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LEWIS FOY and his marriage to BATHSHEBA LIPSEY. For example she had
a handwritten note from SHIRLEY MORGAN HUFFMAN of El Dorado, Ark.
which stated in part:

“JOHN M. POWLEDGE married FRANCES WARD FOY (born 4/4/1810 in
NC)...... FRANCES FOY was 15 years old when married to JOHN M.
POWLEDGE. Her father was LEWIS FOY, born in NC. His family was very rich
and came from near Paris, France. They settled in NC near the ocean. LEWIS
FOY was sent back to Paris to school and educated to be a gentleman. His family
disowned him when he married BATHESHBA LIPSEY, who was Dutch.”

As we have discussed before, as one does genealogical research he runs into
stories like the one above. Every family has them. There is, of course, no way to
determine the source of such information or even if the information is correct
but they make the search interesting.

ANOTHER LEWIS FOY RESEARCHER FOUND

Through the FOY web site on the internet, email and the first National FOY
Family Reunion held at Popular Grove Plantation in Wilmington, N.C. in June
of the year 2000 another individual researching the LEWIS FOY leg of FOY
ancestry was discovered.

His name is DAVID DARELL FOY. DAVID is a graduate of the US Naval
Academy. In July 2001 he finished a tour as Executive Officer of the Naval Air
Station in Washington, DC. He is presently attending the National Defense
University and has time and access to the Library of Congress, the National
Archives and other important records libraries in the DC area. We shall be
expecting starling news about the FOYs from his research in those August

places.

DAVID’s family also descended from an offspring of LEWIS FOY, the son of
JAMES FOY,SR, i.e. JAMES FOY. JAMES would have been a brother to my
great, great grandfather, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FOY.

LEWIS FOY-m-BATHSHEBA LIPSEY

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