This photo is a true gem! Just look at all the writing on the back of the photo – 7 generations of names!
Jane Thompson Moore Day
Mother of Sarah Rogers Day Peck
Jean Clare’s great great grandmother
Daughter of Elizabeth Wylie & William Moore, at Washington
Pa – in the house of her grandfather William Wylie
Great-granddaughter of Jean Thompson and Robert Wylie
Great-great-granddaughter of John Thompson of Thompsontown on the Juniata river Pa.
Someone made quite the effort to make sure this kind face shall never forget her name and the names of her ancestors. But now it has lost her family. Let’s tell her story so that she can find her way back home!
Her family history has been very well researched and there are lots of resources on the Internet, I’m not going to copy-paste it all. Her ancestors founded Thompsontown in Pennsylvania in 1755, according to Wikipedia. The family relations since the American Revolution have been published in the Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the DAR Vol 055 (available on Ancestry):
Our friendly sitter was Jane Thompson Moore, born on February 22, 1814 in Jefferson County, Ohio, to parents William Moore and Elizabeth née Wylie. She married a physician, Dr. George Day, on February 2, 1836, in Jefferson, Ohio.
By 1850, the couple had moved to Oxford, Cochocton in Ohio, and had become parents to two daughters: Elizabeth and Sarah Rogers.
By 1880, Jane and George had moved in with their daughter Elisabeth’s family in Liberty, Guernsey in Ohio. Jane’s son-in-law, Samuel W. Luccock, was a farmer. One of Jane's grandsons, George, was clergyman, and the second one, Howard, a student at the time.
Dr. George Day passed away in 1892. His obituary gives us great insight re where the family had lived and worked, and it even shows a photo sketch of Jane's husband:
Link: newspapers.com
Jane Thompson Day passed away in 1895 at 81 years of age. Her obituary is as thorough as the caption on the photo!
Link: newspapers.com
I truly hope this gem will find its way back home into the hands of a genealogy loving family member! I will keep you posted!
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