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Lavina Coleman Yocum

Birth	:	1757 Hebron, Tolland County, Connecticut, USA
Death	:	31 Mar 1835 Washington County, Indiana, USA
Burial	:	Woodlawn Cemetery, Westbrook, Cumberland County, USA
Coordinate	:	43.6697006, -70.3463974
Description	:	First husband was Thomas Wright; second husband was Matthias Yocum. From page 948 and 949 of Centennial Hx of Wash. Co. IN by Warder Stevens: "Asa Wright was born in Culpeper county, Virginia about the year 1772, son of Thomas and Lavina Wright, who later moved to Shelby county, Kentucky, where Thomas Wright was killed by Indians. His widow married, secondly, a Mr. Yokum, a wealthy plantation owner and large slaveholder, and because she objected to slavery and horseracing, determined that her son should not grow up amid the influences which surrounded him in the Yokum... Read More	First husband was Thomas Wright; second husband was Matthias Yocum. From page 948 and 949 of Centennial Hx of Wash. Co. IN by Warder Stevens: "Asa Wright was born in Culpeper county, Virginia about the year 1772, son of Thomas and Lavina Wright, who later moved to Shelby county, Kentucky, where Thomas Wright was killed by Indians. His widow married, secondly, a Mr. Yokum, a wealthy plantation owner and large slaveholder, and because she objected to slavery and horseracing, determined that her son should not grow up amid the influences which surrounded him in the Yokum home. She therefore bound the boy, Asa, to a tanner, the articles of service prescribing that he was to remain with the tanner until he should be twenty-one years old, at the end of which time he should receive for services thus rendered a horse, saddle and bridle. He did not complete his apprenticeship, however, quitting his master at the age of twenty and all he received for his years of service was a bowie knife and five cents in cash. Asa Wright was a plucky young man, however, and struggle d along " on his own hooks," presently starting a tannery in Kentucky. There he married Phoebe Martin, who was born in that state, daughter of Peter and Sarah Martin, probably natives of Germany, for both spoke with a pronounced German accent and read only a German Bible, their daughter, Phoebe, never overcoming her German accent and also clinging to her German bible all the days of her life. Peter Martin was married in 1761, he then being twenty years of age and to him and his wife were born the following children: Elizabeth, Lewis M. Moses, Aaron, Sarah, Joseph, John , James, Abner, Phoebe, Peter and Jacob (twins) and Mary. Asa Wright and his family came from Kentucky to Indiana in 1819 and settled on a farm in the northeast corner of Howard township, in this county, where he established a tannery and soon became known all over this and adjoining counties for the superior quality of his product. Asa Wright helped to organize the Mill Creek baptist church, of which for many years he was a deacon and he and his wife reared their children in the strict faith of the Baptist church. Asa Wright died on March 2, 1850, in his seventy-ninth year, and his widow survived until August 23, 1856, her death occurring in her seventy-eigthth year. His mother [Lavina Coleman Wright Yocum] spent her last days with him and died on March 31, 1835, at the age of seventy-eight, and his sister, Frances, who came to Indiana with him and who never married, continuing to make her home with her brother, died on March 17, 1855, at the age of seventy-two." Notes of Linda Standish: Few records exist for Lavina. Some have linked her to Josiah Colman FAG Memorial 21858179 and Elizabeth Root, Memorial 21858155, as her parents; however, I find no vital records or other records to support this connection and she does not seem to fit well into this family of New London, CT. I have found no records to show her maiden name was Coleman. However, a Connie Miller has compiled a 24 page family history of Thomas Wright that gives her maiden name as Coleman, her birth as 1758 in Culpeper, Culpeper Co., Virginia. I have seen no vital records to support or refute this information. I have attached as a photo the relevant page from Connie's history. I did find on Ancestry a marriage record for a Lavina A. Wright to Matthias Yocum 12 April 1784 which would seem to fit as her second husband. I do not know what the "A." stands for. Top part of stone was uncovered, repaired, cleaned and reset July 27, 2016, as part of the Banks-Standish Cemetery Restoration Project undertaken by this writer, Linda S. Standish. My own searches on Ancestry have not been fruitful. I welcome information. [Biography by Linda S. Standish]

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Lavina Coleman Yocum death on 31 Mar 1835 in Washington County, Indiana, USA
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Latitude: 43.6697006
Longitude: -70.3463974

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Asa Thomas Wright

(1777 - 1850)

Frances Wright

(1782 - 1855)

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