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The Edgoose and Related Families'
Genealogical Project
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 1840 - 1911 (70 years)
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| Name |
BACON, Mary Lucina |
| Born |
13 Nov 1840 |
Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Died |
14 Jul 1911 |
Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA |
| Person ID |
I2826 |
Edgoose |
| Last Modified |
30 Jan 2024 |
| Father |
BACON, Alanson, b. 6 Sep 1812, Hamilton, Madison County, New York, USA , d. 29 Jul 1880, Eleroy, Stephenson County, Illinois, USA (Age 67 years) |
| Mother |
STEBBINS, Dorcas Lyman, b. 15 Jul 1813, New York, USA , d. 2 Jun 1841 (Age 27 years) |
| Married |
1831 |
| Family ID |
F1178 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Letters from AMERICA |
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MARY LUCINA BACON (1840-1911)
WHAT: Notes sent to Michael James EDGOOSE by Helen Rose Davis HAWKINS, Mary Lucina's great granddaughter. She wrote: "One of the more interesting aspects of genealogy is studying a letter like this and coming to the realization of wrote it and who the people mentioned are.
My cousin Margaret Carolyn Martinie gave me this letter as well as the other papers that are mentioned in these notes. My mother (Dorcas Dorothy Edson Davis) told me the personal stories that are told in these notes."
The letter referred to is that from Lucinda A. EDGOOSE nee BACON (1838-1914) to her sister Mary Lucina BACON (1840-1911) on 12 May 1861. |
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| Notes |
- MARY LUCINA BACON 1840--1911
Mary Lucina BACON was born at Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA, on 13 November 1840.
(source: simplyrose@earthlink.net)
The 1850 census of Erin, Stephenson County, Illinois, USA:
Alanson BACON, aged 37, carpenter, owned real estate worth $800, born in New York;
Elizabeth BACON, aged 27, born in New York;
Philo S. BACON, aged 14, born In New York;
Lucinda BACON, aged 12, born in Wisconsin;
Mary L. BACON, aged 9, born in Illinois;
Clark BACON, aged 1, born in Illinois.
When she was about sixteen her sisters had planned to take an examination to become school teachers. Mary Lucina announced that she wanted to take the test with them. The sisters told her that she was too young. Their father intervened and gave her permission and she passed with high grades. She became a school marm and taught until she was 28 and married Francis Reuben TOWAR in Stephenson County, Illinois, on 17 November 1868.
(source: simplyrose@earthlink.net)
She died aged 70 at Phoenix Maricopa, Arizona, USA, on 14 July 1911.
(source: simplyrose@earthlink.net)
According to her obituary she had two sisters (Sally & Lucinda) and three brothers (Philo+ two others
(source: simplyrose@earthlink.net)
Note: For the text of a letter written to Mary BACON by her sister Lucinda ANDERSON in 1861 see notes on Lucinda BACON (1838-1914).
(revised 29.08.2017)
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