Jacob Rudolph Clodfelter, Sr.

Jacob Rudolph Clodfelter

Find A Grave Memorial ID # 8870483

His body was interred in February 1837 at Davidson County, North Carolina in the Bethany UCC Church Cemetery near the Forsyth and Davidson County lines.

Occupation: Cabinet Maker and also carved tombstones.

Name: Jacob Rudolph Clodfelter, Sr. (Glattfelder, Gladfelter)
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 1 January 1770
Birth Place: Davidson County, North Carolina, Colonial America
Death Date: 1 Feb 1837
Death Place: Davidson County, North Carolina, United States
Father: Felix Glattfelder (Gladfelter, Clodfelter)
Mother: Maria Sarah Meyer (Meier, Myers)
Spouse: Margaret Hege

Family

Name: Jacob Clodfelter
Gender: Male
Spouse: Margaret Hagge
Spouse Gender Female
Bond Date: 28 June 1790
Bond # 000123673
Level Info: North Carolina Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868
ImageNum: 003217
County: Rowan
Record # 01 068
Bondsman: Felix Clodfelter
Witness: John Monroe

NC Marriage Bond

Children

• Joseph Clodfelter, Sr
• Barbara Clodfelter
• Catharine Clodfelter
• David Hege Clodfelter
• Elizabeth Clodfelter
• George Clodfelter
• Henry W Clodfelter
• Jacob A Clodfelter
• Mary Susan Clodfelter
• Mary Clodfelter
• Mary 'Molly' Clodfelter
• Sarah Clodfelter
• Susannah Clodfelter
• Sopina Franey Glattfelder

Biography

He was the youngest brother, Jacob Clodfelter, however, whose estate inventory and sale leave little doubt that he had been heavily involved in woodworking. He died on 1 February 1837, and his estate inventory included over 10,000 feet of plank and scantling (at least 700 feet of walnut plank) and the following items:

5 axes about 200 hogshead and barrel staves 1 mill saw 1 hand vice 500 shingles 2 jointers 3 hammers 8 files 8 augers 1 brace and bits 1 turning lathe 1 set turning chisels 2 iron wedges 1 jack screw 1 jack plane 1 tool chest 12 chisels, 1 froe 2 fore planes 2 cooper jointers 1 hand jointer 2 hand saws 1 tenon saw 1 bow saw 1 compass saw 1 drawing knife 1 large compass 1 set tongue and grooving planes 2 cross-cut saws 1 broad ax 6 beading planes 3 gouges 1 gauging rod 4 gun stocks.

This extensive inventory establishes that Jacob Clodfelter was making barrels, creating gunstocks, building structures, fashioning furniture, and—as Ruth Little hypothesizes—carving.

One of the purchasers at Jacob Clodfelter’s sale was an identified Swisegood school cabinetmaker, Jonathan Long, then age thirty-three, who purchased the turning chisels and all the walnut plank.

Estate

[1] “North Carolina Estate Files, 1663-1979, ”FamilySearch, Davidson County > C > Clodfelter, Jacob (1837) > images 2–10; State Archives, Raleigh, NC (online: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-26445-4395-64?cc=1911121

I've attempted to map all the names, which appear in [ ] below: this is a significant estate for this time!

