Jeremiah James Jack Jr.
BIRTH 2 Aug 1787
Hawkins County, Tennessee, USA
DEATH 24 Jan 1862 (aged 74)
Silverton, Marion County, Oregon, USA
BURIAL
Miller Cemetery
Silverton, Marion County, Oregon, USA
Husband of Susannah McCallie Davis Jack
Bio Source: A HSTORY OF THE SILVERTON COUNTRY, By Robert Horace Down, M.A., Head of the Department of History in Franklin Hifh School, Portland, Oregon, The Berncliff Press, Portland, Oregon - 1926. Page 44: "Jeremiah J. Jack was born in Knox county, Tenn., in 1787, in which state he was married in August, 1816. He arrived in Oregon October 2, 1847, and on April 11, 1849 he settled on 640 acres in sections 8 and 9, township 6 south 1 east (Don. Cer. No. 1376). A son, Thomas Porter Jack, had a claim of 318.09 acres adjoining, on which he settled on the same date as his father. He was born at Madisonville, in Monroe county, Tenn., in 1824, and at the time he took his claim was unmarried (Don. Cer. No. 1600). William Allen Jack (another son of Jeremiah Jack) was born in 1818. He was a veteran of the Cayuse War of 1848 and was an eye witness of the death of Col. Cornellius Gilliam, who was in command of the Oregon troops. He was one of the soldiers who buried the bleaching bones of the Whitman dead. January 5, 1854, he married Mary Jane Weddle. He died near Marquam, Ore., February 10, 1895. He had six children. Thomas Porter Jack had eight children. Jeremiah Jack died January 24, 1862."
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