When Jane Emalene Blakeslee was born on 28 July 1808, in Meadville, Crawford, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, James Blakeslee, was 45 and her mother, Anna Travers, was 45. She married Thomas Truxton Swena on 20 August 1829, in Meadville, Crawford, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Pine Creek Township, Ogle, Illinois, United States in 1850. She died on 2 June 1887, in Denver, Colorado, United States, at the age of 78.
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English: habitational name from a place in Northamptonshire called Blakesley, from an Old English personal name, Blæcwulf, + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
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