Mary Lucinda Pancake Mead 1859-1927
2010
Mary Lucinda Pancake was born in Jefferson Township, Coshocton County, Ohio to William Pancake (Junior) and Maria Wilmot Gallagher. She was the second child of four born to her parents. Mary Lucinda and both sisters lived to adulthood while a younger brother Oliver died as a young child. Mary’s family lived in the same vicinity as the rest of their extended family, including their paternal grandparents William and Mary Crawford Pancake and her father’s brother Samuel Pancake and his family. It is through Samuel Pancake that our ancestral line descends.
In 1865, after serving for a year, Mary’s father William returned home from the Civil War. Within weeks he was dead from an illness he contracted while in service. At the same time, within only two months of each other, Mary’s two cousins, Emma and Pauline Pancake died as well. They were just five and six years of age.
In 1867, Mary’s grandfather William Pancake died. He left a Will. In the will he instructed that some property be sold and the proceeds be shared. His son Samuel was the executor. Mary Lucinda was remembered by her grandfather in his Will. In 1879, Mary Lucinda Pancake married Francis Walter Mead in East Palestine, Ohio. There was a marriage announcement in The Valley Echo which told of the marriage. At some point in time, Mary and her husband Francis moved to Kentucky where they lived out their lives. They had one son named Carl. He was born in 1880. Carl married and had a son named Kenneth. We do not know if Mary Lucinda Pancake Mead has posterity to the present day. We have been unsuccessful finding any descendants.
This grave stone is in East Palestine, Ohio.