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Note: August married Mary Antoinette JACOB, daughter of Lambert JACOB and Marie Margarite PIERRARD, on 15 Nov 1865 in St. Augustine, Leopold, IN. Mary was born on 3 Jul 1847 in Les Rulles, Belgium. She died on 16 Apr 1927 and was buried in St. John's Cemetery, Perry Co., IN.
Name from Reference 19 marriage record of daughter Mary Julia.
Reference 14 marriage record of August James and Marie Antonette Jacob shows Marie as the daughter of Lambert Jacob and Marie Margarite Pierrard.
The 1880 Census shows an August Jeems, age 35, born in Belgium, farmer living in Leopold Township, Perry County, IN. In his household is living his wife Mary, age 33, born in Belgium.
The 1900 Census shows Mary, wife of August James, born Jul 1844, age 53, in Belgium, father and mother born in Belgium, arrived in US in 1853.
Reference 32 (Vol 2, page 156) shows Mary T. James, born 3 July 1847, died 16 Apr 1927, nee Jacobs, born in Les Rulles, Belgium, buried at St. John's Cemetery near Bristow, IN.
According pension record information on August James (as reported in "Belgians in the American Civil War" web site), Maria Antoinette, born 1846, "did not know the exact date (month and day) of her birth. She came to American when quite small. The records of her birth were destroyed by a fire in her home in Rulles."
Reference 67 shows Mariette Jacob, born about 1847 in Les Bulles, Belgium, left Luxembourg about 1853.
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