Person:Roland Jackson (4)

OBR: "Well do I remember this fine gentleman, as well as his loving efficient wife Martha Rebecca in whose home I lived while working for Roland the summers of 1886 and 1888 and during my 14th and 15th years, for $5.00 and $12.00 per month, board and lodging.

"Roland operated a tile-mill (manufacturer of drain-tile), located on his father David Jackson's farm, two miles south of Laud, Indiana. (I never did know whether the farm belonged to Roland or his father David, but the Mill belonged to Roland and he operated the farm.)

"The residence then was a very good square two-story frame house with a glassed-in cupola on top. The cupola has been removed but the house still stands 1950 and is a good residence on a good productive farm.

"David and wife Rebecca lived there with Roland or vice-versa and David worked in the Mill on Mondays and Tuesdays of each week, helping to empty and fill the Kiln. David and I worked together on the yard. Other days we made tile and did the farming. Roland was not able to do much work of any kind. Three other men were employed; all were lodged and boarded and each morning before breaakfast all participated in Family Worship.

"Father David usually read from his Bible a verse or chapter or more of Scripture, then all knelt at his chair and one or more of our number offered prayer."

Inscription on tombstone: "I shall be satisfied when with Thy likeness I awake. Psalm 17:15. He died aged 39 years 5 months and 27 days.

1. ↑ Indiana, Whitley, Evergreen Cemetery www.genealogycenter.info/search whitleyevergreen.php.
2. ↑ Find A Grave
   Memorial# 45562853.
3.   Robbins, Oscar Burton. History of the Jackson family of Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y., Ohio and Indiana: descendants of Robert and Agnes Washburn Jackson. (Loveland, Colo.: Robbins, 1951)
   248, 253.