Jacob Hanes
Jacob Hanes, widely known as Squire Hanes, of Zimmermans, one of the oldest native-born residents of Greene county, was born in Beavercreek township on April 2, 1832, a son of Jonathan and Mary (Smeltzer) Hanes, the former of whom was born in Maryland in 1802 and was but three years of age when his parents, Jacob and Mary Hanes, came to this state and settled in Greene county, locating on the land now owned by their grandson, Jacob Hanes, at Zimmermans. The elder Jacob Hanes became a soldier of the War of 1812, served as one of the associate judges of Greene county for seven years, was for many years justice of the peace and in other ways active in pioneer affairs. He died at the age of sixty-six. His widow lived to be eighty-two. They had six children, four of whom, Jacob, Jonathan, Mary and Frances, lived to maturity and reared families. Jonathan Hanes in 1831 married Mary Smeltzer and established his home on a farm at Zimmermans, where he spent the rest of his life. He and his wife were Lutherans and were the parents of two children, the subject of this sketch having had a sister Mary.
Reared on the home farm, Jacob Hanes remained there until his marriage when thirty-five years of age, after which for two years he made his home on the farm of his father-in-law. He then located on the place on which he is now living and there has ever since resided. It was in 1867 that Jacob Hanes was united in marriage to Mary M. Stull, who also was born in this county, March 9, 1847, daughter of William K. and Sarah Stull, and to his union five children were born, Jonathan W., Francis A., Jacob L., Cassius A., and Edward F., all of whom are living save the latter, who died in 1905, at the age of twenty-four years. Mrs. Hanes is a member of the Reformed church. Squire Hanes is a Republican. During recent years he has suffered considerably from failing sight, but is still able to get about with much of his old-time vigor.
Jonathan Hanes, eldest son of Squire Hanes and wife, married Hattie Flatter, of Hartford City, Indiana, and has five children, Katie V., who married O. S. Mendenhall and has one child, a daughter, Bernice Evelyn, and Nettie M., Ada M., Andrew and Nancy. Francis A. Hanes married Minnie Harner, of Oldtown, and has had five children, Raymond J., Herman F. (who died at the age of two years), Thelma, Louise and Edna P. Jacob L. Hanes married Minnie B. Mendenhall and has six children, Arthur L., Florence Jeannette, Albert Louis, Orxille K., Herbert and Thomas E. Cassius A. Hanes married Anna Lott and has nine children, Harold, Violet, Edwin, Adenia, Henry, Gladena, Lillian, and Kindle and Kenneth, twins.
From History of Greene County Ohio, Its People, Industries and Institutions, vol. 2. M.A.Broadstone, editor. B.F.Bowen & Co., Indianapolis. 1918