• His birth and death dates are confirmed by the inscription on his gravestone in Illinois and RLDS records.

  Lewis sailed to America in 1849 on the ship Buena Vista.  He married in Utah in November 1849.

  The Salt Lake Stake Record of Members shows his rebaptism in Salt Lake City on 14 December 1850, and in 1864 he joined the RLDS church in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

Company Unknown (1849)

• Age at Departure: 21

Sources

• 1850 Utah Census.
• 1856 Utah Census.
• 1870 Illinois Census.
• Black, Susan Easton. Early Members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. (6 vols.), Book A, p. 405.
• Find a Grave
• "Registry of Names of Persons Residing in the Various Wards as to Bishops' Reports, Great Salt Lake City, Dec. 28th, A.D. 1852" in Key to Migration Sources, Great Britain and North America: A Manual for Students Attending the Second Annual Priesthood Genealogical Research Seminar, June 19-23, 1967 (Provo: Brigham Young University Division of Continuing Education, 1967), edited by Norman Edgar Wright. 
• Salt Lake Stake, Record of members collection, 1836-1970.
• Utah, Territorial Militia Records, 1849-1877.