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Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Ancestor Birthday - May 10th - Lucy Jane Chase 1839 - 1913


Lucy Jane or Jane Lucy Chase was my 2nd great-grandmother. Her name on her obituary and funeral card was Lucy Jane. On all the censuses I found she was Jane or Jane L. Maybe her "official" name was Lucy Jane, but she used the name Jane since her mother was Lucy Irene.

She was born 10 May 1839, probably in Sharon township, Litchfield County, Connecticut, the daughter of Timothy and Lucy Irene (Howe) Chase. She married Joshua Rodney Shipman 15 Jan 1859 in Ohio. So by the time my father, Lester Albertson, was living, born 1907 in Sherman County Kansas, he would have known her at Grandma Shipman, although she actually was his great-grandmother.

From looking at a Christmas postcard that my father received as a child I think she had a sense of humor.



She wrote: Lester you catch one of these piggies for Grandpa & Grandma Shipman for our Christmas dinner.






J.R and Lucy Jane had lived in Berrien County Michigan, Mercer County Illinois and Saline County Nebraska before coming to Sherman County Kansas about 1886 where they remained until she died there 8 Jan 1913. She was buried at the Edson Cemetery. Although Lucy Jane had only 2 surviving children at the time of her death, she had 13 grandchildren and many great-grandchildren.

You can read more about her on my website: http://www.joanneskelton.com/p12.htm#i280

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