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Jacobs Family Cemetery

Burgaw, Pender County, North Carolina, USA

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    Coordinates: 34.60532, -78.04227
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This cemetery is on the old homestead of the Jacobs. The land on Cypress Creek belonged to Matthew Jacobs, inherited from his father Primus Jacobs in the early 1800s. Primus inherited land in this area from Matthew's namesake, his uncle Matthew in late 1700s. Jacobs still call this land home and refer to it as "on Cypress".



Matthew's son, Taylor Jacobs, became the elder of the Pender County Jacobs after many of the clan left to join their Sampson County cousins in creating the Coharie Indian Tribe of Sampson during the late 1800s. Taylor Jacobs passed the land to his sons, but son Anguish was the one who remained on the property the longest.



This cemetery began with the burial of Anguish Jacobs' widow, Hattie Merritt Jacobs. Her husband's 1935 gravesite at the Old Jacobs Cemetery was lost to the woods when she died in 1966. She was interred on the homestead, near Bee Branch (which is probably the "Primus Branch" named in deeds 1800s-1920s). Her daughters and grandchildren followed.



Hattie remarried Thomas J. Messick, grandson of Caroline Jacobs Messick in her elder years. Hence, the Jacobs property is sometimes referred to as 'Messick'.





This cemetery is on the old homestead of the Jacobs. The land on Cypress Creek belonged to Matthew Jacobs, inherited from his father Primus Jacobs in the early 1800s. Primus inherited land in this area from Matthew's namesake, his uncle Matthew in late 1700s. Jacobs still call this land home and refer to it as "on Cypress".



Matthew's son, Taylor Jacobs, became the elder of the Pender County Jacobs after many of the clan left to join their Sampson County cousins in creating the Coharie Indian Tribe of Sampson during the late 1800s. Taylor Jacobs passed the land to his sons, but son Anguish was the one who remained on the property the longest.



This cemetery began with the burial of Anguish Jacobs' widow, Hattie Merritt Jacobs. Her husband's 1935 gravesite at the Old Jacobs Cemetery was lost to the woods when she died in 1966. She was interred on the homestead, near Bee Branch (which is probably the "Primus Branch" named in deeds 1800s-1920s). Her daughters and grandchildren followed.



Hattie remarried Thomas J. Messick, grandson of Caroline Jacobs Messick in her elder years. Hence, the Jacobs property is sometimes referred to as 'Messick'.





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