Henry Jacobi

Henry Jacobi

• Henry Jacobi was born in November 1861 in Illinois.
• He married Lucinda Bettner, daughter of F. J. Bettner and Henrietta Lularke, on 14 October 1883 in Fayette County, Illinois.
• Henry Jacobi and Lucinda Bettner appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Orange County, Texas. Other members of the household included Inla Ray Jacobi, Harold J. Jacobi and La Vird Jacobi. Also in the household were five male boarders, all immigrants and railroad laborers.
• He was a railroad foreman, according to the 1900 census.
• Henry Jacobi and Lucinda Bettner appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Hidalgo County, Texas, south of the St. Louis, Brownsville & Mexico Railroad on "Hidalgo Livingston" [Louisiana-Rio Grande?] Company Canal.. Other members of the household included Inla Ray Jacobi, Harold J. Jacobi, La Vird Jacobi, Henrietta Jacobi, Editha Jacobi, Beatrice Jacobi and Harriet T. Jacobi.
• He was a canal overseer, according to the 1910 census. The purpose of the Lousiana-Rio Grande Canal Company, formed after the 1904 Loiuisiana Purchase Exposition (known as the St. Louis World's Fair), was to create an extensive irrigation system, making acreage in what is now known as the Lower Rio Grande Valley marketable to farmers.
• Henry Jacobi became a widower at the 30 November 1916 death of his wife Lucinda Bettner.
• He officially witnessed the death of Lucinda Bettner on 30 November 1916 at 1930 Masten in Dallas, Texas.

• Last Edited: 21 Oct 2011