Lovica I (Williams) Ironmonger (1851 - 1925)

Born 1851 in Ohio, United States

Died 1925 at about age 74 in Baraboo, Sauk, Wisconsin, United States

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Biography

Lovica (Williams) Ironmonger is a part of US Black heritage.

Lovica was born in 1851. She passed away in 1925.

Sources

• 1870 Census

Name Lovica Iromonger Sex Female Age 29 years Birth Year (Estimated) 1851 Birthplace Ohio, United States Marital Status Married Occupation Keeping House Race Mulatto Relationship to Head of Household Wife Event Type Census Event Date 1880 Event Place Willow, Richland, Wisconsin, United States Household Identifier 6651166 Person Number 1 Sheet Letter B Sheet Number 202 Volume 1 Affiliate Publication Number T9 Affiliate Name The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)

A little cemetery north of Loyd on highway 58 contains pioneers prominent in affairs back in the 1850s. It is located on section 2 in the town of Willow and is known as the Burdick cemetery, s members of the Ironmonger family. One stone is marked "Father - Mother William Ironmonger and Wife" No dates are upon the stone. The Ironmonger family came into Wisconsin soon after the Civil War. They took up their home at Ironton, later moving to the town of Willow and there today members of the family live a short distance south of Loyd. One of the family, Mat ( Matthrew), became known far and wide as a fiddler of local fame as he played often for dances and entertainments. Mat, now dead, could read music but his playing was almost entirely by ear. All members of the family could play. The stone for Mr. and Mrs. William Ironmonger may be for Mat's parents as his father was William Riley Ironmonger and Mat's grandfather was William E., who was born about 1810. Indian and French blood flowed in his veins and he became known as an Indian Medicine Man, according to information furnished us by Mat back in 1940. Others of the family are in the Burdick cemetery. One of these is Ardella, born in 1911, and died in 1951; Dorothy and George are there; George, born in 1911, died in 1939,; and there is Edna. Living members of the family keep the lots in nice shape and when we were there about April 17th, pretty flowers and wreaths dotted the graves, the only ones in the burying ground. The present generation do not forget those who have gone on before.

Page 103 Tales The Tombstones Tell - Republican Observer - August 15, 1957 by S W Fago. p 103.