OBIT: Jacob HIGH, 1886, Earl Township, Lancaster County, PA

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Jacob High.

Jacob High, one of the oldest citizens in Earl township, died suddenly on 
Saturday evening, of heart disease.  He had been suffering for two or three 
weeks from severe neuralgia or rheumatism in the arm, and on Saturday evening it 
struck to his heart, and almost immediately resulted fatally.  Deceased was 87 
years and 4 months old.  He was the father of George J. High, farmer; S. S. 
High, of the firm of High & Martin, this city; John H. High, ex-sheriff of 
Lancaster county; and Elizabeth, wife of Joseph K. Frantz, of Gap, Salisbury 
township.  He was a Mennonite, and for sixty years was a farmer living all that 
time within a few miles of where he died.  He quit farming about fifteen years 
ago, and has since lived retired.  His funeral will take place on Tuesday next 
at 10 o'clock.  There will be preaching at the house after which the funeral 
will proceed to Zimmerman's graveyard, in Caernarvon township, between 
Churchtown and Terre Hill.

Lancaster Daily Intelligencer, October 18, 1886