"In the inquest that followed [Elizabeth (Poore) Jackson's] death, John Clark, aged 24, and his wife Mary, aged 22, both testified about the sad accident, mentioning sister, the wife of John Jackson, their father Poore and brothers, John and Henry Poore. John Pickard, aged 53, testified as to the strange actions of John Jackson and so did John Trumble, aged 26. They did not deem him sane. His father, William Jackson and his mother Joanna, testified that he had been odd ever since an illness fourteen or fifteen years before."