_Cornelius WARREN _+
_Cornelius (6) WARREN _|_Mercy WARD _______
_Isaac WARREN _________|
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| |_Patience HOAR ________|___________________
_Ezra WARREN _____|
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|--Almira WARREN
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| _Barnabus GREAVES _____|
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|_Eleanor GREAVES _|
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|_Abagail Goff COLLIER _|
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BIO: PIONEERS Almira Warren moved from
Vermont to Wisconsin with her family and there met and married a young
man who had come from Germany when he was 16 years old. This was
George Jacobs. They were married at Roxbury, WI in 1850 and 13
children were born to them. The first died without being named.
Amelia and Henry (called Hank) came next and then a little boy Otis
Eugene who died when a small child. Leander (called Lee) and Emmergene
(called Em) followed him and then two little girls named Delilia and
Rocelia who died in infancy. Maryetta (called May) was born in 1862
and the next year this family set out to seek their fortune in Iowa.
It was a long journey for five little children. This Jacobs family was
one of the real pioneer families of Palo Alto County, arriving there
in 1863. They traveled by oxen and wagon, driving some cattle and
sheep behind the wagon. They arrived at Fort Dodge where the family
remained two weeks while George went on to the West Bend settlement to
choose the homestead on which they would make their home and living.
They had left Wisconsin in May 1863 and it was now July 31st when the
entire family arrived on the homestead, Section 22, West Bend
Township. First a log house with a sod roof was built. Four more
children were added to this pioneer family. Frank was the first to be
born to them in Iowa, but died when less than two years old. Next
came Aurilla (called Rill), then Minnie (called Mynn in later years)
and the last one was George, our father. Little Frank and his father
were buried in the old Riverside Cemetery not far from their
homestead, but were later moved to the West Bend Cemetery, where
Hank's wife, Jennie, Almira, George and Hattie and their small 6 weeks
old son Raymond Arnold and Mynn Cuplin all now rest. (1969). The first
fall in Iowa a prairie fire swept across the country, crossed the
river, and burned them out completely except for the log house, which
was saved because the grass was trampled around the house. The winter
supply of hay, which had been cut by a scythe was gone. Some of the
horses and cattle died that winter from lack of feed. One spring,
when the water was high, Grandpa Jacobs and two neighbors started to
Estherville to the mill with a little wheat they had left. A freshet
came and they were gone eight days. The last dinner the family had
was the last of their seed corn ground up in a coffee mill. Hank and
his father broke prairie all one summer with oxen and made trips to
the nearest trading post at Fort Dodge for supplies with oxen. Then a
blacksmith shop and a store were added to the farm, and for fourteen
years the postoffice was located there. Hank ran a stage between
Humboldt and Emmetsburg, hauling supplies and passengers. The Jacobs
home was the stopping place for meals and overnight lodging. No one
ever dispensed hospitality with a more generous hand than George and
Almira Jacobs. No questions were asked of his ability to pay, or how
long he would stay, and he was never turned from the door. Like all
pioneers, they suffered many hardships which seemed to bind neighbors
together with a stronger bond. When George passed away in 1904 at the
age of 83, the six pall bearers were men who had helped make that
prairie grow into rich, fertile farms. They were: John Dewitt, A. B.
Carter, J. C. Fehlhauer, W. D. Powers, John McCormick and J. E. Stone.
All had been friends of the Jacobs family for over a third of a
century. Of the thirteen children born to George and Almira Warren
Jacobs, eight lived to adulthood. Amelia, the oldest of their
children, was married when only sixteen years old and had two children
before her sister Minnie and brother George were born. She married
Phron Ring after the Civil War. A picture of this officer on a
beautiful horse was viewed with pride by his many grandchildren. They
had seven children and lived at Spirit Lake during their early married
years. Later they moved west and for many years lived at Twin Falls,
Idaho where Amelia's sister May Hazen and her husband and son Don also
lived. Phron died here and several years later Amelia moved back to
Lake Park, Iowa where her son Henry and his son lived. She died in
Lake Park in 1932. HENRY (Hank) was only ten years old when his family
moved from Wisconsin to Iowa but he always had vivid memories of that
trip in a covered wagon. As the oldest boy, he had many duties with
the animals which were brought with them. During the following years
he helped his parents homestead, assisted in the store, postoffice and
blacksmith shop and later drove stage coach. He married Jennie Brown,
sister of Em's husband Bob, and started a store in West Bend when the
railroad went through there. They next moved to Emmetsburg where he
was sheriff of Palo Alto County and later operated the St. James
Hotel. After trying out several western states, he and Jen moved to
Deming, New Mexico and by means of irrigation, built up a modern
ranch, and lived there the rest of their lives. Jen developed cancer
and after an exploratory operation at the Mayo Clinic at Rochester,
Minn., she and Hank went to his Mother's home in West Bend and
remained there until her death a few weeks later. He returned to
Deming and sometime after that married Roxie Short. Both died there.
