Lorinda Houser ^{1 3 4 5}

   Another name for Lorinda was Lorinda Howser.

  Noted events in her life were:

• She appeared on the 1840 US Census in , Logan County, IL on June 1840. ⁶

1840 US Census
Page 246, Roll 63
, Logan County, Illinois
Females
under 5: 1 = (Lorinda, daughter, age 3 months)
(Living with parents.)
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• She has alternate birth date of 5 November 1840 and a birth location of , Logan County, IL.

This alternate birth date is deemed not plausible because the 1840 census conducted on 1 Jun 1840 showed the presence of one female under the age of 5. There were no other daughters in the family so therefore the one female infant that was present must have been Lorinda. Of course, there is the remote possibility that there was an unknown daughter that could have been between the ages of 1 and 5 and then with the birth of Lorinda in November 1840. But there are no other records to indicate the presence of yet another unknown daughter therefore the young child on the 1840 census must have been Lorinda and she must have been born before 1 June 1840.
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• She appeared on the 1850 US Census in , Logan County, IL on 1 November 1850. ⁸

1850 US Census
Page 224, Roll 116, Dwelling 775, Family 784
, Logan County, Illinois
Lorinda Houser..11..IL

(Living with parents.)

NOTE - If her birth date was 5 Nov 1840, then her age should have been 9 instead of 11.
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Lorinda married Rev. Samuel Reese Shull on 24 June 1860 in , Logan County, IL.^{1 2} (Rev. Samuel Reese Shull was born on 9 August 1831 in Kentucky,² died on 4 April 1922 in Fort Scott, KS and was buried in April 1922 in Fort Scott, KS.)