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5. Jacob
HARTSHORN7 was born
on 23 Jan 1810 in Belmont Co., Ohio. (or 1 Jan by family tradition.)
He died on 17 Apr 1891 in Licking County, Ohio. He was buried in
Cedar Hill Cemetery, Newark, Ohio. Jacob Hartshorn was bound out
to a farmer when his father failed to return home after the War of 1812. The
kindly farmer that had apprenticed him died and he was bound to a second farmer
that treated him brutally. He ran away and lived on his own, still in his early
teens. He lost touch with his family but was able to settle with a kindly family
named Williams that lived between Granville and Newark.
Jacob worked for farmers that paid him his wage in grain. Between 1828 and
1833, he helped dig the Ohio and Erie Canal which connected Cleveland on Lake
Erie with Portsmouth on the Ohio River. For this work he was paid thirty cents
a day plus food and lodging. When he was older he worked as a hoggee, driving
a mule along the tow path, pulling the canal boats up the canal. He married
Martha Fulton in 1844, who was from in Cherry Valley, near Newark. The young
couple rented a black walnut log cabin two miles west of Newark, on the road
to Granville.
Shortly after his marriage, Jacob began buying land. His first tract was 83
acres of prime land across the road from their cabin. He cut and burned many
of the black walnut trees on the property in order to plant crops. At the time
of his death he owned 250 acres and was considered well-to-do. The house that
he built in the second year of his marriage would serve as home to three generations
of Hartshorns, until 1958, and is still standing today. Jacob HARTSHORN and
Martha Jane FULTON were married in 1844 in Ohio. Martha
Jane FULTON was born on 17 Jan 1815 in Virginia. She died in
1889 in Licking County, Ohio. Jacob HARTSHORN and Martha Jane FULTON
had the following children:
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