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Jacob Zumwalt

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Adams County, Ohio, United States
Death: May 31, 1878 (70)
Visalia, CA, United States ("congestive fever")
Place of Burial: Sacramento, CA, United States
Immediate Family:

Husband of Susanna Kindle Zumwalt
Father of Joseph S. Zumwalt; Daniel Kindle Zumwalt; Nancy Ann Hunt; John Henry Zumwalt; Sarah M. Shoemaker and 1 other

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About Jacob Zumwalt

http://www.archive.org/stream/historyoftularek00mene/historyoftular...

Jacob, ... was born in Ohio, September 15, 1807. He married, June 24, 1830, Susanna Kindle Smith, born in Ohio, June 12, 1811. With his father, his three brothers and his five sisters, he went to Hancock county, Ind., in 1830, and four years later he went to Will county, Ill., about ten miles from Joliet. There he remained twenty years, until March, 1854, when he started with ox-teams overland for California. He farmed in the Sacramento valley until 1872, when he came to his farm near Visalia, Tulare county, where he died May 31, 1878. His wife died in Sacramento November 20, 1896, and they are both buried there. He was a Methodist and in many ways evinced great public spirit.

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Memoir of grandnephew Clarence Troxel:

www.geni.com/people/Daniel-TROXELL/6000000008368887947

" . . . Grandmother, Eleanor (Zumwalt)Troxel, was born in Adams County, Ohio, her father's name was Jacob Zumwalt. They lived on Brush Creek near the great Serpent Mound, the land upon which it stands belonged to her father at that time. Grandmother, Eleanor 4 (Zumwalt) Troxel had two brothers and three sisters; Joseph Zumwalt, Jacob Zumwalt, Elizabeth (Zumwalt)Long, Sarah (Zumwalt)Kirkaptrick, Mary (Zumwalt)Cameron, mother of Jake Cameron and Mary (Cameron) Somers.

   Grandmother Troxel's oldest brother, Joseph Zumwalt had four sons and three daughters, Jacob Willard Zumwalt, James C. Zumwalt, Daniel Zumwalt, Joseph Oscar Zumwalt, Mary Ann (Zumwalt) Eibe, Emily  (Zumwalt)(Eibe)West, and Nancy Ann (Zumwalt)Bailey.
   Jacob Zumwalt, her younger brother, had three sons and three daughters; John Henry Zumwalt, Joseph Zumwalt, Daniel Kindle Zumwalt, Nancy Ann (Zumwalt)Cotton) Hunt, Sarah M. (Zumwalt) Shoemaker and Elizabeth (Zumwalt)Eskridge)Hall."
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Jacob Zumwalt's Timeline

1807
September 15, 1807
Adams County, Ohio, United States

http://www.archive.org/stream/historyoftularek00mene/historyoftular...

. . . of German extraction, his [grandfather], George (or Adam) Zumwalt, having emigrated from the Fatherland in the eighteenth century, to become a settler in Virginia and later a pioneer in Ohio, which was then on the fringe of civilization. Jacob Zumwalt, son of the emigrant, went, in January, 1830, from Adams county, 0., to Hancock county, Ind., where he died December, 1833. Jacob, his son, was born in Ohio, September 15, 1807. He married, June 24, 1830, Susanna Kindle Smith, born in Ohio, June 12, 1811. With his father, his three brothers and his five sisters, he went to Hancock county, Ind., in 1830, and four years later he went to Will county, Ill., about ten miles from Joliet. There he remained twenty years, until March, 1854, when he started with ox- teams overland for California.

1831
April 30, 1831
IL, United States

Birth: Apr. 30, 1831
Adams County
Ohio, USA

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Possible match, or previously unlisted sister:
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1836
April 30, 1836
Will, IL, United States
1839
1839
Will, IL, United States

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1920 Census

Name: John Zumwalt
Residence: 12, Kern, California
Estimated Birth Year: 1838
Age: 82
Birthplace: Illinois
Relationship to Head of Household: Self
Gender: Male
Race: White
Marital Status: Widowed
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Birthplace:
Film Number: 1820100
Digital Folder Number: 4293700
Image Number: 00707
Sheet Number: 1
Household Gender Age
John Zumwalt M 82y
Child Ugene Zumwalt M 60y

1845
January 24, 1845
Joliet, IL, United States
1878
May 31, 1878
Age 70
Visalia, CA, United States

http://www.archive.org/stream/historyoftularek00mene/historyoftular...

He farmed in the Sacramento valley until 1872, when he came to his farm near Visalia, Tulare county, where he died May 31, 1878. His wife died in Sacramento November 20, 1896, and they are both buried there.

1878
Age 70
City Cemetery, 1000 Broadway, Sacramento, CA, United States

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=71844270

Jacob Zumwalt

Birth: 1808
Death: May 31, 1878
Visalia
Tulare County
California, USA

A native of Ohio. Resident in Visalia, California. Died at the age of 70 years, 9 months, 16 days, of congestive fever.

Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 7, Number 89, 1 June 1878: "DIED. Visalia, May 30— Jacob Zumwalt, 71 years. [Friends and acquaintances are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, which will take place, from the Sixth Street M. E. Church to-morrow (Sunday) afternoon at 3:30 o'clock.]"

Family links:
Spouse:
Susanna Kindle Smith Zumwalt (1811 - 1896)*

Children:
Nancy Ann Zumwalt Hunt (1831 - 1904)*
Sarah Maria Zumwalt Shoemaker (1834 - 1917)*
Joseph S Zumwalt (1836 - 1878)*
Elizabeth A. Zumwalt Hawk (1842 - 1917)*
Daniel Kindle Zumwalt (1845 - 1904)*

Burial:
Sacramento City Cemetery
Sacramento
Sacramento County
California, USA
Plot: Section 4, Lot 1352

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