Newaygo County MI Archives Biographies.....Train, Lurena (Allen) February 7, 1829 - 
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MRS. LURENA (ALLEN) TRAIN, resident on section 28, Grant Township, was born in 
Pavilion, Genesee Co., 

N.Y., Feb. 7, 1829, and is the daughter of Amasa and Sophia (Kentfield) 
Allen.  Her parents were members 

of the farming fraternity all their lives, and descended respectively from 
English and Scotch parentage.  

They were natives of New England, and in 1834 removed to Medina Co., Ohio, 
where they settled, in Hinkley 

Township.

The daughter was married Dec. 31, 1854, to Samuel Train, now deceased.  He was 
born March 2, 1833, in 

Massachusetts.  His parents, Samuel and Mary (Burch) Train, removed in his 
youth to Hinkley Township, 

above mentioned, where he grew to manhood, and was married, at 22 years of 
age.  He was occupied in 

farming until he enlisted as a soldier for the Union in 1862.  He enrolled in 
the Fifth Regt. Ohio 

Sharpshooters, Co. A.  The regiment was first assigned to the command of Gen. 
Rosencrans and afterwards to 

that of Gen. Thomas.  Mr. Train was in much active and perilous duty. Being 
brave and skiled in rifle 

practice, he was frequently detailed for important and perilous service.  He 
was in the battle of 

Chickahominy and afterwards was ill with camp diarrhea.  May 9, 1865, while 
recovering from a serious 

attack of the disease named, he was exposed to small-pox, of which he died 
after six days' illness.  His 

death occurred May 15, 1865, in the hospital at Nashville, Tenn., and he was 
buried in the Second Army 

Cemetery in the city where he died.

Mrs. Train came to Michigan in the summer of 1855 and entered a homestead 
claim in Grant Township, where 

she has since resided.  Her first purchase consisted of 120 acres of timber 
land.  Of this 20 acres were 

afterward sold and purchase made of 60 acres, and the farm now includes 160 
acres.  At the time she made 

her location the township was not organized, the postoffice was ten miles 
distant and the nearest mill 16 

miles away.  She came with her two sons to clear and improve a home for the 
father and husband, who was 

earning the best right to home and country by exposing his life for their 
preservation.  He died in a 

better cause than they who encountered the same peril to found an independence 
on a shameful and mad 

principle, and the home for which he hoped, and the land for which he yielded 
up wife, children and life, 

abide, the fixed monuments of his devoted, unflinching patriotism.  He left 
two sons, one of whom is yet 

living, John B., born April 8, 1861.  Willie was born Nov. 13, 1858, and died 
Aug. 15, 1873.  He was the 

first born and to young to realize the loss of his father.  In his death the 
mother suffered anew the loss 

of the husband of her youth.

John B. Train was married Aug. 3, 1879, to Sarah V. Baker, in Ohio Dec. 9, 
1856.  Leona E., only child was 

born July 22, 1880.

Additional Comments:
1884 Portrait & Bio Album of Newaygo Co.

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