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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