Jacob S. Kern

Birth Name Jacob S. Kern
Gender male
Age at Death about 27 years, 8 months, 23 days

Narrative

The obituary of Eleanor (Kern) Hunt says that she had a brother named Jacob. Sarah (Kern) Kiel named a son Jacob Steinbaugh Kern Kiel in Nov 1829, two months after this Jacob died.

There is a Jacob S. Kern, of Greensburg, in the hatting business with George W. Kern, in 1827. There are indenture papers of a Patrick McQuaid, apprentice to the two Kern brothers.

Events

Event Date Place Description Sources
Birth about 1802      
General

Calculated from age at death in Mary Jane Mains Newspaper Accounts, etc., and from transcription of McConnellsburg Presbyterian Cemetery, at http://www.rootsweb.com/ ~pafulton/index.htm.

Death September 24, 1829 McConnellsburg Borough, Fulton County, Pennsylvania, United States   1a
General

From Mary Jane Mains, compiler, Newspaper Accounts of Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1808-1929 (not all inclusive), Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Greensburg: Westmoreland County Historical Society, 1994

KERN, Jacob S. of this place d Sept 24 at McConnelsburgh, Bedford Co. in 27th yr. (10-2-1829 GG)

from cemetery index at http://www.rootsweb.com/~pafulton/index.htm
KERN, Jacob S. McCNLBG PRESBY d-24 Sept. 1829; Age 26y

Note: when Jacob died, McConnellsburg was in Bedford County. It is now in Fulton County, which was formed from part of Bedford in 1850.

Burial   McConnellsburg Presbyterian Cemetery, McConnellsburg Borough, Fulton County, Pennsylvania, United States   2
General

headstone inscription from photograph at findagrave.com

HERE
reposes the remains of
JACOB S KERN
of Greensburgh
Westmoreland Co Pa
who died Sept 24, 1829
aged 26 years

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father Joseph KernAugust 30, 1772May 23, 1846
Mother Margaret SteinbachOctober 1779April 16, 1856
    Brother     George Washington Kern October 3, 1800 May 28, 1881
         Jacob S. Kern about 1802 September 24, 1829
    Sister     Sarah Kern 1805 between 1864 and 1867
    Brother     Joseph Funk Kern October 14, 1806 May 15, 1884
    Sister     Sibilla Kern December 30, 1808 June 21, 1888
    Sister     Mary Ann Kern December 15, 1810 between 1870 and 1888
    Sister     Elizabeth Kern September 22, 1813 between 1880 and 1888
    Sister     Catharine Ann Kern April 22, 1815 May 26, 1856
    Brother     Henry Riley Kern January 26, 1817 May 26, 1872
    Sister     Eleanor Margaretta Kern February 10, 1819 May 20, 1902
    Brother     Samuel Mclane Kern January 16, 1823 October 14, 1888