Lucinda Kemp
Lucinda Kemp (maiden name: Butterfield) was born around 1822 in Antrim, New Hampshire, to William and Lovina Butterfield. She eventually moved to Massachusetts, and she married Reuben Sawin on November 26, 1840. Their daughter Hepsey was born around 1843. Her husband probably died in the 1840s, and she married Nathan Snow Kemp on January 9, 1851. Their daughter Elizabeth was born on March 30, 1855.
 
They lived in Weston, Massachusetts, and her husband worked as a shoemaker. By 1860, they owned $150 of personal property. Her husband enlisted in the Union army in August 1864, and he died of chronic diarrhea on May 19, 1865.
 
She applied for a widow’s pension in June 1865, and she eventually secured one at a rate of $8 per month. By 1870, she was living in Natick, Massachusetts, and she owned $100 of real estate and $100 of personal property. She died of dropsy in Natick on August 9, 1882.
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(2630)Kemp, Lucinda ~ Butterfield, Lucinda ~ Sawin, Lucinda18221882-08-09
  • Conflict Side: Union
  • Role: Civilian
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  • Gender: Female
  • Race: White

Documents - Records: 16

  • (3657) [recipient] ~ Nathan S. Kemp to Lucinda Kemp, 5 August 1864
  • (7458) [recipient] ~ Nathan S. Kemp to Lucinda Kemp, 10 August 1864
  • (7459) [recipient] ~ Nathan S. Kemp to Lucinda Kemp, 19 August 1864
  • (7460) [recipient] ~ Nathan S. Kemp to Lucinda Kemp, 25 August 1864
  • (7461) [recipient] ~ Nathan S. Kemp to Lucinda Kemp, 3 September 1864
  • (7462) [recipient] ~ Nathan S. Kemp to Lucinda Kemp, 18 September 1864
  • (7463) [recipient] ~ Nathan S. Kemp to Lucinda Kemp, 3 October 1864
  • (7464) [recipient] ~ Nathan S. Kemp to Lucinda Kemp, 18 October 1864
  • (7516) [recipient] ~ Nathan S. Kemp to Lucinda Kemp, 4 November 1864
  • (7517) [recipient] ~ Nathan S. Kemp to Lucinda Kemp, 1 November 1864
  • (7518) [recipient] ~ Nathan S. Kemp to Lucinda Kemp, 29 November 1864
  • (7519) [recipient] ~ George W. Moulton to Lucinda Kemp, 15 December 1864
  • (7520) [recipient] ~ John D. Reed to Lucinda Kemp, 29 December 1864
  • (7521) [recipient] ~ Nathan S. Kemp to Lucinda Kemp, 20 January 1865
  • (7522) [recipient] ~ Emma Henries and Henry C. Henries to Lucinda Kemp, 19 February 1865
  • (7523) [recipient] ~ John D. Reed to Lucinda Kemp, 23 February 1865

People - Records: 2

  • (2630) Kemp, Lucinda is the [wife of] (2629) Kemp, Nathan Snow
  • (2631) Kemp, Elizabeth is the [child of] (2630) Kemp, Lucinda

Places - Records: 2

  • (1985) [birth] ~ Antrim, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire
  • (1986) [death] ~ Natick, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

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SOURCES

1860, 1870, and 1880 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Massachusetts Compiled Marriages, 1633-1850, available from Ancestry.com; Massachusetts Records, 1840-1915, available from Ancestry.com; General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, available from Ancestry.com; Widow’s Pension of Lucinda Kemp, available from Fold3.com; Massachusetts Death Records, 1841-1915, available from Ancestry.com.