The Jacob Sidney Miser Family History Page

     Welcome to the Jacob Miser Family History Page. Jacob was a Civil War soldier who marched with General Sherman through Georgia and a farmer in the Great Swamp area of Northwest Ohio, in Pike Township, Fulton County.

In front: Jacob Sidney Mizer 1843-1918 & Delilah Shrock 1846-1930,
L To R, back row: Julia (Hopkins) 1872-1951, Rosa (Dickens) 1881-1903, Lielia (Ohlinger) 1892-1974, Romeo 1876-1953, Martha (Champion, Harmon) 1874-1923, Andrew 1879-1933, Elsie (Dinius) 1887-1912, Alice (Guthrie) 1885-1909.
(Photo taken about 1900.)

     Please visit the other linked pages. The links include transcripts of the pages from the family bible where the births, deaths and marriages of the family were recorded. Jacobs's ancestors are listed as well as his wife, Delilah's parents and siblings on separate pages.

Bible Pages

80th O.V.I.

Census Records

Obituaries

     Jacob Sidney Miser was born October 20, 1843 in Coshocton County, Ohio. His parents were John Myser (1816-1893) and Julia A. Lethero. Jacob had three brothers and one sister.

Jacob died in 1918 as the first World War was ending. The country and the world had been exhausted by war and disease. A flu pandemic had swept the world, killing and sickening far more people than all the battles.

     Delilah Shrock was born December 17, 1848 in Holmes County, Ohio. Her parents were John C. Shrock (1804-1877) and Mary Ann Legams (1820-1903). See the Shrock Family Page for details of John's two marriages and children.

     Jacob Sidney Miser and Delilah Shrock were married on May 24, 1866 in German Township, Holmes County, Ohio at her Father's house. Their trancribed marriage certificate and other pages of births, marriages, deaths, and Shrock marriages can be seen from the Bible page. Information about the various documents, corrections and clarrifications are shown inside of parens, ( ).

     I believe Jacob and Delilah moved from Holmes County, Ohio to Fulton County, Ohio about 1866. He purchased 80 acres of land in Pike Township. About half of the land is on an elevated, flat sandy ridge. The remainder was black fertile soil that needed to be tiled and drained by ditches. The original purchaser of the land was Daniel Cook who bought it from the government on March 20, 1837. For more information and a larger photo of the house and barn from about 1900, see the Abstract page.

      Jacob was mustered out from service in the Army during the Civil War, on August 13, of 1865. He enlisted in Company G of the 80th Ohio Volunteer Infantryon February 29, 1864 when he was 20 years old.
For more on the 80th OVI, see my web site devoted to the Regiment, click on 80th OVI Regiment



1909 Memorial Day Parade, Delta, Ohio
     GAR & Women's Relief Corps

Also images of a post card showing Jacob Miser in a parade at the 1908 Encampment in Toledo, Ohio.



      To see Federal Census images from 1850 through 1910 for the Jacob S. MISER family, click on Census Records.   Click for 1910 cont., 1920 & 1930 Census Records.

      Jacob died December 12, 1918 at his home in Delta, Ohio. Because of the Winter cold and deep snow, his body was placed temporarily in a mausoleum at Greenlawn Cemetery. Burial took place in the Spring. Delilah died April 3, 1930. Please read their moving and informative obituaries by clicking on the Obituary Page.