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| Lived 85 years 7 months 28 days. Died at home of her daughter Sarah Winters, 1.5 mi NE of Mazie, Oklahoma. Married October 5, 1852 at Cynthiana, Posey County, Indiana by Elder Louis Duncan. Witnesses were Elijah and Margaret M. Turner, (bride's parents), and by Nelson Martin. (Nelson Martin was probably father or brother of James Martin).95 Cynthia was a bit of a firebrand! There are a couple of good pictures of her and in the second picture you can see a little Hatchet pin at her neck. It is photographed below. It is her "Carrie A. Nation" Temperance pin. It is gold, with mother-of-pearl blade, and set with a small ruby, which she was entitled to wear for recruiting five other members to chop up saloons!2 I believe cousin Margaret Lauterbach Cox has the pin.6 | |||||||||||||||||
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| I now know Cynthia's second husband was named 'John' Shelton, a widower who lived in Coffey County, Kansas (next to Greenwood County), and that Cynthia married him 19 Aug 1880 (based on Marriage Application Record 18 Aug 1880, Recorded 25 Aug 1880, Burlington, Coffey County, Kansas. I was put on trail of this info by a Shelton researcher, who was researching John Shelton. What gets interesting about it is that when Cynthia married John (two years after James died), they both had previous children (Ira was only 11). But Cynthia seems to have left John before he died, because in her pension application letter (he was in the Mexican War) she states that she doesn't know his death date and that his children will not tell her when he died or where he is buried. So there must have been some hard feelings. Some confirmation of this is that I do know that by the 1889 Run into Oklahoma Indian Teritory, Cynthia was living with her daughter Sarah (my great grandmother). Also confirming, at least to me, my grandmother told me that her mother said "Grandma Shelton got re-married for the attention", and my grandfather would then say "she did it for his pension." From what I have heard of her from her grandchildren, (my grandmother and great uncles), she wasn't a particularly pleasant woman to be around. In later life spending most of her energy on the temperance movement of Carrie Nation, and hacking up saloons. My grandmother told me she was taken to several such temperance meetings when she was a small girl. Cynthia's daughter Sarah (my GGM) and Sarah's husband Martin Winters (my GGF) were fairly fanatically religious. Even shortly after he was dead, when I was a child, Martin Winters was still remembered in the community for arguing the number of angels that could dance on the head of a pin. And best avoided if you wanted to accomplish something with your time, other than arguing religion. So the zeal that Margaret and Elijah seemed to have practiced was still apparent two generations down. (PLH 2003). | |||||||||||||||||
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