In the last few years, I have found sources that can be used to narrow the time frame of Jacob�s death to an eight-month time period. First, the last public record I�m aware of (I should say, the last of literally dozens over his lifetime) is the sale of his last land parcel to his cousin Jacob Shook on July 9, 1835 (Haywood Co. Deed Book F:14-15). One of the gems found among the papers of Dorothy Fulbright Schaper when her husband Bern and I compiled her notes on Jacob Fulbright Jr.�s descendants was excerpts from a book on the Smathers family (Sadie Smathers Patton, 1954. Smathers: From Yadkin Valley to Pigeon River, Smathers and Agner Families, Privately Published, Hendersonville, N. Car.) (I might add that his book has little on the descendants of Henry Smathers, who had children who intermarried with some of the Fulbrights.) This book has a number of excerpts from a diary kept by Rev. Nehemiah Bonham and owned by Harmon Moore of Canton when the book was published. Rev. Bonham ministered to German Lutheran churches in western North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and South Carolina. There are several mentions of Jacob Sr.�s sons Barnett and Peter, and he sometimes stayed with "auld Mr. Fulbright"--I�m assuming Jacob Sr.--while at Fulbright Cove and Morning Star Church. However, the following entries narrow the death date of Jacob Fulbright, Sr.:

Mrs. Patton points out that Rev. Bonham was absent from Haywood Co. prior to this, and that last rites in those days were often delayed for months, because no minister was available at the time of interment. So, the death date of Jacob Fulbright Sr., has to fall between July 9, 1835 and March 20, 1836. I welcome any other information anyone has uncovered that may allow a further narrowing of this date range.