PIONEER WOMAN DIES AT LYONS
Mrs. Phoebe Jay Nearly 100 as End Comes - Resident of Rice County 57 Years.
Lyons, Nov. 13. - Mrs. Phoebe Jay, 88, was laid to rest in the cemetery here yesterday after a life of 57 years spent on or near the place she and her husband homesteaded in 1871. She outlived every member of her own family but was lovingly cared for by the grandchildren and great grandchildren.
She died Saturday night in the Lyons hospital where she had been only a few days. But up until her last illness she kept house in the old home, just south of Lyons, much of the time alone.
The Jay family, including Mr. and Mrs. Levi Jay, their two daughters, Josephine and Inez, H. C. Taylor the husband of Josephine, and an adopted daughter arrived in Kansas in 1871, coming by rail from Miami county, Ohio, to Ellsworth.
They drove the family phaeton, drawn by the old family horse, to the silo of their homestead, located at the south edge of where Lyons now stands, but which was then northeast of Atlanta, the nearest town at the time. The phaeton was not large enough for the entire family so they took turns about walking the 33 miles between Ellsworth and their new home.
The Jay home at that time was at the south boundary of the place and faced Atlanta. When Lyons was founded and Atlanta became no more the home was removed to its present location and remodeled.
In addition to farming his quarter Section of land Mr. Jay carried mail and passengers and trucked merchandise from Sterling until the Santa Fe railroad came through. Later he carried passengers between the lines. Still later Mr. and Mrs. Jay moved with railroad construction crews, boarding the men, until the road was completed almost to the Colorado line. They returned to their farm after an unpleasant incident with a partner who made away with nearly all of their finances.
Mrs. Jay had always been active at her home, producing flowers, and vegetables in her garden with a greater degree of success than many younger people. She maintained her activities until the time of her death. She was a great reader, devoting a part of each day to papers, magazines and books. About three years ago she made herself a dress, cutting a pattern from another dress and doing practically all of the stitching by hand.
She was careful and regular in her diet to which she ascribed the fact of her longevity, having not had a serious illness until the time of her death and for more than 30 years subsisted mainly on grains, nuts and vegetables, preferring most of them uncooked.
from The Hutchinson News
Tuesday, 13 Nov 1928
PIONEER WOMAN DIES AT LYONS
Mrs. Phoebe Jay Nearly 100 as End Comes - Resident of Rice County 57 Years.
Lyons, Nov. 13. - Mrs. Phoebe Jay, 88, was laid to rest in the cemetery here yesterday after a life of 57 years spent on or near the place she and her husband homesteaded in 1871. She outlived every member of her own family but was lovingly cared for by the grandchildren and great grandchildren.
She died Saturday night in the Lyons hospital where she had been only a few days. But up until her last illness she kept house in the old home, just south of Lyons, much of the time alone.
The Jay family, including Mr. and Mrs. Levi Jay, their two daughters, Josephine and Inez, H. C. Taylor the husband of Josephine, and an adopted daughter arrived in Kansas in 1871, coming by rail from Miami county, Ohio, to Ellsworth.
They drove the family phaeton, drawn by the old family horse, to the silo of their homestead, located at the south edge of where Lyons now stands, but which was then northeast of Atlanta, the nearest town at the time. The phaeton was not large enough for the entire family so they took turns about walking the 33 miles between Ellsworth and their new home.
The Jay home at that time was at the south boundary of the place and faced Atlanta. When Lyons was founded and Atlanta became no more the home was removed to its present location and remodeled.
In addition to farming his quarter Section of land Mr. Jay carried mail and passengers and trucked merchandise from Sterling until the Santa Fe railroad came through. Later he carried passengers between the lines. Still later Mr. and Mrs. Jay moved with railroad construction crews, boarding the men, until the road was completed almost to the Colorado line. They returned to their farm after an unpleasant incident with a partner who made away with nearly all of their finances.
Mrs. Jay had always been active at her home, producing flowers, and vegetables in her garden with a greater degree of success than many younger people. She maintained her activities until the time of her death. She was a great reader, devoting a part of each day to papers, magazines and books. About three years ago she made herself a dress, cutting a pattern from another dress and doing practically all of the stitching by hand.
She was careful and regular in her diet to which she ascribed the fact of her longevity, having not had a serious illness until the time of her death and for more than 30 years subsisted mainly on grains, nuts and vegetables, preferring most of them uncooked.
from The Hutchinson News
Tuesday, 13 Nov 1928
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