Lucas County IA Archives Biographies.....Jackson, Brice 1837 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ia/iafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com December 24, 2007, 11:46 pm Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1896) BRICE JACKSON dates his identity with Warren township, Lucas county, Iowa, from March 24, 1866, and for nearly thirty years he has been one of the leading farmers of his vicinity. Mr. Jackson was born in Monroe county, Ohio, December 24, 1837, son of Silas Jackson and grandson of Abram Jackson, the former born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1810, and the latter a native of Philadelphia, that State. Great-grandfather Jackson was a native of the Emerald Isle and was one of the early settlers of Pennsylvania. Abram Jackson and his wife, previously Miss Leonard, who was born near Philadelphia, were the parents of seven children, four sons and three daughters, viz.: Silas, Margaret J., Hannah, Robert, Jesse, Leonard and Sarah A. When Silas Jackson was three years old his parents moved to Ohio and settled in Monroe county. He grew up on his father's frontier farm, and in Ohio was married to Sarah Ann Griffey, a native of that State and a daughter of William D. and Mary Griffey, natives of Pennsylvania. Her father was a soldier in the war of 1812. Silas and Sarah A. Jackson became the parents of ten children, as follows: William; Mary J., deceased; Brice, whose name heads this article; Elizabeth; Wilson S., who served one year, and died in service August 9, 1863, a member of Company D, One Hundred and Sixteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry; Lewis; Sarah Ann; George W., who died at the age of seventeen years; James, who died in childhood; and Jeremiah. The mother died at the age of thirty-seven years and the father lived to be seventy-two. His whole life was spent in agricultural pursuits. Coming now to the immediate subject of our sketch, Brice Jackson, we learn that he was reared in his native county and that his early life was not unlike that of other farmer boys of that period. His education was received in one of the typical log school-houses, with its puncheon floor and slab seats, which has so often been described in connection with the early history of the West. June 17, 1857, Mr. Jackson was married, in Monroe county, Ohio, to Miss Hannah Jane Brown,-who has since shared the joys and sorrows of life with him. They have had no children of their own but they reared a little girl, Delilah Lowe. Mrs. Jackson was born and reared in the county in which she was married, her parents being Alexander and Anna (Windle) Brown, her father born near Brownsville, Pennsylvania, and of Dutch parentage, her mother of Irish origin. The other children of Mr. and Mrs. Brown are Jacob, Margaret (deceased), John, James, and Benjamin. Both parents have been dead for several years, the father having died at the age of fifty-seven. The mother's death occurred in Iowa in 1886. They were members of the Protestant Methodist Church, and by occupation he was a farmer and in politics a Democrat. James A. Brown, aged seventeen years, has been living with Mr. Brice Jackson as one of his family ever since the death of his (James') mother, which occurred when he was two years old. Mr. Jackson, is a veteran of the Civil war. When President Lincoln made a call for "300,000 more," Mr. Jackson enlisted in Company D, One Hundred and Sixteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, the date of his enlistment being in August, 1862. He was in active service for two years and ten months, or until the close of the war, and participated in many of the prominent engagements of that sanguinary struggle, among which we mention those of Winchester (three battles), New Market, Piedmont, Lynchburg, Martinsburg, Perryville, Cedar Creek and Petersburg. During the whole of his service he acted the part of a brave, true soldier, came out without injury, was honorably discharged, and returned to his home in Ohio. The year following his return from the army Mr. Jackson removed to Iowa and settled on a tract of wild land in Warren township. Here he has 183 acres, a nice cottage home, a large barn, and good grove and orchard, and here he is engaged in general farming and stock-raising, prosperity attending his efforts from year to year. In all the relations of life Mr. Jackson is honorable and upright, is fair and square in his business dealings, and frank and jovial in his intercourse with his fellow men. He takes a commendable interest in local affairs and has served on the School Board. A veteran of the Civil war, he is, of course, identified with that popular organization known as the G. A. R., his membership being in Post No. 18, at Chariton. Mrs. Jackson is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Additional Comments: Extracted from: A MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF IOWA ILLUSTRATED "A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants."'—MACAULAY. "Biography is by nature the must universally profitable, universally pleasant, of all things."—CARLYLE "History is only biography on a large scale"—LAMARTINE. CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY 1896 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ia/lucas/bios/jackson173gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/iafiles/ File size: 5.6 Kb