Individual Details
Jacob Fishback
(14 Apr 1749 - 15 Sep 1821)
Virgina Marriage Database on MyHeritage has the date of marriage as 18 Feb 1771.
Moved to Kentucky in the fall of 1783, settled first in the Forks of Dicks River.
Jacob & Phoebe are buried Fishback Graveyard, Winchester, Clark, KY
Find A Grave Memorial# 69563663
Inscription:
In
Memory of
Jacob Fishback
who was born in
Culpepper County, Virginia
April 14, 1749
Devoted to the religion
of Jesus, his delightfull
and daily employment
was in works of Piety,
Benevolence & Charity,
but his hope was in the
Redeemer.
All of the hope he de-
[remainder below ground level]
Departed this life in the forenoon of Saturday the 15th of September, 1821, at 9 o'clock, in his own house, in Clarke county, Kentucky, Jacob Fishback, in the 73d year of his age. He was born in Culpepper county, Virginia, on the 14th day of April, 1749. He had been married more than fifty years to Phebe Morgan, who survives him, and was 70 years old two days before his death, by whom he had eleven children,* whose living offspring at his death amounted to 68 persons; and with the exception of two infant children, who survived but a few weeks after their birth, there had been no burial in his white family since his marriage; except one daughter-in-law. He bad been a practical believer in the Christian Religion for about fifty-five years, and a member of the Presbyterian Church about thirty-seven, and his life was a perpetual commentary on the sincerity of his faith.
* The names of his sons and daughters are: William Fishback, John Fishback, James Fishback, Annie Price, Elizabeth Mason, Jesse Fishback, Charles Fishback, Hannah Taylor, Lucy Stonestreet, and Samuel D. Fishback. -- An Outline of the History of the Church in the State of Kentucky, Bishop and Rice.
Events
| Birth | 14 Apr 1749 | Culpeper County, Virginia |  | ||
| Marriage | 19 Feb 1771 | Phebe Morgan | | ||
| Death | 15 Sep 1821 | Clark County, Kentucky | |
Families
| Spouse | Phebe Morgan (1751 - 1837) |
| Father | John Frederick Fishback (1716 - 1782) |
| Mother | Ann Elizabeth Holtzclaw (1718 - 1755) |
| Sibling | Ann Elizabeth Fishback ( - ) |
| Sibling | John Fishback (1745 - 1828) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth Fishback ( - ) |
| Sibling | Catherine Fishback (1753 - ) |
| Sibling | Sarah Fishback (1755 - 1821) |
| Sibling | Mary Fishback ( - ) |
| Sibling | Frederick Fishback ( - ) |
Endnotes
1. Randolph Julin Marchmont, Internet Home Page: Holtzclaw (http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/m/a/r/Randolph-J-Marchmont/index. html), Descendants of Johann Holzklau; Generation No. 7.
2. Compiled and Edited by Willis Miller Kemper, The Fishback Family. Genealogy of the Fishback Family in America. The Descendants of John Fishback, the Emigrant, with an Historical Sketch of his Family and of the Colony at Germanna and Germantown, Virginia 1714-1914 (Thomas Madison Taylor, New York, c1914), p.90.
3. Randolph Julin Marchmont, Internet Home Page: Holtzclaw (http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/m/a/r/Randolph-J-Marchmont/index. html), Descendants of Johann Holzklau; Generation No. 7.