Lydia McGlamery

Lydia (Lincoln) Bryan McGlamery, daughter of "Virginia" John Lincoln and Rebecca (Flowers) Morris Lincoln and twin of their daughter Hannah, was married first to a son of Thomas Bryan, presumably Benjamin who is the only son not named in Thomas's will. The couple had just one child, Hannah (Bryan) McDaniel, before Benjamin's apparent early death. Lydia soon married Mathias McGlamery and had several children more.

Sometime in or before 1783, Lydia left Rockingham County, Virginia with Mathias and their children, including young Hannah. They made a home in Greenbrier [now Monroe] County, West Virginia, where Mathias held several Greenbrier County deeds, as published in vol. 5 of Larry G. Shuck's "Greenbrier County [W]Va Deeds 1780-1814". Mathias died in Monroe County in 1817 and left a will (Will Book 1, p. 390) bequeathing his land to Lydia and, upon her death, to their daughter and son-in-law Sarah and John Wray.

Two years later, however, John and Sally Wray and Liddy McGlamry sold the property (Monroe Co. Deed Book G, pp. 124, 125) and moved to Walnut Township in Gallia County, Ohio, where Lydia's daughter and son-in-law Hannah and Henry McDaniel, Jr., had gone in 1811. In the 1820 census for Walnut Township, 26-44-year-old John Ray is listed on the same page of the census as Henry, and John's household included both a female also age 26-44, apparently his wife, and a female age 45-up, who - considering the next record - must be Lydia.

Sometime in or before 1829, Lydia moved again with Sarah and John, this time to Vermillion County, Indiana, where the three were founding members of the Hopewell Primitive Baptist Church. Their names appear in the original church records, extracts of which were transcribed and published in 1970 by Patricia J. Smith under the title, "History of the Hopewell Primitive Baptist Church and Cemetery Records 1829-1968" : John Ray, Sary Ray, and Lydia Mae Glanary. "Mae Glanary" is a clear misreading of Lydia's last name, MacGlamery.

In the year after Hopewell was founded, Lydia was still living with John and Sarah in Vermillion County. At the time, she would have been about 82 years of age, and John's household included both his wife age 50-59 and a female age 80-89. The 1830 census is the last record of Lydia (Lincoln) Bryan McGlamery.

Unfortunately, the Lincoln Family Cemetery photo attached to this profile mistakenly leads one to believe that Lydia is buried there. While her parents are, Lydia herself almost certainly lies at rest in Vermillion County, Indiana, likely at the Hopewell church cemetery, now known simply as Hopewell Cemetery. A proposed biography and correction of Lydia's date of death and place of burial as currently shown on her Findagrave memorial have been suggested to the manager of that memorial.

Note: The Lincoln cemetery is just north of Harrisonburg in what was called Linville area on Rte. 11, where this photo was taken. This small cemetery is looked after by the local DAR chapter. Lydia's twin sister, Hannah, may be buried there since she did not leave Rockingham County.