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| The following was submitted September 2005.
I see you have a listing for "Lucy Augustus Cole Rawson" and I wonder
if you mean Lucy Adeline (Briggs) (Cole) Rawson (Peckinpah) (Smallman)
Lucy was born in Middleboro, Massachusetts, 25 August 1840. She
married James Cole at New Bedford, Massachusetts, 6 March 1860
and Julius Addison Rawson at San Francisco 17 November
1863. Her only child died from a congenital heart defect at age
three days on 24 Oct. 1877 and her husband died of pneumonia 8 days
later.
She married Thadeus Edgar Peckinpah in San Francisco in 1886. Thadeus
died in 1908. She married James Knight Smallman in Napa 7 April 1912.
She died in Oakland, CA, 12 October 1920.
A 1912 "History of Solano and Napa Counties" says: "Mr. Peckinpah was
married in San Francisco in 1886 to Lucy A. (Briggs) Rawson, a native
of Middleboro, Plymouth county, Mass., and a lineal descendant of Miles
Standish. Mrs. Peckinpah is an artist of some note, her
home containing a number of fine paintings from her brush, and for some
time she has taught painting in Lynch's Seminary in
Benicia. As a close student of nature she has made a deep
study of botany. She discovered three new varieties of wild
flowers that have introduced into the department of botany at the
University of California and bear her name. Her painted
collection of California wild flowers numbers over three hundred.
She also takes a great interest in photography and has many specimens
of her skill, representing views taken by her in different parts of the
state." |
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