Margaret (Stookey) Shobe (1747 - 1816)

Died 1 Jun 1816 at about age 69 in Ross, Ohio, USA

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Biography

Jacob Shobe (4) was the oldest son of Jacob Shobe(2) and Barbara Hire(Heyer,Heier), and is so designated in his father's will heretofore referred to. He married margaret Stookey(Stokee), a decendant of Jacob Stookey, who came to America in the same ship (Virtuous Grace) with the Ruegers, Schaubs and Heyers.

( See A Collection of 30,000 Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French Immigrants in Pennsylvania. Prof. I Daniel Rupp)

Margaret (Stookey) Shobe was a witness at court in Moorefield, Virginia in 1804 which came about as follows: Her oldest brother, Jacob Stookey, born in 1740, had been stolen by the Indians in Pennsylvania when 16 years of age and held captive in the West until 2803, when his nephew, Abraham Eyman, had brought him back to his people in Virginia. However, his brother Abraham and his wife Eve had just died, having been burned to death in a fire. Jacob(Stookey) lived only 10 or 11 days after his return, but made a will to the land which he had inherited. It was to establish his right to this land that the court, two years later, demanded proof of Jacob Stookey's identity. Margaret was asked if she would know her brother, not having seen him since Braddock's War. She replied that she wouldknow him by a scar he had which was made by the kick of a horse.

Jocob Stookey left part of the land to the children of his brother, Abraham, and part to his nephew, Jacob Shobe(4), eldest son of Margaret Shobe. (See Records of Hardy County, at Moorefield, West Virginia, 1804)

Jacob Shobe(4) ahd his wife, Margaret, had at least five children, Catherine, (who died unmarried sometime prior to the year 1793), Hannah, Jacob(6), Elizabeth and Daniel(7), all of whom were born in Virginia. They moved to Ross County, Ohio, about 1810 and settled on a tract of land in Concord Township where Jacob died in 1816. His will is dated April 27, 1814, and recorded at Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio, on August 20, 1816. He bequeathed 140 acres of land on Herrod's Creek, Concord Township to two children of his daughter, Elizabeth; to his son Daniel his tools, and all the remainder of his movable property to his wife Margaret. Margaret Shobe, died 1816, was buried in the old Shobe cemetery on the farm of Daniel Shobe(7), in Concord Township, Ross County, Ohio, so it is assumed that Jacob Shobe (4), her husband, was buried there too, alothough no trace of his headstone could be found there in 1924 or later.

Name

Margaret /Stookey/^[1]

Sources

"A Genealogy of the Shobe, Kirkpatrick and Dilling Families. 1950 By Frank Dilling Shobe"

1. ↑ Source: #S88 Page: Ancestry Family Trees

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Sandy Minder for creating WikiTree profile Stookey-14 through the import of Delong gedcom.ged on Apr 27, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Sandy and others.