Nancy PRIESTER

Notes:

JACOB PRIESTER (1800-186?) is believed to have been the youngest of four sons of JOHN PRIESTER (b.a. 1755 - d.a. 1815), probably the second son of NICHOLAS PRIESTER immigrated to South Carolina in 1749. Although census data is the primary source of information, 1825 Tax Records indicate that JACOB and his brothers, ANDREW and GEORGE, each paid eight and one-fourth dollars on their 125 acre tracts of land in the Jackson's Branch area of Prince William's Parish in the Beaufort District.

The 1830 Census showed JACOB and his wife with one son and two daughters, all born between 1825 and 1830. The son apparently died during the 1830's because in 1840 there was one son under five years, and five daughters. This son would have been JACOB R., born July 14, 1838 --- a Civil War veteran wounded in the Battle of Atlanta. The two older daughters were not mentioned in the 1850 census - they were probably married by then. Another son, WILLIAM, died of wounds received in a battle at Dalton, Georgia in 1864. WILLIAM's twin sister, ELLEN, was mentioned only in the 1850 Census. She evidently died during the 1850's, or was married by 1860.

Of JACOB's children, the descendants of only two are known: Mahala (1832) who married WILLIAM F.PRIESTER, a son of ANDREW, and shown in the ANDREW line; and JACOB R., who is shown in this chapter. (JACOB R., his wife, his six sons, and their wives, except the second wife of BEN, were buried at Hickory Grove Baptist Church.) JACOB was not listed in the 1870 Census and is assumed to have died during the 1860's.

Information researched and written by Wyman Jesse Priester, Jr., a great-great grandson of Jacob.

Jacob married Rebecca RIVERS. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]