William J Jackson (1760 - 1849)

Born 10 Aug 1760 in Virginia

Ancestors

Son of Jacob Jackson and Lydia (Taylor) Jackson

Husband of Barbara Ann (Snively) Jackson — married 1789 in Frederick, Virginia

Descendants

Died 20 Aug 1849 at age 89 in Berne, Fairfield, Ohio

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Biography

William was born in 1760. He passed away in 1849.

From the Statement of Thomas Jackson of Berne Township (1877), page 196:

"My father, "William Jackson, came from Frederick County, Maryland, in 1805, and settled in Berne Township, Fairfield County. He came over Zane's trace from Wheeling to Lancaster. I was four years old. He left his goods at Wheeling, and came through on horseback, he and my mother, carrying two or three small children before and behind, as was the custom then. At Lancaster he met an acquaintance who had preceded him. His name was Sliger. He took us all to his cabin, which was two miles south of Lancaster, on the place which has for many years been known as Clarksburg, from the name of Joshua Clark, who lived there since, and carried on the milling business, in connection with which he run a distillery. My father and Mr. Sliger then rode about the country, and found an empty cabin on the bank of Pleasant Run, on the spot now known as the Reuben Shellenbarger place. There was belonging to the cabin twelve acres of cleared land, on which the timber was deadened. This was in December. We moved into the cabin and spent the winter, I do not know how. In the spring my father planted the twelve acres in corn, and then returned to Wheeling and brought out his wagon and little stock of household goods. We remained in that cabin two years. I cannot remember how we managed to live. At that time I had one brother and two sisters — I was the fourth child. My sister Polly married Joseph Sheets. She is at this time 85 years old, a widow, and living with her daughter, who is the widow of the late John Grabill, Jr. My brother John lives near the Colonel Sharp place, below Sugar Grove, and William lives two miles below Lancaster. My age is 76 years. " ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Complete history of Fairfield County, OH https://archive.org/stream/cu31924028848483/cu31924028848483_djvu.txt