Jeremiah Bacon

Earliest known Ancestor

Migration by Generation

1. Gloucester Co, NJ - Maidencreek Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania
   Jeremiah Bacon b. abt 1720 Gloucester Co, NJ - d. Abt 1810 Maidencreek Twp, Berks, PA) (Age ~90)
   &Fronica (?IIselmyn?) b. Abt 1725, Pennsylvania or Germany - d. Abt 1800 Maidencreek Township, Berks, PA (Age ~75)
   Married Abt 1742 in Oley Twp, Berks Co, PA
   • Jeremiah was a farmer.
   • He grew up with his mother and the Yoder family in an Amish-Mennonite home. A Samuel Yoder was born 1730 and dna shows he may be stepbrother to Jeremiah.
   • Jeremiah & Fronica lived in several communities in Berks Co.
2. Maidencreek Township - Washington County, TN
   Charles Montgomery Bacon b. Abt 1760 Maidencreek Twp, Berks, PA d. 1822 Washington Co, TN) (Age ~62)
   & Eva Neumann b. Abt 1770, Montgomery Co, PA d. Abt 1850, Washington Co, TN (Age ~80)
   Married 8 Apr 1793 at Faulkner Road Reformed Church in Maidencreek Twp
   • They moved to Tennessee before their first child was born in 17895
3. Washington County
   Jacob Bacon b. 1 Aug 1802, Washington Co, TN d. 12 Oct 1859, Washington Co, TN (Age 57)
   & Elizabeth Keebler b. 21 Apr 1799, Rockbridge Co, VA. d. 1870, Bradley Co, TN (Age 70)
   Married 4 Oct 1821 in Washington Co
   • Jacob was a farmer.
   • Jacob's and Elizabeth's marriage bann was posted publicly, suggesting that they did not live in the same community.
   • Jacob was a farmer. Soon after Jacob's death, Elizabeth moved to Bradley County with her two youngest sons (Jacob & William) to live near her son Frank (Benjamin Franklin Bacon)
   • Elizabeth bought a Bible in about 1840 and recorded many family events in it. She gave it to her granddaughter Lizzie Bacon Richmond, who recorded more events and gave it to her granddaughter Ann Richmond Sewell, who willed it to her granddaughter, Elizabeth Sewell Giger. The Bible is now in a loose-leaf binder, with all pages encased in plastic. Unfortunately, the register is missing. It probably didn't find its way back to the binder after Ann removed it to make copies sometime in the 1990's or so.
4. Washington County - Stone Co, Missouri via Bradley County, Tennessee
   Benjamin Franklin (Frank) Bacon b. 3 Aug 1834, Washington Co, TN d. 8 Mar 1915, Galena, Stone, MO (Age 80)
   & Mary Ann Trewhitt b. 2 Apr 1836, Bradley Co, TN d. 3 Feb 1886, Cleveland, Bradley, TN (Age 49)
   Married 20 Aug 1851 in Cleveland, TN
   • Frank was a farmer. He and Mary Ann had eight children (Lizzie was their second.) Mary Ann died when the youngest child was was 11.
   • Frank moved to Labette, Kansas sometime before 1900. He married Anna Eglantine Wann (1862-1945) there. They had two children.
   • He was in Stone Co, KS in the 1910 census. His death certificate cites bronchial pneumonia as the cause of death.
5. Bradley County - Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee
   Sarah Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bacon b. 30 Apr 1861, Bradley Co, TN d. 25 May 1946, Cleveland, Bradley, TN (Age 85)
   & Jacob Rogers Richmond b. 26 Feb 1859, Bradley Co, TN d. 14 Feb 1927, Cleveland, Bradley, TN (Age 67)
   Married 30 April 1882 in Cleveland
   • jacob was a farmer and carpenter. He and Lizzie moved into cleveland in about 1920.
   • In the 1920's, he and his son Clarence built houses next door to each other.
   • Lizzie's death certificate says that her cause of death was senility, hypertension, and edema
6. Bradley County - Cleveland
   Clarence Lester Richmond, Sr b. 30 Nov 1895, Bradley Co, TN d. 25 Jan 1981, Cleveland, Bradley, TN (Age 85)
   & Edith Kuykendall Hutcheson b. 10 Mar 1898, Pikeville, Bledsoe, TN d. 9 Jul 1996, Tulsa, Tulsa, OK (Age 98)
   Married 18 Jul 1923 Montgomery, AL by her Edith's brother-in-law Fred Little. She was living with Fred and her sister Kathryn at the time
   • Clarence was highly decorated Marine in WW1. Some of his military artifacts are the the 5 Points Museum in Cleveland. He kept a diary and wrote a well-regarded memoir that is published on this website.
   • Clarence worked as an insurance salesman for Metropolitan Life.
   • Edith was passionately devoted to her badly disabled fourth child (and my namesake), Joe Robin, who was thought to have been stillborn, and who was without oxygen until coughed spontaneously after several minutes. He died at age 17 in 1947. She then taught school until the mid-1960's.
7. Cleveland - Tulsa, Oklahoma/Searcy, AR
   Clarence Lester Richmond, Jr b. 17 Feb 1928, Cleveland, Bradley, TN, and still very healthy and active at age 94 in Searcy, Arkansas in 2022
   & Valle Beth Horton b. 24 Nov 1929, Amarillo, Potter, TX d. 5 Jul 2020, Searcy, White, AR (Age 90)
   Married at Sunset Church of Christ in Dallas, Texas on 22 Jun 1951.
   • Clarence and Valle met at Harding College. Right after college, Clarence moved to New York to work at a Christian summer camp before going to work for Bendix Corporation just outside of New York City.
   • Valle and Clarence had their first three children (including me) in Bergen County.
   • Clarence earned a Masters degree at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ and went to work as an avionics engineer for American Airlines. American transferred him to Tulsa, OK, where their fourth child was born, and later to San Diego, CA, New York City, back to Tulsa, to Irvine, CA (where he worked on the space shuttle program), and back to Tulsa.
   • When he retired from American, Clarence and Valle moved to Ft Lauderdale, FL, where he went back to work for Bendix.
   • When he retired a second time, they moved back to Tulsa, and ultimately to Searcy, AR, where they had gone to college, in time to watch four granddaughters matriculate at was was now Harding University.

Places

• Gloucester Co, NJ Births:1
• Berks Co, PA Births: 29, Deaths: 7
• Washington Co, TN Births: 559, Deaths: 322
• Bradley Co, TN Births: 390, Deaths: 272
• Cleveland, Bradley, TN Births: 165, Deaths: 197