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Lydia Ann (Cummings) Brander (1852 - 1928)

Lydia Ann Brander formerly Cummings
Born in Indiana, United Statesmap
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Died at age 75 in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United Statesmap
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Biography

Lydia Cummings was born in October 1852, in Indiana. She was the daughter of William Cummings and Terry Hicks.[1] Her mother Terry died when Lydia was about three years old.[2][3]

Shortly after his first wife died, William Cummings moved his family from Indiana to Johnson County, Missouri. William, his father Matthew, and his brother Sanford were among the earliest settlers in the Madison Township area of Johnson County.[4] On April 10, 1857, William had remarried to the widow Rachel Adams (née Botts) in Johnson County.[5] This family was living together in Johnson County in 1860.[6]

Not long after that, Lydia Cummings was orphaned when she by the violence that tore Missouri apart during the Civil War. According to family oral history, William was killed by Confederate bushwhackers, identified in one source as the "Jonnger boys," probably the Younger brothers.[7][8]

In about 1872, she married Archibald Taylor Brander.[9][7]

She died on June 27, 1928, in Kansas City, Missouri. [10]

Sources

  1. ↑ 1860 U.S. census, Johnson County, Missouri, population schedule, Madison, pp. 287-8 (penned), dwelling 1877, family 2017, Francis M. Cummings; image, FamilySearch.org, (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9BSZ-FC9 : accessed 12 Sep 2019); citing NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 626.
  2. ↑ Ancestry, Find A Grave, database, (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113063781 : accessed 10 Sep 2019), memorial 113063781, Tary C. Cumins (1814-1855), New Union Carolina Church Cemetery, Owen County, Indiana; no image available, but headstone inscription transcribed by Frank Walraven; Inscription reads Tary C. Cumins, w/o Wm., [died] 10 Apr 1855, 40y 8m.
  3. ↑ Debbie Jennings, The Original Sweet Owen and Surrounding Areas, (http://www.sweetowen.net : accessed 10 Sep 2019), Cemeteries, Owen County, Morgan, Carolina Cemetery, Tary C. Cumins.
  4. ↑ Ewing Cockrell, History of Johnson County, Missouri, (Topeka/Cleveland: Historical Publishing Co., 1918), 170-173; digital images, Archive.org, (https://archive.org/details/historyofjohnson00cock/page/170 : accessed 10 Sep 2019).
  5. ↑ FamilySearch, "Missouri County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991" database with images, (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-8983-ZNX : accessed 10 Sep 2019), Johnson, Marriage records 1835-1874 vol F-G, image 181, William Cummins and Rachel Adams, 10 Apr 1857; citing Johnson County, Missouri; FHL microfilm 959,990.
  6. ↑ 1860 U.S. census, Johnson County, Missouri, population schedule, Madison, pp. 287-8 (penned), dwelling 1877, family 2017, Terry S. Cummings; image, FamilySearch.org, (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9BSZ-FC9 : accessed 12 Sep 2019); citing NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 626.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Grace Arnold, "The Whitney Genealogy" (1966); unpublished family genealogy recounting family stories from Laura T Cummings & Laura (Whitney) Arnold; images, WikiTree, (https://www.wikitree.com/photo.php/5/5d/Cummings-5281.pdf : accessed 1 Apr 2021).
  8. ↑ Family stories recounted by Mabel (Shay) McFeeters. Image, WikiTree, (https://www.wikitree.com/photo/pdf/Cummings-5281-1 : accessed 1 Apr 2021.
  9. ↑ 1900 U.S. census, Jackson County, Missouri, population schedule, Kansas City, p. 295B (stamped), enumeration district (ED) 65, sheet 5, dwelling 95, family 105, Lydia Brander; image, FamilySearch.org (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6L8J-H8 : accessed 13 Sep 2019); citing NARA microfilm publication T623, roll 862.
  10. ↑ Missouri Secretary of State, "Missouri Death Certificates, 1910-1968," Missouri Digital Heritage, database with images, (https://s1.sos.mo.gov/Records/Archives/ArchivesMvc/ : accessed 12 Sep 2019), search terms: Last Name: Brander, First Name: Lydia; death certificate of Lydia Brander.
  • Affidavit of John Taggart, Oct. 21, 1865, In Re Matter of Matthew Cummins Estate, Johnson County, Missouri (listing living heirs of Matthew Cummins); copy obtained from court files by Samuel Gilmore; image, WikiTree, (https://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Cummings-5323-1 : accessed 24 Apr 2021).




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