Barbara
Robert Lewis Cummins
Wed May 2 10:12:50 2001


My info says Robert Lewis moved with his brothers to Tuscaloosa County in the late 1830s. They settled in Newport where the families engaged in banking, store keeping, tanning, farmings and had a saw mill.

The brothers were born at Mill Creek, Davidson County, Tennessee (the edge of Davidson & Williamson Counties where their father owned much land). Robert's father David Cummins was murdered on a trip to Alabama to see his sons and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Tuscaloosa Alabama.

He was paroled in Tuscasloosa AL in 1864. This means he would have been about 43 years old. Robert & Sara were married in 1952 and had 11 children one of which was my grandfather Franklin Eli - all were born between the years of 1853 & 1873.

Robert was born 11/15/1821 and died 11/21/1903 and is buried at North Port Alabama in the Baptist Church Cemetery (Bethshire?) with his wife Sara A.



Barbara