Lucinda Swarthout

Brief Life History of Lucinda

When Lucinda Swarthout was born on July 4, 1818, in New York, her father, Phillip, was 27, and her mother, Charity, was 24. She married Farnum Wilford Kinyon and they had four children together. She then married James Madison Coburn and they had four children together. She died on December 28, 1895, in San Bernardino, California, having lived a long life of 77 years, and was buried there. 1860 Census--she is 41 yrs old, married to James Coburn, living in San Salvador, CA with him & 7 children. 1870 Census--she is 51 yrs old, living in San Bernardino, CA with husband James & 6 children 1880 Census--she is 61 yrs old, still living in Sernardino with husband James & 2 children. California, County Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1849-1980--she was 76 yrs old, shows birth year & place, death date & place LDS Pioneer and Handcart Companies, 1847-1856--shows her birth date in Company--Third Ten of the Second Fifty of the Fourth Hundred LDS Redress Petition Listing, 1843--shows residence date of 1843 in Hancock, IL Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1848--shows birth date and name Lucinda Kinyon U.S. City Directories (Beta)--this is in 1884 living in Salt Lake City, UT Utah, Sons of Utah Pioneers, Companies Index, 1846-1868--shows birth year, arrival date & place, 29 yrs old, Company Capt was F Kinyon Web: California, Find A Grave Index, 1775-2011--shows birth & death dates, burial place U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1700s-Current--shows birth & death dates, birth place, parents, spouse James Madison Coburn, 7 children, buried in Pioneer Memorial Cemetery at San Bernardino, California. FIND A GRAVE INFO: Lucinda Swarthout Kinyon Coburn – A True American Pioneer! Lucinda was born in New York. As a young child, her family moved to Ohio. She moved with her mother (Charity Bates Swarthout Shepherd – also in this cemetery) to Missouri and to Nauvoo, Illinois. In Nauvoo she met and married Farnum Kinyon. She belonged to the Women's Relief Society and signed a petition of redress to the U.S. Government on behalf of the Mormon people. Here she also had three of her children. Forced from their homes again, she was on the second Mormon wagon train to Salt Lake. On July 1 1847 while on the trail she had her fourth child. Farnum died in 1850 and in 1851 she left with her parents and brothers to move to San Bernardino. At the end of the trip she married James M. Coburn and they had 4 children. They lived for many years in a home that still stands on Coburn Avenue in the City of Colton. Submitted for Ardyn Fredericksen - her great, great granddaughter

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Family Time Line

James Madison Coburn
1815–1898
Lucinda Swarthout
1819–1895
Marriage: about 1851
James Alexander Coburn
1852–1926
Katherine Coburn
1854–1937
Charity Nancy Coburn
1856–1894
Ada Marie Coburn
1859–1941

Sources (13)

  • Lucinda Swarthout, "United States, Census, 1850"
  • Lucinda Kinyon Swarthout Coburn, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Lucinda Swarthout, "Illinois, Hancock County, Nauvoo Community Project, 1839-1846 (BYU Center for Family History and Genealogy)"

World Events (8)

1820 · Making States Equal

The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.

1827

Historical Boundaries: 1827: Hancock, Illinois, United States

1839 · Nauvoo is Settled

After the Saints had been chased out of Missouri they moved to a swampy area located next to the Mississippi River. Here they settled and named the place Nauvoo which translates into the city beautiful.

Name Meaning

Americanized form of Dutch Swartwout .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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