Lucy Norman
(c. 1793–1873)
BIRTH
c. 1793
PLACE
Culpeper County, Virginia
NAME
Lucy Latham Norman
DEATH
1873
PLACE
Unknown
FAMILY
HUSBAND
David Stanton
(1788–1827)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Lucy Norman Stanton was mother of Edwin M. Stanton, the U.S. secretary of war, and wife of physician David Stanton. After David died in 1827, the family faced financial hardship.
EARLY LIFE
After her husband David Stanton died in 1827, Lucy Norman Stanton opened a small store in the front room of their Steubenville home, selling household goods and some of his remaining medical supplies. Her son Edwin also took work to help support the family.
CAREER
DEATH
Lucy Norman Stanton died in 1873. Union Cemetery's register records her burial on November 8 of that year in the Stanton family plot at Steubenville, Ohio. That is the burial date; the consulted record does not state her exact death date.
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