Abigail Porter Lull (maiden name: Sumner) was born on April 6, 1817, in Hebron, Connecticut, to William and Anna Sumner. She married Ormond N. Lull on September 20, 1838, and they had at least two children: Alcesta, born around 1843; and Annie, born around 1849. They lived in Norwich, Connecticut, until 1849, when they moved to Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Her husband worked as a superintendent for the Cumberland Valley Railroad. By 1860, they owned $800 of personal property, and they employed at least one white domestic servant. A decade later, they owned $4,000 of personal property. Her husband died in the late 1800s, and by 1900, she was living in her daughter Alcesta’s household in Chambersburg. By the early 1910s, she was reportedly “one of the best known and most loved of the women of Chambersburg.” She died in Chambersburg on December 24, 1911.

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