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- Lydia, her husband Elmer Hibbard and their seven children arrived at the mouth of the Brazos River in Brazoria County, Texas in February 1836 from Cincinnati, Ohio. She received land in Bosque County, Texas now known as The Lydia Hibbard Survey. She received a land grant for 1,280 acres in Harris County, Texas on January 2, 1840. She was entitled to a conditional 1,280 acres from the Donations Of Land To Emigrants arriving subsequent to the Texas Declaration of Independence before October 1837. An attachment states that she was eligible for an unconditional certificate.
On April 1, 1844 she signed her land over to James Hughes and the patent was issued to him. Class 2 grants were given to arrivals after March 2,1836, but before October 1, 1837. They were based on a Conditional Certificate which required 3 years of responsible citizenship before an Unconditional Certificate could be issued that might lead to a patent. The land could not be sold in the meantime.
Lydia did not receive the final title to her land. She transferred the entitlement to James Hughes, who located the land in Bosque County, northeast of Waco, Texas. This tract of land should appear on maps as The Lydia Hibbard Survey, but does not indicate that she was ever in Bosque County. In order to receive entitlement, she had to physically appear to apply. She appeared in Harrisburg (now Houston, Texas in Harris County) in 1840, but was in Ft. Bend County in 1844 when she obtained her certificate.
According to the 1850 U.S. Cenus, she appeared to be in Ft. Bend County, Texas on June 1, 1850. She purchased 20 acres of land from James Jameson of Ft. Bend County, Texas for $80.00. The land was taken off of the upper portion of a tract of land containing 80 acres purchased by Jameson from J.P. Hoffman from the F.P. Hoffman 320 acres of land granted to him by a patend on November 16, 1854. She then sold 5 acres of this land to Loran Hibbard for $20.00 on May 8, 1858.
Some records also refer to her as "Lidia", "Liddia" and "Liddie". She died sometime after 1860 and appeared on the 1860 U.S. Census Texas taken June 1, 1860, Stafford's Point, Ft. Bend County, Texas as Household #209, Family #190 and consisted of seven people: Lidia (age 60?), born in Connecticut, had $200 in Real Estate and $500 in personal belongings. She lived with son Loron (age 33), Mary (wife of Loron) - (age 33), and Loron and Mary's four children: Sam (age 7), O.J (age 6) - female, John (age 5) - male, and Levi (age 1) - male.
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1800 - 1870 (70 years)
