[1] While in Boston, Jacobs was educated at home; she afterwards attended the Young Ladies' Domestic Seminary in Clinton, New York.

[6] She also spoke about women's suffrage on an American Equal Rights Association lecture tour through New York state in 1867 which included other activists such as Susan B. Anthony and Charles Lenox Remond.

[1] Following her mother's death, Jacobs worked as matron of the National Home for the Relief of Destitute Colored Women and Children, then accepted a matron position at Howard University before retiring at 75 years of age due to a heart condition.

[3] Jacobs suffered from a heart condition and her health deteriorated following several years of being a full time nurse to her ailing mother.

[3] She died on April 5, 1917, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she was buried alongside her mother in the family plot of the Mount Auburn Cemetery.