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Below is a family biography included in The History of Coffee County, Tennessee published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1887. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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Capt. A. Jacobs, a well known planter of Coffee County, Tenn., was born August 3, 1818, near his present home. His grandfather came from England as early as 1750, and was a soldier of the Revolution, living successively in Maryland, North Carolina and Bedford County, Tenn., where he died at the unusual age of one hundred and six years. Our subject is the son of Jeremiah and Rebecca (Rudd) Jacobs, natives of Tennessee and North Carolina, and born about 1793 and 1802 respectively. The father died about 1858, and the mother about 1871, in Coffee County. Both were members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, while politically the father was a Democrat. He was engaged in agriculture, the oldest of twelve children. Our subject has been a self-educated man and Bible student; engaged in mercantile business at Beech Grove about twenty years before and ten years after the war; in addition to his farming interests, he also dealt in livestock before the war. Losing much through the war and in securities, he has 300 acres of fine Coffee County land. He is a Democrat in political faith, while religiously the entire family are prominent workers in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. December 1, 1842, he married Catherine, born October 27, 1822, in Coffee County, the daughter of James Dillard. Eight children were born to them.
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This family biography is one of 59 biographies included in The History of Coffee County, Tennessee published in 1887. The History of Coffee County was included within The History of Cannon, Coffee, DeKalb, Warren & White Counties of Tennessee. For the complete description, click here: History of Cannon, Coffee, DeKalb, Warren, White Counties of Tennessee
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