Jane Lemley was born in Belmont County, Ohio. The Lemleys moved in to Illinois when Jane was nine years old in 1831. She joined the Methodist Church around 1838 at the age of 16.
Jane fell in love with a young man whose family had also moved into the area, from Tennessee. The Brazeltons had been in the Vermilion area for many years but game had played out according to them and they were looking for something farther west. Isaac Brazelton went with his brothers to scout out lower Wisconsin and the family bought land there near Granville (outside Milwaukee). In 1843, he set out with an ox-team and wagon back to Illinois to claim his bride.
Jane and Isaac married on 21 Sep 1843 at Vermilion, Illinois. On their return to Wisconsin, they camped at night by the roadside.
Cousin Sarah Brazelton Laux wrote: "When Grandpa Brazelton married and brought his bride Jane Lemley to Wisconsin, he felt that he was very well fixed. He had a yoke of oxen, a barrel of molasses, some sacks of wheat, 8 or 10 cakes of tallow 12" x 12", 1/2 barrel of salt pork, and 12 cakes of maple sugar. With this they would set up housekeeping and get through the winter. In Milwaukee they lived downtown where the post office is now.
After a few years, in 1847, Isaac and Jane moved to Sheboygan, Wisconsin, where he had a meat market and dealt in livestock; he listed his occupation as "butcher" in the 1850 Sheboygan census. Jane had a "mother's helper". In the Spring of 1861, they removed out to Batavia (Scott Twp) and Isaac opened a store and bought a farm. He bought many parcels of land and ultimately his several farms comprised 325 acres.
Sarah Brazelton Laux continued: "The house of tan brick in Batavia was built in 1888 (the one standing was the third - two others burned down). Martha Lemley Davis lived there, as well as the five sons of Willie (Pleasant) Brazelton and the children of Edward Brazelton." One can just imagine the responsibilities on her plate. I have visited that tan brick farm house three times, and the back of it was a warren of little bedrooms, like a built-in bunkhouse for all those kids living there.
Elizabeth's daughter, Sarah Brazelton Saemann, told her own grand-daughter, my Aunt Charlotte, that her mother Jane was a Welshwoman and that she was the cause of great embarrassment to her when she would visit in Sheboygan because she used to sit on the front porch and smoke her pipe. People passing also could see that she was wearing red wool stockings. She was said to be very jolly and smiled and laughed with people a lot.
One of the cousins, Sarah Brazelton Laux, said that when Jane Lemley Brazelton's birthday was celebrated each year with a birthday cake, her mother-in-law Peggy, a strict Quaker, said, "Pshaw, I've had a hundred birthdays and nobody ever celebrated my birthday!" Husband Jacob Brazelton turned to his Margaret and said, "What, Peggy? Hast thou had a hundred birthdays?"
Jane Brazelton was 84 years and 10 days old at the time of her death, on 24 August 1907, which was due to "paralysis". She was buried in the BRAZELTON family plot at Wildwood Cemetery, purchased by her husband on 24 April 1860. At the funeral were Jane Brazelton Whitaker (Milwaukee), my grandparents, Mr. & Mrs. F. I. Saemann (Chicago), and Jennie Saemann Thomas (Sheboygan Falls).
Brazelton Family Plot: W1/2, Lot 34, Block 7.
Children were:
Martha Jane (1844-1845)
Sarah Catherine (1846-1926)
William Lemley (1849-1925)
Margaret Eliza (1852-1882)
Reed Carper (1855-1856)
Mary Ellen (1857-1859)
Edward Gilman (1861-1941)
Jane fell in love with a young man whose family had also moved into the area, from Tennessee. The Brazeltons had been in the Vermilion area for many years but game had played out according to them and they were looking for something farther west. Isaac Brazelton went with his brothers to scout out lower Wisconsin and the family bought land there near Granville (outside Milwaukee). In 1843, he set out with an ox-team and wagon back to Illinois to claim his bride.
Jane and Isaac married on 21 Sep 1843 at Vermilion, Illinois. On their return to Wisconsin, they camped at night by the roadside.
Cousin Sarah Brazelton Laux wrote: "When Grandpa Brazelton married and brought his bride Jane Lemley to Wisconsin, he felt that he was very well fixed. He had a yoke of oxen, a barrel of molasses, some sacks of wheat, 8 or 10 cakes of tallow 12" x 12", 1/2 barrel of salt pork, and 12 cakes of maple sugar. With this they would set up housekeeping and get through the winter. In Milwaukee they lived downtown where the post office is now.
