To: Jonathan Caraker,
I think this is where we split Jacob your grandfather and also mine: had
son's named Daniel (your grandfather) Samuel (my grandfather) and Calvin and
other's.
Our grandfather Jacob born in 1791 married Jane Meisenheimer left
Cabarrus County NC with his brother Daniel and his wife Rachel Blackwelder by
wagon July 28, 1818. Jacob lived for a short time in the neighborhood of St.
Johns Luthern Church in Union County but then moved to the Saratoga
neighborhood where he lived the remainder of his life. His first wife died
and he married again to Phoebe Verble.
He had two sets of children. He died about 1863. Daniel homsteaded 160
acres of land east of the present site of Dongola, ILL. and died in 1861.
Tad Y. Caraker