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| According to Lewis Parker Abell, "Julia Ann Tucker (Mrs. Robert Abell) appeared to be endowed with a most unusual memory, clearly recalling events, personal observations and experiences as early as the War of 1812, when she was but 6 years of age and later of the troublesome times of the depression of 1837 and of the Canadian Rebellion of that year and of the Fenian raids of the 60's and 70's. The rebel activities of one, Samuel Chandler, a friend of the family, were perhaps the most thrilling and romantic. According to her own recollection, as related to the writer, her grandson, in his early boyhood, she was visiting or temporarily residing with a friend or relative of the family, who to escape foreclosure or seizure of his goods and chattels for debt, packed everything on bob-sleds in the dead of winter of 1816-17 and departed for the Niagara frontier, taking with him little Miss Tucker, who never again saw her old home. However, she found herself among friends who had preceded and eventually met and married Robert Abell, of Middle Haddam, Conn. The ceremony is said to have taken place at Lewiston, N.Y., May 10, 1828, but records have not as yet been found." | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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