on stone with
Ezra T.; also Lovisa J. Backus

Birth Year on stone is wrong. Lucy was the wife of Ezra, born abt 1832, not 1860

Name: Lucy Ridout
Age in 1870: 38
Birth Year: abt 1832
Birthplace: New York
Home in 1870: Grand Rapids Ward 4, Kent, Michigan
Race: White
Gender: Female
Post Office: Grand Rapids
Value of real estate: View image
Household Members:
Name Age
Ezra T Ridout 38
Lucy Ridout 38
Hattie Ridout 6
Lovisa Morgan 23 (Lucy's sister who later remarried to Nathan Parker Backus
Ida M Morgan 2/12 (Lucy's 2m old niece, who would die the next month)

Name: Lucy Rideout
[Lucy Eells]
Age: 47
Birth Year: abt 1833
Birthplace: New York
Home in 1880: Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan
Race: White
Gender: Female
Relation to Head of House: Wife
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Ezra L. Rideout
Father's Birthplace: New York
Mother's name: Celestia Eells
Mother's Birthplace: New York
Occupation: Keeps House
Name Age
Ezra L. Rideout 47
Lucy Rideout 47
Hattie Rideout 16
Celestia Eells 67 (Lucy's Mother)

It appears that Lucy and her mother returned to NY after Ezra died as they are found on the 1900 census in Chautauqua, NY

Name: Lucie Rideout
[Lucie Ells]
Age: 67
Birth Date: Sep 1832
Birthplace: New York
Home in 1900: Cherry Creek, Chautauqua, New York
Race: White
Gender: Female
Relation to Head of House: Daughter
Marital Status: Widowed
Father's Birthplace: New York
Mother's name: Celesta Ells
Mother's Birthplace: New York
Mother: number of living children: 0
Mother: How many children: 0
Name Age
Celesta Ells 87
Lucie Rideout 67 (b. 1813 NY, both parents b. VT

After her mother dies in NY by 1910 Lucy has returned to Michigan and is living with her sister Sally Nichols and BIL Daniel Nichols in Forest Home, Antrim, MI

Daniel Nichols 71
Sally Nichols 73
Lucy Rodiont 77