Notes for: Lydia PAINE
Notes for: Lydia PAINE
Her father General Edward Paine was one of the first settlers of Painsville, OH, and the town was named for him.
Pioneer Women of Painesville, Lake County, 1800-1850
Lydia Paine Phelps was born in Canandaigua, N.Y., February 13, 1786. She was the daughter of General Edward Paine. At the age of fourteen she went along on horseback to Harpersfield, a distance of fifteen miles, through the woods with only an Indian trail to guide her, taking a grist to mill and returning with it ground into flour. A few years after she went again, alone and on horseback, to Canandaigua, N.Y., to visit her sister. She followed the bank of the lake, there being no other road, and through several rivers was obliged to swim her horse. She was married while in Canandaigua to Samuel W Phelps, a young lawyer of Painesville, to which place they returned. Her early days of pioneer life developed a character of unusual strength and energy.
Memorial to the Pioneer Women of the Western Reserve, published under the auspices of The Women's Department of the Cleveland Centennial Commission, edited by Mrs. Gertrude Van Rensselaer Wickham, 1896