Jane E. Wharton

1809-1848 · Pennsylvania

Born 1809, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania

Died 1848

Children include Rebecca

Jane E. Wharton was born about 1809 in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania. She was a daughter of John Wharton, a farmer of Wayne Township. Her brothers and sisters included William, Samuel N., John Henderson, Ellen, later Gutshall, and Catherine Ann, who married William Decker.

She married William Booth of Huntingdon County. Their children were John, born 1826; Rebecca, 1827; William Harrison, 1831; Elizabeth, 1833; Jane Anne, 1837; Robert, 1841; Eleanor, 1844; and Diannah, 1846.

Jane died in Cromwell Township on 30 May 1848, when her youngest child was about two. She was buried in the Jordan Cemetery. Her stone reads "Jane E. Wife of Wm. Booth DIED May 30. 1848 Aged about 39 Yr." Her daughter Elizabeth died the same year. Her father died that October on his farm in Wayne Township and left a large estate. His will named her among his children, as "Jane who was married to William Booth," already dead.

Children

Rebecca Booth 1827-1914

Sources

Find a Grave memorial 178484717, Jane E Wharton Booth, Jordan Cemetery, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania; photograph, 2017.

Find a Grave memorial 29472696, PVT Robert Booth (29 Nov 1841 - 14 Nov 1863), Booth Cemetery, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, inscription transcribed.

Find a Grave memorials 178484717 (Jane E Wharton Booth, with her stone photographed) and 194463245 (John Wharton, summarizing his will); Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (1897), vol. 1, p. 338.

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