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COX, Lucinda (1816-1888): m'd 1833 BROWN, Elias --1847
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Vol 7 pg 111 21 Jan 1848 Brown, Lucinda Land claim Benton Land claim
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1850 CENSUS: Benton County, OR;
ALLEN, Hiram 45 IN;
--> Lucinda 33 IL;
Joseph 12 IL;
Martha 10 IL;
BROWN, Almira 6 IL;
F. J. 2 OT;
ALLEN, Anna 11 IL;
Rachael 8 IL;
Nancy 2 OT
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1860 CENSUS: Benton Co, OR:
SPENCER, George W. 44, farmer, VA;
--> Lucinda 43 IN;
Kitty 14 VA;
John 12 MO
BROWN, Elvira 15 IL;
Isabella 12 OR
ALLEN, Cornelia 9 OR;
Lucinda 7 OR;
Adaline 3 OR; (children from Lucinda's previous marriage)
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1880 CENSUS: #212/218, Corvallis, Benton Co, OR;
SPENCER, Geo. W. 65, VA, NYH, VA
--> Lucinda 61, wife, IN, OH
Nettie, s, 18, school, OR,
ALLEN, Lucinda A., s, 26, step-dau, OR, VA, IN
BROWN, Nonpariel, 6, gr-dau, OR, IL, --
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Probate Case Files, Oregon State Archives
ALLEN, LUCINDA 1867 OR-2-55
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http://calcite.rocky.edu/octa/lucinda.htm
The following information is taken from Lillian Schlissel's excellent book, Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey.
Lucinda Cox Brown traveled with her husband, her father, and his children, her uncle and his famly. She left behind in Illinois her twin sister, Malinda. They had been married in a double wedding ceremony when they were both seventeen, the twin sisters marrying two brothers. Lucinda and Elias Brown, along with their extended family, began the journey in high enthusiasm. They were young and strong; the new world was theirs to win. But Lucinda Brown's diary becomes another example of how often the overland journey began in optimism and ended in despair.
They had just reached the Platte River, which meant the journey was hardly at its halfway mark, when Elias took a severe chill and died. He was a young man. Whether the chill had come from the many river crossings or whether it was typhoid cannot be read from the diary. Lucinda was suddenly widowed, left with three small children. Eight months and sixteen days from the time they left Wilmington, Illinois, the wagon train reached Salem, Oregon. The emigrants were alive, but stripped of everything, except the clothes they wore.
During the first winter in Oregon, Lucinda supported herself by making caps and clothing. In the summer she made her bonnets out of plaited wheat straw and trimmed them with ribbons. She managed, somehow, to save enough money to move onto a claim of her own in 1849, and two years later, she married Hiram Allen with whom she had four more children. This woman who wove hats of braided wheat and decorated them with ribbons was survived by eight children, twenty-two grandchildren, and ten great-grandchildren. A friend remembered her as a woman who "cheerfully accepted her lot."
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• Married: JUN 1850 in Benton Co., OR ⁵

1. Cornelia Payne ALLEN b: 25 MAY 1851 in Benton Co., OR
2. Lucinda Ann ALLEN b: 18 NOV 1852 in Corvallis, Benton Co., OR
3. Josiah ALLEN b: BET 1853 AND 1858 in Benton Co., OR
4. Adaline Martina ALLEN b: 16 OCT 1856 in Benton Co., OR

• Married: 22 FEB 1835 in Wilmington, Will Co., IL

1. Joseph Henry BROWN b: 04 AUG 1838 in Wilmington, Will Co., IL
2. Martha Jane BROWN b: 04 MAY 1840 in Rockford, Winnebago Co., IL
3. Elvira Chadwick BROWN b: 06 JUL 1844 in Wilmington, IL
4. F. Isabella BROWN b: ABT 1848 in Benton Co., O. T.

• Married: 05 SEP 1859 in OR

1. Nettie SPENCER b: ABT 1862 in Benton Co., OR

1. Title: 1850 Census Benton Co, OR
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   Source Medium: Book
   
2. Title: 1880 Census - Benton County, OR
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   Source Medium: Book
   
3. Title: 1860 Census, Benton Co., OR
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   Source Medium: Book
   
   ABBR 1860 Federal Census, Benton Co. OR
   
4. Title: Email
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   Source Medium: Book
   
   Page: Nancy Prevost prevost@ieway.com
5. Title: Donation Land Claim
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   Source Medium: Book