When Lydia Robbins Broomly was born on 1 March 1809, in Au Sable Forks, Jay, Essex, New York, United States, her father, Reuben Bromley, was 26 and her mother, Esther Hicks, was 27. She married Henry Eggleston on 22 September 1830, in Lewis, Essex, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Wheeling, Cook, Illinois, United States in 1850 and Iowa, United States in 1870. She died on 9 March 1892, in Oakland, Alameda, California, United States, at the age of 83.
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English: see Bromley .
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