TOTTEN, Jane (Little)

Date of birth:  About 1820 – New Jersey
Date of death: 24 Oct 1899 – Union Township, Johnson County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, October 24, 1899
Volume XL Number 16, page 1 column 1

Local and Personal.

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Mrs. Jane Totten, age eighty years, died Tuesday at her home in Bargers­ville after a long illness. Funeral ser­vices were held Wednesday afternoon conducted by Rev. J. H. Bright.

Link to Jane (Little) Totten’s grave

Notes: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 208, referencing Book H-19, page 1, records that Jane Totten, a seventy-nine-year-old white female, died 24 Oct 1899 in Union Township.

The 1880 US Federal Census for Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana records sixty-five-year-old, New Jersey-born farmer Freeman Totten, his sixty-one-year-old, New Jersey-born wife Jane Totten, and their children, thirty-year-old carpenter Calvin P., twenty-eight-year-old farmer John W., twenty-five-year-old Phebe C., twenty-three-year-old Angeline A., and fifteen-year-old Hettie J. Totten. Calvin, John and Phebe were born in New Jersey, whereas Angeline and Hettie were born in Indiana.

Indiana Marriages, 1780—1992, database on-line, records that when forty-year-old Phoebe C. Toten [sic] Rivers married forty-year-old Jesse Collins on 30 May 1894 in Marion County, Indiana, she stated that her parents were Fremon Toten [sic] and Jane Little. (citing reference 281, FHL microfilm 413540.)

Indiana Marriages, 1780–1992, database on-line, records that when fifty-four-year old Phoebe [sic] Collins married forty-seven-year-old James Cash 22 Oct 1917 in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, she stated that her parents were Freman Totton [sic] and Jane Little. (citing reference p 295; FHL microfilm 413547).

Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson