I have virtually no information on him personally. He is the second husband of Nancy Kathryn (Catherine, or any of a number of spellings) Brackney Lynch and they married 11 Jul 1875 in Jackson Co. MO in the Methodist EC South by Rev. P W Duncan. They are listed as Willson Lewis and Catherine Lynch. I think he had two older sons, one named Willson and the other a W like William when he married Nancy Kathryn. He is not with her in the 1880 census when she is in Ft. Union, Mora, NM with three daughters from Lynch and Walter Byron, their only child.