“I was born in 1825.I married John Lewis in 1859. Our children:Drusilla Lewis, wife of Theo Lewis, and Henry Lewis with whom I live and one who died are my children. These are all. My father died in 1855 in Carter County, my mother in Perry County in 1849. My father then went to his daughters in Carter County where he married a Mrs. Ellen Roe. He only lived a short time after this.”
(A Talk With Matilda Duff Lewis of Leslie County - May, 1898Dr. John J. Dickey Diary, Fleming County, Ky. Recorded in the 1870's and beyond. Reprinted in Kentucky Explorer, Volume 10, No 1 May, 1995. pp.80-81. By permission. Leslie County)