Graydon, Jane Chambers McKinney, 1802-1891

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Jane Chambers McKinney was born in Wilmington, Del.; about 1815 the family moved to Harrisburg, Pa., where she married Alexander Graydon. Both were active abolitionists. In 1843 they moved to Indianapolis. In 1863 Mrs. Graydon went to Nashville to serve in a Union hospital, and after the war aided in the founding of the Indianapolis Home for Friendless Women, now the Indianapolis Retirement Home.

From the description of Papers, 1863. (Indiana Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 19771884

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creatorOf Graydon, Jane Chambers McKinney, 1802-1891. Papers, 1863. Indiana Historical Society Library
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Birth 1802

Death 1891

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