Harriet Jane Shrigley

1840 - 1924  (83 years)

• Name	Harriet Jane Shrigley
  Birth	14 Dec 1840	Muskingum County, Ohio
  Gender	Female
  Death	17 Apr 1924	Lincoln Cemetery, Lincoln, Lincoln County, Kansas
  Person ID	I4929	Thompson
  Last Modified	7 Sep 2025

  
  

  Family	John Denning Peckham,   b. 27 Feb 1837, Wayne County, Ohio d. 31 Jan 1930, Lincoln, Lincoln County, Kansas (Age 92 years)
  Children	+ 1. Rosetta Peckham,   b. 07 Dec 1873, Appanoose, Iowa d. 21 Apr 1947, Lincoln, Kansas (Age 73 years)
  Family ID	F1759	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	5 May 2023

  
  

• Notes

  Died: Obituary: Harriet Jane Shrigley Peckham Note: The following obituary is typed from copies of the original articles in The Lincoln Republican on date as referenced. The contents, spelling, and grammar are from the original articles. Obituary Harriet Jane Shrigley was born December 14, 1840, in Muscinham county, Ohio, and died Thursday, April 17th, 1924 at the advanced age of eighty-three years, four months, and three days. At the age of six years she moved, with her parents, to Edgar county Illinois. When she was sixteen the family moved to Appanoose county Iowa. On December 24, 1857 she was married to John D. Peckham in Appanoose county, Iowa. In the spring of 1878 they moved to Lincoln county, Kansas, taking up a homestead near where the present town of Hunter is located. Here the family was brought up in a most loving and Christian home. Ten children were born to this union, six of whom preceded their beloved mother to that Great Beyond. In 1905 the Peckham's moved to the city of Lincoln where they have since made their home. She leaves to mourn her death, an aged husband, four children; John E. Peckham of Hunter, Geo. A. Peckham, Mrs. Rosa Coil and Mrs. Hattie Taylor of Lincoln, Kansas, a sister, Mrs. Carrie Griffith of New Salem, Illinois, twenty-eight grand children, twenty-seven great grandchildren, and a host of relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Peckham celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary last December. Mrs. Peckham and her husband were pioneers in Kansas and lived through all the hardships and privations of those early days. She was always a devout Christian and never tired of ministering to those less fortunate on life's highway. The sick and needy always found in her a friend indeed. Funeral services were held at the Methodist church in this city, of which faith she had been a life member, on Friday afternoon, April 18th, conduct by Rev. Semans. The body was laid to rest in the Lincoln cemetery. From: The Lincoln Republican, Lincoln, Lincoln County, Kansas, VOL xvii Number 2, April 24, 1924, page 1, on microfilm at the Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, KS. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51525330/harriet_jane-peckham