John William Jacobs 1 3 10 

Parents: John Dowden Jacobs (1786-1842) & Lucinda Gilmore (1803-1869)
Born: 13 Aug 1835 1 2 3 9, Clark County, Indiana 1
1840 Census: in Clark County, Indiana, living with parents 4  Details
1850 Census: in Utica Township, Clark County, Indiana, living with mother 5  Details
Occupation: farmer 6 7 8
Died: 21 Jun 1894 1 3 9, Adams County, Illinois 2
Buried: Row 16-N, Ebenezer Methodist Cemetery, Golden, Adams County, Illinois 9
Marriage: 
Wife: Elizabeth Emily Bennett (9 Jun 1835 - 8 Feb 1920)
Married: 23 Aug 1857, Clark County, Indiana 1
 about 1860: moved from Indiana to Adams County, Illinois
1860 Census: in Houston Township, Adams County, Illinois 6  Details
1870 Census: in Houston Township, Adams County, Illinois 7  Details
1880 Census: in Houston Township, Adams County, Illinois 8  Details
1890 Census: most census records lost in fire
   Jun 1894: John died
Children:
 1. Avarilla Florence Jacobs (1859-after 1920)
    Husband: James F. Smith (1856-after 1920)

 2. Mary Rosella Jacobs (1861-1904)
    Husband: John Letcher Bruffy (1860-1928)

 3. Lillian Alice Jacobs (1863-1946)
    Husband: John W. Sharrow (1856-1912)

 4. Anna Bell Jacobs (1866-1942)
    Husband: Joseph Wesley Cathcart (1863-1927)

 5. Henry Edgar Jacobs (1869-1945)
    Wife: Rose Charlotte Willard (1870-1951)

 6. Cora May Jacobs (1872-after 1920)
    Husband: John B. Keeney (1871-after 1920)
    
 7. John Franklin Jacobs (1875-1876)

 8. Ada Lucy Jacobs (1880-1963)
    Husband: Hurley Frank Willard (1875-1963)

One source 2 indicates that John William Jacobs married Emeretta Missouri Bennett (Emily's younger sister), a first marriage for both of them. This unlikely report seems most likely to have originated in a confusion of identities.

Notes:

  1.  Ancestry World Tree, John William Jacobs, ID I12753 in "The Prather Family" compiled by Randy Jones, last update 29 Jun 2005.
  2.  Ancestry World Tree, John William Jacobs, ID I3026 in "Reed's of Southern Indiana" compiled by John D. Reed, last update 8 Sep 2001.
  3.  Ancestry World Tree, John William Jacobs, ID I00374 in "Unrelated Jacobs Potpourri - Raw Unverified Data" compiled by Wesley Jacobs, last update 20 Aug 2005.
  4.  Census 1840, Roll 75, p. 282.
  5.  Census 1850, Roll 138, p. 194
  6.  Census 1860, Roll 155, p. 1001.
  7.  Census 1870, Roll 186, p. 204, Image 416.
  8.  Census 1880, Roll 174, Family History Film 1254174, p. 164C, Enumeration District 11, Image 0330.
  9.  Ebenezer Chapel & Cemetery Records.
10.  Fayette Genealogy Page. 

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