Kate Jacobs

1886 - 1964  (78 years)

• Name	Kate Jacobs  [1]
  Born	11 Mar 1886	Milan, Gibson, Tennessee   [2]
  Gender	Female
  Alternate birth	1887  [1]
  Alternate birth	11 Mar 1887	Tennessee
  Alternate birth	1888	Tennessee   [3]
  Died	4 Jul 1964	Detroit, Wayne, Michigan   [4]
  Buried	7 Jul 1964	Forest Lawn Cemetery, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan   [4]
  Siblings	4 siblings
  1. John Greene "Johnie" Jacobs ,   b. 26 Oct 1868, Gibson County, Tennessee ,   d. 24 Apr 1945  (Age 76 years) + 2. Leonard C. Jacobs ,   b. 21 Feb 1871, Gibson County, Tennessee ,   d. 1956  (Age 84 years)   3. Annie Jacobs ,   b. 1877, Gibson County, Tennessee ,   d. 1952  (Age 75 years) + 4. Floy Jacobs ,   b. 21 Mar 1882, Gibson County, Tennessee ,   d. 1 Dec 1944  (Age 62 years) + 5. Kate Jacobs ,   b. 11 Mar 1886, Milan, Gibson, Tennessee ,   d. 4 Jul 1964, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan  (Age 78 years)
  Person ID	I8583	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of PNH
  Last Modified	6 Dec 2020

  
  

  Father	Monroe Marshall Jacobs,   b. 19 Dec 1845, Tennessee ,   d. 1892, Lavinia, Carroll, Tennessee  (Age 46 years)
  Mother	Mary Frances "Fannie" Butler,   b. 8 Aug 1851, Coffee County, Tennessee ,   d. 1 Dec 1926, Gibson County, Tennessee  (Age 75 years)
  Married	1 Jan 1867	Gibson County, Tennessee   [5]
  Family ID	F3225	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	William Richard Workman,   b. 4 Oct 1875, Fulton County, Kentucky ,   d. 1 Jul 1945, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan  (Age 69 years)
  Married	12 Nov 1903	Gibson County, Tennessee   [6]
  SEPA	Bef 1930
  Children	1. Neville Workman,   b. 12 Dec 1904, Fulton County, Kentucky ,   d. 22 Mar 1986, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan  (Age 81 years) + 2. Mildred Workman,   b. 9 Mar 1911, Fulton, Fulton, Kentucky ,   d. 30 Sep 1990, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan  (Age 79 years)
  Photos		Jacobs-Workman marriage license
  		Workman-Jacobs marriage bond
  Last Modified	12 Jan 2019
  Family ID	F752	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos

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• Notes

  "FULTON, Ky., July 7 — Mrs. Kate Workman, former resident of Fulton and an aunt of Mrs. Mary Owens of Fulton, died Saturday morning in Detroit. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Mildred Hayden and Miss Neville Workman of Detroit, two grandchildren and several great-greandchildren. Funeral services and burial were held in Detroit today." [Paducah (Kentucky) Sun, 7 Jul 1964, p. 17] Her father Monroe Marshall Jacobs died when she was about five years old. Then when she was nearly eight, her mother married Uriah Jasper Hammonds. When she was sixteen, she herself married William Richard Workman, her stepfather's nephew, twelve years older than her. (William's mother Narcissa was Uriah Hammonds's sister.) Sometime in the late 1920s, when she was about forty and her younger daughter Mildred was still in her teens, she bundled up both daughters and left for Michigan (legend says, in the middle of the night), never to see her husband again. According to PNH's father, Neville stayed in occasional touch with her father, but Kate and Mildred had nothing further to do with him. We've always wondered if she was pressured into marrying her stepfather's nephew while she was still in her teens, and if the marriage ultimately worked out as well as such an arrangement might have been expected to. The abruptness of her departure does suggest some kind of sudden and unpleasant discovery or event. (Alternately, her mother's death in 1926 might have been what finally set events in motion.) One of the witnesses to the record of William Workman posting marriage bond was a "J. T. Hammonds". Possibly William Workman's cousin James Thomas Hammonds (1863-1914), son of Younger Hammonds -- or possibly William's cousin Thomas James Hammonds (b. 1865), son of Kate's stepfather Uriah Jasper Hammonds by his previous wife Mary Elizabeth Bobbitt. At any rate, it does seem like Kate Jacobs spent a lot of her early life overwhelmingly surrounded by Hammondses.

  
  

• Sources

  [S4021] 1910 United States Federal census, on ancestry.com. [S22] U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007, on ancestry.com. [S4023] 1920 United States Federal census, on ancestry.com. [S4446] Paducah (Kentucky) Sun, 7 Jul 1964, p. 17. [S3827] Tennessee Marriages, 1780-2002, on familysearch.org. [S27] Tennessee, Marriage Records, 1780-2002, on ancestry.com.