Jane is the daughter of the Rev. Joseph White. She married Fergus Moorhead on 9 Aug 1766 and they had 12 children they named: Joseph, Euphemia, Margaret, Fergus, Thomas, Jane, Samuel, James, John, Sarah, Mary and Catherine Moorhead.
Jane is another example of our courageous pioneer women. She married Fergus and came with him and others to a site in White Township west of Indiana. This was the first settlement in this area.
On March 16, 1777, disaster struck when Indians allied with the British during the American Revolution captured Fergus and took him prisioner to Canada. As the days passed and he did not return, she surley must have been stricken with terror. Alone in a frightening wilderness, she gave birth without benefit of doctor or midwife to a son whom she named Fergus for his father. He may have been the first white child born in Indiana County.
Another tragedy struck soon afterward when an older child died of smallpox. With no one to help, she had the sad task of burying her own child. Finally her brother came and took her to her father's home in Franklin County. Eleven months later in February, 1778, she was joyfully reunited with her husband when he was released in a prisoner exchange.
Her husband died at 80 in 1822 and she died in 1824 at the age of 79.
Jane is another example of our courageous pioneer women. She married Fergus and came with him and others to a site in White Township west of Indiana. This was the first settlement in this area.
On March 16, 1777, disaster struck when Indians allied with the British during the American Revolution captured Fergus and took him prisioner to Canada. As the days passed and he did not return, she surley must have been stricken with terror. Alone in a frightening wilderness, she gave birth without benefit of doctor or midwife to a son whom she named Fergus for his father. He may have been the first white child born in Indiana County.
Another tragedy struck soon afterward when an older child died of smallpox. With no one to help, she had the sad task of burying her own child. Finally her brother came and took her to her father's home in Franklin County. Eleven months later in February, 1778, she was joyfully reunited with her husband when he was released in a prisoner exchange.
Her husband died at 80 in 1822 and she died in 1824 at the age of 79.
Jane is the daughter of the Rev. Joseph White. She married Fergus Moorhead on 9 Aug 1766 and they had 12 children they named: Joseph, Euphemia, Margaret, Fergus, Thomas, Jane, Samuel, James, John, Sarah, Mary and Catherine Moorhead.
Jane is another example of our courageous pioneer women. She married Fergus and came with him and others to a site in White Township west of Indiana. This was the first settlement in this area.
On March 16, 1777, disaster struck when Indians allied with the British during the American Revolution captured Fergus and took him prisioner to Canada. As the days passed and he did not return, she surley must have been stricken with terror. Alone in a frightening wilderness, she gave birth without benefit of doctor or midwife to a son whom she named Fergus for his father. He may have been the first white child born in Indiana County.
Another tragedy struck soon afterward when an older child died of smallpox. With no one to help, she had the sad task of burying her own child. Finally her brother came and took her to her father's home in Franklin County. Eleven months later in February, 1778, she was joyfully reunited with her husband when he was released in a prisoner exchange.
Her husband died at 80 in 1822 and she died in 1824 at the age of 79.
Jane is another example of our courageous pioneer women. She married Fergus and came with him and others to a site in White Township west of Indiana. This was the first settlement in this area.
On March 16, 1777, disaster struck when Indians allied with the British during the American Revolution captured Fergus and took him prisioner to Canada. As the days passed and he did not return, she surley must have been stricken with terror. Alone in a frightening wilderness, she gave birth without benefit of doctor or midwife to a son whom she named Fergus for his father. He may have been the first white child born in Indiana County.
Another tragedy struck soon afterward when an older child died of smallpox. With no one to help, she had the sad task of burying her own child. Finally her brother came and took her to her father's home in Franklin County. Eleven months later in February, 1778, she was joyfully reunited with her husband when he was released in a prisoner exchange.
Her husband died at 80 in 1822 and she died in 1824 at the age of 79.
Gravesite Details
March 2011: Cemetery records confirm her burial with her husband but suggest no grave marker exists.
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