Jacob Eby the clockmaker was my great-great-great-grandfather on my paternal side. We think the clock was made circa 1820, but are not absolutely certain of the date. The clock has been passed down in our family from Jacob Eby and eventually to us. Jacob Eby had a daughter, Eliza, who had a son, John Wesley Myers, who had a daughter, Theodosia Myers, who had a son, Frederick Terry, Jr., my father. It made its way through the years from Pennsylvania to Columbus, Ohio to Toledo, Ohio where I remember it in my grandmother's large house. When she sold the house, the clock moved in with us in Maumee, Ohio, a suburb of Toledo. After my father died, my brother and his wife moved the clock to their house in Michigan where it is now. It still keeps accurate time and strikes on the hour.on the face of the clock, under the 12, is written- Jacob Eby, Manheim. The clock is in my brother's house in Bath, Michigan.Submitted by Don Terry
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