Paul John Lewis was born on August 21, 1897 in Leads, South Dakota. He died on July 4, 1940 in Bartlow Township, Henry County, Ohio, Deshler. He is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery.
On May 14, 1921, Paul John Lewis married Mildred May Redman in Brice, Utah. Mildred was born on November 13, 1897 in Grand Ridge, Illinois. They were the parents of Allen Roger and Earl Paul.
Allen Roger Lewis was born on July 6, 1924 in Deshler. He married Janet Gilmore and they have six children.
Earl Paul Lewis was born June 24, 1927 in Deshler. He married Imogene A. Rayle. They are the parents of Gail Ann, Ralph Gene, and David Paul.
Mildred purchased the farm where she still lives in 1919. After Paul and Mildred were married in 1921, they moved from Brice, Utah, a coal mining community, to their farm in Henry County, Ohio.