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Jordan - Jacobs Cemetery, 54-1 Summary Report, page 23
In the above image of a page of the World War I draft registration cards, the front of each card is on the left. The back of the card, with the physical description, is on the right. The card images for Ellie Jacobs are in the middle. Meanwhile, Ellie's mother, Bittie / Bettie was living with her son Frank, per the census records of 1910 and 1920, indicating that Ellie's father Isaac had died sometime between 1900 and 1910. His brothers and sisters were also living with Frank in the 1910 census, as was another sister, Beulah, age 9 in the 1910 records. Frank was unmarried in 1910, but in the 1920 census he was shown with a wife named Addie, age 27, while Frank was age 40 in that year. His mother was shown as “Bettie”, age 60. There were no children of Frank & Addie or siblings of Frank and Ellie listed in the household in 1910. Frank's World War I draft registration card is shown above as the 3rd in the set of the images. During the course of checking all of the Jacobs families of Madison County in the various censuses, it was noted that Burrell Jacobs (who was born in April of 1855) with his wife Kitty had a son named Lucien J. Jacobs and several other children per the 1900 census. Lucien was born in August of 1885 according to the record. This family was not checked in the 1910 or the 1920 censuses, so it is not known whether Lucien survived that long. However, it is likely that he is the Lucien Jacobs with a tombstone in the Jordan - Jacobs Cemetery, as no other entries were noticed for a Lucien Jacobs in any other census records for the families of that surname. The 1930 census for Madison County, Alabama, has an entry for Burrell Jacobs shown as age 74. [This man was listed as the 13 year old son of a Burrell who was age 60 in the 1870 census.] He is listed in 1930 with a wife named Nettie, who is shown as age 68. The data includes that he was married first at the age of 23, and she was married first at the age of 17. She is shown as being born in Alabama, as were her father and mother. However, he is shown as being born in Alabama, with his father having been born in North Carolina and his mother in South Carolina. Their household sequence is number 378 in their district during the census. In household number 377 is the family of Smithy Jacobs and wife. Smithy is age 42, married since the age of 25, while his wife was first married at the age of 13. She is age 30 in the census. Household number 379 (the other side of Burrell's house from Smithy's) is that headed by Renny Jacobs, age 32, 23 - (2110)