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Jacob “Jake” Huffman

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Jacob “Jake” Huffman

Birth
Wilkes County, North Carolina, USA
Death
1899 (aged 58–59)
Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina, USA
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Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina, USA Add to Map
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Jake is the son of David Huffman and Zibba Bullis. He was born and raised in Wilkes County, NC and served in the Confederate Army in Company E of the NC 18th infantry regiment. Soon after his enlistment he was treated at the Huguenot Springs, VA hospital, then transferred to the Chimbarazo Hospital in Richmond, VA before moving on to the CSA Hospital in Danville, VA. He was diagnosed with "debilitas", which likely was along the lines of a PTSD, neurasthenia (nervous breakdown) or depressive episode as he was returned to duty in Jan 1863.

Following the war he farmed for his family in Wilkes County and had several more children with his wife, Emily Whittington, whom he'd married prior to the war. They are the parents of Calvin, Selena Emaline, James Monroe, Cynthia and Noah.

In 1880 the "Landmark" in Statesville published notice that "Jacob Huffman, a thrifty farmer of Wilkes, has become a raving maniac and will be sent to the asylum". He was admitted to Dix Hospital in Raleigh in Mar 1880 and likely transferred to Western NC asylum when it opened in 1883. His marker indicates he was the 103rd person admitted to this new asylum, so he arrived in the Summer of 1883.

His son, James, would also die at the asylum, in 1929 of manic-depressive insanity and chronic endocarditis, after a 19 day stay here.
Jake is the son of David Huffman and Zibba Bullis. He was born and raised in Wilkes County, NC and served in the Confederate Army in Company E of the NC 18th infantry regiment. Soon after his enlistment he was treated at the Huguenot Springs, VA hospital, then transferred to the Chimbarazo Hospital in Richmond, VA before moving on to the CSA Hospital in Danville, VA. He was diagnosed with "debilitas", which likely was along the lines of a PTSD, neurasthenia (nervous breakdown) or depressive episode as he was returned to duty in Jan 1863.

Following the war he farmed for his family in Wilkes County and had several more children with his wife, Emily Whittington, whom he'd married prior to the war. They are the parents of Calvin, Selena Emaline, James Monroe, Cynthia and Noah.

In 1880 the "Landmark" in Statesville published notice that "Jacob Huffman, a thrifty farmer of Wilkes, has become a raving maniac and will be sent to the asylum". He was admitted to Dix Hospital in Raleigh in Mar 1880 and likely transferred to Western NC asylum when it opened in 1883. His marker indicates he was the 103rd person admitted to this new asylum, so he arrived in the Summer of 1883.

His son, James, would also die at the asylum, in 1929 of manic-depressive insanity and chronic endocarditis, after a 19 day stay here.

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