Janete Carter, 18241907 (aged 82 years)

Birth
Birth of a brother
Note: His biographical sketch in the Chapman Brothers book of 1887 gives his birthdate as Aug 6.
Birth of a sister
Anecdote
Citation details: page 8
Citation details: page 603
Note: Jane and her family moved to the Ashmore area when she was a child.
Birth of a sister
Death of a father
Note: secondary sources say he died July 9
Burial of a father
Anecdote
Note: Six of their eleven children (Mary, George, Thomas B., Emma, James, and Albert) preceded them in death.
Religion
Presbyterian. She remained a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Ashmore, Illinois for 65 years. The church had been organized after a revival in Ashmore during her youth.
1842
Marriage
Note: Officiant was H. C. Dunbar, JP
Birth of a son
Death of a brother
Birth of a daughter
Death of a sister
Birth of a daughter
Residence
Birth of a son
Note: According to his cemetery marker, he was born a day later, on April 26.
Birth of a son
Death of a son
Birth of a daughter
Note: Her cemetery marker says she lived 30 years, 11 months, and 16 days. That would make her birth date 28 June 1857. The birth date given in her parent's Bible is more likely correct.
Death of a sister
Note: The Coles County Portrait and Biographical Album give her death year as 1856.
Death of a daughter
Burial of a daughter
Birth of a son
Death of a mother
Burial of a mother
Birth of a son
Anecdote
Note: She inherited $39.57 from her mother.
Anecdote
Note: During the Civil War, Coles County furnished more than its quota of soldiers, including some of Caleb's nephews. Most volunteers, however, were from the western part of the county. On the eastern side, where the Reeds lived, there were many rebel sympathizers who, like the Reeds, had come from Kentucky. They had not been slaveholders themselves but hated abolitionists and the draft. As the war progressed, troops constantly moved through the area, and local farmers supplied corn at the high war price of $.60 per bushel.
Birth of a son
Anecdote
Note: In March 1864, Caleb and Jane must have watched with interest as tensions between Union soldiers and local insurgents known as Copperheads heightened in Coles County. On March 28, 1864, violence erupted when the former sheriff of Coles County and the Copperheads attacked a group of soldiers in Charleston, the county seat 10 miles from the Reed farm. In the end, 9 people died, 12 were wounded, and 29 men were arrested in the Charleston Riot. Among those apprehended was one of Caleb's relatives by marriage, John Galbreath.
Death of a son
Burial of a son
Birth of a daughter
Birth of a son
Marriage of a son
Note: Officiant was O. D. Hawkins, JP
Anecdote
Note: The census taker reported that Jane could read but could not write.
Marriage of a daughter
Marriage of a son
Marriage of a daughter
Anecdote
Citation details: page 4
Note: When they retired from the farm, Caleb and Jane moved into Ashmore. They lived in one house for awhile and then traded houses with their friend Newt Austin for a home located mid-block west of the Presbyterian Church. When their grandchildren visited, they sent them to the butcher shop to buy for the noon dinner.
Marriage of a son
Citation details: p. 8
Citation details: page 800
Marriage of a son
Note: The officiant was P. K. Honn, minister of the Gospel.
Death of a sister
Marriage of a daughter
Death of a sister
Death of a son
Death of a daughter
Death of a son
Burial of a son
Note: no marker
Death of a brother
Note: Find A Grave claims he died in 1893.
Marriage of a daughter
Death of a sister
Death of a brother
Burial of a brother
Anecdote
Note: Her husband Caleb went to take his usual rest after breakfast while she attended to her household duties. Thinking he had slept long enough, she went to rouse him and found that he had passed away.
Death of a husband
Note: Mr. Reed had been ill for a long time with kidney trouble and died very suddenly. He ate a hearty breakfast and was taking his usual rest after that meal and felt as well as usual. There was no one present when he passed away. His aged companion was in another room attending to her household duties. Thinking that he had slept long enough she went to rouse him and found he had passed over the river.
Burial of a husband
Note: Rev. King [Presbyterian] conducted the funeral service at the family home.
Anecdote
Citation details: page 5
Note: Jane spent her final days at the home of her daughter Martha. As she breathed her last breaths, she asked her son-in-law Jim Wright and granddaughter Pearl Wright to sing a hymn. They stopped when they thought she was no longer breathing, but she roused and commanded them to continue.
Anecdote
