Born in Pennsylvania, United States
Ancestors 
Daughter of William Fife Jr.
and Margaret Fife
Wife of
James Espy
— married
8 Jan 1807 in Newville, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States
Descendants 
Died about
at about age 69
[location unknown]
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Biography
Jane was born in 1782. She was the daughter of William Fife (1757–1838) and Margaret Boyd (1760–1825).
On 8 Jan 1807, Jane married James Espy at the Big Spring Church, Newville, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. They had the following children:
Captain Thomas Espy 23 November 1807 – 6 July 1862 (Company H, 62nd Pennsylvania Regiment - he died after being wounded and taken prisoner at the battle of Gaines Mills on June 22, 1862)
Margaret Espy Fife 23 January 1809 – 4 March 1884
Colonel William Espy 14 April 1811 – 10 June 1885
Ann Espy Morrow 2 March 1813 – 26 July 1849
James Espy 23 July 1815 – 11 July 1883
Elizabeth Espy Wilson 7 August 1817 – Deceased
Mary Espy McCormick 9 October 1819 – 31 May 1895
Jane Espy 11 April 1823 – Deceased
John Stanley Espy 3 March 1826 – 19 March 1904
In 1850, Jane (age 67) and James (age 69) farmed in Upper St Clair, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, with their grandsons: Thomas Wilson (age 11) and James Espy Wilson (age 9). The boys were sons of daughter Elizabeth and her husband James Wilson. The elder James had died in 1842 and Elizabeth may have died by 1850. The boys' younger brother, William Wilson, had been adopted by their uncle, Thomas Espy, and his wife Elizabeth Hickman. Martha Savians (age 17) was a household servant. The farm was valued at $16,000.
Jane passed away about 1852. [1]
Sources
- Cushing, Thomas. History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (A. Warner & Co., Chicago, 1889, Part 2, p. 481-482)
"United States Census, 1850", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M446-5T2 : Mon Jul 17 20:33:19 UTC 2023), Entry for James Espy and Jane Espy, 1850.
Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11410098/jane-espy: accessed 15 August 2023), memorial page for Jane Fife Espy (18 Sep 1782–31 Mar 1852), Find a Grave Memorial ID 11410098, citing Bethel Cemetery, Bethel Park, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA; Maintained by Kelly Keifer Cappell (contributor 47465446).
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Jane by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Jane:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Jane by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Jane:
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~0.78%
Cherie (Atkinson) Clark
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A331227 [compare], Ancestry member chersfmly
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch A331227 [compare], FTDNA kit #B14009
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~0.78%
James Richard Atkinson :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A424894 [compare], Ancestry member dutch666
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Autosomal DNA Test, GEDmatch G959233 [compare]
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~0.78%
Kelly (Keifer) Cappell :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch YS7942547 [compare], Ancestry member kcappell
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~0.78%
Ken Keifer :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A541028 [compare], Ancestry member KennethKeifer
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