As the granddaughter of Levi Gates, Lydia would have surely been raised
on the tales of her grandfather’s great escapades during the French and Indian War as well as his service durng the Revolutionary War.
How Lydia met Edwin is somewhat of a mystery, however we know from an entry by Edwin’s own hand in the Perry Family Bible that she arrived from New York in Indiana and married Edwin on May 21, 1837.
In 1837,at the ages of nineteen-years-old and seveteen-years-old, Edwin and Lydia embarked on this life together as husband and wife.
in 1844, Edwin and Lydia brought their small family to White County, Indiana and settled in the Burnettsville area where they began life as simple farmers, building on to their lives and family one day at a time.
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