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Lucy (Miner) Kincaid
(1846-1873)

Lucy Ann (Miner) Kincaid was born on July 27, 1846 near Champion, Trumbull County, OH, one of 13 children of Joseph and Elizabeth (Forney) Miner.

On Dec. 18, 1872, at the age of 26, Lucy married Thomas Kincaid Jr. (1843- ? ). He was an Ohio native and the son of Thomas and Laura H. Kincaid Sr., and also a native of Champion. Jefferson Palm, a local justice of the peace, performed the ceremony. Thomas Sr. was an immigrant from Ireland.

Thomas was listed as a "soldier" residing in his parents' household just two years prior to the wedding, in 1870. That year, he lived just a few households away from his future bride. Whether he served in the Civil War or not is being researched.

In April 1873, Lucy gave birth to their daughter Caroline Louise Kincaid.

Sadly, Lucy passed away on Dec. 5, 1873, at the tender age of 27 years, four months and nine days. The cause of death is not known. She and Thomas had only been married less than a year, and her demise left Thomas alone to raise their infant daughter.

Lucy was laid to rest beside her brother David in the family plot at the Lutheran & German Reformed Cemetery in Southington. Her grave marker was intricately carved with her vital dates, as well as the names of her husband and parents. Later, her mother would be buried next to her as well. When Lucy's marker (seen above) was photographed in August 2003, some 130 years later, it was badly faded, and barely legible. The lettering might be visible if the midday sunshine would strike it just the right way.

Daughter Caroline "Carrie" was taken into the home of Lucy's parents in Champion. She is shown in the household in the 1880 census, with her uncle Cornelius Miner and aunt Ellen Miner [Eliza Ella Guessman] living there too. Residing next-door was Carrie's distant cousin, Eliza Miner Mathany and her husband James.

Within a few years, the widower Thomas Jr. married again, to Mary A. (?) (1846- ? ). When the federal census was taken in 1880, Thomas Jr. and Mary made their home with Thomas' parents in Champion. Thomas Sr. was a farmer that year, while Thomas Jr. is marked as a laborer.

By 1900, the Kincaids had relocated into a residence in the City of Warren. Thomas, age 37, was employed as a teamster. The census-taker recorded that they had no children. Thomas's 59-year-old widowed mother lived under their roof as well.

Their fates are lost to history for now.