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Person ID: I8667771918

Jacob Mathias

20 or 25 Nov 1804 – 21 or 26 Nov 1882

Male

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Born
20 or 25 Nov 1804 — Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States7 sources
Died
21 or 26 Nov 1882 — Camden, Hillsdale, Michigan, United States4 sources
Buried
West Woodbridge Cemetery, Camden, Hillsdale, Michigan, United States3 sources

Family

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Married: 4 Sep 1828 — Columbania, Ohio, United States

Notes

  • In the 1850 Hancock County, Ohio Census, Jacob is a farmer whose Real Estate value is $2,000.00. He and his wife and children reside in Blanchard Twp. next door to his brother who is married to his wife's sister, Barbara. In the 1860 Hancock County, Ohio Census, Jacob and Mary Ann reside in Blanchard Twp. at Macomb. Jacob is a farmer whose Real Estate value is $4,000.00 and whose Personal Estate value is $560.00. According to A Portrai and Biographical Record of Putnam County, Ohio, 1896, page 357, Jacob was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. It also states that "In 1849 Jacob moved from Starck county to Hancock county, and located on 220 acres of land in Blanchard township, where he remained until 1866, when he moved to Hillsb[sic]ale, Mich., where he died..." In the 1880 Hillsdale County, Michigan Census, Jacob is a widowed, "retired farmer" who resides with his son, Henry, and family in Woodbridge Twp. According to Dorothy Weiser Seale's Mat(t)hias milestones : the genealogy & biograhical history of Daniel Mathias, senior (a soldier of the Revolution) of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania & Stark County, Ohio, "In 1806, when Jacob was less than age two, he traveled overland from Westomoreland County, Pa. to Stark Co., Ohio with his parents and settled in Nimishillen Township...In 1849, Jacob and his family left Stark County and moved to Hancock County, Ohio where they located on 220 acres of land in Blanchard Township...In 1866, Jacob and Mary Ann, lured by the beautiful farming and fishing country in Michigan, moved to Hillsdale County, Michigan where they spent the remainder of their lives. Their eldest son, Jesse, preceded them to Hillsdale County in 1860. Among those who moved to Michigan with Jacob was another son, Henry H., and Jacob's brother Daniel, III..After his wife's death, Jacob lived with his son Henry H...." His marker at West Woodbridge Cemetery in Camden Twp. states that he died at age 78 years 1 day.

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