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Mrs. Leila G. Anderson. 34, of 5305 East Belmont Avenue, a former teacher in the Frank M. Lane Elementary School, died yesterday in a local hospital after a short illness.
An autopsy will be conducted to determine the cause of death.
A native of Fresno, Mrs. Anderson attended the Sanger Union High School and was graduated from the Fresno State College in 1940. She also taught in the Bullard, Wolters and Roeding Schools in the Fresno County schools system.
She was a member of the First Christian Church.
Mrs. Anderson is survived by her husband, Sherrill, an automobile salesman; a daughter, Sandra Lynn; her father, W.M. Sewall: a sister, Mrs. Miriam Spaulding, and a brother. William C. Sewall, all of Fresno.
Funeral services will be conducted Thursday at 2 PM in the Tinkler Mission Chapel. The Rev. David L. Kratz of the First Christian Church will officiate.⁶

He lived in Phippsburg, Maine, until 1826, when he moved to Farmington, where he remained until 1839. He then moved to Readfield, Maine, where he remained until 1841, when he went to Wilton, Maine, remaining for a year. His property was invested in the Readfield shoe factory, which was burned in 1841, in August. In June, 1841, he and his sons began clearing a farm six miles from Crystal Stream. He was a shoemaker by trade. He finally settled at Island Falls, five miles distant from any neighbors. He intended to build a factory there, in order to get water power from Island Falls, but never carried out his design. He was a Whig in politics.⁷

In an article entitled "Reminiscences of Old St. Stephens" in the Transactions of the Alabama Historical Society, 1898-99, Vol. III there appears: "Lewis Sewall. Within its precincts there once wandered around an erratic individual, something of a poet. I have often heard my father repeat with great gusto a comic poem written by him on a very common subject. I remember the lines jingled harmoniously, and the rhythm was smooth and flowing, but it was not at all refined. Still it was enough to credit the old town with a poet - Captain Sewall. Some may think that there was quite an array of titles among those old inhabitants. Well, so there was; and let us bear in mind that those were days when a title, either civil or military or professional, stood for something"

One of his poems addressed to Dr. Thomas Sewall of Washington, D.C. reads

"When Cromwell ruled Old England's Isle,
And drove the Stuarts into exile,
Two Henry Sewalls, gallant hearts,
From principle, took different parts:
Your Ancestor, as poets sing,
Join'd Oliver; and mine, the King:
But when the second Charles return'd,
And Cromwell's corps was hang'd or burn'd,
Your ancestor to Boston steer'd,
And mine for Maryland, I've heard;
Our family records say 'tis true,
And hence these lines I write to you.
Three volant Bees our Arms display,
As English heralds' records say;
And for the Crest, a Leopard's head
Is plac'd, although the beast is dead.
You now can tell, or bad, or good,
If you and I are of one blood.

Yours respectfully,
LEWIS SEWALL."

Sewall, Lewis. The Miscellaneous Poems of Lewis Sewall. Mobile, 1833.

A stroke which he suffered while shopping in a Dauphin street grocery store Friday afternoon claimed the life of Lewis Sewall, 106 south Warren street, who died en route to the hospital in a Sirmon ambulance at 5:15 o'clock Friday.
Sewall, a native of Jackson, Ala., but a resident of Mobile for the last 30 years, was well-known throughout this section of the state as a chemical salesman. He was a veteran of the Spanish-American war and a member of Fitshugh Lee camp, United Spanish war veterans.
Funeral services will be conducted at the family resident at 4 p.m. Saturday with interment in Magnolia cemetery with Roche mortuary directing.
Surviving Sewall are his widow, Mrs. Irene Crowley Sewall; two sisters, Miss Ella Sewall of Jackson. Ala., and Mrs. P. A. Bryant, of Philadelphia and other relatives. — Mobile Press.⁶

Mrs Lillie Sewall Stewart, widow of Col William F. Stewart, sr., died Monday of pneumonia at her home, 1712 Q street. She was in her 78th year.
Born in Elkton, Md., the daughter of James Morsell and Ann Pinckney Sewall of Holly Hall, Mrs. Stewart had lived in Washington for the last 25 years.
Mrs. Stewart, whose father fought in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, was married in 1875, when 16, to a man whose father had fought for the Union.
Mrs Stewart was the great-granddaughter of William Pinckney. United States Senator from South Carolina and Ambassador to Great Britain and Russia. She is survived by a son. Maj. Frederick F. Stewart, and a daughter, Miss Florence P. Stewart, both of Washington, and two grandchildren, the children of the late Col. William F. Stewart. Jr.⁴