Person:Mary Jackman (32)

1870 Census (912): Janesville, ROCK, WI, 43, NY. 1880 Census (625): Janesville, ROCK, WI, 53, NY. 1900 1910 Census (912): St. Lawrence Ave, Janesville, ROCK, WI, 82, wid, 3 of 4 alive, NY.

Source: Sketches of Wisconsin Pioneer Women, by Florence Chambers Dexheimer,

W. D. Hoard & Sons Co., Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin; Pages 111-112
Mary Jane Jackman, daughter of Timothy and Esther Cooper Jackman, was born in Houseville, Lewis County, New York, June 12, 1827. Fourteen years later her mother died and she was left to do the housework and care for four brothers. In 1842 her father, Timothy Jackman, was married to Miss Marcia M. Smith and the next year moved with his family to Wisconsin, locating at Janesville, Rock County. He purchased the old Stage House Hotel which he operated for a time, but finding the work too hard for his wife and daughter, sold it and purchased a little house at the corner of North Bluff and North First Street. It was in this house on November 2, 1847, that Mary Jane Jackman was united in marriage to Thomas Lappin, who arrived in Janesville in December, 1838, which at that period of time was almost an unbroken wilderness.
Mrs. Lappin was one of the founders of Christ Episcopal Church and a daughter of the American Revolution. She was one of the pioneers who had to do with the building of the city and the impress of her life dates back to the town which she found on the banks of the river when she came to it as a young girl with her parents. No eulogy can add to such a life. The city is better because she walked its streets and mingled in its homes for three quarters of a century.
There were born to Mrs. Lappin four daughters, three of whom, Mrs. Edwin F. Carpenter, Mrs. Henry A. Doty and Mrs. Charles S. Putnam are still living. Mrs. Lappin died September 25, 1914. Dated May 14, 1924.