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LUCINDA EVERETT
BARREN COUNTY KENTUCKY
Courtesy Barren’s Black Roots, Volume 3, Michelle Gorin Burris,
Gorin Genealogical Publishing
(c) May 1993. By permission.
“Within three miles of Glasgow resides a colored
woman, named Lucinda Everett, whose record in child-bearing is
certainly remarkable. At the age of eleven years and ten months she
became a mother, and at the age of twenty-three she had nine
children, eight of whom are now living. The statements above can be
implicitly trusted as the record of her age, and the birth of the
first child were accurately recorded and reported in the medical
journals of the country at the time of the remarkable event. The
story in its whole connection is so well authenticated that there
can be no doubt of the entire accuracy. There are a number of
intelligent and trustworthy witnesses in the neighborhood who are
perfectly familiar with the woman’s history from her birth to the
present day. The fact of her becoming a mother before she had
reached twelve years of age, coupled with the additional fact of
being the mother of nine children in the brief period of twelve
years, makes it one of the most singular cases on record.”
(Original source unknown, likely the Glasgow Times.)
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