In 1850, he was a laborer living in Antrim Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. While he is not found with certainty in the 1860 census, he is in the 1863-65 draft registration still residing in Antrim Township. He married Margaret Fogler April 10, 1856, in Greencastle, Franklin County, and fathered the children you see linked on Margaret's Findagrave post. Margaret was his second wife, but nothing so far is known about his first.
A Civil War veteran, he was federally drafted at the stated age of thirty-nine, mustered into federal service at Chambersburg February 22, 1865, as a private with Co. H, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company July 12, 1865. He is in the company register, Bates History of Pennsylvania Volunteers and the Pennsylvania Archives' ARIAS file as "Posser" but applied for his disability pension as "Poper."
By 1890, he was living with his family in Washington County, Maryland, where on May 24, 1893, he applied for a disability pension and received it. An entry in the December 28, 1893 Herald and Torch Light reporting on events at Smithburg states, "An elderly man by the name of Poper is . . . on the sick list." When Margaret died in Smithsburg on October 3, 1902, her obituary erroneously claimed that Jacob had died four years earlier, but she had applied for a widow's pension on January 25, 1894, (and received it).
In 1850, he was a laborer living in Antrim Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. While he is not found with certainty in the 1860 census, he is in the 1863-65 draft registration still residing in Antrim Township. He married Margaret Fogler April 10, 1856, in Greencastle, Franklin County, and fathered the children you see linked on Margaret's Findagrave post. Margaret was his second wife, but nothing so far is known about his first.
A Civil War veteran, he was federally drafted at the stated age of thirty-nine, mustered into federal service at Chambersburg February 22, 1865, as a private with Co. H, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company July 12, 1865. He is in the company register, Bates History of Pennsylvania Volunteers and the Pennsylvania Archives' ARIAS file as "Posser" but applied for his disability pension as "Poper."
By 1890, he was living with his family in Washington County, Maryland, where on May 24, 1893, he applied for a disability pension and received it. An entry in the December 28, 1893 Herald and Torch Light reporting on events at Smithburg states, "An elderly man by the name of Poper is . . . on the sick list." When Margaret died in Smithsburg on October 3, 1902, her obituary erroneously claimed that Jacob had died four years earlier, but she had applied for a widow's pension on January 25, 1894, (and received it).
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