Darke County OHIO Biographies.....Jacob Shultz  May 6 1827 -  June 26 1895
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File contributed for Ohio Biographies Project by:
Francis Motschman, Sr. dalesr99@earthlink.net July 23, 2003, 4:22 pm

Author: Francis D. Motschman, Sr.

The Shultz Family of Darke County, Ohio



 The Biography of  Jacob Shultz

Son of George Jacob Shultz and Elizabeth Creager

by Francis D. Motschman, Sr.



		Jacob Shultz was named after his uncle shortly after he was 

born on Sun., May 6, 1827 in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. He emigrated to Ohio 

with his parents when he was about 13 years old. He first went to live at the 

home of his Aunt and Uncle near Blue Ball in Warren County, Ohio and then when 

he was about 19 years old he and his family moved to Darke County. This is 

where they settled. They lived on a forty acre farm near Ansonia on what is now 

called Beans Road.

		

		When he was 26 years old and after sparking a number of young 

girls he fell in love with a lovely young lady by the name of Mary Lecklider. 

He asked her father, George Lecklider for her hand in marriage and was accepted 

by her family including her Mother, Sarah Adar. Their marriage was performed on 

Thu., September 1, 1853.



		It would be four years before their first child was born. It 

was a girl and she was born in 1857, in Darke County, Ohio. She was named Anna 

E. Shultz.



		Children did not come readily to them as it would be another 

eight years before they were blessed with another. This time the baby was a 

boy, born on Wed., May 31, 1865. He was given the name of Thomas D. Shultz and 

he would start another line of Shultz's there in Darke County.



		Jacob died on Wed., June 26, 1895. His home at this time was in 

Greenville Twp., Darke County, Ohio and he was buried in Earhart Cemetery, 

SR118 n. of Greenville, Darke Co., Ohio.



		Mary Lecklider  was also buried in Earhart Cemetery, SR118 n. 

of Greenville, Darke Co., Ohio.

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