Jacob Grove

1737 - 1819  (82 years)

• Name	Jacob Grove
  Birth	4 Jun 1737	Lancaster County, PA
  Gender	Male
  Death	15 Aug 1819	Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD
  Burial	Reform Church Yd, Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD
  Person ID	I286	Carl
  Last Modified	20 May 2012

  
  

  Father	Hans Graf, Jr.,   b. Abt 1697-1698, Lancaster County, PA d. 1780, Keedysville, Washington County, MD (Age ~ 82 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Carpenter,   b. Abt 1716   bur. Keedysville, Washington County, MD
  Family ID	F172	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Catherine Staley,   b. Mar 1742   d. 26 Sep 1833, Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD (Age ~ 91 years)
  Marriage	1758
  Children	1. Elizabeth Grove,   b. 27 Nov 1759   d. Sep 1838, Greenwood Twp., Perry County, PA (Age 78 years) + 2. John Grove,   b. 2 May 1761, York, PA d. 8 Jul 1811, Fayette County, German Twp., PA (Age 50 years)   3. Jacob Grove,   b. 25 Jun 1763   4. Henry Grove,   b. Jan 1765   d. 20 Jan 1840 (Age ~ 75 years)   5. Peter Grove,   b. 12 Jan 1767   d. Nov 1823, Martinsburg, WV (Age 56 years)   6. Stephen Grove,   b. Nov 1770   d. 20 Nov 1818 (Age ~ 48 years)   7. Catherine Grove,   b. 4 Mar 1773   d. 1825, Hamilton County, OH (Age 51 years)   8. Philip Grove,   b. 16 Apr 1775   d. 13 Jun 1841, Keedysville, Washington County, MD (Age 66 years)   9. Paul Grove,   b. Jan 1777   d. Aft 1837, Canal Dover, OH (Age ~ 60 years)
  Family ID	F169	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	18 Jan 2014

  
  

• Notes

  Tombstone, Old Reformed Graveyard, Sharpsburg, MD "Jacob Graff--Stop pasenger as you pass by what you are now so wants was i what i am now soon must be prepare yourself to follow me" "DESCENDANTS OF HANS GRAF" by Lindsey M. Brien (handtyped book at Allen County Public Library, Ft. Wayne, IN, 1966) "Jacob Graf, oldest son of Hans Jr...was a physician and man of prominence in the locality in which he lived. He came to Maryland in 1765 and signed the Oath of Fidelity and Support to the State of Maryland in 1778. He also in 1780 lent the sum of $500 for the use of the State of Maryland (See Md. Archives, Vol XLIII, p. 520)" (The following is also contained in the Brien book--a letter from Mary French to Kate W. Grove, Sep. 15, 1881) "Dear Niece, ....You wanted to know something about the Hans Graff family. I have had several sick spells and I can't recollect like I use to but I can recollect hearing my father say that my grandfather (Jacob Graff) was is the Revolutionary War the whole seven years of my Uncle John and Peter were out the same time. My father (Henry Grove, son of Jacob Grove/Graf) was learning trade at Little York, he learned Whites smith trade. He made all kinds of instruments for the war. I have heard him say that the hardest battle was on Graff's run and that they could walk across on the dead men. The battle was 9 miles from my grandfather's mill and grandmother tended the mill...Hans Graff fled from his home on account of religion...They were a religious people called the Mennonite, they were persecuted and came to America where they could worship God in their way. My grandfather, Jacob Graff, was a Presbyterian and they all descended from the Mennonites. My grandfather sold his possessions ans bought in Hagerstown and bought a mill 8 miles from Hagerstown, there he lived and died, he died at the age of 88 years. My grandmother died at the age of 88 years, the same as my grandfather. John Graff was the son of Hans Graff, my grandfather's father...." Flags: Millitary=Y, Rev. War=Y