Lucia Lucy H. Stanton

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• Name	Lucia Lucy H. Stanton  [1, 2]
  Born	16 Oct 1831 Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA [2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Female
  Ethnicity	American [3]
  Race	Black [3]
  Graduation	1848 Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, USA
  Name	Lucia "Lucy" Stanton Day Sessions
  Name	Lucie S.D. Sessions [4]
  Name	Lucy Brown [3]
  Name	Lucy H Stanton [5]
  Name	Lucy Sessions [3]
  Name	Lucye S Sessions [3]
  Name	Lueza Stanton [6]
  Residence	1858 Buxton, Ontario, Canada
  Residence	1900 Civil District 5, Hamilton, Tennessee, USA [3]  –  Age: 54; AbleToSpeakEnglish: Yes; CanRead: Yes; CanWrite: Yes; EnumerationDistrict: 0045; NumberOfChildrenBorn: 3; NumberOfChildrenLiving: 1; YearsMarried: 22; MaritalStatus: Married; RelationToHead: Wife
  Died	18 Feb 1910 Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA [2, 4, 7]
  Buried	​ Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA [2, 4]
  	Rosedale Cemetery
  Notes	Also known as Lucy Day (First Husband , William Howard Day) and Lucy Sessions ( Second Husband Levi Sessions) Parents: Samuel Stanton and Margaret Jane Grove Stepfather: John Brown Daughter: Florence Day Lucy Stanton was the first Black Woman to receive a degree from college in the United States. She completed the literary course at Oberlin College in 1850. In 1849 she was elected president of the school' Ladies Literary Society and her commencement speech was a moving appeal for anti slavery. She was an active abolitionist. Her first husband, William Howard Day, edited an abolitionist newspaper In Cleveland, Ohio, and she wrote a story on slavery for her husband's newspaper in 1854. In 1856 they left. for Canada to teach fugitive slaves, but in 1858 her husband left for business in England and requested a divorce. In 1866 she was sponsored by the Cleveland Freedmans' Association to teach in Georgia (later in Mississippi). She met her second husband, Levi Sessions, in Mississippi in 1878. The couple then moved to Tennessee, where she was President of the local Christian Temperance Union. They later moved to Los Angeles, California "Mrs. Lucia S. D. Sessions, a well known writer, died yesterday at her home, 425 North Bonnie Brae street. Mrs. Sessions won wide notice in 1850 when she graduated from Oberlln college, being the first negro girl to graduate from a college in the United States. She had resided in Los Angeles the past seven years and was 78 years old. She is survived by one daughter. Miss Florence N. Day. Funeral services will be held Monday at 10 a. m., at the residence, Rev. F. J. Peck to officiate. Burial will be in Rosedale Cemetery." Los Angeles Herald - 20 Feb 1910 - Page 6
  Person ID	I5342 SOALsearch
  Last Modified	1 Nov 2024

  
  
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  Father	Samuel Stanton (Age 30 years) b. Abt 1803 d. 8 Jun 1833, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA (Age 30 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Margaret Jane Grove (Age 89 years) b. Jan 1811, Pennsylvania, USA d. 16 Nov 1900, Chattanooga, Hamilton, Tennessee, USA (Age 89 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F3497 Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	William Howard Day (Age 75 years) b. 16 Oct 1825, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA d. 3 Dec 1900, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 75 years)
  Married	25 Nov 1852 Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA [1, 5, 6]
  Divorced	1872
  Children	1. Florence N Day (Age 53 years) b. 1858, Buxton, Ontario, Canada d. 27 May 1911, Los Angeles, California, USA (Age 53 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	1 Nov 2024
  Family ID	F1777 Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Levi Napoleon Sessions (Age 85 years) b. 8 Aug 1853, Mississippi, USA d. 13 Jul 1939, Los Angeles County, California, USA (Age 85 years)
  Married	20 Jun 1878 Jefferson County, Mississippi, USA
  Last Modified	1 Nov 2024
  Family ID	F3498 Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  [S638] Ohio, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1774-1993, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2016;). Record for William H. Day https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=61378&h=3320850&indiv=try [S3] U.S., Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;). [S37] 1900 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004;), Year: 1900; Census Place: Civil District 5, Hamilton, Tennessee; Roll: 1574; Page: 16; Enumeration District: 0045; FHL microfilm: 1241574. Record for Lucy Sessions https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=7602&h=60441709&indiv=try [S129] U.S., Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2012;). Record for William Howard Day https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=60525&h=95788200&indiv=try [S1050] Cuyahoga County, Ohio, U.S., Marriage Records and Indexes, 1810-1973, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), Cuyahoga County Archive; Cleveland, Ohio; Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Marriage Records, 1810-1973; Volume: Vol 5-7; Page: 294; Year Range: 1849 Sep - 1856 Mar. Record for William H Day https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1876&h=1340739&indiv=try [S638] Ohio, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1774-1993, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2016;). Record for William H. Day https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=61378&h=3900328&indiv=try [S2506] Newspapers.com - Los Angeles Herald - 20 Feb 1910 - Page 6, (Name: Los Angeles Herald; Location: Los Angeles, California; Date: 20 Feb 1910;), Obituary for Lucia S. D. SESSIONS 20 Feb 1910. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106338407/obituary-for-lucia-s-d-sessions/?xid=637