Person:James Jackson (281)

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Note the following TWO James Jacksons in 1860 in Lamar County Texas. And see the analysis below.
1860 Census Beat 4, Lamar Co., Texas
Page 3, Post Office: Paris, Texas, enumerated 20 Sept 1860, stamp in right corner: 108
James Jackson 28 M farmer no RE 250 TN apparently can read and write
Rebecca Jackson 24 F TN she cannot read or write
Susan Jackson 6 F TN (abt 1854)
John Jackson 5 M TX (abt 1855) so sometime between 1854 & 1855 family moved to TX
Martha Jackson 3 F TX

James and Rebecca lived next household to another James Jackson and his wife Mary (Piland):
1860 Census Beat 4, Lamar Co., Texas
Page 3, P. O. Paris, Texas enumerated 20 Sept 1860, stamp in right corner: 108
James Jackson 26 M farmer 400RE 450 TN he cannot read or write (this is James F. s/o Hugh) (1834)
Mary Jackson 24 F NC (died Dec 1869)
David Jackson 1 M TX
Lucinda Jackson 1 F TX

Some sleuthing around turned up a Jackson researcher who has been researching these Jacksons for years - and doesn't use the Internet. This is Barbara Crumpton who has been able to untangle these families for us.

Barbara writes that James F. s/o Hugh, married Mary Piland and had 7 children between 1859 and the time she died in 1869. Meanwhile in the next household, Rebecca Baker Jackson's husband, James had died a bit earlier, leaving her with 4 young children. So James F. and Rebecca married and merged their families and went on to have 2 more children together. This story cannot be pieced together just with census records and therefore many authors of online charts have not been able to determine which child belonged to which mother. So Rachel did raise Mary's children. And we are indebted to Barbara Crumpton for this good information. But we still have not learned the parents of James who married Rebecca Jane Baker.

1. ↑ Research of Barbara Crumpton 1455 Chisholm Trail Parkway, Duncan, Oklahoma 73533.
2. ↑ United States. 1860 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M653)
   Beat 4, Lamar Co., Texas.