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I'm glad to read that she lived to be 93. I suspected that she was a strong-willed woman that was able to survive the trials of life. It's nice to know her children all survived.
posted by
Goldiec
on September 12, 2020 at 1:19 PM
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Re: C_C_T
She lived to be 93. I counted up the number of her descendants the year she turned 84, just counted on my fingers, beginning with her seven children who lived to adulthood, and ending in the 5th generation. There were 84 - I thought it was a weird coincidence. There are many more now.
posted by
Pat_B
on September 12, 2020 at 11:11 AM
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Poor Lucy a wonder she kept in good health with all the emotional problems she faced. I suppose she knew no other life and just carried on.
posted by
C_C_T
on September 12, 2020 at 9:56 AM
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Re: Re: I have heard of children being sent to relatives.
Whatever works. 
posted by
Sherri_G
on September 12, 2020 at 9:04 AM
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Re: Re: You have done your homework well.
That is some trail. I love researching these things. My brother who is 18 years younger than me, had a daycare teacher in Fallon, Nevada named Mary Moffatt.
posted by
Sherri_G
on September 12, 2020 at 9:03 AM
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Re: Re: Goldiec
Pat_B, I never thought of marriage as a business opportunity to acquire land but I guess it does make sense for that time in history.
posted by
Goldiec
on September 12, 2020 at 8:28 AM
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Re: Goldiec
At that time in history it was not uncommon for children to spend long periods of time with aunties, uncles or grandparents. A large majority of families lived on farms in those days, there were one-room schoolhouses, etc. and kids grew up with cousins. Mom's stepfather was a confirmed bachelor - not fond of children, awkward around women, and "crusty." The marriage to him was a business opportunity, a way to acquire land.
posted by
Pat_B
on September 12, 2020 at 8:00 AM
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I love this series! To think of Lucy's life as a woman with five children I can't even imagine how she felt once she became a widow. I question her new husband's decisions to send the youngest children to their grandparent's home. I would have never gone along with something like that. If it were me I would have left with all my children. I wouldn't have cared what was going on.
posted by
Goldiec
on September 12, 2020 at 7:52 AM
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Re: Since I am a member of Ancestry.com, I looked up your surnames on your post
Sassy, I was deep into this research about 8 or 9 years ago, but kind of came to an end of the trails. Lucy Amanda's maiden name was Edwards, her mother's name if memory serves was Moffatt, and there were cousins named Oliver. Somehow our trail leads back to John Oliver, whose log cabin is still standing in the Rocky Mountain national park section known as Cade's cove.
posted by
Pat_B
on September 12, 2020 at 6:54 AM
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Wow! Lucy had it rough during a really hard time for a single woman.
Thirty, widowed and having five children could not have been a walk in the park. This is an amazing story. I hope that you will continue on.
As for a few surnames of mine that you might check on ancestry to see if we are very distant cousins, twice removed, and all that jazz....Steele, Nutt, Lowman, Sisley, Garrett, Dill, Jackson, Jeffries, Ross, Morris, and Golt, to name a few. I was able to go back to the 1600s on both my maternal & paternal sides. That ThruLines is pretty awesome sauce.
posted by
Sherri_G
on September 12, 2020 at 6:52 AM
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The bit about North Dakota had me thinking....
I watched a movie concerning those homesteads that you may enjoy. The 1992 movie, "Far and Away" is a Western romantic adventure drama film directed by Ron Howard. It stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman who play Irish immigrants seeking their fortune in 1890s America, eventually taking part in the Land Run of 1893.
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/far-and-away-1992
posted by
Sherri_G
on September 12, 2020 at 6:42 AM
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Since I am a member of Ancestry.com, I looked up your surnames on your post
I have three Savage surname connections from Illinois. Of course, I have learned that most of these people came over on boats from Europe and other countries, so it is sometimes hard to narrow down when it 4th-6th and 5th to 8th cousins unless you contact them. Billie Michael was at the top of the list, but his connections and mine offered several other surnames. I had one Edwards match from Wisconsin. We are 5th-8th cousins. The surname of that connection is Carlson.
Sorry, I am a genealogy fanatic. Now, back to your story. 
posted by
Sherri_G
on September 12, 2020 at 6:33 AM
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Wow fascinating family history
posted by
Shams-i-Heartsong
on September 12, 2020 at 5:33 AM
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