Most Popular Books by Ray Lewis

This memoir revisits a Bible-based boyhood in Hannibal Missouri, or "America's Hometown," as the tourist brochures proclaim. Hale-cheeked meanderings along the Mississippi River give way to long sleepless nights when the author falls for a girl who was voted the town's official "Becky Thatcher" representative. Her dimples and sunny disposition hide a dark past: she had been orphaned at a young age in Germany when her dad was responsible for the death of her mother, and her name was changed by her adoptive parents in America. The author's father is an itinerant preacher and the young couple quickly find themselves in violation of the most cherished rules of family, church, and state.

The Turkey Feather Trio is a heartwarming, often humorous, and very poignant story of three elderly Appalachian gentlemen in a care home who no one seems to take quite seriously enough. When the generations-old rumors of a local Civil War mystery begin to resurface, a cast of very relatable characters learn valuable lessons about the meaning of respect, and about themselves.

Maxine Vaught spends her life protecting others, it is what she's best at. And as long as the job gets done, who cares if a few things get blown up along the way. Liam, Darryl, and John encounter a one woman Army, and fall into immediate lust. She is everything they hoped for and so much more. After all, how many times do you meet a woman who uses big boy toys and still possesses the softness to capture the hearts of three men. When the four get together, the explosions are huge and they have nothing to do with Mackie's job.

Papers document thirty years (1889-1919) of the life of an agricultural implements salesperson, Ray Lewis Badgley. Badgley first worked for his father's implement store in Lake Odessa, Mich., then joined International Harvester Company. Papers contain catalogs, sales agreements, order books, and installment purchase contracts.

Dennis D. Lewis was born in 1820 and married Elender (Ervin or Carnes?) about 1843. They lived in Illinois and moved to Richland, Pulaski County, Missouri between 1848 and 1856. He died there in 1905.

Richard F. Johnson (b.1846) was probably a son of William Johnson and Sarah A. McGummny. Richard was born in Tennessee and married twice, the second time in Johnson County, Texas to Clementine California Hedrick, a daughter of James Hedrick (1828-1864) and AltaJane Chaney. Richard and Clementine lived in Bosque County, Texas. Descendants and relatives lived in Tennessee, Texas, California and elsewhere. Ancestors lived in Tennessee, Missouri, Alabama, Virginia and elsewhere.

William Sherman Harris, son of Hiram Harris and Mary Ellen Gaither, was born in 1865 in Litchfield, Kentucky. He married Octavia Willah poole in 1889. They had eleven children. He died in 1949 in Boonville, Warrick County, Indiana. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Kentucky and Indiana.

Typescript copy of Lewis Stout's diary describing his family's crossing of the plains from Van Buren County, Iowa (April 13, 1852) to Oregon City, Oregon (October 3, 1852); traveling party suffered many hardships, including harassment by Indians, illness and death from cholera, and animal stampede; diary records graves along the trail; additional comments made by Ray Lewis Stout.