Pedigree of Brian L. Lightfoot Jacob Fast

Francis Fast
(Cal 1760-1831)

Elizabeth Yeager
(1768-1826)

Francis Fast
(1800-1876)

Anna Mary Durr
(1798-1868)

Jacob Fast
(1824-1903)

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Spouses/Children:
1. Nancy Cover

Jacob Fast ¹ ² ³ ⁴ ⁵ ⁶ ⁷

Born: 18 May 1824, Pennsylvania, United States ¹ ² ³ ⁴ ⁶ ⁷
Marriage (1): Nancy Cover about 1849 ¹ ²
Died: 25 April 1903, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States at age 78 ¹ ⁶
Buried: 28 April 1903, Jacob's Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery, McClellandtown, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States ⁶

bullet Noted events in his life were:

1. 1850 US Census, 25 July 1850, Nicholson Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States. ³ 1850 US Census
Page 104, Dwelling 76, Family 76
Nicholson Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania
Jacob Fast..26..PA..Farmer
(Living with wife and 1 son.)

2. 1860 US Census, 10 July 1860, Nicholson Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States. ⁴ 1860 US Census
Page 192, Dwelling 50, Family 50, Roll 1109
Nicholson Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania
Jacob Fast..36..PA..Farmer
(Living with wife and 4 children.)

3. 1870 US Census, 1 July 1870, Nicholson Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States. ⁵ 1870 US Census
Page 31, Family 217, Roll 1343
Nicholson Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania
Jacob Fast..45..PA..Farmer
(Living with wife and 8 children.)

NOTE - If his birth date was 18 May 1824, then his age should have been 46 instead of 45.

5. 1900 US Census, 27 June 1900, Nicholson Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States. ⁷ 1900 US Census
Sheet 7A, District 42, Family 134, Roll 1411
Nicholson Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania
Farm rented
Jacob Fast..Father..May 1824..76..Widowed..PA
(Widowed and living at the home of his married son, Ira, and his family.)

6. Cemetery: Jacob's Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery, After 25 April 1903, McClellandtown, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States. ⁶ Find A Grave Memorial #102576986

Jacob married Nancy Cover, daughter of Samuel Cover and Mary Newcomer, about 1849.¹ ² (Nancy Cover was born on 22 September 1828 in Nicholson Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States,¹ ² ³ ⁴ ⁵ ⁸ died on 8 December 1898 in Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States ¹ ⁸ and was buried after 8 December 1898 in Jacob's Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery, McClellandtown, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States ⁸.)

bullet Noted events in their marriage were:

3. 1870 US Census, 1 July 1870, Nicholson Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States. ⁵ 1870 US Census
Page 31, Family 217, Roll 1343
Nicholson Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania
Jacob Fast..45..PA..Farmer
Nancy Fast..41..PA..Keeping House
Francis Fast..20..PA..Farm Laborer
Samuel Fast..18..PA..Farm Laborer
William Fast..16..PA..Farm Laborer
Jesse Fast..11..PA
Ira Fast..9..PA
Jefferson Fast..7..PA
James Fast..5..PA
Mary E. Fast..3..PA

4. 1880 US Census, 7 June 1880, Nicholson Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States. ² 1880 US Census
Page 330A, District 47, Family 120, Roll 1130
Nicholson Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania
Jacob Fast..Head..56...PA..Farmer
Nancy Fast..Wife..51..PA..Keeping House
Jesse Fast..Son..21..PA
Ira Fast..Son..19..PA
Jefferson Fast..Son..17..PA
Mary Fast...Dau..12..PA
Allen Fast...Son..9..PA
Lizzie Durr..???..16..PA..Servant

NOTE - Jacob's mother's maiden name was Durr so Lizzie Durr must have been somehow related to his mother.
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1 Wirt Gerry Faust, "By Way of Rotterdam," p. 187; manuscript, , 1952; photocopy reprinted 1983 held by Robert G. Fast, [ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE].

2 1880 U.S. census, population schedule, Nicholson Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, enumeration district (ED) 47, p. 330A, family 120, Jacob Fast and Nancy Cover; database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/en/search/collection/1417683 : accessed 20 Apr 2016); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T9, roll 1130.

3 1850 U.S. census, population schedule, Nicholson Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, p. 104, dwelling 76, family 76; database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/en/search/collection/1401638 : accessed 18 Jul 2010); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm M432.

4 1860 U.S. census, population schedule, Nicholson Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, p. 192, dwelling 50, family 50, Jacob Fast and Nancy Cover; database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/en/search/collection/1473181 : accessed 8 Nov 2017); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm M653, roll 1109.

5 1870 U.S. census, population schedule, Nicholson Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, p. 31, dwelling 209, family 217, Jacob Fast and Nancy Cover; database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/en/search/collection/1438024 : accessed 18 Jul 2010); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm M593, roll 1343.

6 Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/ : accessed 5 Mar 2015), http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=102576986.

7 1900 U.S. census, population schedule, Nicholson Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, enumeration district (ED) 42, sheet 7A, dwelling 134, family 134, Ira Winfield Fast and Elizabeth Schnatterly; database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/en/search/collection/1325221 : accessed 19 Jul 2010); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T623, roll 1411.

8 Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/ : accessed 5 Mar 2015), http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=102576989.

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