Person:Jacob Harnsbarger (2)

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Jacob Harnsbarger
b.21 Sep 1781 Rockingham County, Virginia
d.Nov 1847 Ramsey, Fayette County, Illinois
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m. 16 May 1805
  1. Wesley Harnsbarger1808 - 1896
  2. Henry M. Harnsbarger1823 -
  3. George G. Harnsbarger1825 -
  4. Jacob S. Harnsbarger1829 -
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Name Jacob Harnsbarger
Gender Male
Birth? 21 Sep 1781 Rockingham County, Virginia
Marriage 16 May 1805 Rockingham County, Virginiato Catherine Harnsbarger
Death? Nov 1847 Ramsey, Fayette County, Illinois
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From History of the Early Settlers of Sangamon County, Illinois: "Centennial Record", by John Carroll Power, Sarah A. Power, Old Settlers' Society of Sangamon County (Ill.), pg. 358:

HARNSBERGER, JACOB, was born in 1781, in Rockingham county, Va., and was there married to Catharine Harnsberger. They had two children in Virginia, and moved to Clarke county, Ohio, where seven children were born, and from there to Clinton county, Ind., where one child was born,' and Mrs. Harnsberger and one child died there. The eldest son went to Wisconsin, married, had one child, and died there. Two sons and three daughters remained in Indiana. Mr. Harnsberger and three sons came to Sangamon county, arriving Aug. 29, 1839, in what is now Cartwright township. Of the three sons:
HENRY M., born Feb. 2, 1823, in Clarke county, Ohio, married Feb. 18, 1846, in Sangamon county, to Melinda A. Harrison. They had four children— JOHN J. married Nancy C. Campbell, has one child, Carrie, and lives in Menard county, near Pleasant Plains. G. LEONARD, S. AMANDA C. and M. A. VIRGINIA, live with their parents. Henry M. Harnsberger and wife reside three and one-half miles northeast of Pleasant Plains—1873.
GEORGE G., horn in 1825, in Ohio, and married Mary Scott. They have four living children, and reside six miles northeast of Decatur.
JACOB S., born in 1829, married Sarah Starr, have three children, and reside near Tionus, Bibb county, Ala.
Jacob Harnsberger died Sept., 1847, in Montgomery county, Ala.



Descendant of Conrad Harnsberger, as follows:

1. William Reddish (b. 1843) m. 1864 Mary Harnsberger (b. 1843).
2. Wesley Harnsberger (1808-96) m. 1836 Jane Alley (1814-62).
3. Jacob Harnsberger (1781-1847) m. Catharine Harnsberger (d. 1831).
4. Conrad Harnsberger m. 1778 Anna Barbary Miller (b. 1757).
Conrad Harnsberger (1756-1814) served, 1777, in Capt. Thomas Buck's company, 8th Virginia regiment. He was born in Rockingham County; died in Norfolk, Va.

Source: http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~meyerpam/harnsberger.htm

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