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Lucy Brass Bronson

BIRTHDATE: 26 Jun 1795

Chester, Massachusetts

DEATH: Feb 1847

Poncho, Nebraska

PARENTS: Garrit Brass

Lucy Matthews

PIONEER:

Died crossing the Plains

SPOUSE: Lemon Bronson

MARRIED: 2 Jan 1817

Mentor, Geauga, Ohio

DEATH SP: 1854

Taylor, Michigan

 

CHILDREN:

Edwin Ruthven, 14 Oct 1817

Tracy Williston, abt 1819

Emeret Orilla, abt 1821

Clinton Doneral, 17 Dec 1824

Hadley Lawton, abt 1827

Wilmer Wharton, 20 Oct 1830

Martha Ann, 13 Jun 1834

Lorinda Elizabeth, 23 Dec 1836

Lucy Brass was born in 1795 in Massachusetts. She was married in Mentor, Ohio, to Lemon Bronson. Four of their children were born in Ohio and four were born in Michigan.

A baptism was to be held for converts of the Church, and the new converts walked through snow for about a mile. They then had to cut a hole in a foot thick ice for the baptisms to take place. Lucy Bronson was to be baptized but she was very sick at the time. She participated in the baptism and suffered no ill affects from this experience.

Lucy, however, died while the family was enroute to Council Bluffs, Iowa. The family was spending the winter of 1846-47 at Poncho, Nebraska, with the Saints. Due to the deprivations and lack of proper food, Lucy Bronson died during that winter, as did many, other saints. Her name is on a monument at that local cemetery.

Lucy had died about Feb 1847 near Winter Quarters.

Her husband and family continued on with the group to

Utah. They arrived in Salt Lake City by wagon about I

Oct, 1847. They traveled with Capt. Edward H Hunter's

Company (2nd hundred), with Capt Jacob Foutz (2nd fifty),

Capt. Vincent Shurtlef's (3rd ten) company number 4.

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