Jacob Martin Fast ^{2 3 4 5 6}

  General Notes:

[Brøderbund WFT Vol. 7, Ed. 1, Tree #1334]
Went to Ohio in 1817.
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State of Ohio, Richland County ss.
Personally appeared before the subscriber an acting justice of the peace within and for said County Jacob Fast and after having been by me duly sworn according to law depose and say that he is the Son of Christian Fast and Anne Barbara Fast and that the family Record hereto attached is the family Record of the said Christian Fast and Anne Barbara Fast that between thirty and forty years ago the said Record was transcribed all except the last entry by one William Ayer at the request of the said Christian and Anna Barbara Fast from an old Psalm book that the said Record hereto attached as aforesaid from the time of transcribing as aforesaid the said Christian up to his death which took place June twenty fifth AD 1841 kept and regarded as a correct family record and that since the death of the said Christian Fast the said record hereto attached as aforesaid has been kept by the said widow of the said Christian until I received it of her about eighteen months since and gave it into the hands of her attorneys Messrs Bortty and Stevens and this aforesaid Record hereto attached is a true family Record of the said Christian Fast and Anna Barbara Fast. For the name of my mother, Anna Barbara Fast, appears to have been written Barbara without the Anna and so kept on the said Record but her name is and always has been Anne Barbara as I am informed by her and believe.
Jacob Fast
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  Noted events in his life were:

• He appeared on the 1870 US Census in Orange Township, Ashland, OH on 2 August 1870. ⁵

1870 US Census
Page 18, Dwelling 136, Family 126, Roll 1169
Orange Township, Ashland County, Ohio
Jacob Fast..82..PA..Retired Farmer
(Living with wife.)
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• He was buried after 11 April 1875 in the Saint Luke's Cemetery in Orange Township, Ashland, OH.

Jacob's and his wife, Catherine, share one common gravestone in Saint Luke's Cemetery which is a vaulted top obelisk of white and black streaked marble that is showing only minimal effects of weathering. The inscription on his side reads "Jacob Fast, Sen., Born in Penn. Mar. 13, 1788, Died Apr. 11, 1875, Aged 87y & 27d". At the top is a Masonic symbol.

Find A Grave Memorial #22573276
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Jacob married Catharine Rex in 1812.¹ (Catharine Rex was born on 16 March 1794 in Pennsylvania,^{5 7} died on 11 August 1872 in Ashland County, OH ^{3 7} and was buried after 11 August 1872 in Orange Township, Ashland, OH ^{3 7}.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• They appeared on the 1870 US Census in Orange Township, Ashland, OH on 2 August 1870. ⁵

1870 US Census
Page 18, Dwelling 136, Family 126, Roll 1169
Orange Township, Ashland County, Ohio
Jacob Fast..82..PA..Retired Farmer
Catharine Fast..76..PA..Keeping House
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