Jacob YODER

1758 - 1832  (73 years)

• Name	Jacob YODER
  Born	11 Aug 1758	Berks County, PA
  Gender	Male
  AFN	OH113
  Reference Number	11746
  _UID	F807399E8DEC49099858AC5B18CA971627F1
  Died	7 Apr 1832	Spencer County, KY
  Person ID	I11746	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	17 May 2014

  
  

  Father	Hans Junior YODER,   b. 1726, Oley Township, Berks Co., PA ,   d. 1785  (Age 59 years)
  Mother	Sarah SHANKLE,   b. Abt 1726,   d. 1789, Reading, Berks Co, PA  (Age ~ 63 years)
  Married	Nov 1746	Oley Township, Berks Co., PA
  Family ID	F1646	Group Sheet

  
  

• Notes

  Jacob, born in Reading Aug. 11, 1758, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war in 1777 and 1778. In 1780 he moved to western Pennsylvania, and in May, 1782, descended the Monongahela, Ohio and Mississippi rivers from Fort Red Stone, Brownsville, Pa., in the first flat-boat (built by himself) that ever descended the Mississippi river, landing at New Orleans with a cargo of flour. He traded with Havana, Cuba, and also in the sugar market in Philadelphia. He was a man of national reputation at the time when Louisiana still belonged to France. His grave at his home in Kentucky was marked 1834 by an iron tablet. He died in Spencer county, Ky., April 7, 1832 (?).