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Jacob Brinegar

Birth
North Carolina, USA
Death
1881 (aged 65–66)
West Virginia, USA
Burial
Pineville, Wyoming County, West Virginia, USA Add to Map
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JACOB II BRINEGAR

Born ca 1815

He was the son of Jacob Brinegar I 1778-1844 and Nancy Frazier 1780-1830.

His first wife of Sheba Sizemore 1813-1853
his second wife was Parthenia Mitchell 1826-1883.

(NOTES on parents and wives from FaG contributor and Brinegar researcher 46632776)

CHILDREN:
The first child of Jacob and Sheba was Malvina Brinegar 1834-1900. (From FaG contributor and Brinegar researcher: 46632776)

OTHER CHILDREN:

ADAM BRINEGAR 1835.
DAVID BRINEGAR 1836.
MARY BRINEGAR 1840.
SARAH BRINEGAR 1840.
JULIA ANN Brinegar 1842.
OWEN BRINEGAR 1844.
MARTHA BRINEGAR 1846.
FRANKLIN BRINEGAR 1848.
JALEROY BRINEGAR 1849-1853.
JOHN BRINEGAR 1849-1850.

He married PARTHENIA MITCHELL in Wyoming County, 1854.

JACOB died 1881 West Virginia.

Sheba and Jacob with their small children, joined the Edward B. Sizemore caravan to what is now called Wyoming County in 1835 and settled on the Sizemore branch of Bearhole.

They went with
REV. GEORGE J SIZEMORE (GEORGE EDWARD3, EDWARD2, WILLIAM1) was born 1797.
He married VIRGINIA JANE aka JENNIE BALDWIN/LAXTON about 1815. JENNIE was born in NC 1797. She was the daughter of JOHN BALDWIN and VIRGINIA ?. REV. died about 1860 in Wyo. Co. WVa

A farmer, shrewdtrader and businessman, Jacob acquired several tracts of land

In December 1853, Sheba disappeared.

A search party led by John Logan Cook, JP. (FaG 141870758)
found her battered and bruised body buried in a shallow grave on Byrd Mountain.

Indicted for the murder, Jacob was tried twice in Wyoming County and convicted on manslaughter charges.

Evermont Ward, FaG 11077126, his attorney secured a change of venue to Mercer County, where he was tried for the third time and acquitted.

Jacob was free, but his life was far from satisfactory.
His friends and children deserted him, his neighbors had no respect for him and avoided him at all costs.
Expenses of his trials and lawyers fees consumed all his property.
He spent the last years of his life at the County Poor Farm.


JACOB II BRINEGAR

Born ca 1815

He was the son of Jacob Brinegar I 1778-1844 and Nancy Frazier 1780-1830.

His first wife of Sheba Sizemore 1813-1853
his second wife was Parthenia Mitchell 1826-1883.

(NOTES on parents and wives from FaG contributor and Brinegar researcher 46632776)

CHILDREN:
The first child of Jacob and Sheba was Malvina Brinegar 1834-1900. (From FaG contributor and Brinegar researcher: 46632776)

OTHER CHILDREN:

ADAM BRINEGAR 1835.
DAVID BRINEGAR 1836.
MARY BRINEGAR 1840.
SARAH BRINEGAR 1840.
JULIA ANN Brinegar 1842.
OWEN BRINEGAR 1844.
MARTHA BRINEGAR 1846.
FRANKLIN BRINEGAR 1848.
JALEROY BRINEGAR 1849-1853.
JOHN BRINEGAR 1849-1850.

He married PARTHENIA MITCHELL in Wyoming County, 1854.

JACOB died 1881 West Virginia.

Sheba and Jacob with their small children, joined the Edward B. Sizemore caravan to what is now called Wyoming County in 1835 and settled on the Sizemore branch of Bearhole.

They went with
REV. GEORGE J SIZEMORE (GEORGE EDWARD3, EDWARD2, WILLIAM1) was born 1797.
He married VIRGINIA JANE aka JENNIE BALDWIN/LAXTON about 1815. JENNIE was born in NC 1797. She was the daughter of JOHN BALDWIN and VIRGINIA ?. REV. died about 1860 in Wyo. Co. WVa

A farmer, shrewdtrader and businessman, Jacob acquired several tracts of land

In December 1853, Sheba disappeared.

A search party led by John Logan Cook, JP. (FaG 141870758)
found her battered and bruised body buried in a shallow grave on Byrd Mountain.

Indicted for the murder, Jacob was tried twice in Wyoming County and convicted on manslaughter charges.

Evermont Ward, FaG 11077126, his attorney secured a change of venue to Mercer County, where he was tried for the third time and acquitted.

Jacob was free, but his life was far from satisfactory.
His friends and children deserted him, his neighbors had no respect for him and avoided him at all costs.
Expenses of his trials and lawyers fees consumed all his property.
He spent the last years of his life at the County Poor Farm.




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