Caroline Lane Reynolds was born on December 26, 1840 in Evansburg, Pennsylvania. She was married in 1856 to U.S. Army Lieutenant Adam Jacoby Slemmer and the couple lived at military outposts in South Carolina, Florida, and Wyoming Territory. After his death in 1868, she traveled abroad to visit her father's relatives in England, and was visiting Paris at the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War. In 1874 she married British Classicist Richard Claverhouse Jebb and joined social circles embracing George Eliot, Tennyson, Charles Darwin, Mark Twain, and Bret Harte.
Caroline Lane Reynolds was born on December 26, 1840 in Evansburg, Pennsylvania. She was married in 1856 to U.S. Army Lieutenant Adam Jacoby Slemmer and the couple lived at military outposts in South Carolina, Florida, and Wyoming Territory. After his death in 1868, she traveled abroad to visit her father's relatives in England, and was visiting Paris at the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War. In 1874 she married British Classicist Richard Claverhouse Jebb and joined social circles embracing George Eliot, Tennyson, Charles Darwin, Mark Twain, and Bret Harte.
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Her tombstone, placed under that of her husband, reads ... AND HIS WIFE CAROLINE LANE BORN 26 DECEMBER 1840 DIED 11 JULY 1930
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In her will she [Lady Jebb] left directions that her body should be cremated and the ashes sent to Cambridge, to be buried under Richard's tombstone in St. Giles' Cemetery (ascension) where they lie today.
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