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Minerva Jane "Jane" Bolles

Minerva Jane "Jane" Bolles

Female 1831 - 1924  (93 years)

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  • Name Minerva Jane "Jane" Bolles  [1] 
    Born 17 May 1831  Sumner County, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3] 
    • Varying birth years and places appear in census--Tennessee or Kentucky for place. Death cert gives this date of birth and gives specific place of birth as Sumner County, Kentucky. There is a Sumner County in both Tennessee and Kentucky.
    Gender Female 
    Census 3 Sep 1850  SW half of district 22, Montgomery County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    1. Brown, Daniel, 27, male, farmer, Illinois
    2. _____, Manerva [Minerva], 21, female, Kentucky
    3. _____, Rubin [Reuben], 2, male, Illinois 
    Census 9 Jun 1860  Lebanon township, Laclede County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    1. Bowls [Bolles], Reuben T., 51, male, farmer, real estate $1500, personal $1200, Virginia, cannot read or write
    2. _____, Susan, 51, female, farmer, South Carolina, cannot read or write
    3. _____, Jane, 29, female, laborer, Kentucky
    4. _____, Susan, 23, female, Kentucky
    5. _____, James, 21, male, farm laborer, Kentucky
    6. _____, Nancy, 18, female, house hand, Kentucky, attending school
    7. _____, [Ellisa?], 15, female, Tennessee, attending school
    8. Brown, Reuben, 11, male, Illinois, attending school
    9. _____, Samuel, 8, male, Illinois, attending school
    10. _____, David, 5, male, Missouri 
    Census 18 Aug 1870  Lebanon township, Laclede County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    1. Atchley, Francis M., 35, male, white, farmer, real estate $3000, personal $1940, Tennessee
    2. _____, Minerva J., 37, female, white, keeping house, Tennessee
    3. _____, Elizabeth, 6, female, white, Missouri
    4. _____, John, 4, male, white, Missouri
    5. _____, Fernando, 3, male, white, Missouri
    6. Brown, Reuben, 21, male, white, works on farm, Illinois
    7. _____, Samuel, 18, male, white, works on farm, Illinois, attending school
    8. _____, Daniel E., 16, male, white, works on farm, Illinois 
    Census 1 Jun 1880  Hooker township, Laclede County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [7] 
    1. Atchley, Jane, white, female, 50, widowed, farmer, Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky
    2. _____, Susan, white, female, 16, daughter, single, keeping house, attending school, Missouri, Tennessee, Tennessee
    3. _____, John, white, male, 13, son, at home attending school, Missouri, Tennessee, Tennessee
    4. _____, Hernando [Fernando], white, male, son, at home, attending school, Missouri, Tennessee, Tennessee
    5. Bowles, Rosa, white, female, 7, niece, attending school, Missouri, Tennessee, Tennessee 
    Died 19 Dec 1924  Hooker township, Laclede County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    NEWS 26 Dec 1924  Lebanon, Laclede County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Obituary:

    "Aged Citizen Dies: "Aunt Jane" Atchley Passed Away Last Friday at Age of 94 Year--Oldest Resident in County

    Death last Friday claimed Mrs. Minerva Jane Atchley, Laclede county's oldest citizen, who passed away at her home north of Lebanon after a long illness. She was in her 94th year.

    Funeral services were held at 11 o'clock Sunday morning and burial was in the Atchley cemetery.

    "Aunt Jane," as she was commonly known, was loved and respected by all that knew her and her passing will mean a great loss to her neighborhood.

    Minerva Jane Bolles was born Mary 17, 1831, in Sumner county, Kentucky. She was aged 93 years 7 months and 2 days at the time of her death.

    She was first married to Daniel Brown in 1846. To them were born four children, three sons and one daughter, the latter dying in infancy. One son, Reuben, died Feb. 15, 1920; Samuel died August 6, 1902, and Daniel passed away last November. Mr. Brown died in 1854.

    She was again united in marriage August 25, 1862, to F. M. Atchley and to this union were born four children, two sons and two daughters. One daughter, Susie E. Stidham, die November 1, 1909; the other, Louella Atchley, died November 3, 1878. The sons John and Nando Atchley, live near Fate. Mr. Atchley died July 5, 1871.

