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Father Joseph Thomas Jarboe

Father Joseph Thomas Jarboe

Male 1806 - 1887  (80 years)

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  • Name Joseph Thomas Jarboe 
    Title Father 
    Birth 29 Jun 1806  Washington County, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 27 Mar 1887  Dominican monastery in Somerset, OH. Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Patriarch & Matriarch
    John Thomas Jarboe, Sr.,   b. 3 Oct 1770, St. Mary's County, MD Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Oct 1850, Springfield, Washington County, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 80 years)  (Father) 
    Elizabeth Gardiner,   b. 1707, Chaptico, St. Mary's County, MD Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Apr 1772, Chaptico, St. Mary's County, MD Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 65 years)  (Great Grandmother) 
    Person ID I5254  1665 GOUGH/GOFF (US-MD-STM/US-VA-LOU) I-Y6902-A
    Last Modified 20 Oct 2023 

    Father John Thomas Jarboe, Sr.,   b. 3 Oct 1770, St. Mary's County, MD Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Oct 1850, Springfield, Washington County, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years) 
    Mother Dorothy "Dolly" Hill,   b. 22 Oct 1770, Leonardtown, St Mary's, Maryland, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 Mar 1851, Springfield, Washington County, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years) 
    Marriage 24 Dec 1791  Holy Cross Church, Pottinger Creek, Nelson Co., KY Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • mary.yoder@verizon.net wrote:

      >This doesn't make sense to me--maybe you can figure it out!!!
      >
      >1820 Election Dist 3, St Mary's Co, MD
      >
      >Joseph Jarboe
      >41110 - 13101- 00
      >
      >In Nelson Co, KY- I find:
      >
      >John Jarbo m Dorothy Hill, sur Stephen Ormsby;
      >d/o Thomas Hill; 24 Dec 1791; Wm DeRohan.
      >
      >Joseph Jarbour m Mary Clark; sur Wilford Clark; d/o
      >Richard Clark; 6 Oct 1792 Wm DeRohan.
      >
      >Joseph Jarboe Jr m Lydia Ann Clement; sur Wm
      >Clement, f/o Lydia Ann; bond: 29 Aug 1822.
      >
      >Other Jarbo; Jarboe, Jarbor, Jarbour.

      Jarbo, John m Dorothy Hill, bd 24 Dec 1791, married 24 Dec 1791
      signed bond Samuel Clifton
      Dorothy, daughter of Thomas Hill
      Married by William DeRohan, from Marriage Register.

      Randy or Kat Dunavan Longview, Texas 903-720-3914

      >
    Family ID F2412  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • kymarion@rootsweb.com
      Judy wrote:

