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Note: WFT #3213 shows marriage date as June 04, 1882. McConeghy records show June 6 ??
I have a photo of his gravestone in the Amend plot in St Elizabeth's Catholic Cemetery in Smethport, PA. that I took in August 2003
It reads:
"Jacob
1858 - 1935
Father"
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1860 US Census, Jones Township, post office : Williamsville, Elk County, Pennsylvania, Roll 1106, Book I, pg 53, stamped 890,
dwelling # 368, family # 371genealogy.com image #1 of 10, enumerated June 16, 1860.
B. Amend, (head), age 35, occ: farmer, real estate $800, personal property $200, born in Hesse Cassel (Germany)
Margaret, (wife), age 32, born in Hesse Cassel (Germany)
John, (son), age 4, born in PA
Jacob, (son), age 2, born in PA
Louis, (son) age 1/12, born in PA
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1870 US Census, Sergeant Township (Clermont), McKean County, Pennsylvania, dwelling #9, family # 9, image 2 of 3,
enumerated July 29, 1870
Bernard Emend (sic), (head), age 46, occ: Painting, real estate $900, personal property $950, born in Hesse (Germany),
Margaret, (wife), age 40, occ: keeping house, born in Hesse
John, (son), age 14, born in PA, attended school
Jacob, (son), age 12, born in PA, attended school
Louis, (son), age 10, born in PA, attended school
Anlena (?), daughter), age 8, born in PA
Elmena, (daughter), age 6, born in PA
Tracy, (daughter), age 1/12, born in april, born in PA
Cristopher Hafner, (father-in-law), age 66, (occ: blank), born in Hesse, could not read or write
all people were marked as having both parents of foreign birth, (in fact almost every person in the township had parents of foreign birth mostly some German area)
Notes: Tracy (Theresa) was recorded as being 1 month old, but her birth month was recorded as April and the census was not taken until the end of July when she would have been at least 2 months old possibly 3.
Cristopher Hafner was checked in the column marked deaf and dumb, blind, insane or idiotic, there was no indication as to which condition applied however.
Both Bernard Amend and Cristopher Hafner were marked as being male citizens of the US over 21 years old, so they must have been naturalized unless the enumerator just marked any male over 21.
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1880 US Census, Sergeant Township,McKean County, Pennsylvania, ED #97,page 18, ancestry.com image #18 of 20,
dwelling # 147, Family #151,enumerated July 21 & 22, 1880.
Bernard Amend, head, age 55, occ: Farmer, born in Hesse-Castle(sic), parents born in Hesse-Castle (Germany)
Margaret, wife, age 49, occ: keeping house, born in Hesse-Castel(sic), parents born in Hesse-Castle
John, son, age 23, single, occ: Painter and Plasterer, born in PA
Jacob, son, age 21, single. occ: laborer, born in PA,
Louis, son, age 19, single, at home, born in PA.
Almina, daughter, age 16, single, at home, born in PA
Theresa, daughter, age 11, at home, born in PA
Martin, son, age 4, born in PA
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1900 US Census, (Clermont), Sergeant Township, Mckean County, Pennsylvania, ED #123, sheet 3-B, enumerated June 4, 1900 by Albert R. Anderson, dwelling #54, family #56,
Jacob Amend, head, age 41, born June 1859, married for 18 years, born in PA, parents born in Germany, occ: dealer (meats), rented his house, could read and write.
Anna, wife, age 36, born June 1863, married for 18 years, had 5 children, 5 living, born in Canada, parents born in Ireland, could read and write, naturalized(?)
Mary E., daughter, age 17, born Apr 1883, born in PA, attended school for 2 months, could read and write
Bernard, son, age 14, born Dec 1885, born in PA, occ: teamster, out of work for 3 months, attended school for 1 month, could read and write
Gretha, daughter, age 10, born July 1889, born in PA, attended school for 7 months. could read and write
Lucius, son, age 2, born Sept 1893 born in PA
Leonard, son, age 2, born Sept 1893, born in PA
Note :Lucius and Leonard were twins
(There is an obvious date here Lucius and Leonard are clearly recorded here as being born in Sept 1893 but that would make them 6 in June 1900, not 2. If the enumerator had meant to write 1898, they would have been only 1 at last birthday, not 2. We had birthdate of Sept 1897 from other sources.)