After a few years, in 1847, Isaac and Jane moved to Sheboygan, Wisconsin, where he had a meat market and dealt in livestock; he listed his occupation as "butcher" in the 1850 Sheboygan census. Jane had a "mother's helper". In the Spring of 1861, they removed out to Batavia (Scott Twp) and Isaac opened a store and bought a farm. He bought many parcels of land and ultimately his several farms comprised 325 acres.
Sarah Brazelton Laux continued: "The house of tan brick in Batavia was built in 1888 (the one standing was the third - two others burned down). Martha Lemley Davis lived there, as well as the five sons of Willie (Pleasant) Brazelton and the children of Edward Brazelton." One can just imagine the responsibilities on her plate. I have visited that tan brick farm house three times, and the back of it was a warren of little bedrooms, like a built-in bunkhouse for all those kids living there.
Elizabeth's daughter, Sarah Brazelton Saemann, told her own grand-daughter, my Aunt Charlotte, that her mother Jane was a Welshwoman and that she was the cause of great embarrassment to her when she would visit in Sheboygan because she used to sit on the front porch and smoke her pipe. People passing also could see that she was wearing red wool stockings. She was said to be very jolly and smiled and laughed with people a lot.
One of the cousins, Sarah Brazelton Laux, said that when Jane Lemley Brazelton's birthday was celebrated each year with a birthday cake, her mother-in-law Peggy, a strict Quaker, said, "Pshaw, I've had a hundred birthdays and nobody ever celebrated my birthday!" Husband Jacob Brazelton turned to his Margaret and said, "What, Peggy? Hast thou had a hundred birthdays?"
Jane Brazelton was 84 years and 10 days old at the time of her death, on 24 August 1907, which was due to "paralysis". She was buried in the BRAZELTON family plot at Wildwood Cemetery, purchased by her husband on 24 April 1860. At the funeral were Jane Brazelton Whitaker (Milwaukee), my grandparents, Mr. & Mrs. F. I. Saemann (Chicago), and Jennie Saemann Thomas (Sheboygan Falls).
Brazelton Family Plot: W1/2, Lot 34, Block 7.
Children were:
Martha Jane (1844-1845)
Sarah Catherine (1846-1926)
William Lemley (1849-1925)
Margaret Eliza (1852-1882)
Reed Carper (1855-1856)
Mary Ellen (1857-1859)
Edward Gilman (1861-1941)
Jane Lemley was born in Belmont County, Ohio. The Lemleys moved in to Illinois when Jane was nine years old in 1831. She joined the Methodist Church around 1838 at the age of 16.
Jane fell in love with a young man whose family had also moved into the area, from Tennessee. The Brazeltons had been in the Vermilion area for many years but game had played out according to them and they were looking for something farther west. Isaac Brazelton went with his brothers to scout out lower Wisconsin and the family bought land there near Granville (outside Milwaukee). In 1843, he set out with an ox-team and wagon back to Illinois to claim his bride.
Jane and Isaac married on 21 Sep 1843 at Vermilion, Illinois. On their return to Wisconsin, they camped at night by the roadside.
Cousin Sarah Brazelton Laux wrote: "When Grandpa Brazelton married and brought his bride Jane Lemley to Wisconsin, he felt that he was very well fixed. He had a yoke of oxen, a barrel of molasses, some sacks of wheat, 8 or 10 cakes of tallow 12" x 12", 1/2 barrel of salt pork, and 12 cakes of maple sugar. With this they would set up housekeeping and get through the winter. In Milwaukee they lived downtown where the post office is now.
After a few years, in 1847, Isaac and Jane moved to Sheboygan, Wisconsin, where he had a meat market and dealt in livestock; he listed his occupation as "butcher" in the 1850 Sheboygan census. Jane had a "mother's helper". In the Spring of 1861, they removed out to Batavia (Scott Twp) and Isaac opened a store and bought a farm. He bought many parcels of land and ultimately his several farms comprised 325 acres.
Sarah Brazelton Laux continued: "The house of tan brick in Batavia was built in 1888 (the one standing was the third - two others burned down). Martha Lemley Davis lived there, as well as the five sons of Willie (Pleasant) Brazelton and the children of Edward Brazelton." One can just imagine the responsibilities on her plate. I have visited that tan brick farm house three times, and the back of it was a warren of little bedrooms, like a built-in bunkhouse for all those kids living there.
Elizabeth's daughter, Sarah Brazelton Saemann, told her own grand-daughter, my Aunt Charlotte, that her mother Jane was a Welshwoman and that she was the cause of great embarrassment to her when she would visit in Sheboygan because she used to sit on the front porch and smoke her pipe. People passing also could see that she was wearing red wool stockings. She was said to be very jolly and smiled and laughed with people a lot.
