General Notes

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Jacob Harper, Jr. was born in Pendleton Co., VA. He and Phebe Harmanmarried, though no official document of their marriage has yet been found(one of the marriage books for this area has been missing for manyyears). After starting a family in Pendleton Co., Jacob and Phebe movedwith their family about 1830 to what was then known as the VirginiaMilitary District in Ohio. An area encompassing several counties, it wasan area in central southern Ohio where veterans of the Revolutionary Waror their families could take a free land claim. Jacob and Phebe lived inthis area (the Fayette/ Ross Co., Ohio area) for several years, havingseveral more children. Before 1840, they moved on with the younger partof their family (older ones who had married stayed behind in Ohio) toCrawford Co., MO, where they appear in the 1840 census. According tofamily legend (per his daughter Delila Harper), Jacob returned "home" toreturn a horse to a brother that had been borrowed for the trip toMissouri, but was never seen again. It was assumed he died. For manyyears, it was believed he returned to Pendleton Co., VA, but furtherstudy shows he may have returned instead to Ohio, the "brother" referredto actually being a brother of one of Jacob and Phebe's children who hadstayed behind in Ohio. A cemetery survey of Fayette Co., OH shows a JacobHarper being buried in the Sugar Creek Cemetery near Washington CourtHouse, OH. Sugar Creek Baptist Church was a church his daughter MahalaHarper Thornton was affiliated with, she being one of the Harper childrenwho stayed in Ohio. The inscription reads "Jacob Harper, died Nov. 20,1847 age: 58 years 4 months." Though this is an approximation of Jacob'sage and the year of date would be compatible with the fact that he wasnot in any census after 1840, more study needs to be done to verify thisinformation. Of all the Harper families living at the time in the Fayette& Ross Co. area, none had heads of household named Jacob in the 1830 or1840 census.
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Jacob Harper, Jr. was born in Pendleton Co., VA. He and Phebe Harmanmarried, though no official document of their marriage has yet been found(one of the marriage books for this area has been missing for manyyears).  After starting a family in Pendleton Co., Jacob and Phebe movedwith their family about 1830 to what was then known as the VirginiaMilitary District in Ohio.  An area encompassing several counties, it wasan area in central southern Ohio where veterans of the Revolutionary Waror their families could take a free land claim.  Jacob and Phebe lived inthis area (the Fayette/ Ross Co., Ohio area) for several years, havingseveral more children.  Before 1840, they moved on with the younger partof their family (older ones who had married stayed behind in Ohio) toCrawford Co., MO, where they appear in the 1840 census.  According tofamily legend (per his daughter Delila Harper), Jacob returned "home" toreturn a horse to a brother that had been borrowed for the trip toMissouri, but was never seen again.  It was assumed he died.  For manyyears, it was believed he returned to Pendleton Co., VA, but furtherstudy shows he may have returned instead to Ohio, the "brother" referredto actually being a brother of one of Jacob and Phebe's children who hadstayed behind in Ohio.  A cemetery survey of Fayette Co., OH shows aJacob Harper being buried in the Sugar Creek Cemetery near WashingtonCourt House, OH.  Sugar Creek Baptist Church was a church his daughterMahala Harper Thornton was affiliated with, she being one of the Harperchildren who stayed in Ohio.  The inscription reads "Jacob Harper, diedNov. 20, 1847 age: 58 years 4 months."  Though this is an approximationof Jacob's age and the year of date would be compatible with the factthat he was not in any census after 1840, more study needs to be done toverify this information.  Of all the Harper families living at the timein the Fayette & Ross Co. area, none had heads of household named Jacobin