Person:Jacob Funkhouser (5)

Will Transcript

In the name of God, Amen:

I, JACOB FUNKHOUSER of Shenandoah County, State of Virginia, yeoman, being in low state of health, but of perfect mind and memory, for which thanks be given to God, do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament in manner following:

I recommend my soul into the hands of Almighty God, that gave it, and my body I recommend to the earth to be buried in a decent Christian burial at the discretion of my executors; and as touching such worldly estate wherewith it has pleased God to bless me in this life, I give, devise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form:

First, I give and bequeath unto DOROTHA my dearly beloved wife, the place, land and plantation whereon I now live, during her natural life, and a full third part of all movable estate whatsoever after being appraised, and that she shall keep all my children that are yet under age and raise them until they become of full age, and the said children shall be obedient and shall in the fear of the Lord obey her and assist her as their duty requires. But if my said wife shall marry again then she is to have the third part of my land and plantation to live on, or have the third of the produce thereof as long as she lives, and what children are then under age, to do with them as shall seem best to the satisfaction of the executors and good friends; and if my said wife remains in a widowhood state and should get infirm or incapable of assisting and providing for the living as aforesaid; on said place, then it is my will that she shall have a sufficient maintenance from her children out of my estate.

Second, That to my oldest son, GEORGE, I give him the sorrel horse as he now claims as his own, to have free besides his equal portion of my estate.

Third, To my eldest daughter, MARY, I likewise give in the same manner a bed and bedding, furniture and a cow, to have free besides her equal portion.

Fourth, The remainder of my movable estate is to be appraised (after my wife's third is deducted), each of my children to have an equal share thereof, and no vendue or public sale to be made, but if it should become necessary that any of the estate should be sold it should be sold at private sale.

The names of my children are: GEORGE, DAVID, MARY, JACOB, ABRAHAM, JOEL, DOROTHA, DANIEL and JOHN, and the land and plantation whereon I now live shall be divided as to make four places, and the land in Rockingham Co. be divided, if it be judged convenient, into two places. And said land and plantation shall be appraised in a reasonable valuation, not too high. And these of my children that get land shall give or be made so that each of my children shall have an equal part of the valuation, in like manner as in the movable estate, as aforesaid.

And as for the land, my eldest son GEORGE, is to have first choice of the land, and the next oldest of my sons, the next choice, that is of each of them as will take land. So that such as get no land to have an equal share of the same. Further, and if it be so that any of the children die before they come to their free age or die without bodily heirs, then such ones share or portion shall be an equal share among the rest yet living. And there shall be no objection or hindrance on the part of my said wife if any of my sons shall want to live on said lands as aforesaid divided and appraised, and take the same for his dividend, she with her consent shall allow it, provided it be no incumbrance to the same.

And further, That if the children shall come to their full age, they shall have their equal part of their movables, and likewise their portion of the valuation of the lands if they shall have need therof, either in part or the whole of such as get or have lands, that is if they can do it without injuring themselves, otherwise to pay them off in reasonable terms of payment. And further that after the death of my wife whatever there be left of her estate bequeathed to her should be equally divided among the rest of my children and their heirs. And the lands bequeathed as aforesaid, be to them, their heirs and assigns, forever. It is to be understood that the lands bequeathed as aforesaid, are to my sons.

I likewise constitute, make my son GEORGE and Micheal Growes, Sr., the sole executors of this my last will and testament. And I disallow and revoke all former testaments, wills, legacies, &, ratifying and confirming this to be my last Will and Testament.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 26th day of Sept. in the year of our Lord, 1801.

[Signed] Jacob Funkhouser (Seal)

Signed, sealed, published and pronounced and declared by the said Jacob Funkhouser in the presence of us:

Frances Neff

James Rhinehart

Hubert Winegarner.

At a Court held for the County of Shenandoah on Monday the 11th day of January 1802

This Last Will and testament of Jacob Funkhouser decd exhibited into Court by the executors therein named and proved by the oaths of Francis Neff, Jonas Rinehart and Herbert Winegardner the witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded And on motion of George Funkhouser and Michael Crouse Sw the executors therein named having made affirmation and given bond and Security according to Law at Probate thereof in due form is granted

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[Source: Shenandoah County, Virginia, Will Book No. 5 FOLIO 482 E-482]

