Individual Details
Janette "Jinny" Elliot
(11 Dec 1820 - 6 Sep 1899)
Member of the Presbyterian Church. She wrote poetry for the Fremont Journal and other newspapers.
At the age of four, she was taken by her elder sisters to see Lafayette, who visited the village school, and in her young womanhood she knew Catharine and Harriet Beecher (Stowe) who lived for a time in Brattleboro. The Hunts, William the artist, and Richard, the architect, were her school-fellows; and Mrs. Sigourney and President Mark Hopkins were friends of her youth. Her school life in Brattleboro was followed by two years at Mrs. Draper's private school at Hartford, Conn., after which she lived with brothers and sisters in North Adams, Mass, New Haven, Conn., and Providence, R.I. She was living in Providence at the time of the Dorr Rebellion in 1842 and was one day herself watched and followed as a suspected spy. In 1850 she made her first visit to her brother John R. Pease, an influential citizen of Lower Sandusky, now Fremont, Ohio, and returned again and again to enjoy what was then absolutely frontier life. The long trip from the east was made by way of the lakes. On her first arrival in Lower Sandusky, the wagon containing herself and her trunk was stranded in a mud hole on what was afterwards her home for over forty years, now in the very heart of the city.
Extracted from
"In Memoriam" - Fremont Journal, Sept 8, 1899, pg. 3, col. 4
At the age of four, she was taken by her elder sisters to see Lafayette, who visited the village school, and in her young womanhood she knew Catharine and Harriet Beecher (Stowe) who lived for a time in Brattleboro. The Hunts, William the artist, and Richard, the architect, were her school-fellows; and Mrs. Sigourney and President Mark Hopkins were friends of her youth. Her school life in Brattleboro was followed by two years at Mrs. Draper's private school at Hartford, Conn., after which she lived with brothers and sisters in North Adams, Mass, New Haven, Conn., and Providence, R.I. She was living in Providence at the time of the Dorr Rebellion in 1842 and was one day herself watched and followed as a suspected spy. In 1850 she made her first visit to her brother John R. Pease, an influential citizen of Lower Sandusky, now Fremont, Ohio, and returned again and again to enjoy what was then absolutely frontier life. The long trip from the east was made by way of the lakes. On her first arrival in Lower Sandusky, the wagon containing herself and her trunk was stranded in a mud hole on what was afterwards her home for over forty years, now in the very heart of the city.
Extracted from
"In Memoriam" - Fremont Journal, Sept 8, 1899, pg. 3, col. 4
Events
| Birth | 11 Dec 1820 | Brattleboro, Windham Co., VT | |||
| Marriage | 12 May 1857 | Fremont, Sandusky Co., OH - Isaac Marvin Keeler | |||
| Death | 6 Sep 1899 | Fremont, Sandusky Co., OH | |||
| Burial | Oakwood Cemetery, Fremont, Sandusky Co., OH | ||||
| Residence | 417 Birchard Ave., Fremont, OH |
Families
| Spouse | Isaac Marvin Keeler (1823 - 1907) |
| Child | Lucy Elliot Keeler (1864 - 1930) |
| Child | Samuel Pease Keeler (1859 - 1932) |
| Child | Nettie Reed Keeler (1861 - 1863) |
| Father | Judge Samuel Elliot (1777 - 1845) |
| Mother | Linda Hayes (1782 - 1833) |
| Sibling | Samuel Hayes Elliot (1809 - 1869) |
| Sibling | James Henry Elliot (1811 - 1838) |
| Sibling | Fanny Foster Elliot (1813 - 1842) |
| Sibling | Belinda Elliot (1816 - 1873) |
| Sibling | William Cowper Elliot (1818 - 1839) |
| Sibling | Sophia Elliot (1823 - 1904) |