Note: The [Mattoon] Daily Journal-Gazette reported that Mrs. Jane Reed, an aged lady, is quite ill.
Anecdote
about March 1907
Citation details: page 39
Note: During her final illness no one tried to keep her from knowing that the end was near. She made all her own last arrangements. She asked Mrs. Brown, who lived nearby, to help with her laying out. She wanted the promise that after she was dressed that Mrs. Brown would run her hand beneath her and smooth her dress because "I can't abide a wrinkle".
Cause of Death
Note: inanition due to influenza
Death
Anecdote
Note: Funeral services from the family residence, Rev. Jonathan Williams officiating
Burial
Family with parents
father
Mary and John Carter scanned p
17901841
Birth: July 19, 1790 Greene County, Tennessee
Death: July 19, 1841Ashmore Township, Coles County, Illinois
mother
Mary and John Carter scanned p
17921857
Birth: December 25, 1792 Tennessee
Death: November 11, 1857
Marriage MarriageFebruary 9, 1815Greenville, Greene County, Tennessee
6 months
elder sister
18151884
Birth: July 24, 1815 25 22 Sumner County, Tennessee
Death: May 3, 1884Ashmore, Coles County, Illinois
17 months
elder brother
18161890
Birth: December 23, 1816 26 23 Kentucky
Death: May 25, 1890Ashmore Township, Coles County, Illinois
2 years
elder sister
18181901
Birth: November 1818 28 25 Kentucky
Death: October 27, 1901
2 years
elder brother
18201847
Birth: after December 15, 1820 30 27 Wayne County, Kentucky
Death: 1847Rardin, Coles County, Illinois
2 years
elder sister
18231855
Birth: February 22, 1823 32 30 Kentucky
Death: October 31, 1855Rardin, Coles County, Illinois
22 months
herself
Jane and Caleb Reed scanned ph
18241907
Birth: December 15, 1824 34 31 Wayne County, Kentucky
Death: April 30, 1907the home of her daughter, Mrs. Martha Wright, Ashmore, Coles County, Illinois
3 years
younger brother
18271903
Birth: August 9, 1827 37 34 Wayne County, Kentucky
Death: August 19, 1903Morgan Twp., Coles County, Illinois
2 years
younger sister
18291848
Birth: July 18, 1829 38 36 Kentucky
Death: July 11, 1848Ashmore Township, Coles County, Illinois
3 years
younger sister
18321885
Birth: September 2, 1832 42 39 Illinois
Death: September 27, 1885Oregon
Family with Joseph Caleb Reed
husband
Jane and Caleb Reed scanned ph
18181903
Birth: December 1, 1818 34 36 Elk Creek, Shelby County, Kentucky
Death: November 10, 1903his home, Ashmore, Coles County, Illinois
herself
Jane and Caleb Reed scanned ph
18241907
Birth: December 15, 1824 34 31 Wayne County, Kentucky
Death: April 30, 1907the home of her daughter, Mrs. Martha Wright, Ashmore, Coles County, Illinois
Marriage MarriageFebruary 22, 1844Coles County, Illinois
14 months
son
Nancy and Samuel Reed scanned
18451928
Birth: April 9, 1845 26 20 Ashmore Township, Coles County, Illinois
Death: October 2, 1928Jacksonville State Hospital, Jacksonville, Morgan County, Illinois
3 years
daughter
18471855
Birth: October 31, 1847 28 22 Coles County, Illinois
Death: December 19, 1855
2 years
daughter
18491918
Birth: October 12, 1849 30 24 Ashmore Township, Coles County, Illinois
Death: November 8, 1918Ashmore, Coles County, Illinois
19 months
son
18511886
Birth: April 25, 1851 32 26 Ashmore Twp., Coles County, Illinois
Death: June 2, 1886Ashmore, Coles County, Illinois
2 years
son
18531854
Birth: May 19, 1853 34 28
Death: April 12, 1854
2 years
daughter
18551888
Birth: June 27, 1855 36 30 Coles County, Illinois
Death: June 13, 1888
22 months
son
Mamie and John Reed scanned ph
18571921
Birth: April 27, 1857 38 32 Ashmore, Coles County, Illinois
Death: October 11, 1921Ashmore, Coles County, Illinois
3 years
son
Myrtle and Thomas Reed scanned
18601925
Birth: February 16, 1860 41 35 Ashmore Township, Coles County, Illinois
Death: December 22, 1925Ashmore, Coles County, Illinois
23 months
son
18621864
Birth: January 1, 1862 43 37 Coles County, Illinois
Death: September 3, 1864
2 years
daughter
18641954
Birth: April 21, 1864 45 39 Ashmore, Coles County, Illinois
Death: July 9, 1954
2 years
son
18661890
Birth: April 16, 1866 47 41 Coles County, Illinois
Death: March 8, 1890
Birth
Citation details: reprinted in Hayden's "The Reeds of Ashmore" pages 80 and 81
Citation details: page 603
Anecdote
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Citation details: page 603
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Name
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Name
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Name
Religion
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Marriage
Citation details: reprinted in Hayden's "The Reeds of Ashmore" pages 80-82
Citation details: page 603
Residence
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Cause of Death
Death
Anecdote
Burial
Anecdote

