The marker pictured may be a cenotaph. No burial record was found to verify she was buried at Godfrey Cemetery or elsewhere. The marker is a few feet north of the marker of her father, Palmer Cleveland.
The birth date and place come from "The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families" compiled by Edmund Janes Cleveland and Horace Gillette Cleveland and published in 1899.
Lucy never married.
Numerous newspapers across the nation carried her obituary as President Grover Cleveland, at that time in office, was a cousin. Grover was actually her 5th cousin once removed, contrary to the reports in the papers that he was her first cousin.
From the Alton Weekly Telegraph, Thursday, March 16, 1893:
Death of Miss Lucy H. Cleveland.
Miss Lucy H. Cleveland died suddenly at her home, No, 912 State street at 3 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. The news of her death was a shock to her many friends as it was sudden and unexpected. Although ill for several days her condition was not considered dangerous. Miss Cleveland is a first cousin to President Cleveland. She has resided in this city for a number of years with her sister, Mrs. Anna O. Britton, Principal of Irving school.
The birth date and place come from "The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families" compiled by Edmund Janes Cleveland and Horace Gillette Cleveland and published in 1899.
Lucy never married.
Numerous newspapers across the nation carried her obituary as President Grover Cleveland, at that time in office, was a cousin. Grover was actually her 5th cousin once removed, contrary to the reports in the papers that he was her first cousin.
From the Alton Weekly Telegraph, Thursday, March 16, 1893:
Death of Miss Lucy H. Cleveland.
Miss Lucy H. Cleveland died suddenly at her home, No, 912 State street at 3 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. The news of her death was a shock to her many friends as it was sudden and unexpected. Although ill for several days her condition was not considered dangerous. Miss Cleveland is a first cousin to President Cleveland. She has resided in this city for a number of years with her sister, Mrs. Anna O. Britton, Principal of Irving school.
The marker pictured may be a cenotaph. No burial record was found to verify she was buried at Godfrey Cemetery or elsewhere. The marker is a few feet north of the marker of her father, Palmer Cleveland.
The birth date and place come from "The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families" compiled by Edmund Janes Cleveland and Horace Gillette Cleveland and published in 1899.
Lucy never married.
Numerous newspapers across the nation carried her obituary as President Grover Cleveland, at that time in office, was a cousin. Grover was actually her 5th cousin once removed, contrary to the reports in the papers that he was her first cousin.
From the Alton Weekly Telegraph, Thursday, March 16, 1893:
Death of Miss Lucy H. Cleveland.
Miss Lucy H. Cleveland died suddenly at her home, No, 912 State street at 3 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. The news of her death was a shock to her many friends as it was sudden and unexpected. Although ill for several days her condition was not considered dangerous. Miss Cleveland is a first cousin to President Cleveland. She has resided in this city for a number of years with her sister, Mrs. Anna O. Britton, Principal of Irving school.
The birth date and place come from "The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families" compiled by Edmund Janes Cleveland and Horace Gillette Cleveland and published in 1899.
Lucy never married.
Numerous newspapers across the nation carried her obituary as President Grover Cleveland, at that time in office, was a cousin. Grover was actually her 5th cousin once removed, contrary to the reports in the papers that he was her first cousin.
From the Alton Weekly Telegraph, Thursday, March 16, 1893:
Death of Miss Lucy H. Cleveland.
Miss Lucy H. Cleveland died suddenly at her home, No, 912 State street at 3 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. The news of her death was a shock to her many friends as it was sudden and unexpected. Although ill for several days her condition was not considered dangerous. Miss Cleveland is a first cousin to President Cleveland. She has resided in this city for a number of years with her sister, Mrs. Anna O. Britton, Principal of Irving school.
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