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Showing posts with label Lucas William. Show all posts
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Monday, February 22, 2016

Captain William Lucas and Robert Lucas House

From Wikipedia.

A large stone house near Shepherdstown, West Virginia, in Jefferson County.  Built circa 1783 for Captain William Lucas, a Revolutionary War soldier.  His son Robert was born there who eventually became governor of Ohio.

William Lucas was the son of Edward Lucas II, who arrived in Jefferson County in 1732 and received lands from Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron.

William's wife, Susannah Barnes, sister-in-law to James Ramsey, whose steamship experiments took place on the nearby Potomac River.

Both William and Susannah are interred at the Lucasville Cemetery in Ohio.

--Brock-Perry

Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Captain John Lucas-- Part 3: Lucasville Cemetery

From Ohio Historical Marker at Lucasville Cemetery.

LUCASVILLE CEMETERY

Originally established as the Lucas Family Burying Ground.   Susannah Lucas (John Lucas' mother) 1st recorded burial on May 4, 1809.  Susannah's husband, Captain William Lucas, a Revolutionary War veteran interred here along with the first wife of Gov. Robert Lucas, Eliza "Betsy" Brown Lucas.

By 1816 used as a public burying ground.  One of the oldest cemeteries in southern Ohio.

--Brock-Perry