SENECA COUNTY OHIO - BIO: JACOB SPRAW (1886)

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SENECA COUNTY
HISTORY OF SENECA COUNTY, OHIO
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, Part IV, p.729-730
CHICAGO:
WARNER, BEERS & CO., 1886

SENECA COUNTY, BIG SPRING TOWNSHIP, OHIO

JACOB SPRAW, farmer, P. O. Berwick, was born in Bavaria, Germany, July 25, 
1809; son of Adam and Catharine Spraw, natives of Germany who immigrated 
to America, where they lived and died. Our subject came to Ohio in 1832, 
and located in Big Spring Township, this county. He was married, August 2, 
1843, to Salome Weymer, born in France, September 2, 1823, daughter of 
Jacob and Salome Weymer, the former of whom died in Wayne County, the 
latter in Fulton County, Ohio. To Mr. and Mrs. Spraw have been born ten 
children, seven now living: Jacob; Catharine, wife of Henry Grunder; 
Elizabeth wife of Frank Erney; Adam; Rachael, wife of Philip Chrisman; 
Alary; Ellie C., and three deceased: Sarah, Hattie and an infant. Mr. 
Spraw owns eighty acres of land, whereon he and h;s family reside. He 
and his wife are members of the German Reformed Church, and are among 
the leading families of Seneca County.