JACOB E. EVERHART

Ca. 1816 - After 1870

 Jacob E. Everheart was born about 1816 in Hawkins County, Tennessee the ninth known child of Jacob and Catherine Everhart.  The family lived south of the Holston River on Dodson’s Creek until about 1835[1] when Jacob E.’s father, Jacob, died and the mother moved to Greene County, Tennessee an adjoining county.[2]  There young Jacob married Nancy Crumley on 7 May 1840.  When his mother, Catherine Everhart, died in 1842, Jacob was listed in her will.

Jacob E. and Nancy Everheart are listed on the Greene County, Tennessee census in 1850, page 1714.  Jacob is listed as 30 years of age, a farmer with real estate valued at $300.  Nancy is 28 years of age, William H. is 7 years, Polly A. (Mary) age 6, Martha M. age 3, and Sarah M. age 1.  Nancy’s sister, Ruth Crumley, age 23 is also living with them.  All were listed as born in Tennessee.

In March 1849, Jacob E. Everheart purchased eighty-nine acres in District No. 11 of Greene County for $250.  In 1854 he purchased two additional acres that joined the original eighty-nine acres.

When the 1860 census was taken, Jacob, Nancy, and their family were living in Grayson County, Texas in the same neighborhood as his brother, Emanuel.  A son, John, age 9, another son, Henry, age 5, and a daughter, Ruth, age 2 have been added to the family.  Jacob was farming but did not own land.  He had probably not been in Texas for many months (the census page was dated August 23, 1860), since he did not appear on the personal property tax list that year.   In 1861, Jacob Everheart was listed on the Grayson County, Texas tax list and was taxed for two horses valued at $180, eight cattle valued at $48, and one pole.  His taxable property was valued at $295 and his state taxes were eighty-eight cents and pole tax was fifty cents.[3]

Over the next ten years Jacob continued to farm land that belonged to someone else and gradually increased his net worth by increasing the number of horses that he owned.   By 1870 he was living in Precinct #3 and owned 211 acres in the Carpenter survey valued at $844.  He also was taxed for 15 horses valued at $630, 15 cattle valued at $60, and 8 sheep valued at $8.  His total worth had increased to $1642.  His pole tax was $1, his state tax was $3.46, and county tax was $1.73.   Jacob last appeared on the personal property tax list in 1875.  He owned 200 acres in the Carpenter survey, 6 goats & hogs, 14 horses, 14 cattle, and 10 sheep. 

The next year, 1876, his sons W. H. Everheart and H. B. Everheart were each taxed for 100 acres in the Carpenter survey, so they had probably become owners of their father’s property. 

Jacob and Nancy Crumley Everheart were the parents of seven children:

            William Harvey Everheart born 31 December 1842 in Greene County, Tennessee.  Married Leanah Caldonia Henry on 23 December 1877 – probably in Washington County, Arkansas.  Died 26 June 1913 in Grayson County, Texas.  Funeral service was at Everheart (Methodist) Church, Canaan, Grayson, Texas and burial at Everheart Cemetery nearby.[4]

            Mary A. (Polly) Everheart born about 1845 in Greene County, Tennessee.  She married G. W. Anthony in Grayson County, Texas on 13 October 1872.

            Martha M. Everheart was born 19 June 1847 in Greene County, Tennessee.  She married William Thomas Sears on 3 January 1867 in Grayson County, Texas.  She died 2 April 1906 in Grayson County, Texas.

            Sarah J. Everheart was born about 1849 in Greene County, Tennessee.  She was still living at home in 1870, age was 20.

            John Wilkinson Everheart was born 24 June 1852 in Greene County, Tennessee and died 28 November 1874 in Grayson County, Texas.  He was buried next to his mother in the Batsell Creek Cemetery north of Kentuckytown, Grayson, Texas.[5]

            Henry Boren Everheart was born in May 1855 in Greene County, Tennessee.  He married Julia Emily Johnson on 31 August 1882 in Grayson County, Texas.  He died 21 March 1823 in Grayson County and was buried in the Everheart Cemetery in the Canaan Community.

            Ruth Everheart was born about 1858 in Greene County, Tennessee.  She died in Texas sometime between 1860 and 1870.[6]

            Ruth Crumley Everheart died on 9 November 1873, and was buried in the Batsell Creek Cemetery.[7]  Her husband Jacob E. Everheart probably died in 1875 and is believe to be buried there too.[8]

 

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[1] Jacob Everhart, Sr. sold two pieces of property in 1833, therefore we know he was still living at that time.  By 1836, neither Jacob or his wife, Catherine, are on the Hawkins County, Tennessee tax rolls.

[2] 1840 Census Greene County, Tennessee, page 45. 

[3] Reel 1091-01, Grayson County, Texas Tax Rolls 1846-1871 borrowed from Sherman Public Library, Sherman, Texas.

[4] Funeral Notice printed at the time of his death. 

[5]Batsell Creek Cemetery List of Stones copied by Mrs. Troy Kidd (Robbie), 3431 Manana Drive, Dallas, Texas 75220.

[6] She was listed on the 1860 census as two years of age but was not on 1870.

[7] Batsell Creek Cemetery List of Stones copied by Mrs. Troy Kidd .

[8] Joe W. Chumbley, Kentucky Town and Its Baptist Church (Houston, 1975), p. 235.