♀Jane Harvey

Jane Harvey (17 October 1817 – 1874) was born in Ohio, brought as a small child to Mount Carmel, Illinois, and lived there as the wife of Silas Keneipp (1811–1882). She was the second great-grand-aunt of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), the sister of James Harvey (1821–1896), her second great-grandfather. She is entered as a daughter of Beauchamp Harvey (1788–1859) and Hester M. Saylor (1796–1873).

Life

Her parents had married in Pickaway County, Ohio, in January 1816, and Jane was born in Ohio the next year. A county history published in 1883 says that when Beauchamp Harvey took his family to Mount Carmel in 1819 it consisted of two daughters, Jane and Sally, so Jane was one or two years old when the Harveys reached the Wabash. Her son Cyrus’s death record of 1917 gives Ohio as her birthplace; a 1926 record for her son Edward gives Mount Carmel instead, which cannot be right for a woman born in 1817 and is the informant’s slip.

She became the wife of Silas Keneipp, an Ohio man whose birth a Find a Grave index gives as 29 July 1811. The death records of three of their children name the two as parents: Edward B. (born 22 December 1839), Cyrus Harvey (born 26 July 1844) and Judith Hester (born 2 January 1857), who married Andrew M. Orr at Wabash on 31 October 1882. Judith’s marriage record gives the same parents, making four records in all.

Silas Keneipp also appears in the Harvey family’s affairs. When Beauchamp Harvey died without a will in February 1859, it was Silas who applied, on 15 March, for letters of administration, after the widow gave up her right to act. James Harvey and David S. Harvey signed his bond as sureties.

A Find a Grave index, which writes her name Jane Harvey Keneipp, gives her death as 19 November 1874 and her burial at Rose Hill Cemetery, Mount Carmel. The same index gives Silas Keneipp’s death as 18 May 1882 at Mount Carmel.

Notes

Her parents

No record names Jane’s father. She is entered as Beauchamp Harvey’s daughter because several things point the same way: the 1883 county history lists a daughter Jane first among his seven children; she was born in Ohio the year after his marriage there; both families lived at Mount Carmel; Silas Keneipp administered the estate; and two of her children carry Harvey and Hester among their names. A lineage application to the Daughters of the American Revolution by a Keneipp descendant also prints Silas Keneipp and Jane Harvey as the parents in a line leading to Beauchamp Harvey and Hester Saylor. Her father’s probate papers would settle it. A family tree on FamilySearch gives her marriage as 8 December 1836 at Wabash, without a source.

Her children

A family tree on FamilySearch also lists daughters Mary Ellen (1843), Mariah Jane Lovica (1849) and Ella (1853).