Parsons, Lucy Ann 1832 - 1902

ANTHONY, PARSONS, TRAVIS

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Date: 2/23/2004 at 02:25:32

Fairfield Ledger
December 24, 1902
Page 7 column 2

A PIONEER WOMAN. Plainville, Kans., Gazette. LUCY ANN PARSONS was born January 26, 1832, in Randolph County, Virginia, and departed this life December 6th, aged seventy years, ten months and ten days. When six years of age, she moved with her parents to eastern, Iowa, where she grew to womanhood, and, February 1st, 1853, was united in marriage to J. C. TRAVIS, who survives her. They were the parents of two children, MRS. M. E. ANTHONY and J. W. TRAVIS….. MR. and MRS. TRAVIS removed to Kansas in 1878, making homestead entry on the farm that has since been their home four miles east of Plainville. Thus was called one of the first settlers of “Paradise Flats.” One by one the pioneers are gathering over on the other side….Church of Christ…She leaves one sister, whose home is at Chariton, Iowa… a sister in Oklahoma, a brother at Smith Center and two brothers in Iowa…Interment was made in the Planville Cemetery.