Jane and her family moved to the Ashmore area when she was a child.

Marriage

Officiant was H. C. Dunbar, JP

Anecdote

She inherited $39.57 from her mother.

Anecdote

During the Civil War, Coles County furnished more than its quota of soldiers, including some of Caleb's nephews. Most volunteers, however, were from the western part of the county. On the eastern side, where the Reeds lived, there were many rebel sympathizers who, like the Reeds, had come from Kentucky. They had not been slaveholders themselves but hated abolitionists and the draft. As the war progressed, troops constantly moved through the area, and local farmers supplied corn at the high war price of $.60 per bushel.

Anecdote

In March 1864, Caleb and Jane must have watched with interest as tensions between Union soldiers and local insurgents known as Copperheads heightened in Coles County. On March 28, 1864, violence erupted when the former sheriff of Coles County and the Copperheads attacked a group of soldiers in Charleston, the county seat 10 miles from the Reed farm. In the end, 9 people died, 12 were wounded, and 29 men were arrested in the Charleston Riot. Among those apprehended was one of Caleb's relatives by marriage, John Galbreath.

Anecdote

The census taker reported that Jane could read but could not write.

Anecdote

When they retired from the farm, Caleb and Jane moved into Ashmore. They lived in one house for awhile and then traded houses with their friend Newt Austin for a home located mid-block west of the Presbyterian Church. When their grandchildren visited, they sent them to the butcher shop to buy for the noon dinner.

Anecdote

Her husband Caleb went to take his usual rest after breakfast while she attended to her household duties. Thinking he had slept long enough, she went to rouse him and found that he had passed away.

Anecdote

Jane spent her final days at the home of her daughter Martha. As she breathed her last breaths, she asked her son-in-law Jim Wright and granddaughter Pearl Wright to sing a hymn. They stopped when they thought she was no longer breathing, but she roused and commanded them to continue.

Anecdote

The [Mattoon] Daily Journal-Gazette reported that Mrs. Jane Reed, an aged lady, is quite ill.

Anecdote

During her final illness no one tried to keep her from knowing that the end was near. She made all her own last arrangements. She asked Mrs. Brown, who lived nearby, to help with her laying out. She wanted the promise that after she was dressed that Mrs. Brown would run her hand beneath her and smooth her dress because "I can't abide a wrinkle".

Cause of Death

inanition due to influenza

Anecdote

Funeral services from the family residence, Rev. Jonathan Williams officiating

Anecdote

Six of their eleven children (Mary, George, Thomas B., Emma, James, and Albert) preceded them in death.