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JACOBS, SAMUEL, carrier U.S. mail; residence Payson; was born in Louisville, Ky., Feb. 28, 1837; when 12 years old removed with his parents, Price and Mary Jacobs, to Columbus township,Adams county July 26, 1862. He enlisted in Co. F, 78th Regt. Ill. Inf. While on picket duty, at Chickamauga, on the morning of the 22d of September, he was captured by the rebels and sent to Richmond, Va.; was confined in an old tobacco factory till Feb. 17, 1864, and then sent to Andersonville; was one of the first who entered that slaughter-pen, and remained there till April 1, 1865, during which time 13,000 of his comrades in blue were carried out dead. Though he lives to tell the tale, he has never recovered from the effects of what he there endured. He was discharged in June, 1865. He married Lillie Sawin, Sept. 29, 1867. She was born in Payson township, Jan. 21, 1851. Have had four children; three living: John F., George H., and Mary E. Mr. Jacobs took the contract for carrying the mail from Richfield to Fall Creek, via Stone’s Prairie and Payson, in July, 1875. They removed to Payson in March, 1877. Is a member of the I. O. O. F. and a radical Republican in politics.