Jane Waldsmith Young, 1806 - 1880

I love to "google" Grandma Jane and find so many hits.  She had many descendents, including daughter Sarah Bovard whose diary written in the l860's is on the internet, and she was the granddaughter of Christian Waldsmith whose home has been preserved as an historic site in Hamilton County, Ohio.

Jane's grandfather, Christian, left Pennsylvania where his dad was an immigrant German Reformed minister, and built a mill near the Ohio River in Ohio where he raised his family.  Son Peter farmed in Butler and Hamilton counties, married out of the German community, and his daughter, Jane, was born in l806.   Jane met Abner Young, a Yankee whose family had been in New England for 200 years and who had moved to Cincinnati as a young man, and they married when Jane was l7.  Around l840, Peter, whose wife had died, moved on west with most of his family, including Jane and Abner, to Jefferson County, Indiana where he bought land for farming.

Jane and Abner had l4 chilcren, one about every two years.  Several of the children died as infants or small children, and three of her daughters had tragic deaths as adults.  Jane lived the last 40 years of her life in Scott County, Indiana within a buggy ride of most of her children and sisters.

In the Chronicle March 11, 1880:  Mrs. Jane Young, a very old and much respected lady, after a short but painful spell of illness, died on the 4th inst.


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