Miss Rail seems to have listed Jane twice in her survey of Greenwood Memorial Terrace: one listing, which gives her name as Jane Britain, was based on Jane's grave marker (see "Inscription;") the other listing, which gives her name as Jane Britton, was based on the records of Smith Funeral Home. For purposes of this memorial, I'm treating the two listings in Miss Rail's survey as having been for the same woman.

The following biography and various details added to the memorial are the result of my research and the research of Contributor #48040541, whose grandfather and other relatives knew Jane Britain and shared her story.

Nancy Jane "Janie" Garrison was born in Missouri on November 10, 1870, to Absolum Garrison (1826-1912) and Mary Jackson Garrison (1840-1912,) both of whom were Tennessee natives. Jane's siblings were (or included:)
* Catherine Garrison (Mrs. William Thomas) Crume (1861-after 1920,)
* James A. Garrison (1863-1955,)
* William Harvey Garrison (1865-1954,)
* Joseph Robert Garrison (1866-1929,)
* Sarah Margret Garrison Britain (1867-1950,)
* John Wiley Garrison (1868-1942,)
* Thomas Franklin Garrison (1872-1953,)
* Lola Pinkey Garrison McCall (1873-1964,)
* Oscar Neilen Garrison (1875-1938,)
* Bert Crittington Garrison (1878-1941,)
* Nora Garrison Ottendorf (1883-1957,) and
* Fred Ernest Garrison (1885-1970.)

Janie Garrison and Birtie Britain married in Republic, Greene County, Missouri, on November 11, 1894. The 1900 US Census shows Jane and Bert with two children (Earl H. Britain, age 4, and Orville L., age 1) living with Mr. Britain's parents (Mark F. Britain (1849-1924) and Mary Jane Jackson Britain (1848-1919)) and siblings in Republic. (I've been unable to find the burial place of Jane's younger son, Orville; he was born in Missouri in 1898 and died in Napa County, California, in 1980.)

I can find no record of Mrs. Britain after the 1900 US Census. According to contributor #48040541, who heard Jane's story from her grandfather and other relatives (including a grand-aunt who was present when Jane died,) the Britain family and a related family migrated to Sandpoint, Bonner County, Idaho, circa 1900; both women (Jane Britain and Pearl Marucia Britain (Mrs. Isaac Thomas) Garrison) died in some kind of epidemic that struck Sandpoint in 1902. (Two of Jane's brothers, John Wiley Garrison and Thomas Franklin Garrison, moved to Bonner County, Idaho, in the early 1900's.)

According to the oral history handed down by family, the two men and their respective children returned to Missouri after the 1902 deaths of their wives. Mr. Britain is shown in the 1910, 1920, and 1930 US Census enumerations with his second wife, Laura A. Britain (1880-1938,) and several children, including Jane's two sons, living in three different Missouri counties. In 1940, after Laura's death, Mr. Britain lived with one of his sons in Missouri.

Sources: Missouri State Census Collection, 1844-1881 (Nancy J. Garrison in Stone County, Missouri, in 1876;) 1880 US Census enumeration (Jane N. Garrison, age 9, with parents and siblings in Pierce, Stone County, Missouri;) Missouri Marriage Records, 1805-2002 (Miss Janie Garrison and Birtie Britain;) US-International Marriage Records (Nancy Jane Garrison, born in Missouri in 1870, married Bert H. Britain;) 1900 US Census enumeration (Bert H. Britain, wife Jane Britain, and two children with Jane's in-laws in Republic, Greene County, Missouri;) US Census enumerations for 1910, 1920, and 1930 (Bert H. Britain and wife Laura with children in various Missouri counties) and 1940 (widower Bert Britain with son's family in Brookline, Greene County, Missouri;) California Death Index (re: son Orville.)

I just came across an account of Nancy Jane "Janie" (Garrison) Britain in my great uncle's book that I thought you might like to incorporate (in whole or in part) into her bio. It gives an idea of what life was like after the two couples moved to Sandpoint, ID, and of the circumstances that led up to her death at such an early age.
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Excerpt from the book, "Joe," by Joseph Oval Garrison, published in hardcover 1989 and distributed to close family members. In this account, "dad's choice cousin" was Nancy Jane (Garrison) Britain, and "dad" was Isaac Thomas Garrison. Nancy Jane and her husband, Bert Britain, were very close to Isaac Thomas and his wife, Pearl (Britain) Garrison.

"Isaac Thomas Garrison, referred to hereafter as "Dad," was born march 1873 and died January 27, 1941. He married Pearl Britain May 3, 1894, and she died January 30, 1902. Bert Britain had married dad's choice cousin. He was a close friend to the brother of Pearl Britain, Bert Britain. In those days a big man was looked up to and a small man was considered as unimportant. Dad was five foot six, weighed 245 pounds, had a 30 inch wast band, wore a size 17 shirt with 34 inch sleeves and Bert was six foot six and weighted 265 pounds. They went to Sandpoint, Idaho, and worked in the lumber business clearing down large trees and floating them down the river to the saw mill. There was plenty of hunting available there and they both loved to hunt. There were bears, deer, lions, and various other forms of animals. Dad told me about the two of them sitting on a ledge on the side of the mountain and just below them there was a hole and a cougar lion walked out. Uncle Bert said, "Mr. Lion, if you will leave me alone, I will leave you alone." They build houses just alike side-by-side, dug a well in the back with a frame over it and it had a bucket on it to let down in the well to bring water up from it for whatever he needed it for. Keep in mind there was no electricity, television, radio or anything of that kind at that time. Uncle Bert and his wife had a little boy; in three weeks Dad and his wife had a little girl. Two years went by and Uncle Bert had another little boy; shortly thereafter, Dad and his wife had another little girl. They almost lived together. Then one day one of the little girls disappeared. They got panicky. They put a ladder down in the well and went down in the well and felt around in it for the body of that child. The body was not there; a few minutes later the little girl came toddling around the house. In twenty-four hours that woman was dead with pneumonia and twenty-four hours later the other one was dead. Her death certificate showed sympathetic pneumonia. Bert's wife was buried there at Sandpoint, Idaho, and her come Dad and Uncle Bert--each with a one and three year old child and Pearl's body in the baggage car to Republic, Missouri, where they came from."
Contributor: Heartsong (48040541) •