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Facts and Events
Portrait and biographical album of Jo Daviess and Carroll Counties, Illinois
Page 195 partial excerpt {Note: below 'paternal grandfather' should be 'father'.]
At the age of twenty-five he [John G. Jackson] was married, May 21, 1847, at Pool, to Miss Jane, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Davey) Harvey, who were born and reared in that locality. The paternal grandfather [sic] of Mrs. Jackson was William Harvey, a blacksmith by trade, who spent his entire life in his native town of Pool. Grandfather Henry Davey followed farming and was well-to-do. He died at the advanced age of eighty-nine years. He had been a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he officiated as Class Leader and Steward. Mr. Harvey followed blacksmithing in Pool until about ten years before his death, in 1867, at the age of eighty-nine years. The mother had died in 1862, when seventy-seven years old; both were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
To the parent of Mrs. Jackson there were born twelve children, eleven of whom grew to mature years. William H. is a resident of Hazel Green, Wis.; Elizabeth remains at Pool, in England; Johanna D., Thomas D., John H., and Grace are deceased; Mary lives in Grass Valley, Cal.; Caroline continues to reside in her native England; Jane (Mrs. Jackson) was the tenth child; Anna R. makes her home in Hales, England; and Catherine is in New South Wales. Mrs. Jackson was born in Pool, England, Jan 28, 1826, and received a very good education in the common school.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Portrait and biographical album of Jo Daviess and Carroll Counties, Illinois: containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with portraits and biographies of all the governors of the state, and of the presidents of the United States. (Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1889)
pgs 195, 196. - Illinois, United States. Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947.
Record of his daughter Jane Harvey Jackson.
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