Lucinda Bybee
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My grandmother, Lucinda, was the daughter of Lee Allen Bybee and Jershua Jane Atkinson. The 4th child of a family of 16 children.
When grandmother married David Layne, her parents were opposed to the marriage. They went into another county (or town) to be married. However, they were freely forgiven and everything was all right thereafter. They belonged to the Campbellite church and grandfather, I understand, was a Campbellite preacher. They seem to have moved between Barren county, Kentucky and Bowling Green, Indiana. Three children were born in Kentucky and seven children in Indiana between the years 1827 and 1841. Grandfather (David) died August 18, 1940, eight months before the tenth child was born (Jerusha Emeline Layne). At this time her oldest child (Martha Ann) was thirteen and her oldest son (Robert Lee) was ten years old. Lucinda had to sell the farm to pay off the mortgage. Then, with her little family of fatherless children, she gathered with the saints and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in 1841, just a year after her husband's death. Martha Ann was baptized at the same time. We can readily see she was a woman with courage, faith, and much strength of character, by taking the burden alone with such a helpless family, and an infant in arms, and gathering with people so unpopular and with nothing but trials confronting her. Lucinda married again to Steven Mansor and had one child by him. He died a short time after, I understand. During her later years, she lived with her children, giving up her authority of her home life and fitting herself into the homes of her sons-in-law the best she could. She was in California with some of them for a long time, but requested to be brought back to Salt Lake City that she might be buried with the Saints. She seemed happy to get back and not long after her return, she passed peacefully away at the age of 90 years, July 10, 1895. Buried in Salt Lake City. She remained true to the church to the end of her days. She lost her sight entirely some time before her death. She was a very industrious woman. I remember she was always busy carding, spinning, knitting, making quilts. She liked to see everything in order. I cannot say enough in praise to her memory. written by Medora Trueblood
There is no marker for Lucinda however this is the area she is buried.
by Judie Huff on Dec. 2, 2008 |