Person:Silas Jackson (12)

Oscar Burton Robbins writes (source book pg 155): "Silas Albert Jackson was probably born at his father's home in Knox County, Ohio. He learned Telegraphy when a young man but did not follow it many years as a means of livlihood, but became a farmer, and later Truck Gardener, lived on various farms west of and near Fort Wayne, Indiana. "While living on a farm on the Illinois road about two miles west of Fort Wayne, the author of this sketch had the privilege of being with his family, the summer searson of 1887, in the capacity of a "Hired Hand". "Uncle Albert as I knew him was a "Hard Worker and a Money Maker" a good disciplinarian, provided well for his family, and to the best of the author's knowledge and belief was a good man and loved his family. Either he or his wife obtained a divorce. He turned over to her the home which was located some two miles west of Fort Wayne, on the old Canal. Some time after this he went to Florida, where he again married, and where he made his home and became the father of five fine children, and where he remained until his death. "During the Civil War he was a private soldier, a member of Company D, 129th Indiana Infantry."

On the same page, his second wife Georgia writes: "Silas Albert Jackson came to Bluff Springs, Flordia from Indiana about 1898. He bought 160 acres of land on Canoe Creek and Started a Bee Yard. In 1908 we were married and moved to the farm. We sold produce, and his principal employment was cutting Cross Ties and caring for his bees. Our house burned in 1920 and we moved to Byrnesville, where we lived until 1925, when we moved to West Pensacola.

1. ↑ 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)
   pg 155.
2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Rootsweb chart of Art Reierson: Jackson wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi op GET db :1514470.