I have written before about my Jane Peters of Anderson County, Tennessee who married John England. She was my ggg grandmother. Her daughter Vesta Clay England who married William Cole was my gg grandmother. Vesta's daughter Sallie Jane Cole married Alva Edward Peters. Sallie and Alva Peters were my g grandparents, and are referred to by my mother as Grandma and Grandpa Peters. As you can see, there are two Peters lines involved here, the one for Alva Peters and the one for Jane Peters. I have been wondering if my Jane Peters was the daughter of John Peters and Sallie Clay. Several of you have shared very helpful private E-mails with me concerning John Peters and Sallie Clay. Most everybody has the children of John Peters and Sallie Clay listed as Oliver C. Peters, Andrew J. Peters, Thompson H. Peters, William P. Peters, Thaddeus J. Peters, and Augustus Peters, but no Jane. The only place I have ever seen a daughter named Jane in this family is in IGI data on the LDS Web site. Until now, I had only looked at the IGI data on the Web because I started researching my family about the same time the LDS Web site came online. I suspect that many or most of you have seen the actual microfilm of the IGI data sheets, but I hadn't before now. Anyway, I ordered the two IGI microfilms which included Jane Peters as the daughter of John Peters and Sallie Clay. As I suspected from what others have said about the IGI, there was additional data on the microfilm which is not on the Web site. For example, the IGI data sheets list Sallie Clay as the daughter of Mitchell Clay, m. 1800 to John Peters, son of John Peters and a Simms. I knew this (and much more!) from other sources, but the point is that this is data that was on an IGI data sheet and which did not make it onto the Web site as being associated with this particular IGI film number. But more importantly, both IGI microfilms I ordered say that Jane Peters married Andrew Johnson. One of them might have said Andrew Johnston or it might have said Andrew Johnson -– it was a little hard to read -– but the second one said Andrew Johnson for sure. By the way, one of the IGI microfilms gave as a source for the John Peters and Sallie Clay family the "Peters Family Film", and the other microfilm gave as a source the "Peters Family Book". I guess I don't know how to look those up. I was hoping to get back to a truly primary source. For example, I was hoping to find a reference to "The Peters Family Bible in the XYZ County Public Library". Oh, well. I suppose it's not impossible that Jane Peters married first Andrew Johnson and then married second my John England, but it seems unlikely. So I think I need to look elsewhere for Jane's parents. This is negative progress, but I think it is progress nonetheless. As Sherlock Holmes said, "Whenever you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth". There's more minor progress. After looking for over a year, I found Vesta Clay England's grave. She is buried in the New Gray Cemetery in Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee. Also buried there in a family grouping are Vesta's daughter Ida Rhoda Cole Wells (sister of my g grandmother Sallie Jane Cole Peters), Ida's husband Philip Hancher Wells, Phillip's mother Susan Magdalene Johnson Wells, and Ida's daughter Dicy Clay Wells. Dicy died as a teenager and never married. The most interesting of these names as far as Jane Peters goes is Dicy Clay Wells. She seems clearly to have been named for her grandmother Vesta Clay England. And it's Vesta's middle name that leads me to believe that Jane Peters must come from a Peters line which has Clay connections. I have been looking for a mother or grandparent for Jane Peters whose surname was Clay. But Jane might well have named her first daughter Vesta Clay England, not based on a surname, but based on a family name, just as Dicy Clay Wells was named based on a family name. There's still more minor progress. I knew that Jane Peters died about 1881 because she is enumerated on the 1880 census and because her husband John England married for a second time in 1882. I have recently found a Pedigree Resource File entry on the LDS web site for a Jennie Peter who is clearly my Jane Peters. The entry says that Jennie Peter was born 30 Jul 1812, Anderson County Tennessee, died 9 Apr 1881, Morgan County Tennessee, buried Camp Ground Cemetery, Fentress County Tennessee. I don't know what the primary source of data for this information is (just like with the IGI), but I would guess that somebody found a tombstone at the Camp Ground Cemetery with the dates. It's about a 90 minute drive to the cemetery from my house, so I might have a pleasant Sunday afternoon drive lined up for sometime this fall. (By the way, I tend to trust the 9 Apr 1881 date of death, but I have trouble with the 30 Jul 1812 date of birth. Census data would put her date of birth at 1817/1819. I think maybe she was born 30 Jul 1817 or something like that.) But if her tombstone really says "Jennie", then that's very interesting. My second guess for her parents after John Peters and Sallie Clay is that her parents might be Thomas Peters and Sarah B. (Jenny) England. Maybe Jane Peters and her possible mother Sarah shared the nickname "Jenny". Also, I have written before that when Vesta Clay England's husband died at an early age, two of her daughters were placed in homes where the "mother of the house" was a daughter of Thomas Peters and Sarah B. (Jenny) England, Susan Emily Peters in one case and Mary A. Peters in the other. So it makes a lot of sense that Jane Peters might have been a sister of Susan and Mary. And if it's true, then my mother's Grandma and Grandpa Peters, Sallie Jane Cole and Alva Edward Peters, were second cousins. 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