Adams County IN Archives History - Books .....Chapter X Peter Jackson 1896
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Book Title: Reminiscences Of Adams, Jay And Randolph Counties

CHAPTER X.

    Peter Jackson, of Washington Township, Adams County, was born in Ashland
County, Ohio, in the year 1825. He was educated in the common school of Ohio,
which was very common at that time. My father subscribed for one-half of us
children and we went day about in turns. What would you think of sending a
student now-a-days every other day? But this was subscription school; no public
school there at that time. I came here about 1848, was married in 1851. Locating
as a farmer in St. Mary's Township when it was a dense forrest. Have now lived
long enough to see two counties cleared up; Ash County, Ohio, and this dear old
Adams. The Steele boys and I had many a good frolic together, helping each other
clear land. Well do I recollect the first year I was in this county. I went
sixty days to log rollings. We all turned out to help each other. It would be
said I went one mile or went six miles to help my neighbors roll his logs. You
in this day might say, how did you class your neighbors, was it the man who
joined land with you in all casses? No; it was those who were willing to go and
help any one who would ask him to help him bear his burdens. A man who had to do
a little work for himself or refused to go when called on seldom got to refuse
more than once, as he would be spotted as a selfish crank and it would be said,
we will simply leave him alone.

    I was raised a Presbyterian in their old strict way. My father would not
allow us to buy a water melon on the Sabbath day, but we used to get out the
oldcow bell and rattle it on one side of the corn field opposite the melon patch
and the owner would go to drive the cows out of his corn, then some of the gang
of us would wolf his melons and he would find no cows in his field. On his
return he would find some clear head had carried off his choicest melons. Tricks
of these kind were played all for fun these days.

    Well do I recollect the fall of 1854, when the cold fever raged here. Many
people died with it. There were not enough well people to care for the sick.
This was a great year of sickness and hard times.

    I belong to no church, yet I am a Methodist. Politically a Democrat, the
Democrats have elected me for twenty-two years as township assessor.

                         Very truly yours,
                                     PETER JACKSON.


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Reminiscences of Adams, Jay and Randolph Counties

Compiled by Martha C. M. Lynch

Ft. Wayne, IN: Lipes, Nelson & Singmaster

Circa 1896

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