Person:Silas Stackhouse (1)

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SILAS J. STACKHOUSE, a retired farmer residing near Bettsville, was born in Columbia County, Penn., October 6, 1806, son of Benjamin and Sarah (Jackson) Stackhouse. His paternal ancestors settled in Pennsylvania at or near the present site of Philadelphia about the year 1682. His maternal ancestors in the Jackson line, viz.: Robert Jackson with his wife, Agnes, were among the first settlers at North Hempstead, L. I., in 1643. Our subject's great-grandfather, Joseph Jackson, was born on Long Island February 9, 1710, and with his wife, Annie, removed to Rockaway, N. J., about 1731.To them were born eleven children, one of whom, Daniel, was the grandfather of our subject. This Daniel removed with his family to Columbia County, Penn.. and raised a family of eight children, of whom Sarah was one. She married Benjamin Stackhouse about the year 1803, and died in 1865, at the age of eighty-three years.

Genealogy of Jackson family I. Robert Jackson and wife, Agnes, settled on Long Island, at North Hempstead, in 1643; died about 1684. II. Col. John Jackson (son of Robert), birth not known; died in 1725. III. James Jackson (son of John) and wife Rebecca (Hallett) Jackson, his birth not given; died in 1735. IV. Joseph Jackson (son of James), born on Long Island February 9, 1710 removed to Rockaway, N. J., in 1731 or 1732; died in 1769. V. Daniel Jackson (son of Joseph), married Jemimah Benjamin, born about 1754. VI. Sarah (Jackson) Stackhouse (daughter of Daniel), married Benjamin Stackhouse; she was born about 1782; died 1865. VII. Silas J. Stackhouse (son of Sarah Jackson) married Sarah Lockhart; he was born October 6, 1806.

To Benjamin and Sarah (Jackson) Stackhouse were born eleven children, our subject, Silas J., being the second, and besides whom there are still living Mrs. Hannah Kearney, of Morrow County, Ohio, and Sarah, now Mrs. William Blair. of Knox County, Ohio. December 20, 1829, Mr. Stackhouse married Sarah B., daughter of Robert and Flora (Leigh) Lockhart. She, was born in Northumberland County, Penn., February 1, 1809, and died January 28, 1859. Of this union ten children were born, four of whom died in infancy in Pennsylvania.

In 1851 Silas J., with his wife, Sarah and six children, removed to Seneca County, Ohio, and in 1857 settled on the farm in Liberty Township where he now resides with his son, in the seventy-ninth year of his age. He had two sons in the late war: Joseph G. M., who served three months in the Fourteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry and again enlisted in the fall of 1861, in the Third Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, and was transferred to Gen. Nelson's staff. He died near Corinth, Miss., June 20, 1862. William L. enlisted at the same time in the Third Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, and served until the close of the war. He now resides in Jackson County, Kans. His other children, still living, are Benjamin, on the homestead; Ann B,, wife of W. C. Boor, of Wood County, Ohio; Lockhart, of Sandusky County, Ohio, and A. Judson, in Fostoria, Ohio. Mr. Stackhouse is a member of the Baptist Church, in politics a Republican and is a highly esteemed citizen.

1. ↑ Rootsweb chart of Rebecca Pachasa: Baker, Klotz, Bowe, Bordner . . . wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi op GET db.
2.   Ohio, Seneca County, Biographies www.heritagepursuit.com/Seneca/SenBLouden.htm.