Jane Ann PENFIELD

Family 1: Alonzo W. HENDRY
  1. Maria Penfield HENDRY
  2. Alonzo HENDRY
  3. Frank Truman HENDRY
  4. Frederick HENDRY
  5. Jay A. HENDRY
  6. Jane (Jennie) HENDRY
  7. Watson Barkdull HENDRY 
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Line in Record @I0027@ (RIN 27) from GEDCOM file not recognized: _FA2 The following "obituary" was found as an unsigned, undated document in the papers of James R owley Hendry, a grandson of Jane Ann (Penfield) Hendry when the estate of her daughter-in-law , Estelle Whiting Hendry was settled. The document is in the possession of James Abbott Hend ry of Aptos, California ((1995). "CLOSE OF AN ACTIVE LIFE MRS. HENDRY Mrs. Jane A. Hendry of Sandusky was born in Penfield, Lorain County, Ohio on the 27th day o f August 1823 and was over fifty seven years of age at the time of her death which occurred M arch 21, 1881. Her father, Truman Penfield and her mother were originally from Connecticut and settled in Pe nfield, Lorain County, Ohio about the year 1819 the first family that settled in that townshi p. Mrs Hendry was the first white child born in the township. Very few advantages for education was then offered but making the best use of such as then th ere was in the common school she early determined upon and entered the ladies course at Oberl in College and graduated from that institution with the class of 1847. On the 15th day of August 1848 she was united in marriage to A.W. Hendry of Sandusky to whic h place she removed and in which she lived until the close of her life. Mrs. Hendrys life was ever active and no amount of activity or exertion seemed tiresome to he r, devoted to the interests of her family and friends, enjoying excellent health and a cheerf ul disposition looking upon the bright side of lifes pathway to her everything betokened th e morning of a bright day. As a child at home, the school teacher, the student, scholar, wife and mother she displayed t he same bright social qualities the same active christian sympathy for the interest and welfa re of those about her. Coming to this city the year before the great cholera scourge of 1849 her charitable sympathi es soon found full scope in contributing to the wants of the needy and in finding suitable ho mes of comfort for those who were orphans. Coming to Sandusky when it was only a village she was permitted to live here one third of a c entury and to witness it's increase in population to a city of many thousands and the great d evelopment of its diversified industries. She leaves a husband two daughters and three sons two of the latter settled in business one i n Indianapolis and one in Topeka Kansas. Mrs. Hendry during her residence here was a member of the Congregational Church and an activ e worker in all the charities connected with the chruch."



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