Greene H. Jacobs

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: South Carolina

Greene married Mary Ann H. Wallingsford on 21 Oct 1834 in Gibson County, Tennessee. Mary (daughter of Isaac Wallingsford and Nancy) was born about 1816 in Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Bondsman, Isaac Wallingsford.

1. Martha M. Jacobs was born about 1835 in Tennessee.
2. Mary L. Jacobs was born on 18 Sep 1837 in Gibson County, Tennessee; died on 18 Apr 1856 in Tennessee; was buried in Hope Hill Cemetery, Medina, Gibson, Tennessee.
3. Isaac H. Jacobs was born on 6 Mar 1840 in Gibson County, Tennessee; died on 25 Apr 1856 in Gibson County, Tennessee; was buried in Hope Hill Cemetery, Medina, Gibson, Tennessee.
4. William Green Jacobs was born on 1 Jul 1842; died on 13 Jun 1919 in Pinson, Madison, Tennessee.
5. Monroe Marshall Jacobs was born on 19 Dec 1845 in Milan, Gibson, Tennessee; died in 1892 in Lavinia, Carroll, Tennessee; was buried in Hope Hill Cemetery, Medina, Gibson, Tennessee.
6. Newton Dunlap Jacobs was born on 27 Mar 1848 in Carroll County, Tennessee; died on 6 Feb 1908 in Lavinia, Carroll, Tennessee; was buried in Hope Hill Cemetery, Medina, Gibson, Tennessee.
7. Andrew Wade Jacobs was born on 7 Feb 1852 in Gibson County, Tennessee; died on 7 Dec 1930 in Gibson, Gibson, Tennessee; was buried in Hope Hill Cemetery, Medina, Gibson, Tennessee.
8. (Unknown son) Jacobs was born on 19 Dec 1854; died on 26 Apr 1856; was buried in Hope Hill Cemetery, Medina, Gibson, Tennessee.
9. Elijah Wilson Jacobs was born on 6 Aug 1857 in Gibson County, Tennessee; died on 10 Aug 1931 in Lavinia, Carroll, Tennessee; was buried in Hope Hill Cemetery, Medina, Gibson, Tennessee.
10. Walter Lee Jacobs was born on 6 Jan 1861 in Tennessee; died in Tupelo, Lee, Mississippi; was buried in Bobbitt Cemetery, Dyer, Gibson, Tennessee.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1786, Caswell, North Carolina

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.

Caleb married Mary Scoggin on 3 Apr 1805 in Person County, North Carolina. Mary (daughter of Nathan Scoggin and Martha Johnston) was born on 8 Jul 1784 in Person County, North Carolina; died in 1865 in Carroll County, Tennessee; was buried in Hope Hill Cemetery, Medina, Gibson, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1781
• Alternate birth: Between 1781 and 1784
• Alternate death: 30 Dec 1865, Gibson County, Tennessee

Notes:

Or Mary Scogon.

The 1850 census of Gibson County, Tennessee shows her, age 66, living in the home of her daughter Lucinda and son-in-law William McFarland.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Between 1750 and 1760, Caswell, North Carolina

Notes:

He is listed on the roll of Major John Baptist Ashe's Company of the 1st North Carolina Battalion, commanded by Colonel Thomas Clarke, dated 8 Sep 1778, as a private who enlisted on 16 Feb 1777. Elsewhere, he is shown as having enlisted 16 Feb 1777 and mustered out as a corporal on 19 May 1779. A "Benj. Jacobs" also appears as a private on the muster roll of Capt. John Belfield's Troop in the First Regiment Light Dragoons in the Service of the United States of America, Commanded by Col. Theodorick Bland, Taken for the Months of Oct. and Nov. [year not legible], said to have enlisted 15 July 78 for a term of three years. It seems plausible that the Benjamin Jacobs of this page corresponds to at least one of these records.

He appears as head of family the 1790 census in Caswell, North Carolina, in the 1800 census in Hillsborough, Person County, North Carolina, and in the 1810 census in Person County, North Carolina. In 1794 he appears on the Person County tax list, St. Luke's district, with 100 acres; he also appears in the 1795 and 1805 Person County tax lists.

He witnessed the wills of Nathaniel Norfleet, William Hargis, and Richard Hargis (son of William Hargis). His own will is dated 16 May 1815; sons Calbel and Elijah are named executors, and Nathaniel Norfleet and Stokes Allen are witnesses. His estate was settled in May 1817. According to an unsourced Find a Grave page which says that his burial details are unknown, he died in August 1815.

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, mentions Benjamin and sons Caleb and Elijah.

Benjamin married Nancy Simpson. Nancy was born about 1757 in Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

An unsourced Find a Grave page says that she died 12 Oct 1850, age 93 or 94, in Leasburg, Caswell, North Carolina.

It also gives her parents as "George Richard Simpson (1727-1782) and Rebecca Susannah Wheeler, but there appears to be no evidence for this. No corresponding record exists for a "George Richard Simpson", and neither the 19 Sep 1761 will of Richard Simpson of Fairfax County nor the 4 Oct 1782 will of George Simpson of the same place mention any daughter named Nancy or any son-in-law named Jacobs.

Nathan married Martha Johnston. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1763

Notes:

Sometimes called Nathan Johnathan or Nathan Jonathan Scoggin(s), but there appears to be no particular evidence for the "Nathan" part.

According to Kevin Scoglund, he died in 1763 in the French and Indian War. The Find a Grave page for his daughter Mary Scoggin (who Kevin Scoglund does not list) says he died in 1790, as do several other online secondary sources.

Johnathan married Mildred Jonas in 1744 in Brunswick, Virginia. Mildred was born in 1720 in Halifax, Brunswick, Virginia; died after 8 Jul 1784. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Or Jonah.

Notes:

Will of JOSEPH JOHNSTON- 1794
Person County, Wills & Inventories 1792-1797
Volume 1, Pages 150 - 151

In the Name of God Amen.

I JOSEPH JOHNSTON of the County of Person and State of North Carolina being weak in body but of sound and perfect mind and memory thanks be given unto God for the same and calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing it is appointed for all men once to die do make and ordain this my last will & testament. First I recomend my soul into the hands of that God who gave it and my body I recomend to the earth to be buried in a decent and Christian burial at the discretion of my Executors hereafter named. And as for such worldly goods as it has been pleased God to bless me with in this life, I give and dispose of in the following manner and form to wit,

Imprimese, after all my last debts are paid and satisfyd I give unto my beloved wife ANNE JOHNSTON all my whole Estate, during her natural life.

Item. I give and bequeath unto my two daughters MARTHA SCOGGIN & MARY LINK all the estate which I have willed unto my beloved wife above mentioned (after her death) to be equally divided between them except twenty Shillings which I shall make further provision for in the next clause of this my Last Will to them and their heirs forever.

Item. I give and bequeath unto my youngest daughter ELIZABETH LEWIS Twenty shillings current money to her and her heirs forever.

Lastly. I nominate, constitute and appoint my beloved wife ANN JOHNSTON Executrix and my trusty friend HERNDON HARRILSON Executor to this my last Will & Testament hereby revoking and disallowing all other or former Will or Wills heretofore by me made satisfying and confirming this and no other to be my last Will & testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixt my seal this 26th day of November Anno Dom 1792.

J. JOHNSTON

Signed Sealed Published, pronounced and declared in presence of
H. HARRILSON
JAMES BUCHANAN
JAMES LEWIS


Person County September Term 1794

The Execution of this last Will & Testament was duly proved in open court by the oath of HERNDON HARRILSON and on motion ordered to be recorded.

Test., JESSE DICKINS CCC

Joseph married Ann. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]