Sophronia Cushman Alexander

"The Alexander line is our one and only link between the Lymans and theKenneys. Therefore, this chapers is the most important one in the book.As you have seen it is only through the Lymans that we can trace thefamily to Alfred The Great."
"Richard Lyman - was born at High Ongar, Essex, England, October 30,1580. He came to New England in August 1631, in a ship called "TheLion", was a freman 1633, removed with Hockery Store to Hartford,Connecticut at the time of the "Great Removal" in June 1636, where hedied August 1640. He was one of the first settlers of Hartford, Conn.Pollard - "Are We Related"
Mary [Molly] Lyman was his great granddaughter. She was born to Sethand Eunice Graves Lyman in Northfield, Mass. on June 2, 1783. She wasthe second wife of Hon. George Austin Alexander, Sr. They were marriedon April 13, 1815 at Northfield, Mass. Mary and George moved fromNorthfield to Bernardston, Mass. where he died on October 12, 1829. Shemoved with her daughter Sophronia Cushman Alexander/Stephen WilliamsKenney and their family to Horse Shoe Lake, Minn. She died on February26, 1862. She was first buried on Alexander farm at Horse Shoe Lake,Minn. Later her grave was moved to a cemetery in Waterville, Minn." -Pollard - "Are We Related"

Sophronia Cushman Alexander is the daughter of Mary Lyman and GeorgeAlexander, she was named for George Alexander's first wife.
She was born January 9, 1816, Bernardston, Mass. and died June 6, 1907.Both she and Stephen died at Horse Shoe Lake and both are buried on theold Alexander farm on Horse Shoe Lake, Minn. They had nine children,eight of whom lived. - Pollard - "Are We Related'

Information from LeSueur County Genealogy Center, Elysian, MN.
Records from Morristown Twp. A-188-22 state that Sophronia was bornJanuary 9,1818 and died June 12, 1907 in Kenneyville, Morristown Twp.Rice County. Burial was in the Kenney Cemetery, Waterville, Twp. LeSueur County.

Calvary Cemetery records [Fairbault] Wells Twp. show Sophronia C. Kenney9/Jan/1818 - B; 12/June/1907 - D Cemetery 180 WE 1.
There is a Calvary Cemetery in Waterville, MN.

"Sophronia Cushman Alexander, Born 9 Jan. 1816 in Massachusetts. MarriedStephen Willams Kenney, [father of John A. and Seth H. Kenney]. Stephandied 22 Sept. 1897, Rice cou. MN Book A Page 188 Line 22. I have notlocated his grave yet. Sophornia is listed on the Morristown Twsp census1900 as living with her son, Seth H. Kenney, and was age 84 and widowed.Question is - When and where did she die and where is she buried?"

Sophronia's obituary was printed in the Waterville Gazette on June 19,1907 [see copy]