Ayer, Lewis M., Jr., 1821-1895

Lewis M. Ayer (1821-1895) was a lawyer, planter, minister, and teacher of Barnwell, S.C., and the Lewis Malone Ayer (1769-1863); member, S.C. House, 1848-1852; graduate, S.C. College, 1839, University of Virginia, 1841, and Harvard, 1842; Brigadier-General, 3rd Brigade, S.C. Militia, 1853; member, Confederate House; during Reconstruction worked as cotton merchant in Charleston, S.C.; returned to Barnwell County, S.C., in 1868, to farm land with tenant labor; Lewis Malone Ayer, Jr., lived 1821-1895.

Later in his career, Ayer worked as Baptist minister in S.C. (1872-1875) and Tenn. (1876-1879); taught at Anderson Female Academy (1879-1887) and Patrick Military Academy (1890); husband of Anna Elizabeth Patterson and Lilly Moore; son of Lewis Malone Ayer (1769-1863), a veteran of the Revolutionary War, and Rebecca Ervin Ayer;