Daughter of Lee and Susan (Penn) Rollins.

Mother of Emily Ann, Sarah Alice, Mary Susan, Josephine E., Benjamin Franklin, Jefferson Newton, and Lydia S. Mosier.

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Jane (Rollins) Mosier was the daughter of Lee and Susan (Penn) Rollins, being the second child in a family of fourteen and was born February 14, 1824, near Paris, Kentucky. Her paternal grandfather, Joshua Rollins, married Sophia Kennedy, who came from old Virginia and Pennsylvania families. John Kennedy, the father of Sophia, fought in the Revolution and with a neighbor was taken prisoner at Guilford courthouse and held on the old Jersey prisonship until his death, then being buried by the British in the sand of the seashore. Lee Rollins and Susan Penn were married in Paris, Kentucky. In 1830, they removed to Clay county, Missouri where they remained until their death. All of their fourteen children, except one, who was accidentally poisoned, lived to become the honored heads of large and respected families. The maternal grandparents of Jane (Rollins) Mosier, were Joseph and Charlotte (Aker) Penn, natives of Pennsylvania, Joseph being a direct descendant of the noted William Penn. Thus in the union of Jonah Mosier and Jane Rollins, two long lines of pioneers joined their fortunes to form another pioneer family. While the greater part of Oregon was yet an unbroken wilderness, teeming with hostile savages, Mr. and Mrs. Mosier pushed their way into the untrodden wilderness and made a home amid the crags of the Cascade mountains. Their first dwelling was situated on the banks of the broad Columbia, and these two faithful pioneers toiled steadily on until called to rest. From a family of seven children, four are still living, three daughters and one son. Two daughters by the second marriage also reside in Oregon. At the time of the Indian massacre at the Cascades when so many pioneers were killed, the Mosier family fled in the middle of the night on horseback over the almost impassable roads, to the fort at The Dalles. Mr. Mosier was shot at many times and although the bullets grazed his body, he was never seriously injured.