      >Thanks for this additional information.
      >
      >>
      >>Joseph Thomas Jarboe Join the Dominicans at St. Rose, Ky
      >> Fr. Joseph Thomas Jarboe b. 6-29-1806 son of John Thomas Jarboe and Dorothy Hill
      >> The 1962 National Catholic Register has his life story.
      >> "It was the day after the Battle of Shiloh (April6-7,1862), and Fr. Joseph, O.P. a chaplain to Confederate troops, was being taken out to be shot by Union soldiers. He had crossed the Federal line to administer the Last Rites to some dying Union soldiers when he was arrested as a spy."
      >> "But happening to ride by at that moment was Gen. Phil Sheridan, who had served Mass for Fr. Jarboe in Ohio before the war. In Language said to have been more vigorous than polished, he ordered the priest's immediate release. The account is carried by the Tennessee Register in connection with the Shiloh Centenary, marked by a special U.S. postage stamp."
      >> "Fr. Jarboe distinguished himself not only as a chaplain, but as a great missionary in Ohio, KY, & TN. His health so poor at ordination in 1830 that he had to be supported by another Priest to receive the sacrament, he yet outlived all his contemporaries and died in 1887 at the age of 81, after 57 strenuous years as a priest. It is generally accepted that only deafness prevented his becoming a Bishop."
      >> "As child he was enrolled in the recently opened Dominican school at St. Rose, Ky, where he was a pupil of marked ability.
      >>He was ordained 6-28-1830 at St. Rose by Bishop Edward Fenwick, OP."
      >> "In 1839 at St Rose, Fr. Jarboe gave instruction in the catholic faith to the Puritan Yankee, Henry Vincent Brown, who became one of the famous priests in Tennessee."
      >> "In the 1840s' Fr. Jarboe was assigned to the mission in Ohio, and then became head of the college at Sinsinawa, Wi. His name was among those submitted to Rome in 1859 by the Bishops of St. Louis Province as recommended to be Bishop of one the new dioceses to be erected."
      >> 1860-1861 Pastor of Saint Thomas Aquinas Church
      >> The new Church in Zanesville was a remarkable structure when it
      >>was built. At this period some described it as one of the most
      >>impressive Catholic Churches in the Midwest. The donations of Mr.
      >>Mattingly had done much to assure appropriate interior
      >>furnishings but in 1851 the women of the parish had a dinner to
      >>raise money for a new organ. The history of the parish reads like
      >>a litany of redecorations, repairs and improvements. When the
      >>church was about 25 years old it was redecorated. On Christmas
      >>1865 the parish celebrated the reopening with great ceremony.
      >>Mozart's Twelfth Mass (first performance in Zanesville) was sung
      >>by a choir of thirty voices with organ and orchestra accompanying.
      >> "When the Civil War broke out in April 1861, Fr. Jarboe, again
      >>at St. Rose, immediately volunteered to minister to the troops
      >>and was in some of the bloodiest battles of the war and
      >>distinguished himself in caring for the wounded."
      >>
      >>"At the height of the Battle of Shiloh, comrade of Fr. Jarboe
      >>were falling on all sides while he was busy administering to the
      >>dying. Finding a young soldier suffering from a mortal wound,
      >>Fr. Jarboe was preparing to cut away his boots for the anointing
      >>of the when a bullet shattered the knife he held in his hand.
      >>Before the priest recovered from this shock an exploding shell
      >>struck the injured soldier and hurled his body some distance
      >>across the field. As it did so, a penknife dropped from one of
      >>the soldiers pockets and was put to use by the chaplain. Fr.
      >>Jarboe always thought this second knife was sent to replace the
      >>one shot from his hand. He kept the knife as a memento of the
      >>war and would often show it to his friends."
      >> "During the latter part of the battle, solicitude for the
      >>spiritual welfare of the union soldiers led Fr. Jarboe across the
      >>lines under a flag of truce. His mission of mercy ended, he
      >>tried to return to his regiment but was seized by pickets of the
      >>Federal Army and brought before Gen. Wm. Nelson."
      >> "One accounts says the priest was recognize by Provost
      >>Marshall, John G. Key. But, Miss Lula Timmons, of Lebanon, Ky, a
      >>life long friend and relative of Fr. Jarboe, writing in 1909,
      >>give this account:
      >> "He was being taken out to be shot when the party was met by
      >>Gen Phil Sheridan, who recognized Fr. Jarboe, for whom he had
      >>serve Mass in Somerset, Oh. Sheridan immediately ordered his
      >>release and is said that the language used by the General on that
      >>occasion was more vigorous than polished."
      >> "From the end of the war in 1865 to 1884 Fr. Jarboe labored in
      >>TN, and was Vicar General of the diocese form 1869-1884. In 1884
      >>infirmities of age and deafness caused his retirement. He went
      >>to the Dominican monastery in Somerset, Oh. where he died 3-27-1887.
      >> There is a Photo of Fr. Joe in the Notre Dame Inventory GPOR
      >> Peter Adams willed Fr. Joseph money for St. Rose Church 12-15-1856
      >>
      >>Judy wrote:
      >> What a lovely story of miraculous "accidents". I'm going to save it.
      >