MARKS BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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MARKS, Jacob A. - b: 1846 Lancaster Co, PA
source: 1919 History of Henry Co MO, Uel W. Lamkin, Historical Publishing Co - 
page: 587
residence: Davis Twp

Jacob A. Marks - In the death of the late Jacob A. Marks of Davis township, Henry 
County lost a good, industrious citizen, who stood high in the community and 
ranked among the real old settlers of this county, and western Missouri. Jacob A. 
Marks was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, May 10, 1846, and departed 
this life at his home in Davis township, May 10, 1917. He was the son of John and 
Susanna (Schroeder) Marks, natives of Pennsylvania, and of Pennsylvania Dutch 
extraction. The Marks family, consisting of the parents and six children, came to 
Henry County in 1866. During the first years of his residence here, Mr. Marks 
worked as a farm laborer. At the time of his marriage to Susan M. Hibler, he 
settled upon an eighty-acre tract which his wife had inherited from the Hibler 
estate. This tract, Mr. and Mrs. Marks improved and increased to a total of 200 
acres. Mr. Marks was an industrious and enterprising farmer and stockman and a 
successful citizen. His death was a distinct loss to the county. On December 11, 
1876, Jacob A. Marks and Susan M. Hibler were united in marriage and this 
marriage was blessed with ten children, as follows: The first child died in 
infancy; Maud, wife of David Burdick, Nevada, Missouri, mother of four children, 
Roy Marks, Margaret Ellen, Mildred Ruth, Leland Wilson; Thomas H., Kansas City, 
Missouri; Charlotte, wife of G. L. Gregory, San Diego, California, has one child, 
Leon G.; Laura B., deceased; James B., farming the home place; Samuel, an enlisted 
man on the U.S.S. Wisconsin, United States Navy; Ruth V., Rolla B., and George 
Dewey, at home with their mother. Mrs. Susan M. (Hibler) Marks was born in 
Walker township, Henry County, August 11, 1856, and is the daughter of Henry R. 
Hibler, one of the best known of the early pioneer settlers of Henry County, a 
sketch of whom appears in connection with that of Joseph F. Hibler of Walker 
township. Henry Hibler was an extensive stockman and a large land owner, who in 
the early pioneer days drove herds of cattle for the settlers to St. Louis and 
there disposed of them in the stock markets. Mrs. Hibler is capably managing her 
estate of 200 acres, and is also interested in the Dixie Oil Company, a producing 
and dividend paying oil company of Kansas. She is also a stockholder in the 
Sedalia Packing Company. Mr. Marks was a Democrat and served as justice of the 
peace of Davis township. He was a member of the Methodist Church South and 
lived a Christian and upright life. He was affiliated with the Independent Order of 
Odd Fellows. His descendants have just cause to be proud of his career as a 
citizen, an exemplary, honorable man in every sense that the words imply; he was 
likewise a kind husband and a good father. 

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