1.   USGenweb Archives.

   JACOB FUNKHOUSER Biography - Shenandoah Co., VA
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   about 1750 Born near Tumbling Run, Shenandoah County, VA to John & Mary
   Funkhouser
   1774 Dec 17 Land from Richard Campbell County of Dunmore to Jacob Funkhouser
   265 acres on Mill Creek, age 24
   1774 Shenandoah Co, VA Rent Rolls
   1775 Apr 24 Land Adam Funk of Dunmore County to Jacob Funkhouser on Shenandoah
   River 112 acres, age 25
   1775 Militia of Alexander Machir, Shenandoah County, VA
   DAR Centennial Edition
   1775 Built home Mill Creek, 4 miles west of Mount Jackson
   in Dunmore County, VA, age 25
   1777 Oct 31 George born Mill Creek, age 27
   1777 Aug 3 Jacob Funkhouser of Dunmore County to Joseph Pugh, Junior 16 1/4
   acres on the north river of Shenandoah, age 27
   1779 David born Mill Creek, age 29
   Mary born Mill Creek
   1779-1781 Living Shenandoah County, VA and gave supplies to Revolutionary
   Army1782 Jun 3 Witnessed sale of land in town of Strasburgh of
   Shanando County
   to George Huttle, Sen., age 32
   1781 Oct David born
   1782 Aug 29 Public claim for 5 days horse hire L17-10, for soldiers in
   Revolution
   30 days waggon in service 5s
   waggon lost
   60 days waggon in service L30
   1782 Mary Ann born
   1783 Head of family of 7 white souls, Tax, age 33
   1784 Aug 27Jacob born Mill Creek, age 34
   1785 Tax list Shenandoah County, Virginia, age 35
   1787 Tax list Shenandoah County, Virginia, age 37
   1789 Aug 18 Abraham born Mill Creek, age 39
   1790 Census, Shenandoah County, VA Jacob Funkhouser
   1791 Sep 4 Joel born Mill Creek, age 41
   Elizabeth born Mill Creek
   1793 Dorothy born Mill Creek, age 43
   1794 Oct 3 Daniel born Mill Creek, age 44
   1798 Jun 4 John born Mill Creek, age 48
   1799 Bishop Newcomer stay night and preach, age 49
   1800 Census?
   1801 Nov 27 Died, all 9 children age 24 or under, age 51
   1802 Wife Dorothy died also
   Buried on farm, Probate 11 Jan 1802
   
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   CHILDREN OF JACOB FUNKHOUSER & DOROTHY HOTTEL FUNKHOUSER
   1. GEORGE FUNKHOUSER (31 Oct 1777 - 29 Jan 1815) m. Barbara Rhinehart
   2. DAVID FUNKHOUSER (1779 - 1815) m. Christina Rhinehart m. Catherine
   Tisinger
   3. MARY ANN FUNKHOUSER (1782 - 1808) m. Jonas Rhinehart
   4. JACOB FUNKHOUSER (27 Aug 1784 - 15 Apr 1856) m. Catherine Pennywitt
   5. ABRAHAM FUNKHOUSER (18 Aug 1789 - 9 Oct 1863) m. Sarah Fisher
   6. JOEL FUNKHOUSER (4 Sep 1791 - 25 Jan 1815)
   7. DOROTHY ELIZABETH FUNKHOUSER (1793 - 20 Feb 1834) m. Daniel Tussing
   8. DANIEL FUNKHOUSER (3 Oct 1794 - 15 Aug 1826) m. Catherine Tisinger
   9. JOHN H. FUNKHOUSER (4 Jun 1798 - 4 Oct 1863) m. Christina Fisher
   
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   On Mill Creek in Shenandoah County, Virginia, built a home in 1775.
   
   NOTE: On July 3, 1994 Jane and Tim Hodgson visited the old home and
   photographed the house as it stands today, boarded up and abandoned but still
   standing after 200 years.
   
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/shenandoah/biographies/funkbio.txt

2.   Wilson, Frieda Funkhouser. Funkhouser - a Swiss-American genealogy (1364-1978). (Alton, Illinois: A.F. Wilson, c1978 (Owensboro, Ky. : McDowell Publications)).

   Origin of the Funkhousers.
   
   JACOB FUNKHOUSER's parents, JOHN and MARY, originally came from Zurich,
   Switzerland to America some time between 1700 and 1740, and settled in the
   northern neck of Va., on the headwaters of Tumbling Run, about four miles west
   of Strasburg, Va, formerly Stoverstown, Dunmore Co. At that time this section
   was a wilderness and inhabited only by the Indians. Deer roamed through the
   forests and the streams abounded in fish, ducks and geese. Wild and dangerous
   beasts were plentiful. They were schooled in the hardships of pioneer times.
   They owned large grants of land from LORD THOMAS FAIRFAX, Baron of Cameron.
   They felled the giant oak and erected their log cabin in the wild woodlands
   when the track of the red man was there. They preferred such environment in a
   land dedicated to religious and political freedom rather than to suffer
   persecution in their native land. In this traditional home nine children were
   born, one of whom was JACOB FUNKHOUSER, who married DOROTHY HOTTEL.

3.   Philip Alexander Bruce. Institutional history of Virginia in the seventeenth century: an ..., Volume 1. (New York & London: G.P. Putnam's Sons).

   HISTORY OF VIRGINIA by Bruce.
   
   One of the nine children of this worthy couple was JACOB FUNKHOUSER, the
   direct ancestor of Samuel K. Funkhouser, who was born in 1750 and died
   November 27,1801. A farmer by vocation, he resided in that part of Frederick
   County which was made into Shenandoah County, and fought as a soldier in the
   Colonial Wars.
   He married Miss Dorothy Huddle, who died October 6, 1802, and among their
   children was ABRAHAM FUNKHOUSER, the great-grandfather of Captain Funkhouser.
   He died October 9, 1863, being seventy-four years, one month and twenty-four
   days.
   
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   One of his sons (John's) JACOB FUNKHOUSER, born in 1750, secured a large tract
   of land on Mill Creek one and one half miles west of the present site of Mount
   Jackson, Shenandoah County, and there built his home in 1775. This estate of
   Jacob Funkhouser, the great-great-grandfather of C.A. Funkhouser, passed
   successively to his great-grandfather, George Funkhouser, to his grandfather,
   Andrew Funkhouser, to his father, Casper Funkhouser, and still remains in the
   family, being owned by his brother, Dr. E.B. Funkhouser, of Trenton, New
   Jersey. The remains of these old members of the family lie buried in the
   cemetery on the farm.