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Lydia Brahan

Female
b. after 1770, d. 16 June 1854


Family Zachariah (Zachary) Cummins b. 10 October 1766, d. 8 January 1847
Children  1. Lettice (Letty) Cummins b. 1796
  2. Peter H. Cummins b. 1798, d. c 1 Apr 1853
  3. Thomas Brahan Cummins b. c 1800, d. 5 Apr 1869
  4. Mary ("Polly") Cummins b. c 1804
  5. Asenath Cummins b. 25 Aug 1807, d. 29 Dec 1862
  6. Elizabeth Cummins b. 11 Jul 1811, d. a 1868
  7. William Cummins b. a 1814
  8. Nancy Cummins b. 15 Jan 1814, d. 12 Feb 1884
  9. Samuel Arnett Cummins b. 22 Jan 1820, d. 28 Apr 1883

Note*   In his unfinished family history, Buck Cummins writes of Lydia, "Lydia was called 'Big Granny' by many of her descendants and she must have been a fine and widely known midwife. The biography of her grandson, John Logan Cummins, (3rd gen.), in Portrait and Biographical Review, of Johnson, Massac, Pope and Hardin Counties, published by Biographical Publishing Company, Chicago, 1893, states that she was a 'physician amd travelled many, many miles on horseback to care for her patients.'"

(From Sherry , 07/22/09)
Lydia was the daughter of Mary "Polly" Brahan Gray. Her step-father, Isaac Gray raised her and signed the consent form for her to marry Zachariah Cummins. 
Birth* after 1770   
Marriage* 17 September 1795  Fauquier Co., VA, Principal=Zachariah (Zachary) Cummins 
Burial* 1854  Little Granny Cemetery (Near Reevesville), Monroe, Johnson Co., IL 
Death* 16 June 1854  Johnson Co., IL 


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