Jacob F. Batchelor

1811-1892

Born 1811

Died 1892

Children include Henry

Jacob F. Batchelor was born on 5 July 1811, by his gravestone. In 1850 he gave his birthplace as New York, and his son's death record in 1912 says the same. A later cemetery record places his birth at Brookfield, Worcester County, Massachusetts. A Semantha Batchelder, 64, born in Massachusetts, was living in his house in 1850, so the family probably had roots in Massachusetts whichever state he was born in.

On 25 October 1843 Jacob married Martha Mason in Wayne County, Michigan, the county of Detroit. Their son Henry Augustus was born in Michigan on 3 September 1844. By 1850 they had settled at Port Huron, where the St. Clair River leaves Lake Huron. The census that year lists Jacob, Martha, Henry, five, and a baby daughter Alice, eleven months old.

Martha died on 12 July 1851, aged twenty eight, leaving Jacob with two small children. Their daughter Alice grew up but died on 23 July 1874, aged twenty five, and was buried in the family lot at Lakeside Cemetery.

Port Huron was a lumber town, and Jacob went into lumber. In 1854 John Howard took his own son Henry and J. F. Batchelor into partnership as John Howard and Company. They built a saw mill on the St. Clair River north of the railroad bridge, which Howard afterwards sold to Batchelor. Jacob retired from the firm a few years later, and it went on as John Howard and Son. In 1867 Jacob F. Batchelor was still running one of the seven saw mills in Port Huron.

Jacob lived another forty years. His son Henry stayed at Port Huron into the 1870s and then moved to Saginaw, and Jacob died at Saginaw on 3 January 1892, aged eighty. He left an estate of about $75,000, and he remembered both of his towns in it. His body was taken back to Port Huron and buried in Block K of Lakeside Cemetery. A large granite family monument there carries the name J. F. BATCHELOR on its base, with his own peaked stone and Martha's in front of it.

Children

Henry A. Batchelor 1844-1912

Sources

Find a Grave, memorial 80376201, Jacob F. Batchelor, Lakeside Cemetery, Port Huron, St. Clair County, Michigan; photograph added 2015

Find a Grave, memorial 80376201, Jacob F. Batchelor, Lakeside Cemetery, Port Huron, Michigan; photograph of 13 November 2011

Michigan death and burial record, Saginaw, vol. 1908 to 1917, p. 126; FamilySearch 1:1:FHLL-6L4 and 1:1:FH19-2R8

1850 US census, Port Huron, St. Clair County, Michigan, household 209, line 41, NARA M432; FamilySearch 1:1:MF8L-TR4

Michigan marriage record, Wayne County, 1843; FamilySearch 1:1:FCNR-S9Q

Jenks, St. Clair County, Michigan, its History and its People (Chicago, 1912), vol. 1 and vol. 2 p. 490; archive.org stclaircountymic00jenk and stclaircountymic02jenk

Weekly Expositor, Brockway Centre, St. Clair County, Michigan, 15 January 1892, p. 5; Library of Congress, Chronicling America, https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn2006060001/1892-01-15/ed-1/?sp=5

Michigan marriage, Wayne County, 1843 (FamilySearch 1:1:FCNR-S9Q); 1850 US census, Port Huron (1:1:MF8L-TR4); Michigan death and burial record of Henry Augustus Batchelor, 1912 (1:1:FHLL-6L4); Find a Grave memorial 80376201 with stone photographs; Vital Records of Brookfield, Massachusetts, to 1849 (archive.org vitalrecordsofbr00broo), which has no birth of a Jacob in 1811; Jenks, St. Clair County, Michigan, its History and its People, 1912, vol. 1 and vol. 2 p. 490 (archive.org stclaircountymic00jenk, stclaircountymic02jenk); History of St. Clair County, 1883, list of Port Huron mills in 1867 (archive.org arx2236.0001.001.umich.edu); Find a Grave memorial 80376583 (Alice L. Batchelor) with stone photograph; Weekly Expositor, Brockway Centre, Michigan, 15 January 1892, p. 5 (Library of Congress, Chronicling America, sn2006060001)

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