"Lucinda Pomeroy, wife of Oren, was the second of the five children of Capt. Samuel and Catherine (Day) Pomeroy, and was born at Somers May 19, 1801. Her father was a teacher of local celebrity, and she early acquired a fondness for study and a profound regard for education. She was for a short time a teacher. She was of a deeply religious nature, and became an active member of the church when about twelve years old. It was through her influence that her friend Mary Reynolds, afterward the wife of the well-known missionary Schauffler, came to be interested in religion and missions. This friendship was kept up through the whole of her life, and it was doubtless owing in part to the correspondence with the Schaufflers that Mrs. Pomeroy was, for many years, the leader in missionary information and activity in Somers. She joined the Sunday-school the year that it was born as a feature of New England church life, and she was a member of it sixty-nine years, from the age of seventeen to her death, at eighty-six. It was her habit to commit all the lesson, text and references, to memory, and few were so well versed in the Scriptures as she. For many years she taught the class of adult women in the same school, and when, at the age of eighty, she became too blind to longer fill the position, she still attended the class and was its inspiration. Whe was always greatly interested in the cause of temperance, and she accomplished an especially notable achievement in its behalf when she was eighty years old. Becoming alarmed at the amount of liquor being sold in Somers in that year, she undertook to stem the tide of intemperance. She prepared and circulated an appeal to the voters, to which she secured 200 signatures, and at the next election the sale of liquor was made illegal…. On other occasions also Mrs. Pomeroy worked hard and effectually against the forces of reaction and decline, always at work, here and there, even in a Puritan community."
—Commemorative Biographical Record of Tolland and Windham Counties Connecticut Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens and of Many of the Early Settled Families, Chicago: J. H. Beers, 1903, p. 88.