Charles Garrett "Chas" Janeway

1814 - 1896  (82 years)

• Name	Charles Garrett "Chas" Janeway  [1, 2, 3]
  Birth	19 Jan 1814	Strawberry Plains, Jefferson, Tennessee   [4, 5, 6]
  Gender	Male
  Death	11 Feb 1896	Kellogg, Jasper, Iowa   [4, 7, 8]
  Burial	Center Friends Cemetery, Jasper County, Iowa   [4]
  Person ID	I30612	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of EK
  Last Modified	4 Dec 2020

  
  

  Father	Benjamin Janeway,   b. Abt 1783, North Carolina d. Aft 1856, Jefferson County, Kentucky (Age ~ 74 years)
  Mother	(Unknown) Childers,   b. 1785, North Carolina d. Bef 1827 (Age < 41 years)
  Marriage	1807	Tennessee   [9]
  Family ID	F18465	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Susanna Hammer,   b. 16 Oct 1815, Near New Market, Jefferson, Tennessee d. 17 Sep 1890, Kellogg, Jasper, Iowa (Age 74 years)
  Marriage	1837  [10, 11]
  Children	+ 1. Dr. Daniel Fulton Janeway,   b. 6 Jan 1852, Strawberry Plains, Fulton, Tennessee d. 21 Apr 1929, Stillwater, Payne, Oklahoma (Age 77 years)
  Family ID	F6699	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	11 Nov 2020

  
  

• Photos		Charles Garrett Janeway
  		Charles Garrett Janeway & Susanna Hammer

  
  

• Notes

  According to "A Look Back" (citation details below), he and his wife moved to Iowa from Jefferson County, Tennessee in 1857 because of their opposition to slavery. They first settled in Hammer's Grove north of Amboy, and later in Kellogg. This is 100% consonant with everything we know about everyone in their kinship network. They hated slavery, and as the Civil War approached, they left for places where owning human beings wasn't considered cool. How about that. But! According to an unsourced document on ancestry.com, while his wife was a Quaker, he was a Baptist, and the reason they moved to Iowa was "to provide education opportunities for their children [at] Penn College at Oskaloosa, Iowa." Yeah sure. In fact, Charles Janeway regularly appears in the records of Iowa's Center Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends, and his obituary in the Quaker newspaper The American Friend (citation details below) specifically names him as "a member of Center Monthly Meeting." We suspect someone has a problem with their ancestor or relative having been a sincere abolitionist. "He is a Republican in politics. Owns 190 acres of land, valued at $50 per acre." [History of Jasper County, Iowa, 1878, citation details below]

  
  

• Sources

  [S4783] Find a Grave page for Susanna Hammer Janeway. [S4833] Biography of Jesse & Curtis Hammer and Family Reminescences by Marion R. Hammer. Self-published, 1930. [S4784] "A Look Back." Newton, Iowa Daily News, 22 Mar 1971. [S4782] Find a Grave page for Rev Charles Garrett "Chas" Janeway. [S4787] "Janeway." The American Friend 3:308, Third month, 26, 1896., year and state only. [S4946] A History of Jasper County, Iowa. Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878., year and county only. [S4787] "Janeway." The American Friend 3:308, Third month, 26, 1896. [S4904] A History of the State of Oklahoma by Luther B. Hill. Volume 2. Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1910., year only. [S41] U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, on ancestry.com. [S4904] A History of the State of Oklahoma by Luther B. Hill. Volume 2. Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1910., says 1833. [S4946] A History of Jasper County, Iowa. Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878.