    "Aunt Jane" came to Laclede county in 1855, having first lived in Illinois, Tennessee and Wisconsin. She first located on what is known as the Willie Mizer farm in the Bolles district, later moving to the farm on which she died. She had lived there more than sixty years.

    She was the oldest in a family of eight children and was the last to pass away.

    She leaves besides her two sons a cousin, Callie Lowery, 35 grandchildren, 30 great grandchildren, and one great, great grandchild."
     
    Parents Death cert names father as "Reuben Boles" but does not name mother.  [2] 
    Buried Y  [2] 
    Person ID I1116  Gilmore-Donald
    Last Modified 28 Nov 2020 

    Father Reuben Bolles,   b. Abt 1809, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother Susan Lowery,   b. 15 Jun 1809, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Mar 1863, Laclede County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 53 years) 
    Married 29 Jul 1829  Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F81  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Daniel Brown,   b. 1823, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1854  (Age 31 years) 
    Married Abt 1846  [1, 3] 
    • Judging from her age (21) in 1850 census, and from the age of 2-year-old son "Rubin."
    Children 
    +1. Reuben Brown,   b. Abt 1848, Montgomery County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 Feb 1919  (Age ~ 71 years)
     2. Samuel Brown,   b. Abt 1852, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Aug 1902  (Age ~ 50 years)
     3. Daniel Brown,   b. Abt 1855, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. November 1923-24
     4. [Infant daughter] Brown
    Last Modified 28 Nov 2020 
    Family ID F433  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Francis Marion "Frank" Atchley,   b. 1830,   d. 1871  (Age 41 years) 
    Married 25 Aug 1862  Jefferson County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [8] 
    • From age of their first child in the 1870 census.
    Children 
    +1. Susan Elizabeth Atchley,   b. 1864, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Nov 1909, Vinita, Craig County, Oklahoma, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 45 years)
     2. John Atchley,   b. Abt 1866, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     3. Fernando "Nando" Atchley,   b. Abt 1867, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     4. Louella Atchley,   d. 3 Nov 1873
    Last Modified 28 Nov 2020 
    Family ID F434  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S1178] d1tate, "_Tate, Phelps, Yeager, Long, Duty of Texas," public tree pages, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 31 October 2019), for Minerva Jane 'Jane' Bolles Atchley (1832-1924) and descendants. Some citations.

    2. [S1184] Missouri State Board of Health, death certificate no. 35091 (1924), M. J. Atchley, Laclede County; "Missouri Death Certificates, 1910-1963,? digital images, Missouri Digital Heritage (http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives : accessed 1 November 2019); Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City.

    3. [S1641] "Aged Citizen Dies: "Aunt Jane" Atchley Passed Away Last Friday at Age of 94 Years?Oldest Resident in County" The Laclede County Republican (Lebanon, Missouri), 26 December 1924, p.1, col. 4; digital image, Newspapers.com (http://www.newspapers.com : accessed 28 November 2020).

    4. [S1179] 1850 U.S. census, Montgomery County, Illinois, population schedule, SW part of District 22, p. 46 (penned) , p. 116b (stamped), dwelling 316, family 322, Daniel Brown household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 31 October 2019); citing NARA microfilm publication M432, roll 121. https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/8054/4191987_00235/16464219.

    5. [S1181] 1860 U.S. census, Laclede County, Missouri, population schedule, Lebanon township, p. 15 (penned), p. 231 (heavy pen), dwelling 84, family 5, Reuben T. Bowls [Bolles] household; digital images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 31 October 2019); citing NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 627.

    6. [S1182] 1870 U.S. census, Laclede County, Missouri, population schedule, Lebanon township, p. 55 (penned), p. 52b (stamped), dwelling 375, family 375, Francis M. Atchley household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 31 October 2019); citing NARA microfilm publication M593, roll 786.

    7. [S1183] 1880 U.S. census, Laclede County, Missouri, population schedule, Hooker township, enumeration district (ED) 75, page 3 (penned), p. 1a (stamped), dwelling 9, family 9, Jane Atchley household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 1 November 2019); citing NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 697.

    8. [S1185] "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KFKM-4H1 : 25 September 2017), Francis M. Atchley and Minna J. Brown, 25 Aug 1862; citing Jefferson, Illinois, United States, county offices, Illinois; FHL microfilm 1,004,738.


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