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Shock, Jacob (1789-1876)
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History of Braxton County and Central West Virginia
by John Davison Sutton
Sutton, West Virginia, January, 1919

Pages 437-438

Jacob Shock, son of Henry Shock, was born near White Sulphur
Springs, Greenbrier county, September 4, 1789, and about 1807, he
with his father came to the place now known as Twistville in
Braxton county where his father died soon after.

At the age of fourteen, he joined a hunting and trapping party, and
came to the woods at Steer creek where they camped, hunted and
trapped for a considerable length of time. While there, he
discovered that the land was very rich and fertile, and always
after that he had a strong desire to make a home in the Steer creek
valley.

In the year 1810, he married Mary Green, and soon afterwards, he
prevailed upon his brother-in-law, John Green, to go with him and
make a home there. In the month of September, 1815, they came to
the place where Rosedale is now situated at which place they took
possession of a boundary of land, and each of them built a house.
Green did not stay long. He went back to the Elk valley after
selling his improvements to Shock who built a home in the land of
wilderness, the land of his adoption.

In speaking of the fertility of the land in after life, Mr. Shock
said that he had cultivated the land where Rosedale now stands,
and raised forty consecutive crops of corn on the bottom near where
the Elk and Little Kanawha depot is now located. The same land has
been cultivated many years since the death of Mr. Shock. Here was
the average bottom land of the Steer creek valley.

Jacob Shock never became wealthy, but was an independent liver. He
had twelve children, and gave them all a comfortable start in life.
His wife died on August 4, 1854. He lived twenty-two years a
widower, and died at the home of his youngest daughter, Tabitha
Bourn, on May 7, 1876, being nearly eighty-seven years of age. He
was an honored and respected citizen, and was for many years of
his latter life, a member of the M. E. Church.

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