Embry, Lucinda
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Embry, Lucinda
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Female
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Biography
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Lucinda Embry was likely born sometime in the 1840s or maybe late 1830s in Garrard County, Kentucky. She was the daughter of Jim Embry, who Talton Embry enslaved. Lucinda’s mother’s name is unknown, but she was likely enslaved by the Wheeler family, who owned land in Gerrard County east of Lancaster. Lucinda had at least one sibling, a brother whose name is unknown. He died, likely sometime in the 1860s, and was buried on the Wheeler’s property. According to her son, she made his passing somewhat challenging. Lucinda had two children with Dan Bogie, who was enslaved by the Bogie family in Kirksville in Madison County. Her oldest child was a boy named Dan, after his father, and he was born on May 5, 1858. She also had a daughter born in 1860, but her name is unknown. The family of four lived in a one-room cabin on the Bogie’s 200-acre property. Lucinda and Dan slept on a high-post, corded bed while their children shared a trundle bed, also corded. While they were infants, Lucinda would rock her children in a cradle made from a wooden box with a pair of rockers nailed onto it. Though the work she did varied, she spent much time working with wool, carding it and spinning it into yarn. When they did not have to work on Saturday afternoons, Lucinda would work on piecing quilts with other enslaved women in the area. Sometime after 1860, Lucinda was baptized in Paint Lick Creek by a Baptist preacher.
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Embry family
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Bogie family
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Slaveholder(s): Wheeler, Bob
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Bibliographic citation(s)
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Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 7, Kentucky, Bogie-Woods with combined interviews of others. 1936. Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/mesn070/.
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