Making Her Mark: Jane "Jennie" Forsyth

From the November 6, 2017, Daily Journal.

Jane "Jennie" Forsyth was buried in Franklin's First Mount Pleasant Cemetery in 1856.  She and her husband, John Forsyth, were one of the first pioneer settlers in Hensley Township in Johnson County, Indiana.  She is a Real daughter of the War of 1812.

There was a ceremony honoring her on October 21.

She was born in Jefferson County, Kentucky in 1787 and moved to Johnson County after marrying James Forsyth, a farmer in the 1820s.  She was the eldest daughter of Thomas Sturgeon, Jr. a War of 1812 veteran in Captain Martin L. Hawkins in the Kentucky Infantry.

He also fought in the American Revolution, joining when he was just 15.

--Brock-Perry