27 JANUARY 1837. His Will reads as follows: February Term 1837, page 288 [Jacob Clodfelter's] Will. In the name of God, Amen. I, [Jacob Clodfelter], of Davidson County, State of North Carolina being of sound mind and memory do make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form as following - First I give and bequeath to my beloved wife [Margaret] all my house hold and kitchen furniture of whatever name or nature as also the loom and what belongs thereto also my negro slaves [Spence] and his wife [Bet?] and her youngest child [Caroline] also my stage Wagon and harness belonging thereto, one horse, two cows, ten head hogs and six head of sheep her choice, one Phough and gears, one needing hoe, one axe, one maltoe?, also all the corn, wheat, oats, pork or bacon, hay, fodder, flax and all that may be on hand for her years support. I also give my wife half of my wheat now growing and also two copper mash kettles and two cow halter chains and also fifteen pounds of coffee and thirty pounds sugar all of which above mentioned property to my said wife during her natural lifetime or widowhood and after her death or marriage then to be exposed to public sale by my executors and the money arising from the sale to be disposed as hereafter described and should the slaves which I have bequeathed my wife prove disobedient or unruly she shall be at full liberty to sell them and retain enough of the sale money to purchase one that will suit her. I give and bequeath to my wife full possession of my dwelling house and the plantation or so much thereof as she may want during her natural lifetime or widowhood. I give and bequeath unto my son [Jacob, Jr.] the said tract of land whereon I now have my residence containing seventy seven acres more or less with the mills hereditaments and appurtenances to the same belonging (with the fan in the mill) and half the wheat now growing to him and his heirs and assigns for ever. I give and bequeath to my daughter [Molly Leonard] wife of [David Leonard] one tract of land which I purchased from [George Sowers] containing one hundred acres more or less for $100 to have during her natural lifetime and after her death to be sold on a reasonable credit and the money to be equally divided among her heirs. I give and bequeath to my son [Joseph] the plantation whereon he now lives containing two hundred acres more or less with all and singular the profits, privileges, hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging to him his heirs and assigns forever. I give and bequeath to my son [Henry] the plantation whereon he now lives containing two hundred and ninety five acres more or less with all the appurtenances thereunto belonging to him his heirs and assigns forever (with the exception of one acre of the meadow for the use of my wife and the use of the pasture as formerly - I give and bequeath to my son [David] the tract of land which I purchased of [Samuel Farington] containing two hundred acres more or less with all and singular the appurtenances thereunto belonging to him his heirs and assigns. I give and bequeath to my son [Joseph] my negro man named Joseph to be his right and property forever at the price of six hundred dollars. I give and bequeath to my son [ Henry] to Witness [Mary] and her youngest child [Adam] for the sum of six hundred dollars to be his right and title forever. I give and bequeath to my son [David] one negro girl named [Rose] for the sum of five hundred and fifty dollars to be his right and title forever. I give and bequeath to my son [Jacob] one negro boy named [January] at the sum of six hundred dollars to be his right and title forever. I give and bequeath to my daughter [Mary] wife of [David Yokely] one negro girl named [Emily] at the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars to be her right and title forever. I give and bequeath to my daughter [Catharine] wife of [Adam Weir] one negro girl named [Sarah] at the sum of three hundred and seventy five dollars to be her right and title forever. I give and bequeath unto my daughter [Elizabeth] wife of [Barnet Weir] one negro girl named [Rhoda] at the sum of one hundred and sixty dollars to be her right and title forever. I give and bequeath unto my daughter [Barbara,] wife of [Adam Sink,] one negro girl named [Camaline] at the sum of one hundred and twenty five dollars to be her right and title forever. I give and bequeath to my daughter [Franey,] wife of [Philip Knoy] one negro boy named [Joseph] at the sum of one hundred and ten dollars to be her right and title forever. I give and bequeath to my daughter [Sally,] wife of [Peter Leonard,] one negro girl [Betty] daughter of [Spence] and his wife at the sum of ninety dollars to be her right and title forever. It is my will and desire that all the above mentioned heirs be equal in the amount of the above willed slaves therefore those which have received the valuableest to pay to the rest untill all be equal in amount. And lastly it is my will request and desire that all my property not willed to be exposed to public sale on a reasonable credit and the money arising from the same as also the money that may be on hand and debts due or oweing to me be disposed of in the following manner by my executors to my wife fifty dollars and to each of my daughters two hundred dollars and the remainder to be equally divided among my sons and daughters. And I do hereby nominate and appoint my sons [Joseph] and [Henry Clodfelter] Joint Executors to this my last will and testament revoking all others and former wills by me made. In witness whereof I, the said [Jacob Clodfelter], have hereunto set my hand and seal this the 27th day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven (1837). [Jacob Clodfelter] his mark, seal Signed and acknowledged in the presence of [John Haines Michael Clodfelter] [Son of his brother [John] FEB. TERM OF COURT, 1837. His Will was probated.

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