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MARKER
Jacob Marker
03/14/1835 - 02/21/1916
Elizabeth, His Wife
03/26/1842 - 03/01/1914
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Jacob Marker, a resident of Madison township for 93 years, died at the home of J S Marker after one week of illness of lagrippe.

He was born in Prussia, Germany, March 14, 1835 and died February 26, 1916.

Surviving him are five sons and 5 daughters: Philip, Fred, Jacob, David and Henry Marker, Mrs Martin Mochel and Mrs Norman Kelly of Madison township; Mrs Chas Weber, of South Bend; Mrs Fred Horein of Gaston, Oregon and Mrs Geo Webb of Stockton, California; 30 grandchildren and two great grandchildren.

Funeral services, Thursday 1 pm at the house and 2 pm at the Woodland German church, Rev. Paul Grob offication. Burial at the Woodland cemetery.

Wakarusa Tribune
26 Feb 1916
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on 03/22/2014 Find A Grave contributor Arigeni has offered the following information - Thanks

Jacob Marker was born in Prussia, Germany, March 14, 1835, a son of Philip and Katherine Marker. In 1837 the family left the fatherland for the United States,
making their way at once to Holmes County, Ohio, where the family resided on a farm until the 20th of September, 1853, when the journey was resumed to the then western state of Indiana. The trip was made by team and wagons, they reaching their destination at Colebush or Buck settlement in Madison township October 1, after a journey of eleven days. In the settlement were three Buck brothers, and
from one, Truman Buck, Mr. Philip Marker secured his farm, which was then in its virgin state.

Jacob Marker was a lad of eighteen years at the time of the family's removal from Ohio to Indiana, he having driven one of the wagons on the journey hither.
He remained with his father until his marriage, finally purchasing the old homestead, and his father spent the latter part of his life in his home. He has increased the boundaries of the old farm until it now contains two hundred and forty acres, and in addition he also at one time owned two other tracts, one of two hundred and eighty acres and the other of one hundred and fifty, at Woodland, but as his sons married he gave to each a farm of eighty acres, while to his daughters he gave money, his plan having been to give his sons the value of twenty-six hundred dollars at the commencement of their active business life, and to his daughters twenty-one hundred dollars at the time of their marriage.

The marriage of Jacob Marker occurred on the 2d of February, 1861, when Miss Elizabeth Speicher became his wife. She is a sister of the Speichers of Wabash
county, Indiana, and was born in Holmes county, Ohio, about four miles distant from the Marker home. The acquaintance of the young couple was resumed in Wabash county, Indiana, where she resided, and he made his first trip to see her
on horseback. When he returned for her, however, he drove in a cutter, and on their journey homeward they were upset in the snow, but this only added romance to their wedding journey.

Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Marker became the parents of ten children: J. Philip, a resident of Wilson, Kansas; Fred, on the old homestead (in St. Joseph Co); Jacob S., a farmer in Madison township; Mary, the wife of Martin Mochel, township
trustee of Woodland; Caroline, wife of Norman Kelley, who resides in Woodland; David, also of Woodland; Henry, a farmer in Madison township; Anna, the wife of Charles Weber, who was formerly a teacher, but now employed in the post office in South Bend; Lora, the wife of Fred Horine [sic-Horein], a railroad employee in South Bend; and Olga, who has attended Valparaiso University, and the State
University at Bloomington, Indiana, and is now at home.

From: "History of St. Joseph County, Indiana", Volume 2, by Timothy Edward Howard;
Lewis publishing Company, 1907, pg. 1117 (paraphrased)