Jacob Bope

Legacy Card for COL. Jacob Bope.

BIRTH

Saturday

17 NOV 1798


Rockingham County,
Virginia, USA

DEATH

Monday

08 SEP 1884


Fairfield County,
Ohio, USA

Infirmary Director | Carpenter | Undertaker | Farmer

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Joe McFarland

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BIOGRAPHY

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CIVIL WAR

MILITARY CAREER

UNITED STATES
UNION ARMY

COLONEL

Company C, 5th Ohio Cavalry

TIMELINE

BURIAL

ZEIGLER CEMETERY

ROW 22

COL. Jacob Bope lies buried next to his first wife, Mariah Elizabeth (Bury) Bope and his second wife, Mariah Adeline (Essex) Bope, in row 22.

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THE REFERENCES

Bev Poling. “COL. Jacob Bope,” Find A Grave, Last modified November 9, 2010, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61352094/jacob-bope.

Cemeteries of Pleasant Township, Fairfield County, Ohio (Lancaster: The Fairfield County Chapter of The Ohio Genealogical Society, 1994), 161.

Infirmary Records, Fairfield County, Ohio (Lancaster: The Fairfield County Chapter of The Ohio Genealogical Society, 1994), ii.

“Jacob Bope,” FamilySearch, accessed December 16, 2025, https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/details/L8H1-TR5.

PHOTOS

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