Jane Jack
ID # 7054, (1839-1921)
| Father | James Jack (1808-1894) |
| Mother | Jean Hood (1812-1899) |
| Birth | Jane Jack was born in 1839 at Innisfil Township, Simcoe District. |
| Marriage | She married Charles Keith on 24 May 1861 at Simcoe County. MS248 reel 14, Vol. 63, page 68 Simcoe County Marriage Register Extracted from a list of marriages solemnized by Charles Silvester, a minister of the Wesleyan Church for the year ending 31 December, A.D. 1861 Charles Keith, 24, born Scotland, residing Angus. Parents William and Ann Keith. Jane Jack, 21, born Innisfil, residing Angus. Parents James and Jane Jack. Witnesses James H. Jack and Eliza Shaw, both of Angus. On 24 May 1861. |
| Death | She died on 20 April 1921. |
| Burial | She was buried at Valhalla Cemetery, Bel-Nor, St. Louis County, Missouri. |
| Note | Jane's place of birth is shown on her marriage registration as Innisfil. This was a township in present day Simcoe County. Innisfil had been a township first in the Home District until March of 1837 when the Simcoe District was hived off from the Home District, though this was not officially proclaimed until 1843 for it took this long for a district court house to be built. On 30 May, 1849, the Simcoe District was abolished and Innisfil became a township in the newly formed Simcoe County. Jane was with her parents in Essa Township of Simcoe County as of the 1861 census, which was begun on the 4th of January of that year. She is shown as age 21 as she is in her marriage registration which is dated May 24th of the same year. Unless Jane's date of birth was an early January date, it's safe to say that later in the year she was age 22. This should make her year of birth 1839. Finding clear place names of birth in this era can be frustrating, but the marriage registrations for Jane and her older brother John both show Innisfil as their place of birth. Available land record information is limited for reasons that won't be discussed here, but father James Jack received a Crown Patent for the west half of lot 12 on the 2nd concession of Essa Township, Simcoe County, on October 27, 1854, and, considering such information as we have of the family's history, at the least the younger children of James Jack and Jean/Jane Hood will have been born in Innisfil prior to the family's move to Essa Township. Charles Keith and his wife Jane Jack Keith have yet to be found in the Canadian 1871 census or the American 1870 census, but they do appear at Council Bluffs, Iowa, as of the 1880 U. S. census. This census shows Charles as working for a rail road. The couple's first three children, James, 18, a printer, Mary 15 and Jennie 12, are all shown as being born in Canada. There were two younger children, Julia age 5, and Charles age 1, who are both shown as being born in Iowa. Interestingly, also with the family is Jane's father James Jack, age 70. He is shown as father-in-law to Charles. We must believe James to have been visiting with his daughter and her family at the time, for by the time of the 1881 census in Canada he is with his wife Jane and his daughters Agnes and Hannah in Tiverton Village, Bruce County, Ontario. The 1890 U. S. census was destroyed by a fire and so is lost to us for information for Charles and Jane. At some point, however, the family must have gone to the Lincoln, Nebraska, area where Jane's brother John Jack was located, for her husband Charles Keith, according to Find-a-Grave, died there in 1896. He is buried in Wyuka Cemetery, Lincoln, Nebraska. Jane Keith is to be found in Kane Township, Iowa, as of the 1900 census. She has two sons with her. She has yet to be found in later census year, but Find-a-Grave shows her death on 20 April 1921 in St. Louis County, Missouri, and her burial in Valhalla Cemetery, Bel-Nor, St. Louis County, Missouri. |
| Last Edited | 11 Jun 2019 |