Hank had no children. LEANDER (Lee) went to Montana with some other
young men in the early days and worked on sheep ranches, taking sheep
as part of their wages. Soon he had a sheep ranch of his own on N.
Willow Creek, northwest of Roundup, Montana at the foot of the Snowy
Mountains. He married Mary Elliott and had two children, Alethe and
Edward. Mary died and Lee married Flora Howard. Alethe died at
Delta, CO as a young woman. When Ed finished his education, he taught
many years at the School of Mines, Butte Montana. He married and had
two daughters, Alice Lee and Kathleen. Lee and Flo lived many years
at Delta, CO and we presume died there. EMMERGENE (Em) married Bob
Brown, brother of Jen, at West Bend, Iowa and they had three little
girls, Maude, Minnie and Neva. following their divorce, the children
spent some time living with their Uncle Hank and Aunt Jen as well as
with their grandparents, George and Almira Jacobs. Then, accompanied
by Em's sister, Mynn, they took the children to Montana where their
brother Lee had a sheep ranch. About ten miles from this ranch, a
young man from Vermont also had a sheep ranch. This was Rufus
Thompson and following a typical western style courtship, Em and Rufus
were married at Billings, Mont. He proved to be a real warm, kindly
father to the three little girls. While still living at the ranch,
two children were born to them. Jesse Fay, a little blue-eyed boy
with long curly hair, died of diphtheria when only three years old.
Marion was also born on this ranch but Buell was born at York,
Nebraska, where they lived for nine years. Then Rufus built them a
beautiful home in Lewistown, Mont. where they make their home the rest
of their lives. Marion and Buell attended schools at Fairbault, Minn.
during their teen years. All of this family have been gone for many
years now except Marion and she resides in a Nursing Home at Roundup,
Mont. Rufus and Em are both buried in Lewistown. MAY married Scott
Hazen and lived a half-mile east of her parents home for a short
period. Two little girls were born to them and died when very young.
Then they had a son, Don, and moved to the western states. They lived
in Twin Falls, Idaho at the time Don was in high school. Then the
family moved to the state of New York for a short time and then to
Deming, New Mexico. Don died there while still a young man and left a
wife and a very young family. May and Scott both died there too.
AURILLA (Rill) was the first daughter born on the Jacobs Homestead in
Iowa, just eight months before her brother Frank died. She married
Carroll McCauley when 20 years old and lived in Humboldt, Iowa, later
they moved to Montana where they lived with their two sons, Harry and
Otis. They left Kalispel, Mont. and went to Wichita Falls, Texas in
1920 and then to Laredo. After trying out SD and Wyoming, they
returned to Laredo, Texas and continued to live there. Their
granddaughter, Arla Lee lived with them from 1928 until her marriage
in San Antonio. Otis was a city mail carrier and stopped every day at
his mother's apartment to see that all was well with her. Her son
Harry and husband Carroll both died in Texas as did she in Sept. 1961.
Otis and wife Loretta have one daughter Annette (now married) and an
adopted son, John Dale. Loretta taught school many years. They moved
to Tuscon, Arizona in 1963 and Otis is now retired. MYNN, the youngest
girl in this big family, got acquainted with a young druggist in West
Bend. His name was Hilton Samuel Cuplin and he was from Iowa Falls.
Hilton Samuel was always called "Bert". He and Mynn married and spent
many of their years at Minot, ND, where they had wheat farms. He
became ill, returned to his old home town of Iowa Falls and died there
in the early 1930s. They had no children. After spending a few years
at Excelsior Springs, Mo., Mynn moved to Friendship Haven in Fort
Dodge, Iowa where she continued to live until her death on Feb 22,
1964. Because of her extended visits with her mother, George's
children came to know her well. They were always pleased to see Uncle
Hank and Aunt Jen, Aunt Em, Aunt Mynn and others who occasionally
visited their mother. Frequently some of the cousins came too.
GEORGE, JR. spent his entire life at West Bend, having been born on
the Jacobs Homestead, farmed it while his own family was growing up
and then he and Hattie moved to town and Donald took over the farm.
Donald makes the third generation of Jacobs living there, and it seems
like home to all his eight brothers and sisters. Except for one
little boy who died of pneumonia when six weeks old, all of this
family are living at this time-1969. Donald and Fern are the only
ones living in West Bend; Lee and Viva are at Charles City; Frank
lives at Des Moines and Bernard at Humboldt; Harvey at Milford and
Harry lives at Phoenix, AZ; and Irene lives in Calif. Several years
after leaving the farm, Hattie had a stroke and lived with complete
paralysis for exactly one year. She was cared for in her home by
nurses who were on duty 24 hours of the day. She passed away at the
time of a hard snow storm, 16 March 1951. The funeral was delayed a
day because of the storm. George lived in his own home until his
death 26 August 1956, shortly after his family had been there to help
him celebrate his 84th birthday on August 15th. His daughter, Fern,
and her husband Lon cared for him in his home after he became unable
to look after himself. "History of the Warren-Jacobs Family
900-1969"
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