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BACON, Mary Lucina
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Name BACON, Mary Lucina Birth 13 Nov 1840 Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA
Gender Female Death 14 Jul 1911 Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
Person ID I2436 Edgoose Last Modified 30 Jan 2026
Father BACON, Alanson, b. 6 Sep 1812, Hamilton, Madison County, New York, USA
d. 29 Jul 1880, Eleroy, Stephenson County, Illinois, USA
(Age 67 years) Mother STEBBINS, Dorcas Lyman, b. 15 Jul 1813, New York, USA
d. 2 Jun 1841 (Age 27 years) Marriage 1831 Family ID F990 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family TOWAR, Francis Reuben d. Yes, date unknown Marriage 17 Nov 1868 Stephenson County, Illinois, USA
Family ID F1231 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 27 Jan 2026
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Notes
MARY LUCINA BACON 1840--1911
Mary Lucina BACON was born at Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA, on 13 November 1840.
(source: simplyrose@earthlink.net)
The 1850 census of Erin, Stephenson County, Illinois, USA:
Alanson BACON, aged 37, carpenter, owned real estate worth $800, born in New York;
Elizabeth BACON, aged 27, born in New York;
Philo S. BACON, aged 14, born In New York;
Lucinda BACON, aged 12, born in Wisconsin;
Mary L. BACON, aged 9, born in Illinois;
Clark BACON, aged 1, born in Illinois.
When she was about sixteen her sisters had planned to take an examination to become school teachers. Mary Lucina announced that she wanted to take the test with them. The sisters told her that she was too young. Their father intervened and gave her permission and she passed with high grades. She became a school marm and taught until she was 28 and married Francis Reuben TOWAR in Stephenson County, Illinois, on 17 November 1868.
(source: simplyrose@earthlink.net)
She died aged 70 at Phoenix Maricopa, Arizona, USA, on 14 July 1911.
(source: simplyrose@earthlink.net)
According to her obituary she had two sisters (Sally & Lucinda) and three brothers (Philo+ two others
(source: simplyrose@earthlink.net)
Note: For the text of a letter written to Mary BACON by her sister Lucinda ANDERSON in 1861 see notes on Lucinda BACON (1838-1914).
(revised 29.08.2017)

