Pioneer resident of Tipton County, Indiana. Lived near New Lancaster, Indiana. First gravel road across rr & next to highway that leads to Elwood & Tipton, Ind.

Jacob died age 90 at daughter home,Ada; Monday evening 6 pm.
Funeral held at Ada home near Van Buren,In. Jacob died from the effect of a broken hip received in a fall at his son William H.; Northwest of New Lancaster Feb 5, 1936; when ice
covered the ground. Suffered a stroke of paralysis at William home in April, SE of Tipton, Indiana.

Jacob was S/O Daniel Van Ness/Van Nest & Mary E. Crissman/Crisman

Jacob married Martha Ellen Helmsing/Helmsinge in Centerville, Indiana; Wayne County September 28, 1871
12 Children:
Francis L. [Frank] b. 1879 **Wilma's Grandpa**mem.#59932601
William Henry b. 1873
Twin Son to William [no name-Van Ness] b. 1873 same day
Daniel Webster b. 1875 see memorial# 38165079 m.W. Machmer
Walter Omer b. 1881 see memorial# 38166144
Ada Mirtle b. 1883 see memorial# 86050178 m.Waymire
Jesse Earl b. 1886 [was spirital] see memorial# 38165298
Lida Pearl b. 1888 see memorial# 72977563 m.Puterbaugh
Infant [no name g/b??-Van Ness] 1890 same day
Clema Wayne b. 1892
Loren Leo b. 1883 see memorial# 38165772
Shirl M. b. 1897 see memorial# 76507093

Jacob s/o Daniel & Mary E. Crisman/Crissman Van Ness of New Lancaster, Tipton Co. Indiana. Van Ness is Dutch & descents from Pieter Pietersen [Peter] Van Neste/Van Nest/Van Ness of Nes, Ameland Island, Friesland, the Netherlands.

PIETER PIETERSZEN immigrated from Utrecht, Holland, in 1647, to New Amsterdam; In 1683, the family removed to New Jersey, and were the first Europeans to settle in Somerset Col The family Bible was printed in Leyden in 1645. Took the oath of allegiance at Brooklyn, 1687. m. Judith RAPALJE, b. 1635." He was born circa 1625 in Nes, Ameland Island, Friesland, the Netherlands..the name is variously spelled in colonial records as van Ess, van Ness, van Nest, Vaneffs [Dutch]and van Neste. The pioneer in America, Pieter Van Nest, resided at the time of his emigration in Nes, one of three villages on the island of Ameland, off Friesland, between which province and the island lies De walden Sound. Pieter P. Van Neste had a Family Bible printed in Leyden, Holland in 1645. He emigrated in 1647 from Nes, Ameland Island, Friesland, the Netherlands (Settled in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York)..Pieter Married Judith Joris Rapalje, daughter of Joris Jansen Rapalje and Catalyntje Jeronomus Trico, in 1652 in Kings County, New York. He died on 20 Mar 1697 in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York.

Jacob was married to Martha Helmsing[e] Sept. 28, 1871; Wayne County, Centerville Indiana. 1860-1920 vol. 3 pg. 190

A farmer & laborer in census.

VanNess, Jacob G.
Van Buren News-Eagle
30 Apr 1936 Obituary.

New data found by Dutch cousin in Belgium give Pieter Pieterszen Van Neste birth there. More records
are needed from Belgium. Most list Nes as birth place in Netherlands?

Jacob obituary in Indiana: Tipton County Indiana
JACOB VANNESS WHEN A CHILD OF NINE (9), HAD HIS RIGHT
HAND BADLY MANGLED BY A CHARGE FROM A SHOT GUN.
JACOB WAS CLIMBING THE FENCE WITH THE GUN WHEN IT DISCHARGED AND THE HAND WAS ALMOST BLOWN AWAY.

JACOB OBITARY ALSO TELL OF HIS FATHER DANIEL, FIRST WIFE BARBARA AND SON FURMAN [REV. FURMAN OF ATLANTA INDIANA]. STORY FROM ELDER VAN NESS & NEWSPAPER CLIP.
Story:
Barbara & her husband Daniel with their young baby son Furman had been to the home of a neighbor & were returning when the accident occurred. The wife was on a horse & Daniel was walking beside the horse. Barbara just handed baby Furman to Daniel & he was carrying their infant son. In passing through a wood- a tree fell crushing the young Barbara & her horse. The babe who survived was Elder 'Rev' Furman Van Ness, a pioneer preacher of Tipton County & noted character. His death occurred in 1899 at age 77 & he with his wife Deborah are buried in the Sumner cemetery South of Tipton near Atlanta Indiana.

Daniel then Barbara sister Susannah Shilling and had more children. She died in Butler Co Ohio also-Indian Creek Pioneer Cemetery where Daniel mother Abigail Warne-Van Nest-Wilkinson is buried & other family members.
His 3rd marriage to Mary E. Crisman/Crissman is my ancestor lineage {Daniel & Mary; Jacob Girton; Francis La Fayette [Frank]; Nolan Velmer; Wilma--my children: Sarah E., Melissa S. & Michael N. Jervis; my grandchildren[Sarah E.]is Georgia Jean D. & Sebastian Ryan P.