From: "Bryant Family History: Ancestry and Descendants of David Bryant (1756)," Comp. by Clara Vaile Braiden, 1913, Privately Printed, Chicago, ILL.:

During only two years of Jane Bryant Stalter's life did she have a mother's care; then she was left to the protection of others - of neighbors, perhaps, and of a nine-year-old sister. Her school days were passed in the old Pleasant Grove schoolhouse. When she was ten years old she was taken back to Ohio with her father's family, where because of her environment, she learned to depend upon herself and to make her own pleasures out of the simple country life. At the age of seventeen she was married to John Stalter in Wyandot County [Ohio]. The young couple made their home in Ohio until 1858, when they went by rail and by boat to Franklin County, Kansas. They lived on the ranch of John Brown, the noted abolitionist. On Brown's last trip through Kansas, he and a companion called one night at the Stalter home. They were on the way to the home of Brown's brother-in-law, Horace Day, who lived a half-mile away. During these troublous times, while her husband was away fighting the border ruffians, Jane was caring for her home, her family, and the ranch. In 1861 when she had charge of affairs - her husband fighting in the state militia on the Missouri and Kansas line - grasshoppers completely destroyed the crops. While they yet lived in Franklin County, they had also to contend with the ravages of fire, which wiped out their home and its contents. In 1871 with their five living children - three being left behind in the little graveyard - they moved to Cowley County by wagon to take up frontier life in southern Kansas. Here occasional hardships were interspersed with much good fortune, for they were successful in accumulating land and live stock, and owned a ranch famed for miles around. Prosperity was theirs for some fifteen years, but in 1886-7, when money matters took a bad turn, they lost all their property. However, they were a solace one to the other, for Jane Stalter was no weak, dependent woman, but one who possessed a brave, noble, and unselfish nature that knew no failure. Thoroughly Christian, she was a leader whether in church, school, or temperance movements. Because of her untiring industry and her noble Christian character, she never failed to command the respect of those with whom she mingled. Five years of her later life were spent in Woodward County, Oklahoma. Thence the couple moved to Pacific Grove, California, where in 1909 death claimed her, and where her husband still lives.

Note: Jane Bryant Stalter was the daughter of Samuel D. Bryant (1790-1875) and Joanna Woodruff (1802-1840).
According to the California, Death Index, 1905-1939, Jane died in Monterey County on 13 Feb 1909 (listed as Jane B. Statter).