Bradshaw Family History
Major Jacob Forney, Jr
1754 - 1840 (86 years)-
Name Jacob Forney Title Major Suffix Jr Born 6 Nov 1754 Ingleside, Lincoln, North Carolina, United States 
Gender Male Buried Nov 1840 Jacob Forney Jr Cemetery, Burke, North Carolina, United States - Find A Grave Memorial# 24353872
Died 7 Nov 1840 Morganton, Burke, North Carolina, United States - Aged 86 years and 1 day
Person ID I1640 My Genealogy Last Modified 1 Jan 2019
Father Jean Jacob Forney, b. 12 Oct 1721, Canton of Berne, Switzerland , d. Jul 1806, Tyron, Lincoln, North Carolina, United States (Age 84 years) Mother Maria Margartha Bergner, b. 3 Aug 1727, Grindelwald, Canton of Berne, Switzerland , d. 1810, Machpelah, Lincoln, North Carolina, United States (Age 82 years) Married 23 Sep 1752 Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America - met aboard ship
Family ID F638 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Mary E. aka Polly Corpening, b. 19 Oct 1778, d. 24 May 1867 (Age 88 years) Married WFT Est 1806 1832 Children 1. Isacc Newton Forney, b. 5 Aug 1806, d. 21 Dec 1881 (Age 75 years) 2. Fatima Ellen Forney, b. 20 May 1811, Burke County, North Carolina, United States , d. 1 Dec 1855, McDowell County, North Carolina, United States (Age 44 years)3. Mary Forney 4. Sonora Forney 5. Infant Forney 6. Thomas Forney 7. Hervey Forney 8. Albert Forney 9. Marquis De Lafayette Forney 10. Bergner Forney 11. Daniel Forney Last Modified 1 Jan 2019 Family ID F619 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 Elizabeth Mason, b. 18 Jun 1783, Burke County, North Carolina , d. 24 May 1865, Caldwell, North Carolina, United States (Age 81 years) Married 1810 Notes - They had 12 children total, the names of the other are undetermined at this time.
Children 1. Albert Corpening, b. Dec 1803, d. 1808 (Age 4 years) [natural] 2. Elizabeth Corpening, b. 1806, d. 1808, Caldwell, North Carolina, United States (Age 2 years) [natural]3. Elizabeth Corpening, b. WFT Est 1802 1822, d. WFT Est 1843 1909 (Age 87 years) [natural] Last Modified 20 Feb 2014 Family ID F0620 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes These sketches were originally written by Col Thomas George Walton (1815-1905). 1st published in the old Morganton Herald in 1894
Major JACOB FORNEY,(Jr.) an old pioneer, was the son of JACOB FORNEY who came to the United States from the Canton of Berne in Switzerland. Landing in Pennsylvania, he moved to Lincoln County, North Carolina, then Tryon County, in 1754. He married a Swiss girl, MARIA BERGNER. By her he had three sons, JACOB, PETER and ABRAM. JACOB, the oldest son, was the owner of a splendid tract of land on Upper Creek, now divided and owned by his descendants. Major JACOB FORNEY, Jr., (born in 1754 and died in 1840) was one of the first settlers of Burke County, and married MARY CORPENING (born in 1788 and died in 1867), the eldest daughter of ALBERT CORPENING. His good wife, as well as himself, were much esteemed by the best people of the county. They lived happily together for many years, blest with a numerous family, enjoying life, and reaping the fruits of their probity and industry from their land, literally "flowing with milk and honey". At the time of his becoming a resident of Burke County, game of every species abounded. The buffalo, elk, deer, and the beaver had not been extinguished by the white man; and the Major would tell of his escape from a wounded buffalo by climbing a tree, rifle in hand, to a fork in the tree, and from this place of refuge, shooting the mad bull. I have seen well defined traces of beaver dams at Col. AVERY's place on the north Toe River, and have been told by him that within his recollection, the last beaver caught in Burke County was near this place, and the last elk was killed by JONAS DAVENPORT, on a ridge leading to the Roan or Yellow mountain, named from that fact, the "Elk Hollow Ridge." It's horns were so ponderous that they were never removed, and were seen for many years afterwards. Major FORNEY, by his wife, Mary, had seven sons and four daughters, THOMAS, NEWTON, HERVEY, ALBERT, MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE, BERGNER, DANIEL, FATIMA, MARY, SONORA, AND ONE OTHER WHO DIED IN CHILDHOOD. Although marrying late in life, he lived to see his children grown. They were both buried at the family homestead."
