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Reviewed by Alice DiNizo for Readers' Favorite
Jacob's father Sebastian and his uncle came to America years earlier as Dutch immigrants and settled in the western part of North Carolina. The family moved on to Tennessee after fighting against local militia. In 1836 they migrated to Missouri where Jacob Ebhart obtained land. Under their house he built a cellar that would serve for storage and protection from the weather. However, during the Civil War the cellar served another purpose. In 1859 war loomed on the horizon and Jacob's cellar could be entered from the back porch of the weathered house. Jacob's son Jake went off to fight in the 1846 battle against Native Americans and Mexicans and later for the Confederacy when the Civil War began.
"Jacob's Cellar" by Richard Sharp is the well-written and totally absorbing story of a family with Dutch roots that came to this country before the Revolutionary War and stayed on, moving as fate necessitated, through the difficult decades of the 1800's. The characters, both leading and secondary, are well-created and totally believable. I felt as if I knew them personally. Sharp's characters show tenacity. "The illusion that they could survive as a little Dutch village in a sea of illiterate English and Scot frontiersmen was pretty much gone." The plot-line tells the history of those times in vivid detail. The conclusion is not to be missed. Wow!
