Lucinda is the daughter of Benjamin & Janet (Willey) West. She marries Alexander H. Abbott, 2 days after her 21st birthday. Just ten years later she is a young widow with two sons, Benjamin age 9 years, and Fletcher, only 4 months. In the 19th century, there were few economic opportunities for women. In this position, they often returned to their parents or some other relative's home, quickly remarried or leave the children with some caring family while she finds domestic work for both mill work and teaching in the village schools was usually available to younger women, prior to marriage. Lucinda, on the 1850 Census, is living with the Harvey Warden family. He is a merchant. In 1870 she is the housekeeper for the widowed 70 year old Eliphalet Carter in Barnet. Her sons are not with her either time. In 1880, she, now in her 60's, is in the household of her son Benjamin, 42, not married.
Lucinda is the daughter of Benjamin & Janet (Willey) West. She marries Alexander H. Abbott, 2 days after her 21st birthday. Just ten years later she is a young widow with two sons, Benjamin age 9 years, and Fletcher, only 4 months. In the 19th century, there were few economic opportunities for women. In this position, they often returned to their parents or some other relative's home, quickly remarried or leave the children with some caring family while she finds domestic work for both mill work and teaching in the village schools was usually available to younger women, prior to marriage. Lucinda, on the 1850 Census, is living with the Harvey Warden family. He is a merchant. In 1870 she is the housekeeper for the widowed 70 year old Eliphalet Carter in Barnet. Her sons are not with her either time. In 1880, she, now in her 60's, is in the household of her son Benjamin, 42, not married.
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