History of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade and Barton Counties,
Missouri, published by Goodspeed, 1889--Pages  747, 748

   John Montgomery Jackson, a farmer and stock-dealer residing
two miles northeast of Stockton, Mo., was born in Roane County
, Tenn., in 1842, and is a son of James Preston and Margaret 
(Montgomery) Jackson, who were also Tennesseeans, the former 
born in Roane County in 1816, and the latter in Roane County 
in 1822.  They were married in their native State, and in 1843
came to Cedar County, Mo., and located on a farm eight miles 
east of Stockton, where the father has since been living.  
The mother was a daughter of John Montgomery, and died January
9, 1888.  The paternal grandfather, John Jackson, was born in 
Jefferson County, Tenn., in 1792.  John Montgomery Jackson is 
the eldest of five surviving members of a family of ten children,
his brothers and sisters being as follows: Mary, wife of Samuel
McAckron; Sarah, wife of John B. Salmon; Nancy A., wife of 
John Oldham; and William.  John Montgomery Jackson has been 
a resident of Cedar County since he was one year old, and 
remained under the shelter of the paternal roof until he was 
twenty years of age.  March 18, 1862, he enlisted in Company D,
Eighth Regiment Missouri Cavalry, and August, of the same year,
was wounded in Benton County, Mo., by a gun-shot, which disabled
him for seven months, being in the hospital at Jefferson City 
two months, and the rest of the time at home.  February 1, 1866,
he was married to Miss Amanda J. Connaway, a daughter of Dennis
H. and Rebecca (Tatom) Connaway, who came to Cedar County, Mo.,
in 1838.  Rebecca Tatom was born in Bond County, Ill.  Soon 
after Dennis H. Connaway came to Missouri his father died, 
leaving him, the only son, to care for the family—a mother 
and three sisters.  He had a fair education, but maintained 
the family principally by farming and teaching school.  Until 
later on in years, he honorably filled several prominent 
offices—that of clerk, collector and representative.  He was 
married to Rebecca Tatom in the year 1844.  They lived happily
together eight years, when Mrs. Connaway died, leaving three 
small children, of whom Mrs. John M. Jackson is the oldest.  
The other two children, both boys, are now living in Oregon, 
the elder a doctor, and the younger, cashier of the First National
Bank, Independence, Oregon.  After the death of Mrs. Connaway,
Mr. Connaway, with the help of his oldest sister, took care of
his children and aged mother, for five years, at which time he
married Serena J. Bugg in the year 1857.  They had five children,
four boys and one girl, two of the boys living in this 
State—one a veterinary surgeon, living at Columbia, Mo., and 
the other a doctor, living in Cedar County, Mo.  The other 
three are living in Kansas, engaged in farming and raising 
stock.  Mr. Connaway spared no pains in educating his children,
and teaching them to be useful members of society.  His mother
died in the year 1864, aged seventy years.  He is now in his 
seventieth year, and is in poor health; is now visiting his 
sons and relatives in Oregon.  He is a strong Republican; 
held the offices of lieutenant and captain in the late war; 
has been a strict member of the Christian Church for a number 
of years.  Mrs. Jackson was born in Cedar County in 1846.  
She and Mr. Jackson have four children: Oscar C., Samuel E., 
Margaret R., and Walter T.  In 1864 Mr. Jackson bought 370 
acres of land twelve miles west of Stockton, but in 1881 
located on the farm of 360 acres where he now lives, were he 
is quite extensively engaged in stock dealing.  He is a Democrat
in politics, and he and wife are members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, South.

History of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade and Barton Counties,
Missouri, published by Goodspeed, 1889--Pages  747, 748

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