JACOB C. ECKESS (JACOBUS3 ECKES, PETRI2, MICHEL1) was born 15 September 1842 in Lewis County, Virginia., and died 16 March 1927 in Dinsmore, Duval County, Florida. He was married by Rev. Farris to LUCY HENDERSON, the daughter of William Henderson and Elizabeth Swisher, on 06 November 1867 in French Creek, Upshur County, West Virginia. She was born about 1841 in Lewis County, West Virginia, and died 16 January 1913 in Jacksonville, Florida at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J.M. Smith.

Children of JACOB ECKESS and LUCY HENDERSON:

AGATHA MADGE ECKESS was born 15 August 1868 in Rock Cave, Upshur County, West Virginia, and died 06 June 1940 in Jacksonville, Florida. She married Jonas Martin Smith on 29 October 1885 in Rock Cave, Upshur County, West Virginia. He was born 11 October 1857 in Upshur County, Virginia, and died 06 June 1930 in Jacksonville, Florida.

ELIZABETH LOVENAH ECKESS was born 23 July 1870 in Rock Cave, Upshur County, West Virginia, and died 05 May 1952 in Miami, Dade County, Florida. She married Dr. William Andrew Jackson Browne on 25 January 1891. He was born 04 November 1861 in Broad Run, Virginia, and died 05 November 1908 in Elkins, West Virginia. Dr. Brown was a physician in Elkins, West Virginia.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ECKESS was born 19 March 1873 at Rock Cave, Upshur County, West Virginia and died in 1936 at Stuart, Florida. He married Myrtle Ernestine Ricou on 10 March 1918.

MARY FLOREDE ECKESS was born 04 July 1875 in Rock Cave, Upshur County, West Virginia, and died 12 January 1933 in Stuart, Florida. She married Edward Clifford Jones, Sr., the son of Hugh Andrew Jones and Cornelia Alice Touchstone, on 05 May 1897 in Rock Cave, Upshur County, West Virginia. He was born 10 November 1872 in Castleton, Harford County, Maryland and died 12 September 1939 in Fairmont, Marion County, West Virginia. Mollie died at the home of her sister-in-law, Mrs. Ben F. Eckess in Stuart, Florida.

ELEANOR NELLE ECKESS was born 27 August 1879 in Upshur County, West Virginia. She married Alphonus J. Millan on 09 October 1905.

EDGAR DEWITT TALMADGE ECKESS was born 19 March 1886 in Rock Cave, Upshur County, West Virginia, and died May 1969 in State College, Pennsylvania. He married Estelle M. Dininny on 17 August 1922.

 

 

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