Married Edsel/Etsyl C. Davis (1848 NY-1932) on 10 Feb 1874 in Tallmanville.
In 1880 they were living in Nebraska, where Etsyl (32, NY) was listed as farmer, with Lucinda (28, PA) and son Frank (3, PA).
(Extracted from http://www.skagitriverjournal.com/Upriver/Cascades...is05-Fallis1981.html as written about her son Glee)
Lucinda had two brothers who had homesteaded on the upper reaches of the Skagit River, and was intensely interested in their progress. They were Will and George Leach, and when George Leach drowned in an accident with his canoe, Will contacted Lucinda to come on out and take up George's claim on the Cascade River. Otherwise all that he had worked for would be taken over by claim jumpers.
This was in the summer of 1890 and Lucinda Davis, still in her thirties, added cross country traveler and homesteader to her list of careers that included wife, boardinghouse keeper, school teacher, student and minister's enterprising daughter. They took the train to Salt Lake City, spent four hours at Ogden, Utah, waiting for connections with a narrow gauge railroad that took them through Idaho and on to Portland, where the train was ferried by huge barges across the Columbia River to Kalama [Washington], and on to Tacoma, which was the end of the Northern Pacific line.
They did manage to get on up to Seattle, which was still in ashes from the disastrous fire of 1889. Glee says that the Indians were still probing the ashes, looking for salvageable items. As he watched them, Glee was afraid that his straw hat, specially purchased for the trip and worn proudly across country, would blow off and the Indians would get it.
The first boat scheduled for Mount Vernon, on the Skagit River, was the Henry Bailey, of which Joshua Green was the purser. Lucinda and her band were able to book passage and they were on their way, with young Glee no doubt clutching his new straw hat. From Mount Vernon they made connections with the sternwheeler Indiana, which was operating from that point to Hamilton. A wagon road from Hamilton to Sauk City was still under construction, but the Davises traveled there on the stage coach, which had just begun operating.
Lucinda's brother, Will Leach, had his claim just above the settlement of at Sauk, and was under a fair stage of development. Will was called out at that time as a witness in a land claim case, and during the two weeks he was gone Lucinda and the children stayed at his place, picking and canning his raspberries, as well as taking care of stock and plantings. Glee especially remembers the raspberries as these were the first and best that he had ever eaten.
When Will was able to escort them on up to the claim on the Cascade River that had belonged to their brother, George Leach, he brought along a milk cow and other animals and garden stock to get them started. They had quite a time driving the cow along the Indian path beside the river, and even more trouble crossing the river above Marblemount. However, a man named Morgan Davies had rigged an effective ferry by lashing two freight canoes together and planking over the tops to form a deck.
George Leach's claim on the Cascade, now the Davis claim, consisted of 160 acres of mixed river bottom with some wooded uplands, not suitable for farming to any great extent, but considered desirable land on the speculation that the Great Northern Railway, then surveying in the field, might run its main line down this valley, linking the inland areas with the coast at Anacortes. Improvements consisted of little more than the simple, one-room cabin with sleeping loft above, some cleared garden space, and enough of a grassy clearing to put the cow out to graze.
Glee recalls that his mother was afraid of bears, Indians and just about everything else that could befall them in this new and wild land, as far up the river as you could get. However, she was able to control her fear, partly out of a need to comfort and reassure her children. As she adjusted to this new and challenging situation, she was soon looking for even wilder, more rugged country.
By 1910 Lucinda (57, PA) was listed as widowed (but apparently only divorced), and living in Tacoma with her son Frank (33, PA) a P.O. Clerk and his wife Ruby (26, AR).
In 1920 she is Lucinda J. Davis (67, PA) widowed, and landlady of a roadhouse, with son Frank E. (42, PA) and an adopted son Chester (12, WA).
Her listing in 1930 shows her as Lucinda Davis (77, PA) widowed, and her son Frank (53, PA) also widowed living with her. Strangely, she is listed as the mother of Harry Osborne (30, WA) whose mother was born in California. Harry is listed with his wife and Dawson in-laws, and could have been adopted, except he was not listed with Lucinda in 1910.