Also Jacob is incorrectly shown as born in 1859 here, but his gravestone says 1858 and in the 1860 census he was age 2
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1910 US Census for Sergeant Township, McKean County, PA, enumerated in April 1910, page 6
[Note: the handwriting on this census is very bad, often undecipherable and film image is fuzzy]
Jacob Ament (sic), age 47?, married for 28 years, born in PA, both is parents were born in Germany,
occupation : laborer in Fxxxxxx? ,rented his house (?)
Anna, age 47(or 48?), married for 28 years, had had 5 children, 5 still living, born in Canada,
both her parents were born in Ireland, home
Mary E. age 27, single, born in PA, occupation: Labor (?) at Hxxxx? Kxxx? xxfx?
Bernard, age 24, single, born in PA, occupation: Tool Dancer(?) on Oil Lxxxx?
Greta M. [Margaret], age 20, single, born in PA, servant in Ament family [note: she was retarded], attended school within the year
Lucius, age 12, single, born in PA, home, attended school within the year
Leonard, age 12, single, born in PA, home, attended school within the year
[note: Lucius and Leonard were identical twins]
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1920 US Census for Clermont, Sergeant Township, McKean County, PA, ed 146, sheet 2B, enumerated Feb 24, 1920 :
Jacob Amend, head, age 61, owned his farm, born in PA, both parents born in Germany, occ: laborer, farmer
Anne, wife, 57, born in Canada, immigrated in 1864(?), naturalized in 1882(?)(somewhat illegible), both parents born in Ireland, mother tongue Irish,
Mary E., daughter, 36, occ. none
Bernard L., son, 34, occ. laborer at the Tile Works
Gretha, daughter, 30, occ. none
Leonard, son, 22, laborer
Lucius, son, 22, laborer
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1930 US Census for Sergeant Township, McKean County, Pennsylvania, ED-32, sheet 4-B, pg 8 of 11, dwelling #73, family #73, enumerated April 16, 1930.
Jacob Amend, head, age 71, widower, owned his home, value $4000, family lives on a farm, born in PA, both parents born in Germany, able to read and write, occupation: farmer, general farm, not a veteran, worked on own account, farm schedule #16.
Mary E., daughter, age 47, single, occupation: house maid, boarding house, worker
Bernard L., son, age 45, single, occupation: laborer, tile factory, not a veteran, worker
Gretta, daughter, age 40, single, occ: none
Leornard, son, age 32, single, occ: farmer, general farm, not a veteran, unpaid worker
Lucious (sic), son, age 32, single, occ: farmer, general farm, not a veteran, unpaid worker
all the children are shown as born in PA with both parents born in PA also (this was incorrect since their mother had been born in Canada)
all are shown as being able to read and write.
They did not own a radio set.
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Note: in WFT v10t3213 dates for Jacob are WFT born est 1779-1813 - this is impossible if he married someone born in 1862.
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Jacob Amend, who operated Clermont's Meat Market, was one of several offspring of Bernhard (Bernard) and Margaret Hafner Amend. Both the Amends and Hafners remained in the Clermont area when Teutonia dissolved in 1845. Jacob married the sister of John F Keating, who operated the Clermont House Hotel,
Jacob was a Sergeant Township Road Supervisor, Sergeant Township School Board Director, and past Grand Master of the Clermont Lodge of the International Order of Odd Fellows, which met in their building atop Mead Hill at the southern end of North Street. Their children were Bernhard (Bernard), Marrie (Marie), Gretha(Margaret), Lucius and Leonard (twins).
Coincidentally, Jacob's sister Tessie(Theresa) married Jerry McCarthy, who operated a meat market in Smethport.
Jacob's brother Phillip committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree near the Gumboot Mines in August 1930. His body wasn't discovered until December 1st.
The Amend School, one of eight in the Sergeant Township School District, was located near the Katrine Swamp, along the Clermont-Milesburg Turnpike (now the Clermont-Wilcox Road).I have a photo of her gravestone in the Amend plot in St Elizabeth's Catholic Cemetery in Smethport, PA. that I took in August 2003
It reads:
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