Lucy Francis Moses ^{1 2}

  General Notes:

Lucy Frances Moses was the daughter of Jefferson Davis and Elizabeth Halferty Moses. Her father served in the Confederacy during the Civil War and died shortly after a work accident in a saw mill in 1870. The family was living in Grand Rapids, Michigan at the time. Lucy was only 6 years old. Her mother lived until 1892, when she died in Nebraska.

Lucy grew up to marry Oliver Perry Runnels on April 20, 1880 in Atlantic, Iowa, They had 5 children: Charlie T, Edith P, Ethel E, Orville M and Lily M who died in infancy at 2 months old.

Lucy and Oliver raised live stock in Iowa and later in Nebraska.

Oliver died between 1908-1911 having lost both of his parents before the age of 2. He was taken in and raised by the Sims family in Illinois, and then later they moved to Iowa where he met Lucy.
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  Noted events in her life were:

• She appeared on the 1885 Iowa State Census in Manning, IA on 1 January 1885. ¹

1885 Iowa State Census
Page 30, Dwelling 215, Family 221
Manning, Carroll County, Iowa
May Street
Lucy F. Runnels..19..WV..Keeping House

(Living with husband and 2 children.)

NOTE - If her birth date was 26 Jun 1864, then her age should have been 20 instead of 19.
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• She was buried after 11 September 1909 in the Riverside Cemetery in Kalamazoo, MI.

Find A Grave Memorial 25871386
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Lucy married Oliver Perry Runnels, son of John Runnels and Caroline Kelly, on 20 April 1880 in Atlantic, IA. (Oliver Perry Runnels was born in 1850 in Virginia ¹ and died on 4 January 1911 in Antelope County, NE.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• They appeared on the 1885 Iowa State Census in Manning, IA on 1 January 1885. ¹

1885 Iowa State Census
Page 30, Dwelling 215, Family 221
Manning, Carroll County, Iowa
May Street
Oliver P. Runnels..34..WV..Herder
Lucy F. Runnels..19..WV..Keeping House
Charles T. Runnels..2..Carroll County, IA
Edith P. Runnels..0..Carroll County, IA
Americus M. Sims..29..IL
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