JACOB
B. HANN, farmer, was born in Sussex County, N. J., July 24, 1822,
and is a son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Roof) Hann, natives of New
Jersey, born in 1783 and 1782, respectively. They were married in
August, 1810, and in 1827 removed with a family of six children to
Brookfield Township, Trumbull Co., Ohio. In 1880 they settled on the
old Hann homestead in Hickory Township, Mercer Co., Penn., where the
remaining years of their lives were spent. The father died October 8
and the mother October 24, 1874, each being in their ninety-second
year. They were life-long members of the Baptist Church, and in the
August preceding their death celebrated the sixty-fourth anniversary of
their marriage. They reared the following children: Sarah
A. (deceased wife of William Applegate), Christopher
(deceased), Mary (deceased wife of Henry Shilling,
deceased), James, Jacob B. and Elizabeth J. (widow of
Lemuel Troutman). Our subject grew to manhood on the old homestead,
where he resided up to the spring of 1884, when he removed to Sharon.
He was married, in October, 1854, to Miss Nancy, daughter
of William Titus, of Hickory Township. She died in the Baptist
faith in September, 1863. He was again married, January 30, 1868,
to Miss Jennie, daughter of John and Kate (Groves)
Cauffield, of Brookfield Township, Trumbull Co., Ohio. Her parents were
natives of. Ireland, who immigrated to Ohio in 1825, where both spent
the remaining years of their lives. Mrs. Hann is the mother of one
daughter by this marriage - Drusie. She is a member of the Disciple
Church. Politically Mr. Hann is a Democrat, and belongs to the Masonic
fraternity.
History of Mercer County, 1888, pages 727-728
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