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 1787 - 1871 (84 years)
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| Name |
Bales, Jacob [1] |
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1787 |
York County, Pennsylvania, USA  [1] |
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Male |
| Residence |
Moved to Ohio [1] |
| Died |
11 Mar 1871 [1] |
| Person ID |
I24387 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
21 Jan 2022 |
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- Source: History of Wayne county, Ohio, from the days of the pioneers and the first settlers to the present time., Ben Douglass, Indianpolis, IN, 1878
Jacob Bales was born in Lebanon county, Pa., 1787, and removed to Wayne county in 1812, locating on the farm now owned by his son Daniel. He was married October 5, 1812, to Sada Bowers, of Lebanon county, Pa., and died March 11, 1871, having had born to him nine children, three sons and six daughters. He had seven brothers and one sister, all of whom are dead. Caleb was his youngest brother, and died in Surgarcreek township during the summer of 1876. Jacob lived fifty-nine years upon the old homestead, and during that time not a death occurred among the members of his family, which was composed of nine children, although three have died since his death. His wife died June 2, 1874, and at the time of his death he had eighty-six grandchildren.
He was Justice of the Peace of Paint township for a great many years, was an old time Whig and an active politician. He had many a spirited contest in the local elections of Paint, notably with James Pinkerton, whom he successively defeated until the "labeled bottles" entered the canvass. He was a member of the Methodist church for over twenty years, subsequently uniting with the United Brethren congregation of West Lebanon. When Mr. Bales came to the country he found it a bleak and dreary waste, infested with Indians, bears and wolves. For several years he lived without meat, and as coffee commanded an exhorbitant price it was a delicacy seldom relished and only indulged, as Daniel Bales says, "when there was a birth in the family." Mt. Eaton had no existence when he penetrated the wild woods; Massillon was barely dreamed of then, and Canton but a cluster of cabins. He took his first wheat to New Philadelphia, and traveled twentythree miles to get his flour.
He was a whole-souled, generous man, lived a sincere and pious life, his house being recognized as "the preacher's home," having entertained fifty-six ministers while living there.
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- [S527] Kathryn Bales Porter, Christina Llewellyn, (Name: on line at Rootsweb; Location: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2482105; Date: 2003;).
- [S1590] The Era Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, Volume 6, Issue 3, (Name: Henry T. Coates & Co.; Date: 1899;), pages 93-94.
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