Elizabeth Frances (Locke) Dane 1814-1885

Born: December 16, 1814 in Lockeport, Nova Scotia

Died: August 31, 1885 in Appleton, Wisconsin of Dysentary. Buried in Riverside Cemetery, Block D, Lot 83.

Spouse: Thomas Dane m. September 30, 1834 in Lockeport, Nova Scotia with an announcement in the Yarmouth Herald on October 10, 1834.

Children: Frances “Fannie” Locke (Dane) Fletcher

Atilla Dane (b. abt. 1836 in Lockeport, m. George Gilbert Durkee June 15, 1861.)

James Locke Dane (b. 1837 in Lockeport and d. February 14, 1852 in Yarmouth.)

Leona Suberville (Dane) Briggs

Mary Maud Dane

Peter Eugene Dane

Frederick Tompkins Dane

Edwina “Ina” (Dane) Hawthorne (b. June 20, 1848, d. July 11, 1935.) (See note below.)

Zerviah (Dane) Benoit, a daughter.

Oscar Thomas Dane (b. abt 1856, d. before 1920. See below)

Father’s name: James D. Locke Birth place: Lockeport, Nova Scotia

Mother’s name: Frances (Strickland) Locke Birth place: Lockeport, Nova Scotia

Siblings: James Locke

Bethia West (Locke) Longhurst

Henry Ryder Locke

Sarah McLaren (Locke) Cann

Mary Cann (Locke) Boucher

This drawing of Elizabeth was done by her husband Thomas.

Daughter Ina was the source of some family historical notes that have been passed down. (However, please do not be confused with Ina Briggs, who also did some genealogy.) Ina’s given name is Edwina Barclay Dane, but every reference I have found calls her Ina. She married William Hawthorn and lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Ina is also buried in Riverside Cemetery beside her mother. (No marker.) James Neller told me that Aunt Ina (as he knew her) had lived in Duluth, MN. He says that at some point they went west to California in a Conestoga wagon seeking gold. They eventually moved back to Duluth. After her husband’s passing, Ina moved in with the Neller family, staying with them until her death.

Oscar Thomas Dane came with his parents to Appleton in 1860. The 1874 Appleton city directory shows Oscar living in the household and is a clerk at Benoit’s drug store. He is said to have married a woman who had a son by a previous marriage, but apparently did not have any children of his own. The wife’s son may have assumed the Dane surname. By 1910 he moved to Los Angeles, California where he shows up in the census and in 1913 his mother makes a reference to his being there. There is no sign of him in the 1920 census, so I believe that Oscar has passed away by then. (There is a reference to an Oscar M. Dane in the Social Security Death Index. It shows that this man was born November 7, 1908 and died in Los Angeles on August 11, 1995. The card was issued in Missouri. I suppose that this could be a son, but I’m really not sure.)

Elizabeth and her husband, Thomas, moved to Appleton, Wisconsin in 1860. After Elizabeth’s death in 1885, Thomas moved back to Nova Scotia. I have more details on Thomas’ page.

Elizabeth did return briefly with her husband to Nova Scotia upon the death of her parents, which were just 2 days apart in April of 1862. More details on father James D. Locke page.

The 1880 census places the retired couple in Appleton, WI. Also living in the household is Louis Benoit, husband of daughter Zerviah who passed in 1874, and a servant named Mary Finnegan.

Learn more by reading A bit of Grandma’s Life.

Son James Locke Dane, died 1852, buried in Frost Park. I have no additional information regarding him. The dates indicate that he passed before the family immigrated to Wisconsin. The marker appears to read: “In Memory of James Locke [Then 2 illegible lines, possibly “Son of James & Elizabeth Locke”] Who Died Feb. 16, 1832, Li[ved] 15 years”.

One of the plaques recognizing known individuals buried in Yarmouth’s Frost Park, but whose markers have been moved or lost.

Joseph Locke Dane is about in the middle with the date 1852. It should read James, not Joseph.

(More information regarding Frost Park can be found on Great Grandfather Thomas Dane’s page.)

Left: James Locke’s marker from Victoria (aka Frost) Park in Yarmouth, located as built into the memorial wall behind the public library.

Photo taken by Robert F. McKinnon as part of his Yarmouth County cemetery transcription project started in 2003.

Please see: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nsyarmou/cemeteries.htm

Right: Overall view of the memorial wall. (Photo taken by myself in June, 2008.)

(I also have a 2008 photo of James’ maker, which is less legible due to erosion.)

It is interesting to note that Elizabeth’s sister, Sarah and her husband Lyman Cann, also lived in Yarmouth, but I do not know exactly when, probably after their marriage on January 16, 1850.

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