JACOB HESS AND MARY DANIELS

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From the book Supplement to the Hess Family 1984, by Barbara Allison:

In the spring of 1814 he married Mary Daniels, daughter of Daniel Daniels and Catherine Clevenger, Bedford Co., Pennsylvania. Jacob and his brother Jeremiah married sisters thus making their children double cousins. Jeremiah married Catherine Daniels.

We see from the 1850-1870 census and the tax records for Belfast Twp., that Jacob was a farmer. Jacob and Mary sold land to their daughter, Sarah and son-in-law Adam Hess, on 13 August 1859. On 6 March 1860, they sold land to their son George and on 27 November 1865, sold land to their son Nelson. He wrote his will on 16 December 1870 in Belfast Twp., Fulton Co., Pennsylvania. He died on 2 October 1876 in Belfast Twp., Fulton Co., Pennsylvania, at age 84. His estate was probated on 10 November 1876 in McConnellsburg, Fulton Co., Pennsylvania.1876. Ten children were born to Jacob and Mary.

Jacob died at 2 o’clock the afternoon of 2 October 1876 at home in Belfast Twp., Fulton Co., PA. He left a will which was proven on 10 November 1876.