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Lucinda <I>Downs</I> Cameron

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Lucinda Downs Cameron

Birth
Coshocton County, Ohio, USA
Death
19 Mar 1929 (aged 84)
Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio, USA
Burial
Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio, USA GPS-Latitude: 40.7443231, Longitude: -82.5100661
Plot
Section 39
Memorial ID
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Her parents were Thomas Downs (b 10 Oct 1793 in Maryland) and Mahala (nee Hardenbrook) Downs (b Jan 1809 in New Jersey), and they married in Coshocton County Ohio in 1827. The families of her parents were amongst the earliest settlers of Coshocton County.

Her parents moved from Coshocton County to the area of Fallsbury, Licking County, Ohio sometime in the 1850s. With her parents and other family members relocating to Martinsburg in the 1860s and remaining there until their deaths in the early 1900s.

Her first husband was killed during the Civil War. After being widowed, she gave over guardianship of her three children from the marriage to Nathan Atwood. Daniel Cameron (Alexander Cameron's father) acted as guarantor for the guardianship papers.

She had three husbands:

Nathan Atwood (1835 - 9 Aug 1864), married 2 Aug 1858, died in Civil War skirmish near Kingston, Georgia.

Emanuel Phillips, married 6 Oct 1868, cohabitated for very short time, divorced in 1871 due to his problem with alcoholism.

Alexander Douglass Cameron (6 Sept 1844 - 4 Dec 1912), married 16 July 1874. They had four additional children.

The full details of her martial history is well documetned in the Civil War pension files for Lucinda Downs Atwood Cameron's claim against civil war service of Alexander D Cameron.
Her parents were Thomas Downs (b 10 Oct 1793 in Maryland) and Mahala (nee Hardenbrook) Downs (b Jan 1809 in New Jersey), and they married in Coshocton County Ohio in 1827. The families of her parents were amongst the earliest settlers of Coshocton County.

Her parents moved from Coshocton County to the area of Fallsbury, Licking County, Ohio sometime in the 1850s. With her parents and other family members relocating to Martinsburg in the 1860s and remaining there until their deaths in the early 1900s.

Her first husband was killed during the Civil War. After being widowed, she gave over guardianship of her three children from the marriage to Nathan Atwood. Daniel Cameron (Alexander Cameron's father) acted as guarantor for the guardianship papers.

She had three husbands:

Nathan Atwood (1835 - 9 Aug 1864), married 2 Aug 1858, died in Civil War skirmish near Kingston, Georgia.

Emanuel Phillips, married 6 Oct 1868, cohabitated for very short time, divorced in 1871 due to his problem with alcoholism.

Alexander Douglass Cameron (6 Sept 1844 - 4 Dec 1912), married 16 July 1874. They had four additional children.

The full details of her martial history is well documetned in the Civil War pension files for Lucinda Downs Atwood Cameron's claim against civil war service of Alexander D Cameron.


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