Jacob was a son of Henry Shock and Elizabeth Holtzapfel. He married Mary Green on October 06, 1810 in Kentucky. She was a a daughter of Benijah Green and Sarah Evans.

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In 1803 when Jacob was 14 years old, he joined a hunting party over the hills into the Steer Creek Valley. The land was fertile,
unsettled and the Indians hadn't raided the area for almost ten years,
so Jacob began planning for a home of his own. On October 6, 1810, he
married Mary Green, a daughter of Benjamin Green, who lived near the mouth of Laurel Creek, on Elk River above Sutton. Prior to 1815, Jacob and Mary moved to what is now Rosedale, near the mouth of a small stream which Jacob used as his source of power for a grist
mill. The stream became known as "Shock's Mill Run", and was later changed and shortened to its present title, Mill Fork. In 1836, when Braxton County was being formed from Lewis, Kanawha and Nicholas Counties, Jacob expressed his desire to live in the new county. So when the survey was run, it provided: "crossing Elk river, thence to
the Lewis and Kanawha county line, at a point where a straight line to the mouth of Long Shoal Run (between Glenville and Burnsville) will include Jacob Shock on Steer Creek within the boundary of the new county." Jacob lived with his daughter, Tabitha Bourne, until his death on May 7, 1876. They are buried in the Methodist Cemetery at Rosedale, W.Va.

History of Braxton County
Central West Virginia

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Jacob Shock

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 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 of 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.

I 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 04, 1854. He lived twenty-two years a widower, and died at the home of his youngest daughter, Tabitha Bourn, on May 07, 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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Bio by: Carolyn Boggs Burt