Jane Shoemaker

Jane was born in 1809 in Sullivan County, Tennessee.¹   Jane's father was Daniel Jacob Shoemaker and her mother was Mary Easley.  Her paternal grandfather was John Shoemaker; her maternal grandparents were Robert Easley and Winifred Dixon. She had a brother and four sisters, named James, Elizabeth, Winifred, Nancy and Mary.  She was the second youngest of the six children. She had three half-brothers and a half-sister, named Thomas, John, William and Margaret.  She died at the age of 79 in 1888.¹