Lucinda Humphrey Hay

HAY, HUMPHREY, CASEBEER

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 10/17/2017 at 09:27:24

5 January 1865 - The Tipton Advertiser

DIED, at the resident of her brother-in-law, John Casebeer, near Tipton, Dec. 17th, 1864, Mrs. LUCINDA HUMPHREY HAY; wife of Henry S. Hay, Captain of Colored Infantry at Memphis, Tenn.; aged 30 years.

In the summer of 1862, Mrs. H. spent three months at Savannah, Tenn., as a nurse in the hospital. Her health failing, she returned, and was some six months engaged in the Home for the Friendless, at Chicago. On the organization of a system of instruction for the Freedmen, she entered with zeal into that enterprise, at Memphis, where she was for a time in the employ of the American Missionary Association, and where she was married to Capt. Hay, Dec. 25th, 1863. Here she also was severely ill, and for some time not expected to recover.

Her interest in the Freedmen led her to prepare a volume in their behalf, which she left nearly ready for the press, entitled, "The Freedmen, or Romance of American History," in twelve chapters, with illustrations.

Her plans of usefulness were not confined to the colored race, but embraced the education of her younger sisters, at the State Normal School, and other kindred objects.

After a painful and wasting sickness of several weeks, she was called to exchange an affectionate husband and a helpless babe for "the house appointed for all living."