[4] Charles and Lucy Lewis built a plantation called "Rocky Hill" near the present-day town of Smithland.
Lucy's older brother Thomas Jefferson took an interest in the education of her sons, and encouraged them in their studies.
[8] In 1812, the year after Lucy and her son Randolph died, the brothers Lilburne and Isham Lewis murdered a slave named George.
The men tried to hide the youth's remains, but his skull was revealed by the collapse of a chimney during the second New Madrid earthquake.
Held as an accessory in his brother's suicide while it was investigated, Isham escaped from jail and disappeared.