Daughter of William Brumfield and Nancy Ann Lincoln. Lucretia was a first cousin of President Abraham Lincoln.

The 1850 census shows that her husband was 39 and she was 28, giving a birth year of about 1822.

According to Hardin County Clerk records, she married John Allstun on February 12, 1835. The oldest child, Susan, on the 1850 census was 15, indicating that Lucretia was about 13 at the time of Susan's birth.

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Her father bequethed her his farm; his will stated:

"In the name of God, Amen. I, William Brumfield, being a citizen of Hardin County and state of Kentucky and knowing the uncertainty of life and the certainty of death and being somewhat feeble of body, but of sound mind and judgement, do make this my last will and testament. 1st - I do declare a former will made by me in 1854 to be null and void for the following reason: because the former will conveyed all my estate to John Allstun & his wife upon the condition that the said John Allstun should take care of and support me in a comfortable, but the said John Allstun has departed from this state and has utterly failed to comply with the above requisitions. 2nd - I desire and give and bequeath my farm which lies in Hardin County on the waters of Mill Creek, containing one hundred and sixty acres to my daughter, Lucretia Allstun, to her benefit and disposal whether to keep or sell at her own request provided the said Lucretia Allstun takes care of me and supports me in a decent and respectable manner. 3rd - I desire, also, that my daughter, Lucretia, have the growing crops of wheat and corn from the above premises for her benefit. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 18th day of July, 1857.

Will: Signed & Declared in the presence his

of us witnesses: William (X) Brumfield

Saml. Sherrard mark

*John Cowly

Jesse Wooldridge

Will: At a County Court began and held for Hardin County at the Courthouse in Elizabethtown on Monday the 27 September, 1858, the foregoing will was produced in court and proven in due form of law by the oaths of Jesse Wooldridge, one of the subscribing witnesses thereto and continued until the next term of this court and on the 18th October, 1858, the same was again produced in. . .

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(Note: The following letter is written with the same spellings as written by Lucretia.)

A letter from Lucretia Allstun to President Lincoln:

Document: Lucretia Allstun to Abraham Lincoln, January 9, 1865

1865

Hardin County Ky Jan 9

To his Excellency the president of the United of America

Your petitioner Would Submit for your consideration a request which comes from one of your relations My name is Lucretia Allstun a daugher of William Brumfield who marriade Nancy Lincoln Sir I have a Suninlaw in prisson at Camp Douglas by the name of Henry Harbolt and has been there Since July 1863 he has a Wife and three Small children dependant upon me for Support and I am a Widow and have a family of my own

Dear Sir my object in writing is to ask you to release him if consistent with your feelings One of my neghbours got him to fallow John Morgan to try to get Some horses that was taken by morgans men and he was perswaded by them to gow with them his release would be regarded as a very great favor by your friend and relation as he has requested me to do Something for him These few lines leaves me and family in good health and hope when they come to hand they may find you in the enjoyment of the Same blessing please answer this as Soon as convenient My adress is Red Hill Hardin County Kentucky

Lucretia Allstun

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As far as is known, President Lincoln did not act on this request. The president's secretary, John Hay, endorsed the letter, "the president dont see it".