JACOBUS ECKES (PETRI2, MICHEL1) was baptised 7 September 1809 in Wallhausan, Hesse-Darmstadt, and died on 05 August 1888 in Fall River, Kansas. He married MARY CATHERINE BEACHLER, the daughter of George and Hannah Bischler (Anglized to Beachler), on 19 October 1840 in Frederick County, Maryland. She was born about 1821 in Hesse-Darmstadt and died about 1898 in Fall River, Kansas.
Excepts from the Eckes Family History compiled by William Harold Eckes in 1984: "All known Eckes lived in the Rhine Valley of Germany in the towns of Sommerloch, Wallhausen, Bingen and Mainz. These towns are all close together, so there are probably some other Eckes's in other nearby towns in the Rhine Valley". "Our branch of the family came from Bingen on the Rhine."
From a letter written by Mary Catherine's granddaughter Elizabeth - "Grandpa Eckes came from Germany when he was 17 years old (1826?). Grandma Jacobeth (Catherine) Eckes came from Germany when she was 10 years old. They grew up and met in the United States."
Lewis County, Virginia records show that Jacobus bought a farm of 110 acres from John McGee for $110. at the headwaters of Stone Coal Creek on March 29, 1853. Eleven years later he added a 23 acre parcel of land. Jacobus sold his farm on October 11, 1877 to M.V. Lightburn for $1,800. and moved westward to Fall River, Kansas accompanied by his wife Catherine, their youngest son William, their daughter Hannah, and their married daughter Mary Catherine Eckes Cummings and her family. All are shown in the 1880 census of Greenwood County, Kansas.
Children of JACOBUS ECKES and MARY BEACHLER:GEORGE PETER ECKESS, b. 22 July 1841, Frederick County, Maryland.
JACOB CHRISTIAN ECKESS 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.
JOHN N. ECKESS was born on 08 May 1844, Lewis County, Virginia and died 20 April 1912 in Cushing, Oklahoma. He married Elizabeth A. Smith who was born about 1845. Notes: John N. Eckes was a Private in Co. E, 47th Ohio Infantry. He received the Medal of Honor for valour at Vicksburg, Mississippi on 22 May 1863 for gallantry in the charge of a volunteer storming party.
THOMAS ECKESS was born about 1846 in Lewis County, Virginia and married Mary Elizabeth Peterson who was born about 1842.
WILLIAM HENRY ECKESS was born about 1849 in Lewis County, Virginia and married Mary Adeline Ihrig who was born about 1861.
MARY CATHERINE ECKESS was born on 12 December 1850 in Lewis County, Virginia and died on 10 June 1926 in Fall River, Kansas (Elk County). She married John Marshall Cummings who was born about 1834.
HANNAH ELIZABETH ECKESS was born about 1853 in Lewis County, Virginia.
MARGARET S. ECKESS was born in 1854 in Lewis County, Virginia and died 13 August 1855, at Stone Coal, Lewis County, Virginia.
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