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- In July, 1827, she was married to Thomas Dobie by the Rev. William Bell of First Presbyterian Church, Perth. According to Mr. Bell her marriage to Dobie was bitterly opposed by her father. Mr. Bell's "Journal" records the event: "On a day in July, Thomas Dobie and Jean (sic) Holliday, two of my parishioners, came to be married. The bride's father was absent, as he pretended to be displeased with the match, though there was no apparent reason why he should be so. I was sorry for the poor bride, thus to be discountenanced by her nearest relatives at a time when she stood in need of every encouragement. She cried all the time of the ceremony and I believe solely for this cause. For some months after, too, I occasionally saw her in tears in the church, her father and mother having passed her in the street without speaking. This was not only unreasonable, but cruel, for the match was an equal one, and the young man was not only sober and industrious, but pious".
Apparently the Dobies continued to reside in the Perth area for some years, where Jane is said to have taught school for a brief period. Their son John attended his grandfather's school on the Scotch Line at one time. Later the family moved to the Spencerville area where they lived east of that town on a site which became and is still known as Dobie's Corners. Still later the family, its older members nearing maturity, moved westward to Williamsford, Grey County, where Jane's sister Janet and her husband A.S. Elliot had pioneered near Williamsford and Chesley. One son, Francis, remained .at Dobie's Corners where his descendants still live. The other members of the family went with their parents to the newer Huron Tract.
The Dobies remained staunch Presbyterians, Jane herself and several descendants giving their allegiance to the strict Calvinist beliefs practised by her father, John Holliday. On the occasion of her death in Chesley, an obituary summed up her life in these words: "She saw Perth grow from a single government store (of 1816) to a thriving town, and bore her share of all the hardships incident to the first settlers. She was a strict Presbyterian, and died in the firm belief of salvation through the merits of her Saviour".
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