Caleb Jacobs

Abt 1780 - 1830  (~ 45 years)

• Name	Caleb Jacobs  [1, 2]
  Birth	Abt 1780	St Lukes, Caswell, North Carolina   [3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	Abt 1786	Caswell, North Carolina   [5]
  Death	Between 1825 and 1830	Robertson, Tennessee   [3, 5]
  Person ID	I10970	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	8 Feb 2024

  
  

  Father	Benjamin Jacobs,   b. Abt 1750   d. Aft 16 May 1815, Person County, North Carolina (Age ~ 65 years)
  Mother	Nancy Simpson,   b. Abt 1757, Virginia
  Family ID	F6345	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Scoggin,   b. 8 Jul 1784, Person County, North Carolina d. 1865, Carroll County, Tennessee (Age 80 years)
  Marriage	3 Apr 1805	Person County, North Carolina   [6, 7]
  Children	1. Lethia Jacobs,   b. Abt 1806, North Carolina   2. Parthena Jacobs,   b. 5 Nov 1807   d. 24 Jun 1894 (Age 86 years)   3. Martha B. Jacobs,   b. 12 Aug 1810   d. 28 Feb 1903, Weakley County, Tennessee (Age 92 years)   4. Elizabeth Jacobs,   b. 12 Oct 1812, Person County, North Carolina d. 14 Sep 1902, Medina, Gibson, Tennessee (Age 89 years)   5. Greene H. Jacobs,   b. 15 Nov 1816, Person County, North Carolina d. 30 Jul 1894, Gibson, Gibson, Tennessee (Age 77 years)   6. Lucinda Jacobs,   b. 26 Sep 1819, Robertson County, Tennessee d. 26 Sep 1881, Gibson County, Tennessee (Age 62 years)   7. William Palestine Jacobs,   b. 29 Dec 1822, Robertson County, Tennessee d. 27 Jul 1909, Tennessee (Age 86 years)
  Family ID	F273	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Feb 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Volume One of Wheeley's or Upper Hico Primitive Baptist Church Minutes from 1790 to 1846, covering the period when the church was simply called Wheeley's Church, says that Caleb Jacobs was "Received by experience 2nd Saturday July 1802" and was baptised the next day, and later states that on the second Saturday of Oct 1817 he "applied for a letter of dismission which was granted". This would appear to mark the point at which he and his family left Person County, North Carolina for Robertson County, Tennessee. He bought 78 acres of land located on Red River in Robertson County from Chas. Brandon, 31 Oct 1822 and registered it 23 May 1823. On 25 Jan 1825 he bought 13 additional acres in Robertson County from the state of Tennessee. On 19 Nov 1832 his wife Mary sold the whole farm to John Ellison and signed the deed as "Mary Jacobs, widow." According to notes left by users on familysearch.org, Mary then removed to Gibson County, Tennessee to live with her daughter Lucinda and family; this would appear to be born out by the 1850 census of Gibson County which shows her, age 66, living with Lucinda and Lucinda's husband William McFarland. An unsourced Find a Grave page says that he died 5 Apr 1830 (plausible) and that his full name was Caleb Benjamin Jacobs (unlikely). No burial marker is portrayed.

  
  

• Sources

  [S115] North Carolina Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868, on ancestry.com. [S3797] Descendants of George Scoggins. [S1109] Findagrave.com page for Mary Scoggin Jacobs. [S567] Jim Davis, 27 Nov 2000, post to TNCHESTE-L. [S947] Mary Meyer, 25 Nov 2000, post to TNHCHESTE-L. [S901] An Index to Marriage Bonds Filed in the North Carolina State Archives. Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Division of Archives and History, 1977. [S567] Jim Davis, 27 Nov 2000, post to TNCHESTE-L., place only.