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Note: Luceva was a daughter of a French Heugonot family. John Nelson Montgomery probably met and married Luceva in North Shenango Township, Crawford County, PA, as in 1850 the majority of Luceva's family was counted in the 1850 US Census in North Shenango. She and John moved to Illinois in 1845 along with John's father and mother and two of John's diblings, to Dayton township, LaSalle County,IL. She died at the age of 26, leaving a husband, John Nelson Montgomery, and two sons: James Ivor, 4, and William Harper, 2. Her actual death year is in question since she is shown alive on the US Census of 1850 dated November 20, 1850, the date her Montgomery Family information was enumerated by the Federal Census taker. However, the date of death shown on the cemetery record of the Brower Cemetery is June 9, 1850, her age having been 26 years, 27 days. The Brower-Hess Cemetery is located on IL Route 23 about 1/4 mile south of the Montgomery Homestead at Rte 23 and Wedron Road, behind a ranch house built between the cemetery and the highway right of way. Access to the cemetery is by walking around the residence / property immediately to its west. August 29, 1897; On a business trip to the Meadville / Penn Line, PA area, Luceva's oldest son, James Ivor, visited Luceva's brother's (Abram's) son, her nephew, William W. Ward, living in New Richmond, PA, with four of his children. New Richmond, PA, is about 10 miles east of Meadville, PA, which is about 15 miles northeast of the Espyville, PA-area, from which Luceva and John Nelson Montgomery moved to Illinois, in 1846. August 29, 1897; Luceva's surviving sisters, "Aunt Eleanor" and "Aunt Polly", were 78 and 82 years of age, respectively.
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