 .
Maggie Edna, Oct. 23, 1894, Ainsworth, Washington Co., la.; died 19

They went to housekeeping on a farm in Oregon township, Washington county, and engaged in farming with good success and remained there seven years, when they rented the farm and moved to Ainsworth where they had bought an elevator and engaged in the grain, coal and tile business. Later his brothers entered into partnership with him and they took in the lumber business and had a good trade until in 1899 they sold out and he went to Roann, Wabash county, Indiana, Jan. 1, 1900.

There he bought an elevator and again engaged in the same business and also furnished building material, partly from native timber as they have a saw mill and buy timber and saw it into lumber, his brother, S. C, joining in the business in 1903.

Their parents were members of the Old Christian church with which they united in early life and were faithful attendants at the services of the church and Sunday school while near enough to attend. While at Ainsworth they were too far away to attend the church of their choice and attended the Methodist Episcopal church and became members of the same, their children uniting with them. This noble family are doing good work in the Master's vineyard and something better is hoped for and expected of them in the future.

History of Isaac P. Carter Family and Their Descendants, Complied by Howard Carter, 1905.