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- Many online sources, including findagrave.com and famouskin.com, give him as a son of Jacob Street Hemingway (1791-1863) and his wife Lucretia Smith (1785-1875). But Jacob Street Hemingway, a son of Jacob Hemingway (1764-1838) and Abigail Linsley (1767-1835), married Polly Hinman in Connecticut in May 1815, and she lived to 28 Mar 1885. And yet:
The 1850 census of Plymouth, Lichtfield, Connecticut lists Allen Hemingway, 42 years old, merchant, in the same household as his wife Harriet, 31, and a woman explicitly identified as his mother, Lucretia Smith, born in Connecticut 65 years old.
The 1860 census lists, in the same household, Lucretia Smith, born in Connecticut, 75.
The 1870 census lists, in the same household, Lucretia Smith, born in Connecticut, 85.
Meanwhile, the will of the aforementioned Jacob Hemingway, 1837, mentions his daughter Lucretia and his grandson Allen Himingway. According to the Wikitree page for Jacob Hemingway, other related probate documents identify daughter Lucretia as Lucretia Smith.
It is hard to avoid the conclusion that Lucretia Smith, who lived as an elderly woman for at least twenty years in the household of Allen Hemingway, was the Lucretia Hemingway recorded as born in Plymouth, Connecticut on 1 May 1785 to the aforementioned Jacob Hemingway and Abigail Linsley, that she married a man named Smith, and that for whatever reason, Allen Hemingway, for whom we have no birth record, adopted his mother's surname instead that of his Smith father. The dates line up perfectly, as does the 1837 will of Jacob Hemingway.
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Nielsen Hayden genealogy
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