Lucinda Blood

Born: July 3, 1787 Groton, Massachusetts

Died: December 25, 1838 Nelson, Portage, Ohio

Baptism: 1834

Endowment: October 3, 1879 St. George Temple

Daughter of: Caleb Blood and Hepzibah Jewett (Sealed to Parents: April 24, 1896 Manti Temple)

Married: Johnathan Upham Cox August 31, 1807 Charleston, Massachusetts (Sealed: November 7, 1872 Endowment House)

Children:

1. William Upham Cox b: March 3, 1808 d: August 14, 1865

2. Charles Benjamin Cox b: January 12, 1810 d: April 27, 1892

3. Frederick Walter Cox b. January 20, 1812 d: June 5, 1879

4. Johnathan Cox b. October 25, 1813 d: October 25, 1813

5. Orville Southerland Cox b: November 25, 1814 d: July 4, 1888

6. Augustus Cox b: December 7, 1816 d: November 23, 1904

7. Samuel Leach Cox b: March 2, 1819 d: August 8, 1892

8. Amos Cox b: March 26, 1821 d: July 6, 1898

9. Harriet Lucinda Cox b: January 20, 1823 d: July 27, 1854

10. Esther Cox b: January 21, 1825 d: March 10, 1827

11. Mary Elizabeth Cox b: December 15, 1826 d: July 5, 1912

12. Johnathan Upham Cox b: October 13, 1830 d: July 11, 1912

The Bloods were rather tall and large in stature and were inclined toward light complexion. Caleb Blood and Hepzibah Jewett, Lucinda’s parents, were divorced by 1799. After the divorce their family was separated. That is why Lucinda came from Charlestown to work in Boston, where she met Johnathan Upham Cox. They were married August 31, 1807. Johnathan died April 21, 1830 and she moved to Nelson, Portage County, Ohio. Shortly after Joseph Smith came to Kirtland only 25 miles north of Nelson. Lucinda and her family were baptized in 1834. They moved with the prophet and other Saints to Far West, Caldwell County, Missouri in 1836. On Christmas day in 1838, Lucinda died and was buried in Windham, Portage County, Ohio.

Submitted by Ginger D. Vandenburg, 2010