Jane (Yeager) Lipsit (1827 - 1916)

Born 4 Oct 1827 in Saltfleet, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada

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Died 13 Aug 1916 at age 88 in Caradoe, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada

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Biography

Jane Yeager (1826-1916); 13th child of John Yeager & Mary Green. Born 4 Oct 1827, Saltfleet Twp, Wentworth County (Ontario)

About 1845 Jane married LEWIS LIPSIT (1821-1872)

At first the couple lived with Jane's parents at Saltfleeet. In 1859 Lewis bought a 100 acre farm east of Mount Bridges (Caradoc Twp, Middlesex Co.). They were Weslyan Methodists. Lewis died at Caradoc on 25 Sept 1872, leaving Jane with a large family, some quite young.

Jane succeeding in raising her brood with the help of the older children, each of whom was expected to go out and learn a trade early on. In 1878, Jane deeded the east half of the farm to son, Lewis who gave her a life lease on the property. In 1886 she deeded the west half to son-in-law Furlow Coates (husband of Mary Elizabeth).

In all she was the matriarch of 13 children, 41 grandchildren, and 30 great-grandchildren at the time.

Jane died at Caradoc, 13 Aug 1916, and was buried in Mount Brydes Cemetery with her husband.

Sources

• R. Robert Mutrie,’The Yeager Family Album (Simcoe: Second Avenue Printing Ltd., 1989, p.192-194
• R Jason Everett family tree on ancestry:

https://www.ancestry.ca/family-tree/person/tree/101813055/person/312095037177/facts

• "Ontario Census, 1861," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQ7J-NR6 : 8 November 2014), Jane Leipsit, Carradoc, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada; citing p. 78, line 13; Library and Archives Canada film number C-1049, Public Archives, Toronto; FHL microfilm 2,435,924.

• "Canada Census, 1871," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4QQ-3FZ : 13 November 2014), Jane Lypsit, Caradoc, West Middlesex, Ontario, Canada; citing p. 43, line 8; Library and Archives Canada film number C-9901, Public Archives, Ottawa, Ontario; FHL microfilm 4,396,329.

• "Canada Census, 1881," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MVDJ-R3D : 18 November 2014), Jane Lipsit, Caradoc, Middlesex West, Ontario, Canada; citing p. 2; Library and Archives Canada film number C-13269, Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; FHL microfilm 1,375,905.

• "Canada Census, 1901," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KHLJ-DCT : 13 November 2014), Jane Lipsit, A, Middlesex (south/sud), Ontario, Canada; citing p. 13, Library and Archives of Canada, Ottawa.

• "Ontario Deaths, 1869-1937 and Overseas Deaths, 1939-1947," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JDDZ-VPY : 11 December 2014), Jane Lipsid, 13 Aug 1916; citing Caradoe, Middlesex, Ontario, yr 1916 cn 21331, Archives of Ontario, Toronto; FHL microfilm 1,862,183.

• "Ontario Deaths, 1869-1937 and Overseas Deaths, 1939-1947," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JKC4-GJT : 11 December 2014), Jane Yeager in entry for William H Lipsit, 03 Apr 1929; citing Elgin, Ontario, Canada, 13862, Archives of Ontario, Toronto; FHL microfilm 2,210,918.

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