Jacob Hull Arbogast

Abt 1807 - 1884  (77 years)

• Name	Jacob Hull Arbogast
  Born	Abt 1807	Travelers Repose, Pendleton Co., Va/Wv
  Gender	Male
  Died	9 Oct 1884	Pocahontas Co., Wv
  Buried	Back Mt. Cem, , Pocahontas Co., Wv
  Person ID	P16725	Arbogast
  Last Modified	13 Aug 2013

  
  

  Father	Adam Arbogast,   b. 25 Oct 1760, Frederick Co., Va ,   d. 9 Feb 1852, Pocahontas Co., Va/Wv  (Age 91 years)
  Relationship	Natural
  Mother	Margaret "Peggy" Hull,   b. 1757, Shenandoah Valley, Augusta Co., Va ,   d. 15 Jan 1820, Pocahontas Co., Va/Wv  (Age 63 years)
  Relationship	Natural
  Married	Abt 1778	Crabbottom Sect., Augusta Co., Va
  Family ID	F3207	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Wilson Bright,   b. 13 Nov 1816, Highland Co., Va ,   d. 18 May 1889, Pocahontas Co., Wv  (Age 72 years)
  Married	27 Jun 1838	Pocahontas Co., Va/Wv
  Children	1. Margaret Hull Arbogast,   b. 19 Jan 1841, Prb Randolph Co., Va ,   d. 10 Jul 1926, , , Washington, Dc  (Age 85 years)  [Natural]   2. Eliza Jane Arbogast,   b. 12 Mar 1843, , Pocahontas , West Virginia, United States ,   d. 1 Nov 1922, , Augusta, Virginia, United States  (Age 79 years)  [Natural]   3. Paul McNeil Arbogast,   b. 14 Dec 1845, , Pocahontas , West Virginia, United States ,   d. 8 Nov 1888, , Hill, Texas, United States  (Age 42 years)   4. Harriet Elizabeth Arbogast,   b. 9 Mar 1848, Randolph Co., Va ,   d. 23 Jul 1917, , Pocahontas , West Virginia, United States  (Age 69 years)  [Natural]   5. Adam Crawford Arbogast,   b. 13 Jan 1851, Randolph Co., Va/Wv ,   d. 22 Dec 1914, Pocahontas Co., Wv  (Age 63 years)  [Natural]   6. William Barton Arbogast,   b. 22 Jan 1853, Randolph Co.*, Va/Wv ,   d. 21 Oct 1902, Pocahontas Co., Wv  (Age 49 years)  [Natural]   7. Jacob Lee Arbogast,   b. 13 Sep 1855, , , Randolph Co.*, Va/Wv ,   d. 14 Jul 1892, , Pocahontas , West Virginia, United States  (Age 36 years)  [Natural]
  Family ID	F3509	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Death may have been November. Place of death was probably Pocahontas Co., WV. Was found in 1880 census. There is no proof that Jacob was a son of Adam other than histories of the area and records of descendants; not in father's will. Note in Amanda's records from Wilma Harper that Jacob was a toll-gate keeper at Durbin, WV. According to "Pocahontas Co., WV." by Price, Jacob was an ardent supporter of the Confererate cause and fled to Highland Co., VA. with his family in 1861, returning in 1865 to start over again. See page 125 for this family. Various research indicates; Children from 1850 Census of Randolph County, VA/WV and 1880 Census of Pocahontas County, WV. The 1860 Census includes one or more children in household which may be other children of this marriage. Information on son, Adam Crawford, from Tommy Arbogast Huggins of Hartford City, IN. Tommy (Helen Rex) is daughter of Joseph Lee Arbogast, granddaughter of Adam Crawford Arbogast and gr-granddaughter of Jacob Hull Arbogast. Ref: WBH; names of children from Evelyn Beard (mother of WBH). Jacob had a contract to help build the Staunton-Petersburg Turnpike. He kept post office at Traveler's Repose 21 May 1856, followed by his daughter Eliza Jane 6 July 1856, then by George Burner 2 October 1866. His niece, Hulda, said that her Uncle Jake inherited the property known as the Flenner place from his father Adam. This is not mentioned in Adam's will, so perhaps he deeded the property to Jake. In 1858 Jacob sold 61 acres to Andrew Yeager, land described as being on the Greenbrier (and according to accompanying drawing being on the south side of the Greenbrier). Some calls are similar to those in a 100-acre grant to Jakes's father Adam in 1811-1812. The land grant was described as being on the East Fork of the Greenbrier, with Rogers and John Yeager to the south and adjoining some land already owned by Adam. (The original land grant is in the possession of Jesse Brown Beard Powell in 1995; the original of the 1858 deed was in the possession of Jewell Yeager Arbogast in 1939.) Notes by WBH indicate the 61 acres was conveyed by Andrew Yeager to his son Peter Dilley Yeager. It appears that this 61 acres is across the Greenbrier from the Traveler's Repose property, giving Andrew and his son Peter Dilley Yeager control of both sides of the river at an important junction in the turnpike. But perhaps it is the Inn property itself. Lest the reader wonder why the locations are so hard to determine, the land grant Point of Beginning is "a white oak and pine on a laurel bank" and the 1858 deed Point of Beginning is a "beech and spruce pine" on the Greenbrier River. The land is important, not only to the history of Adam's family, but also to the history of the upper end of Pocahontas County. The Traveler's Repose inn was the first overnight stage coach stop on the turnpike. Jesse Powell believes that the farmhouse which belonged to Adam/Adam/Hulda and Mack Yeager/Lucy Yeager is one of the two oldest remaining houses in upper Pocahontas County.