One of the cousins, Sarah Brazelton Laux, said that when Jane Lemley Brazelton's birthday was celebrated each year with a birthday cake, her mother-in-law Peggy, a strict Quaker, said, "Pshaw, I've had a hundred birthdays and nobody ever celebrated my birthday!" Husband Jacob Brazelton turned to his Margaret and said, "What, Peggy? Hast thou had a hundred birthdays?"
Jane Brazelton was 84 years and 10 days old at the time of her death, on 24 August 1907, which was due to "paralysis". She was buried in the BRAZELTON family plot at Wildwood Cemetery, purchased by her husband on 24 April 1860. At the funeral were Jane Brazelton Whitaker (Milwaukee), my grandparents, Mr. & Mrs. F. I. Saemann (Chicago), and Jennie Saemann Thomas (Sheboygan Falls).
Brazelton Family Plot: W1/2, Lot 34, Block 7.
Children were:
Martha Jane (1844-1845)
Sarah Catherine (1846-1926)
William Lemley (1849-1925)
Margaret Eliza (1852-1882)
Reed Carper (1855-1856)
Mary Ellen (1857-1859)
Edward Gilman (1861-1941)
Jane fell in love with a young man whose family had also moved into the area, from Tennessee. The Brazeltons had been in the Vermilion area for many years but game had played out according to them and they were looking for something farther west. Isaac Brazelton went with his brothers to scout out lower Wisconsin and the family bought land there near Granville (outside Milwaukee). In 1843, he set out with an ox-team and wagon back to Illinois to claim his bride.
Jane and Isaac married on 21 Sep 1843 at Vermilion, Illinois. On their return to Wisconsin, they camped at night by the roadside.
Cousin Sarah Brazelton Laux wrote: "When Grandpa Brazelton married and brought his bride Jane Lemley to Wisconsin, he felt that he was very well fixed. He had a yoke of oxen, a barrel of molasses, some sacks of wheat, 8 or 10 cakes of tallow 12" x 12", 1/2 barrel of salt pork, and 12 cakes of maple sugar. With this they would set up housekeeping and get through the winter. In Milwaukee they lived downtown where the post office is now.
After a few years, in 1847, Isaac and Jane moved to Sheboygan, Wisconsin, where he had a meat market and dealt in livestock; he listed his occupation as "butcher" in the 1850 Sheboygan census. Jane had a "mother's helper". In the Spring of 1861, they removed out to Batavia (Scott Twp) and Isaac opened a store and bought a farm. He bought many parcels of land and ultimately his several farms comprised 325 acres.
Sarah Brazelton Laux continued: "The house of tan brick in Batavia was built in 1888 (the one standing was the third - two others burned down). Martha Lemley Davis lived there, as well as the five sons of Willie (Pleasant) Brazelton and the children of Edward Brazelton." One can just imagine the responsibilities on her plate. I have visited that tan brick farm house three times, and the back of it was a warren of little bedrooms, like a built-in bunkhouse for all those kids living there.
Elizabeth's daughter, Sarah Brazelton Saemann, told her own grand-daughter, my Aunt Charlotte, that her mother Jane was a Welshwoman and that she was the cause of great embarrassment to her when she would visit in Sheboygan because she used to sit on the front porch and smoke her pipe. People passing also could see that she was wearing red wool stockings. She was said to be very jolly and smiled and laughed with people a lot.
One of the cousins, Sarah Brazelton Laux, said that when Jane Lemley Brazelton's birthday was celebrated each year with a birthday cake, her mother-in-law Peggy, a strict Quaker, said, "Pshaw, I've had a hundred birthdays and nobody ever celebrated my birthday!" Husband Jacob Brazelton turned to his Margaret and said, "What, Peggy? Hast thou had a hundred birthdays?"
Jane Brazelton was 84 years and 10 days old at the time of her death, on 24 August 1907, which was due to "paralysis". She was buried in the BRAZELTON family plot at Wildwood Cemetery, purchased by her husband on 24 April 1860. At the funeral were Jane Brazelton Whitaker (Milwaukee), my grandparents, Mr. & Mrs. F. I. Saemann (Chicago), and Jennie Saemann Thomas (Sheboygan Falls).
Brazelton Family Plot: W1/2, Lot 34, Block 7.
Children were:
Martha Jane (1844-1845)
Sarah Catherine (1846-1926)
William Lemley (1849-1925)
Margaret Eliza (1852-1882)
Reed Carper (1855-1856)
Mary Ellen (1857-1859)
Edward Gilman (1861-1941)
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