Person:Elizabeth Jackson (197)

I find it curious that both Betsey and her husband Capt. Job Allen are recorded as dying in Knox County, Ohio; yet I find a record of her burial in Crayon's record of Morris County (NJ) Cemeteries. I seriously doubt that she was taken back to New Jersey for burial. In her son Isaac's autobiography, he tells of the death of both parents in Ohio and no mention is made of their being taken back to New Jersey for burial. ON THE OTHE HAND, the following is found at find-a-grave website: Betsey Jackson Allen Birth: Feb. 14, 1782 Death: Mar. 21, 1862 Inscription: Cemetery Record of Sexton John G. Mott. Note: Wife of Job Allen. Daughter of Benjamin Jackson and ? Burial: First Presbyterian Church Cemetery Rockaway, Morris County, New Jersey, USA

From Isaac Jackson Allen's autobiography, published this site: "Curiously enough, in looking through that History of Morris county, under the chapter on "Schools of Rockaway", I found recorded as pupils of Rev. Harris's school the names of Elizabeth Jackson (my mother), and Ziba Jackson, and Isaac Jackson, her brothers, my uncles; for the latter of who, Isaac Jackson, I was named; and who died, as I have been told by my mother, about the time of my birth. It impressed me as a little curious to think of my dear, staid, matronly mother being there recorded before me as one of the mischievous, rollicking, frolisome school-girls of that far-away time Rockaway School!"

Elizabeth is found living with daugther Lucy Davis and her family in Morrow Co., Ohio during the 1860 Census.

1. ↑ Crayon, J. Percy. Rockaway records of Morris County, N.J., families: cemetery records, church history, military records, local history, genealogies of old families, nearly 20,000 data. (Rockaway, N.J.: Rockaway Pub. Co., 1902).

   Crayon records that she died in Fredericktown, Knox County, Ohio; but he also recorded her burial in Morris County, NJ. I'm inclined to believe that Isaac, the son's records are more accurate.

2. ↑ 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)
   20, 49.

   Robbins says Elizabeth died at Jefferson, Madison County, OH. He also says that both Betsey and her husband are buried in Fredericktown, OH.

3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Isaac Jackson Allen, Genealogical Biographical Memoranda of the Allen Family privately typed for his cousin in.

   Isaac states that his Mother (Betsey) died at his sister, Maria's home in Jefferson, Madison County, Ohio.

4.   Jackson, P. A. Jackson Ledger. (1887)
   11.
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)
   20, 49.
6.   Crayon, J. Percy. Rockaway records of Morris County, N.J., families: cemetery records, church history, military records, local history, genealogies of old families, nearly 20,000 data. (Rockaway, N.J.: Rockaway Pub. Co., 1902).
7.   Craghead, Dorothy Allen, Allen-Minton Family: Ancestry and Descendants of Captain Job Allen II (Revolutionary.