Lucinda Ann (Scribner) Shipman (1819 - 1894)

Born 7 Jan 1819 in New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana

Ancestors

Died 14 Jan 1894 at age 75 in New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana

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Biography

The following is Lucinda's obituary, published in the New Albany Daily Ledger on January 15, 1894 (via Find A Grave):

Mrs. Lucinda Shipman, widow of the late Charles Shipman, died at her residence, No. 425 East Spring street at 11 o'clock Sunday night, after a long illness. Mrs. Shipman was a pioneer of this city, where her entire long life had been passed. She was the [step] daughter of the late Dr. Asahel Clapp, and a [step] sister to Dr. William A. Clapp. Her age was eighty years. She leaves two daughters. Her husband was for many years one among the most enterprising citizens of New Albany, being a member of the pioneer machine shops and foundry firm of Lent, South & Shipman, a firm that built the engines for many of the fleetest and most elegant steamboats of ante-bellum times, including those of the famous A. L. Shotwell, the victor in the great race with the Eclipse between New Orleans and Louisville. Mrs. Shipman had many friends and was a woman of the sincerest Christian life and example.

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Lucinda was born in 1819, the daughter of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Edmonds) Scribner. A little over a month before her birth Lucinda's father suddenly died. While still an infant, Lucinda's mother married Dr. Asahel Clapp, New Albany's first medical doctor, who took her in and raised her as his own.

Lucinda would live her whole life along the Ohio River in New Albany, Indiana. On April 16, 1836, she would marry Charles Shipman, a member of one the pioneer machine shops and foundry firms located in New Albany, Lent, South & Shipman. The firm built the engines for many of the fleetest and most elegant steamboats operating on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.

Charles and Lucinda would have the following children:

Frances Elizabeth (Shipman) Stelle (1837–1910)

Clara L. (Shipman) Bentley (unknown–1871)

Julia Adelaide Shipman (1845–1846)

Mary Julia Shipman (1850–1851)

Anna Louisa (Shipman) Walker (1851–1907)

Charles Shipman (1865- )

Lucinda passed away in 1894.

Sources

• Lucinda and Charles' Wedding Date on Genealogy Trails [1]

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHJ8-KM3 : 12 April 2016), Lucinda Shipman in household of William C Shipman, New Albany city, Floyd, Indiana, United States; citing family 1, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHMY-JT4 : 24 August 2017), Lucinda Shipman, New Albany, Floyd, Indiana, United States; citing enumeration district ED 71, sheet 244D, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,277.

• Find A Grave Memorial [2]