Person:David Jackson (58)

See Historical Stories in Table of Contents for story of David and his wife Prudence migration from New Jersey to Ohio with the Allens.

OBR, pg 91: "Hill's History of Knox County, 578-9, records the following: 'Amity was laid out by David Jackson in 1832. He owned the land...' In 1820 David laid out the Town of Amity in Pike Township and in 1830 was appointed Post Master and kept a public Stage Tavern for 18 years."

OBR, pg 304: written by his grandson, Daniel W. Jackson; "David Jackson, my grandfather, was an outstanding man in the community in his day. He was a leader whose advice was frequently sought. A man who would go the limit to help a neighbor. He was a Carpenter and Cabinet maker. There was in our home an old piece of work of his he called a secretary, a very fine specimen of cabinet work. A job our keenest cabinet men would hesitate to try to duplicate.

Grandfather told us of missing corn from his log corn crib which he believed must have been stolen, so he set a wolf trap inside the door of the crib. That night he was awakened by loud screams. Investigation found a neighbor with both hands caught in the trap. He released him, took him into the house, dressed his torn and bleeding hands, then made him stay for breakfast. He then filled the neighbor's sack with corn and told him that when he needed more corn to come and get it, but not try to steal it.

He also told him to make any explanation for his wounds that he wished, that he [grandfather] would never menion it. Grandfather said that so far as he knew, no other neighbor ever heard of the accident and this man became one of grandfather's warmest friends.

In his old age he became blind and needed some one near all the time to care for him and as I could handle him, it often fell to my lot to stay with him. On one occasion father had gone to help a neighbor thresh; we were alone when grandfather asked me to go after father as he was going to die. I protested as I knew he was not sick. But as I was young and he was insistent, I went after father and when he arrived he wanted to know what was wrong? Grandfather replied, 'John, I am going to die.' Father said 'No, Dad, you are not sick.' Grandfather said 'Help, help me to sit up' and on being raised up, he gasped and soon became a corpse."

"History of Whitley Co. Indiana" by S. P. Kaler & R. H. Maring states that David removed from Allen County in 1860 to Whitley Co. to live with his son John Potts.

Virgil Allen records that David removed to Allen County, IN in 1852 and died Aug 13 or 14, 1868.

1. ↑ Find A Grave
   Memorial# 45260950.
2. ↑ Obituary.

   Obituary of son John Potts Jackson has that John was born in 1833 in Knox Co., Ohio.

3. ↑ Obituary.

   Obituary of son John Potts Jackson has that John moved with his parents when he was 18 years old to Allen Co., Indiana.

4.   Jackson, P. A. Jackson Ledger. (1887)
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5.   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)
   91.
6.   J. Percy Crayon in 1902, New Jersey, Morris, Rockaway Records of Families (at rootsweb) www.rootsweb.ancestry..