Person:Newton Jackson (3)

The following two paragraphs were copied from ancestry.com Indiana/Counties/Tipton msg board posted by Linda Hancock in Jan 2006: "Tipton County was originally part of the Miami Indian reserve and a very swampy area. It did not become a county until 1844 and on the first election Newton J. Jackson was elected clerk.

"In the book "Tipton County Her Land and People". 'In 1835 Newton J. Jackson entered 320 acres of land in Section 19 of Madison Township. The next year his (older) brother Carter T. Jackson bought 240 acres in Section 20 at $1.25 an acre. In 1838 the Jackson brothers and their families all moved here from Wayne County. Newton and Carter Jackson's parents, James and Martha Chambers Jackson, were natives of North Carolina, but they were so opposed to slavery that they had moved from Kentucky to Wayne County in 1812 when the Twelve-Mile Purchase came on the market. There they and the Robert Leavell family were neighbors; children of both families were among Tipton County's first land owners.' They both married Leavell sisters."

Copied from pg 308 of 'The Indianian' citation info not available: Newton J. Jackson was "the first clerk and auditor of the county, and later a prominent member of the State Legislature, and was otherwise active in the public affairs of the State and county, and a leader in all of the enterprises and improvements of that day. He was also one of the promoters of the first railroad, the I. P. & C. that was built in the county. He was first married to Miss Sarah Leavell, who died in 1851, and later to Mrs. Lorinda E. Brady, the widow of Wm. F. Brady. . ."

Copied from website: Sarah Leavell married Newton J. Jackson, a brother of Carter T. & they also moved to Tipton Co. in the year 1838, to land that they had previously bought from the government and located in New Lancaster. .....Newton J. and wife resided on this farm until the year 1844 when he was elected to the office of county clerk of Tipton Co., and upon the location of the town of Tipton they moved there. In about the year 1851 his wife died, leaving two children, Lavina and Francis M., both of them now deceased leaving no children except a son of Francis Marion [illegible] resident of Howard Co., Ind. [illegible] "39" Indiana Regiment during the entire war, under Captain John Leavell. He later lost his life by a train while a rsident of Missouri, some forty years ago."

1850 Census Tipton, Tipton Co., Indiana Newton J. Jackson 41 m merchant 3,400 KY Sarah Jackson 30 F IN Lavina Jackson 10 F IN Francis Jackson 6 M IN Putnam Evans 23 M mer clerk 150 IN Lear D. Haywood 17 F IN

1860 Census Tipton, Tipton Co., Indiana N. J. Jackson 51 M merchant 3,000 500 KY L. E. Jackson 38 F OH (second wife) Francis M. Jackson 16 IN Carthan J. Brady 14 M IN (step-son) Sam'l Brady 13 M IN (step-son) Willard W. Jackson 4 M IN J. M. Jackson 1 M IN

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Research of Janeen Proctor jan pro 77 add the at aol add the dot com.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Find A Grave
   Memorial# 44026205.

   Info from gravestone inscription

3.   United States. 1850 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432)
   Tipton, Tipton Co., Indiana.
4.   United States. 1860 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M653)
   Tipton, Tipton Co., Indiana.