This past weekend was a slow one. Several times I’ve been talking with or chatting on messenger with someone and we start thinking we are kinfolks, because we have the name Lewis or Boultinghouse in our lineage. For me, of course, I carry the Lewis name around with me in my billfold right there on my drivers license.

My mother was a Boultinghouse, so there you go. There aren’t all that many Boultinghouse’s in the world, or in Texas. And for the most part that is the world to me.

Lewis is a name that is far reaching. There may not be as many as there are Smith’s or Jones’s, but anyway you see where I’m going.

Several years ago I traced back to see how my Lewis’s connected up to my wife’s family, which her Great Grandmother Ollie Baugh was a Lewis.

When my wife and I announced we would be marrying, Ma Baugh, (Ollie Baugh) told some of the family that she didn’t know if that was such a good idea, “You know he is one of those Lewis’s.

I loved that Ol Gal to death, but she really was opinionated. I think she eventually warmed up to me.

On more than one occasion, Wallace Herbert and I have pondered how we are kin. The same with Popeye Boultinghouse.

Then Wallace asked me the other day how I thought he and Brad Boultinghouse, a DPS Officer now retired were related. Wallace had come in contact with Brad throughout the years of him flying all those State Officials around and Brad was part of their security detail.

So I set out this past weekend to break it all down. This is the Lewis line for us, made more simple than just looking at an Ancestry Tree, at least for me.

This is the Boultinghouse one.

So all that being said, the same fellow, Edward Lewis who died in 1793 is my wife’s 6th Great Grandfather and my 5th Great Grandfather.

My note about Wallace Riddell and Grace Herbort being brother and sister is an explanation of how Popeye Boultinghouse and Sheriff Wallace Riddell were kin.

One of my most difficult hurdles to get over when I start connecting people is realizing that not all Boultinghouse’s are members of the “And Then There Were Three Thousand” Clan. I this paragraph confuses you then more than likely you aren’t one of the “3000 Clan”. But if you’re interested in knowing more about that, I wouldn’t mind talking to you.