Lucena Graham

Abt 1790 - 1870  (~ 80 years)

• Name	Lucena Graham  [1, 2]
  Born	Abt 1790	____, ____, NY   [3, 4]
  Gender	Female
  Alt. Birth	Abt 1790	____, ____, VT   [5]
  Residence	1834  [6]
  	Spencer Twp., Medina Co., OH
  1860 Census	1860
  	4th Ward - Grand Rapids, Kent Co., MI, p. 446
  1870 Census	5 Aug 1870
  	4th Ward - Grand Rapids, Kent Co., MI, p. 368, w/Sylvia Rice
  Died	12 Aug 1870  [4]
  Buried	Aft 12 Aug 1870	Greenwood Cemetery - Sec C Lot 14 - Grand Rapids, Kent Co., MI   [4]
  Notes	Pioneer Women of The Western Reserve, Spencer, Medina County, OH  pg 301-302 Mrs. Lebbens (sic) Graves (Lucena Graham) was a practical, energetic woman, and transmitted those characteristics to her daughters.  She came in 1834 bringing a part of her numerous family and her husband's mother with her.  Her grandmother taught her to knit when quite young.  For needles she had wire cut the required length.  The grandmother insisted upon a certain amount of work each day, and it must be done well or raveled out.  One day, wishing to play, Lucena hid her needles in the ash heap, and reported that she could not find them.  "Grandmother" was equal to the occasion.  She took wire from an old broom and had more needles cut.  She then doubled the task, and compelled her granddaughter to stick to it until done.  In after life Mrs. Graves said: "I thought my grandmother was rough on me then, but how thankful I am now that I was trained to habits of industry and perseverance." Mrs. Lunnan Tubbs (Sophia Graves), who came in 1836, was a daughter of Mrs. Lucena (Graham) Graves, and possessed all the energy of her mother. She taught the district school, and gathered the first Sabbath school in the new frame school house.  She distributed temperance tracts for reading matter to the scholars, going all the way to Elyria, twenty miles, to buy them, and paid for them with her own money.  She afterwards married the Rev. Abel A. Wood, a local Methodist minister, and is still living, the second time a widow, at her old home in Spencer. Mrs. Daniel Booth (Lucinda M.) another daughter of Mrs. Graves, was married in New York.  Her husband having left her for the second time, she came with her parents to Ohio.  He soon followed, and desiring to live with his wife, her father gave her a hundred acres of land, and she endeavored to build up a happy home.  Her husband took offense, because the deed was not given to him, and after privately selling all the loose property he could, took his final leave.  She was left alone for the third time without money or means of support, and with two small children, one a baby only two months old.  By spinning and knitting she provided necessities for herself and little ones. In 1840, she married Reuben Falconer, and for over fifty years proved a helpmeet to him.  The Bible, her constant companion, was read through by course over twenty-five times.  Mid-winter snow, or summer storms, night or day, she willingly went forth to attend the sick, the dying, or drape the dead, but the willing heart and hands are now at rest.
  Person ID	I8895	Stedman/Steadman/Steedman Families of the New World
  Last Modified	7 Jan 2006

  
  

  Father	Benjamin Graham,   d. Unknown
  Mother	Nancy Hascall,   d. Unknown
  Family ID	F3940	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lebbeus Graves, Jr.,   b. 23 May 1787, ____, ____, CT ,   d. 28 Mar 1868, Grand Rapids, Kent Co., MI  (Age 80 years)
  Married	4 Oct 1809	____, ____, NY   [7]
  Children	1. Sophia Graves,   b. 19 Sep 1810, LeRoy, Genesee Co., NY ,   d. Aft 1896  (Age 86 years)   2. Gideon Draper Graves,   b. 30 Aug 1812, ____, ____, NY ,   d. 22 Dec 1881, Garfield Twp., Newaygo Co., MI  (Age 69 years)   3. Lucena S. Graves,   b. 25 Nov 1814, Batavia, Genesee Co., NY ,   d. 3 Sep 1854, Bruce Twp., Macomb Co., MI  (Age 39 years)   4. Lucinda May Graves,   b. 25 Nov 1814, LeRoy, Genesee Co., NY ,   d. 25 Dec 1893, Spencer, Medina Co., OH  (Age 79 years)  [Unknown]   5. George Graham Graves,   b. 27 Sep 1816, LeRoy, Genesee Co., NY ,   d. 27 Oct 1901, Paris Twp., Kent Co., MI  (Age 85 years)   6. Lucy Charlotte Graves,   b. 4 Aug 1819, ____, ____, NY ,   d. 5 Dec 1893, Acme, Grand Traverse Co., MI  (Age 74 years)   7. Sylvia Graves,   b. 22 Jun 1821, Batavia, Genesee Co., NY ,   d. 2 Mar 1888, ____, Kent Co., MI  (Age 66 years)   8. Anna Maria Graves,   b. 23 May 1825,   d. 26 Feb 1834  (Age 8 years)   9. Polly E. Graves,   b. 26 Jul 1827, ____, ____, NY ,   d. 18 Jul 1862, Spencer Twp., Medina Co., OH  (Age 34 years)   10. Jeanette Graves,   b. 11 Jul 1831,   d. 22 Apr 1833, ____, ____, NY  (Age 1 years)
  Last Modified	7 Jan 2006
  Family ID	F3938	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Born - Abt 1790 - ____, ____, NY Alt. Birth - Abt 1790 - ____, ____, VT Married - 4 Oct 1809 - ____, ____, NY  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S19] Death Records, George G. Graves. Kent Co., MI, bk 5, p. 322, #1622 (Reliability: 3). [S127] Pioneer Women of The Western Reserve, Spencer, Medina Co., OH, (1896), pp. 301-302 (Reliability: 3). [S147] U. S. Federal Census Records, 1860 (Reliability: 3). [S12] Cemetery Records. [S147] U. S. Federal Census Records, 4th Ward - Grand Rapids, Kent Co., MI, p. 368 (Reliability: 3). listed as Lucinda Gross, age 80, born Vermont [S127] Pioneer Women of The Western Reserve, Spencer, Medina Co., OH, (1896). [S72] Personal Communication - Bill Graves, Bev Stedman, (April 1999).