Lucinda was born in New York. As a young child, her family moved to Ohio. She moved with her mother (Charity Bates Swarthout Shepherd – also in this cemetery) to Missouri and to Nauvoo, Illinois. In Nauvoo she met and married Farnum Kinyon. She belonged to the Women's Relief Society and signed a petition of redress to the U.S. Government on behalf of the Mormon people. Here she also had three of her children. Forced from their homes again, she was on the second Mormon wagon train to Salt Lake. On July 1 1847 while on the trail she had her fourth child. Farnum died in 1850 and in 1851 she left with her parents and brothers to move to San Bernardino. At the end of the trip she married James M. Coburn and they had 4 children. They lived for many years in a home that still stands on Coburn Avenue in the City of Colton.
Submitted for Ardyn Fredericksen - her great, great granddaughter
Lucinda was born in New York. As a young child, her family moved to Ohio. She moved with her mother (Charity Bates Swarthout Shepherd – also in this cemetery) to Missouri and to Nauvoo, Illinois. In Nauvoo she met and married Farnum Kinyon. She belonged to the Women's Relief Society and signed a petition of redress to the U.S. Government on behalf of the Mormon people. Here she also had three of her children. Forced from their homes again, she was on the second Mormon wagon train to Salt Lake. On July 1 1847 while on the trail she had her fourth child. Farnum died in 1850 and in 1851 she left with her parents and brothers to move to San Bernardino. At the end of the trip she married James M. Coburn and they had 4 children. They lived for many years in a home that still stands on Coburn Avenue in the City of Colton.
Submitted for Ardyn Fredericksen - her great, great granddaughter
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