Grundy County IL Archives Obituaries.....Button, Lucinda 1876
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Morris Herald, June 16, 1876
Lucinda, wife of Morgan Button, died at their residence in Wauponsee, May 
26th, 1876. She was born in Pennsylvania in October, 1831, at the age of nine 
years she with her parents, moved to Highland county, Ohio, and thence to this 
county in 1849. During her stay in Ohio, she embraced the religion of Christ 
and united with the church, in which connection she lived until her 
death. About this time Death deprived her of her mother. On moving into this 
county, the family settled just south of the river on what is now known as the 
old Claypool farm. Here the scene to them was a wild one; the great open 
prairie, stretching off to the south and west with its tall grasses 
interspersed with flowers, the hum of the wild bee, the singing of birds, the 
bounding of the deer, the howl of the prairie wolf, presented to this young 
girl of eighteen summers a scene full of romantic beauty. Soon after they had 
become settled in their new home while crossing the river at Morris, an 
acquaintance was formed with the young ferryman, Morgan Button, to whom she 
afterward plighted herself in matrimony. Shortly after their marriage, 
contrary to the advice and entreaty of friends, they moved some two or three 
miles further out on the great prairie, taking up a piece of canal land which 
was thought to be almost worthless. From this undertaking the young wife did 
not shrink, but bravely urged her husband forward, saying that she knew that 
sacrifice and hardship would be the result, but if they were persevering and 
industrious, they could soon make for themselves a comfortable home. So it 
proved; the soil was excellent, the country about them settled up rapidly and 
with God’s blessing upon their efforts they soon found themselves in easy 
circumstances. For many years they enjoyed together the fruit of early 
sacrifice and toil. She was a lady of great energy and force of 
character. Notwithstanding the fact that she was burdened with the cares and 
responsibilities of a large family, she always found time for outside duties-
time to look after and administer to the needs of the sick – time to help 
onward all undertakings that had for their object the upbuilding and bettering 
of society-and time for active work in the church. She will be missed – missed 
as a Christian lady, as a friend and neighbor, but above all she will be 
missed as a mother. The sympathy and kindness shown by the entire neighborhood 
during her long and tedious illness, the willingness manifested by all to do 
whatever could be done, that would in any way add to her ease and comfort is a 
higher testimony to her worth and merit than any word that might now be said 
or written. Though she has gone from among us, her active life remains a 
living monument of what she has been.

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