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Jane & Eben Weatherbee

Jane Dickson was born 22 September 1824 in Ireland, the eldest child of John & Jenny Dickson. On 26 October 1847 she married Ebenezer Weatherbee (b. about 1817). Eben & Jane had the following children:

• Mary was born about 1849. We know nothing further about her; she appears in her parents household in the 1871 census and nowhere else that I have yet found.
• John D. was born 3 July 1850, and married Sarah A. Schurman of Springhill 21 Sept 1881, daughter of Joseph & Mary Schurman of Saltspring. John & Sarah had at least six children.
• Eleanor Sarah (or Sarah Eleanor, or Ellen) was born 24 April 1852. On 31 October 1876 she married Edwin Stevens of Greenville, son of Joshua & Lydia Stevens of New Annan. Ellen & Edwin had at least seven children.
• William H. (b.25 May 1854, d.1935), married Elizabeth Demings of Springhill on 6 Marh 1888. By 1891 he was married to Augusta (Gussie) Powers, with whom he had two sons.
• Jane, born about 1856, married James Work of Truro on 5 May 1874.
• Mercy, born about 1858, no further information.
• Martha P., born about 1859, died 30 May 1886.
• Alice, born about 1862, no further information.
• James Balcom, born about 1864, died 29 September 1929.
• Lydian Seaman, born 26 August 1866, died 1 December 1884.

Jane died 9 April 1884, and Eben died 6 March 1897, having lived with his son William for a few years.

Sources:

1. Jane's birthdate from Thomas Dickson's family bible.
2. 1871 census, River Philip A, household 44.
3. 1881 census, River Philip B, household 55. Jane (the mother) gives Ireland as her birthplace.
4. 1891 census, River Philip, household 173.
5. John D., Sarah Eleanor, William, and Mercy's marriages from the Cumberland County marriage records at http://www.rootsweb.com/~nscumber.
6. Ellen and William's birthdates from the 1901 census.
7. Lydia's birth from the Cumberland County birth records at http://www.rootsweb.com/~nscumber.
8. Jane, Eben, William, Martha, James and Lydia's deaths from Hillside Cemetery inscriptions, Springhill.

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