Lucinda was known as Peggy to her friends and lived a very colorful life. She met Charles Orville Green when she was 15 at Woolworth's five and dime in Topeka, Kansas. Another girl named Vera was also in love with Green. He wanted to marry Peggy. Her parents did not want this as she was so young but at 16 they got married anyway. He was 18 at the time and worked for Continental Bakery driving a delivery truck. They lived in Omah, Nebraska. On October 28, 1918 she gave birth to Lewis John Green. Charles eventually bought his own bakery route. Charles was obviously still seeing the Other girl Vera and when Lewis was 8 months old Lucinda left Charles and got a divorce about 1919. She returned to Topeka, Kansas and is next recorded living with her father Lewis at Rosa Feyh's boarding in the 1920 census. It is believed that this is where she met Ralph Weir, a band member in the Ringling Brother's Circus. She became a trapeze artist with Ringling Brothers. While she was training to be a trapeze artist her son Lewis at the age of 2 1/2 was learning to walk tight rope. To learn to hang by her teeth for these acts she had to drag a log on the ground by her teethe and a rope. Ralph Weir and Lucinda married and since Ralph didn't like children Lucinda put Lewis into an orphanage run by Catholics. She finally divorce Ralph. While working the trapeze, the man that was to catch her caught her and accidently let her slip. She fell and landed on the safety net and bounced onto the concrete floor below and broke her back. She was told she would never have children or walk again. She later worked as a seamstress, a barmaid and waitress. When Lewis was 3 she went to Baltimore, Maryland to see her step sister, Cecil. While there she met Marion Rue who was in the Army with Cecil's husband Art Hamm. After Marion was discharged from the Army they got married and he enlisted in the Navy. She and Marion, Sr. had four children. Marion died just 13 days before his fifth child Freeman was born. Umm, so much for the doctors prediction that she would never walk or have children again.
Lucinda was known as Peggy to her friends and lived a very colorful life. She met Charles Orville Green when she was 15 at Woolworth's five and dime in Topeka, Kansas. Another girl named Vera was also in love with Green. He wanted to marry Peggy. Her parents did not want this as she was so young but at 16 they got married anyway. He was 18 at the time and worked for Continental Bakery driving a delivery truck. They lived in Omah, Nebraska. On October 28, 1918 she gave birth to Lewis John Green. Charles eventually bought his own bakery route. Charles was obviously still seeing the Other girl Vera and when Lewis was 8 months old Lucinda left Charles and got a divorce about 1919. She returned to Topeka, Kansas and is next recorded living with her father Lewis at Rosa Feyh's boarding in the 1920 census. It is believed that this is where she met Ralph Weir, a band member in the Ringling Brother's Circus. She became a trapeze artist with Ringling Brothers. While she was training to be a trapeze artist her son Lewis at the age of 2 1/2 was learning to walk tight rope. To learn to hang by her teeth for these acts she had to drag a log on the ground by her teethe and a rope. Ralph Weir and Lucinda married and since Ralph didn't like children Lucinda put Lewis into an orphanage run by Catholics. She finally divorce Ralph. While working the trapeze, the man that was to catch her caught her and accidently let her slip. She fell and landed on the safety net and bounced onto the concrete floor below and broke her back. She was told she would never have children or walk again. She later worked as a seamstress, a barmaid and waitress. When Lewis was 3 she went to Baltimore, Maryland to see her step sister, Cecil. While there she met Marion Rue who was in the Army with Cecil's husband Art Hamm. After Marion was discharged from the Army they got married and he enlisted in the Navy. She and Marion, Sr. had four children. Marion died just 13 days before his fifth child Freeman was born. Umm, so much for the doctors prediction that she would never walk or have children again.
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