Jane Barnett Messer (Freeman) - Birthdate seems unlikely.

Married in 1835, with this birthdate she would have been age 70, too old to have children. Other public tree sources conflict, one has her married to the SON of the famous young NC Regulator who was executed and another has her married to the Regulator's GRANDSON (which with the marriage date of 1835 seems most likely, to me). The son of the Regulator already has another wife, anyway (Sarah "Sallie" Hunter).

Also Jane is about 113 years old on both Geni and MyHeritage, which is unlikely. It's more reasonable to assume that she was around the same age as her husband.

I got stuck with this problem not knowing what to do about it, after merging some relevant duplicates a couple of years ago, and now I'm trying to fix it. Any help or advice would be appreciated.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSC3-DSRV-S?cc=172...

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Messer-438

https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/KNJP-SXT/christian-sargent-ja...

In the 1850 Cocke County, TN census "Jackson" Messer is age 38 and wife Jane is 35 years old. She is old enough to be the mother of all the children listed (Angelina, Lydia, Nellie, Polly, Amy, Solomon, and John).

Jackson Messer's brother, Thomas Messer and family (including wife, Mary and eight children), both men and their wives born in NC, is right next door on the same data sheet.

I could add these two documents to their profiles, and suggest moving Jane's profile from wife of Christian Sr. to that of his son, christian s. "jackson" Sargent Messer, Jr. and then matching all the names and birthdates of the children to the census.

Additionally since there is no source or much detail for the current wife (also "Jane" but with a different maiden name), I would merge her with the proven wife with the correct maiden name.

jane (gregory) Messer

Then double check down the line to make sure everything looks right. Some relevant additional documents would be useful, too.

Their Haywood Co., NC marriage certificate also names her father, "Joshaway" (Joshua) Freeman. (We have a Joshua Freeman b. 1770 in NC with a bunch of children but no wife and no daughter Jane, so that requires further investigation.)

Joshua Freeman