Eden, Jane (Mrs Phillip)
Maiden Name
Jenkin
Death
1882-11-01
(aged 69 years)
Mineral Point, Wisconsin
Birth
1813-08-11
Redruth, England
Gravestone
Location
SC.17.2
Biography
per Mary Knudson: Phillip Eden married Jane Jenkins, Oct 8, 1835, Redruth, Cornwall. Phillip is listed as one of the men who went to the gold rush.
Obituary
Mrs Jane Eden. Mrs. Jana (sic) Eden - Born in Redruth, Cornwall County, England, August 11, 1813; died at Mineral Point Wis., Nov. 1st, 1882.
Mrs. Eden from her earliest recollection was susceptible to religious impressions. This susceptibility directed her reading and thought in a time which rendered more vivid those impressions, so that at the age of seventeen she made a public profession of religion by joining the Weslyan Church. On October 8th, 1835, she was married in Redruth to Mr. Philip Eden.
In October, 1840, she left the home of her youth to join her husband at Galena, Illinois. In 1843 she with her husband and two children settled at Mineral Point, where with the exception of a year or two, she resided to the day of her death. She here joined the M.E. Church. She was a type of that class of Christians whose virtues are best seen and known in the home circle. Her active field of labor was home. She sought to educate those entrusted to her charge in all those departments which fit for intelligent Christian citizenship. She was generous almost to a fault. No one could be more conscientious. A spirit of self-sacrifice was a prominent characteristic of her life. She endeavored throughout to be a consistent Christian. Though not so strong in faith as many, or so rich in religious experience ever distrusting her own power, she ever rested in Christ as her Savior, and when she ___ and knew that earthly life was slipping away from her grasp, she called her family and friends around her, bid them good-bye and asked them to meet her in heaven. Glory, heaven and angels were the words she uttered as she entered that struggle with death which in a few hours terminated her earthly career. She rests in peace.
Iowa County Democrat Dec 18, 1882