John Jacob Amacker (1780 - 1815)

Born 1780 in Orangeburg Co, South Carolina

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Varnado) Amacker — married 1803 in Orangeburg, SC

Descendants

Died 1815 at about age 35 in St. Helena, LA

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Biography

Sarah married John Jacob AMACKER in 1803 in Orangeburg, SC. John was born in 1780 in Orangeburgh SC. He died in Jan 1815 in St. Helena, LA.

The 1790 Census of South Carolina showed; John Amacker- 3 adult males over 16, 1 male under 16, 1 female, 8 slaves. Salle states in his HIstory of Orangeburgh that John Amacker said he was going to Florida. John Jacob Amacker planned to do just that. Early in 1800 he married Sarah Varnado, daughter of Samuel Varnado, born in Orangeburg Co. , S.C. on Feb. 15, 1754, died in St. Helena Parish, La. in 1837. Sarah was one of seven colonists going south. John Jacob and Sarah had five children by the time the group was ready to start. Also in the group was John's half brother James Albert Hughes. The journey started in late winter 1809. They stayed in Georgia during the spring and summer of that year and made a crop. In late October they resumed their march. When they reached the Natchez District they stopped. Some of the group remained in southwest Mississippi permanently.^[1]

While John and Sarah Amacker were living in Mississippi their sixth child was born, on November 17, 1811. He was named Nathaniel for one of Sarah's brother. In 1813 the Amacker family moved across the state line into St. Helena Parish, Louisiana. John Jacob had acquired land from Richard Martin. It was "Headright 46" lying partly in sections 29,30,31 and the greater part of 32. Using some of the long leaf yellow pines that had covered the rolling hills, John Amacker built his home on the east of Beaver Creek in St. Helena Parish of Tangipahoa, in T1SR7E. The hewn timbers formed a house having two rooms on the second floor at the head of a stairway from an open hall between two rooms on the first floor. A wide veranda stretched across the north side and a chimney was in the eastern side of one front room. From the rear of this room an ell containing a dining room and kitchen extended south. This building stood at the top of a gradually sloping hill. The three youngest children of the Amacker family were born in the new Louisiana home on Beaver Creek. They were the seventh child James Albert Amacker, born Oct. 27, 1813; George W. Amacker, born 1814, and John Jackson Amacker, born 1815, some time after his father's death. .^[2]

1. Samuel AMACKER was born 1, 2, 3 on 13 Jun 1804 in Orangeburg Dist, SC. He died in 1833 in Amackerville, St. Helena, LA. Samuel married Barbara YAIR on 5 Dec 1826 in St. Helena, LA. Barbara was born 1 in 1804 in SC. She died in St. Helena, LA.
2. Delilah AMACKER was born 1 on 17 Feb 1806 in Orangeburg Dist, SC. She died in IL. Delilah married John FLANNAGAN on 15 Jan 1827 in Adams, MS. John was born about 1800 in MS. He died in IL.
3. Clarinda AMACKER was born 1 in 1807 in Orangeburg Dist, SC. Clarinda married Hiram Addison CUTRER on 24 Jan 1839 in St. Helena, LA. Hiram was born in 1819 in Washington, LA. He died before 1870 in MS.
4. Gabriel S. AMACKER was born 1, 2, 3 on 26 May 1808 in Orangeburg Dist, SC. He died before 1815 in St. Helena, LA.
5. Jacob Leonard AMACKER was born 1, 2, 3 on 23 Jan 1809 in Orangeburg Dist, SC. He died on 5 May 1855 in Alexandria, Rapides, LA. Jacob married Mahala CARTER on 3 Nov 1831 in Pike, MS. Mahala was born 1 in 1815 in Pike, MS. She died in 1862 in Alexandria, Rapides, LA.
6. Nathaniel AMACKER was born 1, 2 on 17 Nov 1811 in Pike, MS. He died on 30 Dec 1881 in Tangipahoa, LA. Nathaniel married Mosilla PEARSON on 15 Jun 1831 in St. Helena, LA. Mosilla was born 1 on 13 Dec 1813 in St. Helena, LA. She died on 25 Jul 1871 in Tangipahoa, LA.
7. James Albert AMACKER was born 1, 2, 3 on 27 Oct 1813 in St. Helena, LA. He died in 1890 in Poplarville, Hancock, MS and was buried in Kennedy Family Cem, Buck Branch Community, Pearl River, MS.
8. James married Lydia Margaret TATE in 1838 in Marion, MS. Lydia was born 1, 2 in 1812 in Marion, MS. She died in 1890 in Hancock, MS and was buried in Kennedy Family Cem, Buck Branch Community, Pearl River, MS
9. George W. AMACKER
10. John Jackson AMACKER^[3]

Samuel Vernado, wife, seven children, two negros issued passport in GA on March 18, 1811 to travel through the Creek Nation of Indians. One for Messrs. Samuel Vernado, and James Hughes the former with his wife seven children and two negroes, and the latter with his wife nine children and two negroes, and one passport for Mr. John O. Macker, with his wife and three children, Mrs. Sarah Macker and nine negroes, all from Orangeburgh district of South Carolina.^[4]

Succession Papers for John Jacob Amacker, (c.1780-1815) Succession records of St. Helena Parish, Louisiana, 1804-1854, Page #5

Sources

1. ↑ The Amackers of the Deep South, published in 1959 by Leslie Maud Amacker Arnett
2. ↑ The Amackers of the Deep South, published in 1959 by Leslie Maud Amacker Arnett
3. ↑ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~guinevere60/varnado/pafg04.htm
4. ↑ Passports of Southeastern Pioneers, 1770-1823: Indian, Spanish and Other Land Passports for Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, Mississippi, Virginia, North and South Carolina, page 281

[http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/findaid/r1604.pdf OBADIAH PEARSON AMACKER FAMILY PAPERS] - LSU LIBRARY SPECIAL COLLECTION

Amacker Cemetery, Christine's Genealogy website

The History of Orangeburg County, South Carolina, From Its First Settlement to the Close of the Revolutionary War – Alexander Samuel Salley, John Giessendanner, United States. Continental Army. South Carolina Infantry Regiment, 3rd (1775-1781).