Jacob Martin Fast ^{1 2}

  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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  Burial Notes:

Find A Grave Memorial #22573276

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, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22573276/jacob_martin-fast: accessed March 30, 2025), memorial page for Jacob Martin Fast Sr. (13 Mar 1788\'9611 Apr 1875), Find a Grave Memorial ID 22573276, citing Saint Lukes Cemetery, Orange Township, Ashland County, Ohio, USA; Maintained by Laurence Overmire (contributor 46950879).
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  Noted events in his life were:

1. 1870 US Census, 2 August 1870, Orange Township, Ashland, Ohio, United States. ³ 1870 US Census
Page 18, Dwelling 136, Family 126, Roll 1169
Orange Township, Ashland, Ohio
Jacob Fast..82..PA..Retired Farmer

(Living with wife.)

2. Obituary: unknown newspaper, After 11 April 1875. ⁴ Another Pioneer Gone.

Mr. Jacob Fast, one of the early pioneers of this county, died at the residence of his son, Mr. Martin Fast, in Troy Township, this county, on last Saturday morning, at the good old age of eighty-five years.

Mr. Fast was born in Green County, Pennsylvania in 1790, and was brought by his father to Orange Township in the spring of 1815, when a portion of this county was occupied by the Delaware Indians. When Mr. Fast grew to manhood he settled on a farm about one mile northwest of the village of Orange, where he resided until a few years ago. He was one of the hardy men who grew up in the country, and who were ever ready to cope with the difficulties and privations incident to pioneer life. Mr. Christian, father of the deceased was an eminent pioneer, who at one time was captured by the Indians on the Ohio River, and on account of whose captivity and escape appeared in the History of Ashland County, by Dr. G. W. Hill, published in the Press of Nov. 26, 1874.

"During his life Mr. Fast made many warm friends, by his generous disposition and many acts of kindness. His remains were interred in the cemetery in Orange, the funeral services occurring at the Presbyterian Church in that place.

(Source: unknown newspaper, Ashland County, Ohio)

Jacob married Catharine Rex in 1815 in Pennsylvania, United States. (Catharine Rex was born on 16 March 1794 in Pennsylvania, United States,^{3 5} died on 11 August 1872 in Ashland, Ohio, United States ⁵ and was buried after 11 August 1872 in Saint Lukes Cemetery, Orange Township, Ashland, Ohio, United States ⁵.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

1. 1870 US Census, 2 August 1870, Orange Township, Ashland, Ohio, United States. ³ 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