Lucinda FIELDS

  General Notes:

1839 BIRTH of Lucinda Fields

1840 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Greene County, Richhill Township (Lucinda would have been in the household of his father "John Fields")

1850 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Greene County, Richhill Township (September 13) ("Lucinda," age 14, is with her parents)

1855 DEATH (approximate) of father, John Fields

1856 MARRIAGE (approximate) of Lucinda Fields and William L. Burns

1860 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Greene County, Richhill Township, P. O. Harvey's (June 12) ("William L.," age 24, "Farm laborer") (wife "Lucinda," age 21)

1863 DEATH of husband, William L. Burns, at 27 years 9 months 25 days

1865 DEATH (approximate) of mother, Rachel (Phippen) Fields

1865 MARRIAGE (approximate) of Lucinda (Fields) Burns and David A. Hitchcock

1870 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Greene County, Richhill Township, P. O. Wind Ridge (August 5) (David, age 26, "Farmer") (wife "Loucinda," age 29)

1880 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Greene County, Richhill Township (June 8) ("David A.," age 34, "Farmer") (wife "Lucinda," age 41)

1885 DEATH of husband, David A. Hitchcock

Cause of death: "Consumption" --death announcement, Waynesburg Republican, November 17, 1885

1900 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Washington County, West Finley Township (June 19) ("Lucinda," age 61, widow, has son, "Frank R.," age 20, in her household) (Lucinda is shown as the mother of 10 children with 7 of those children living in the year 1900) (Deceased were son James H. Burns, daughter Annie Hitchcock, and son Leroy M. Hitchcock)




OBITUARY (David) from WAYNESBURG REPUBLICAN, Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania, November 17, 1885:


PASSED AWAY

Those of Our Citizens Who Have Crossed the Dark River


HITCHCOCK

Mr. David Hitchcock died at his home in Richhill township, this county, Sat., Oct. 31^st, 1885, of consumption, aged 48 years.

Deceased was a member of the Enon Baptist church and was a highly esteemed Christian man. A wife and six children are left to mourn the loss of husband and father.

Lucinda married William L. BURNS, son of Alexander BURNS and Elizabeth SOLLARS, about 1856. (William L. BURNS was born on August 8, 1835 in Pennsylvania, died on June 2, 1863 in Greene County, Pennsylvania and was buried in Sollars Cemetery, Richhill Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania.)

Lucinda next married David A. HITCHCOCK about 1865. (David A. HITCHCOCK was born in 1844-1846 in Pennsylvania and died on October 31, 1885 in Greene County, Pennsylvania.)