JACOB SPRAW, farmer, P. O. Berwick, was born in Bavaria, Germany, July 25, 1809; son of Adam and Catharine Spraw, natives of Germany who immigrated to America, where they lived and died. Our subject came to Ohio in 1832, and located in Big Spring Township, Seneca county. He was married, August 2, 1843, to Salome Weymer, born in France, September 2, 1823, daughter of Jacob and Salome Weymer, the former of whom died in Wayne County, the latter in Fulton County, Ohio. To Mr. and Mrs. Spraw have been born ten children, seven now living: Jacob; Catharine, wife of Henry Grunder; Elizabeth wife of Frank Erney; Adam; Rachael, wife of Philip Chrisman; Alary; Ellie C., and three deceased: Sarah, Hattie and an infant. Mr. Spraw owns eighty acres of land, whereon he and his family reside. He and his wife are members of the German Reformed Church, and are among the leading families of Seneca County.


Trancribed by Bonnie Walsh.
WARNER, BEERS & CO., 1886
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, Part IV, p.729
BIG SPRING TOWNSHIP