Person:Lucinda Collins (3)

Lucinda arrived with her parents at Puget Sound in September 1851, at the age of about 13 or 14, as part of the first white party of settlers. She is still living with her widowed mother in 1860, but apparently soon there after married Joseph Fares, a former Hudson Bay company man, born in Canada. They were among the first settlers in the Snoqualmie Valley, where Lucinda's uncle Jeremiah Borst had settled a few years before. The Fares property would later be known as Tollgate Farm, located on the western entrance to North Bend.^[3]

Records of the Third Judicial District in Washington Territory include a suit between Lucinda and Joseph with a judgment dated May 30, 1878, which might be their divorce (Lucinda was remarried by 1880) and following the divorce Lucinda stayed on the farm. She returned to the family homestead on the Duwamish after the death of her father, and died there in 1886 from an infected wound in her toe.^[2]

1.   King, Washington, United States. 1870 U.S. Census Population Schedule.

   Joseph Fares 32 Canada, Lucinda 34 NY. She has $3000 RE, he has $250 (Squak and Snoqualmie, p. 95B, 7/6/1870)

2. ↑ Lucinda Collins Fares, in HistoryLink
   [1].
3. ↑ History of Tollgate Farm, [2]