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with Rose Gennett, April 1899, Dolby's

An address: "Mrs. Lucetta Lumsden/ 102 Sth 13th St/ Richmond Ind" ca. 1897. Same as daughter Alice.

Lucetta lived at 4362 West Pine Blvd. in the 1900 census with her grandson John French and servants Henrietta Smith, born in Germany, age 45 and William Collins, 32, born in Illinois. She owned her home (free) and was "living on estate of husband." She had had four children, three of which were living.

She is interred in the Bellfountain Cemetery in St. Louis according to E. Conrad.

E. Conrad: "My dad was very fond of Grandmother Lumsden. Dad had one of the first cars in Richmond. Grandmother Lumsden loved to go for a ride on Sundays, so Dad had a buggy top put on to keep the sun off her."

Obituary, June 1905: "The funeral of Mrs. Lucetta Lumsden who died early yesterday morning at 4038 West Belle place, will take place from that address at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Rev. G. W. King of the First Presbyterian church will officiate. Six of the grandsons will act as pallbearers. Mrs. Lumsden, who was 77 years of age, was the widow of the late John Lumsden, a former well-known business man.
"Born in Germantown, Ohio, in 1828, she moved later to Nashville, Tenn., where, at the age of 20, she married the late John Lumsden, who died in 1898, shortly after their golden wedding.
"Mrs. Lumsden was one of those staunch pioneers whose characteristics changed not with the change of fortune. She possessed a marvelous memory, and her personal reminiscences of the civil war times contained in themselves a fund of interesting history. She had a penchant for compiling clippings andher library contained scrapbooks and files which would be of great value to any institution of learning. As a thorough and constant reader of the newspapers, Mrs. Lumsden had no superior and no move of importance among the world's news escaped her eye or comment. Her philanthropies were of the unostentatious sort."

Newspaper Article, "Richmond Woman Shares in Big St. Louis Estate:" "When young she nursed friends and relatives through three cholera epidemics in Ohio. She was a great newspaper reader and has files dating back to the civil war period. She was recognized as a brilliant letter writer.
"Under the terms of the late John Lumsden's will, the Lumsden estate, worth over $1,000,000 and stock in the Starr Piano factory in Richmond, Ind., will now be divided equally between three daughters, Mrs. Gennett of Richmond, and Mrs. O.A. Field and Mrs. Jesse French, both of St. Louis.

She married John Lumsden (45) (A50).