Clay-Howard County MO Archives History - Letters .....Judge Lile Jacks February 26, 1930
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A letter dated Feby 26, 1930 at Hotel Graystone, 66 Geary St, San Francisco, 
Calif from Bontwell Dunlap who writes for his first cousin Judge Lile T. Jacks 
of San Francisco says:
The Judge is a great grandson of Richard Jacks who was born in 1772, but they 
do not know where, their first knowledge of him being as a resident of Madison 
Co, KY. In 1817, he went to Missouri.  They have recently recd from a very old 
member of the family that he was the first Jacks who came over the sea. The 
one who gives this statement is very old & his memory is not good & we do not 
know whether to accept it or not, but say it is traditional.  He reports as 
finding in census of 1790? New Hampshire, Martha & Nancy Jacks, Rhode Island, 
Nathan Jacques, Conn, Robert Jacques, Maryland, Denton, Lancelot & Thomas 
Jacques, New York, William Jacques, Virginia, William H. Jacques, Penna Allen 
& James Jacks Lancaster Co.  He says Richard was a prominent pioneer & he says 
the early settlers in Madison Co, KY were mostly from Maryland & Virginia & 
they incline to the belief that Richard springs from the Frederick Co, Md 
family.

Mr Dunlap's former letter dated Jany 8, 1920 says:
Judge Jacks is of the Superior Court & is son of Richard Jacks, a pioneer 
Calif miner & mine owner who was son of Elias B. Jacks (& Polly Warden) Indian 
Trader & large landholder in Kansas & Missouri, who was son of Richard Jacks, 
born in 1772 above noted, of whom they have definite trace in Madison Co, Ky 
in 1797, where a son Thomas was born (perhaps Richard was son of the 1790 
Thomas in Md census) Richard joined the Col Daniel Boone colony to Howard Co, 
Missouri in 1817 & became a pioneer of Clay Co, Mo in 1821.  In 1835, he 
selected choice claims in the Platte Purchase & after the Indians removed, 
settled on them in 1837.  He married Sophia, daughter of Eli Barnes.  His son 
Benjamin Jacks was the first white child born in Platte Co.  Richard died in 
1841.


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Extracted from Josiah V. Thompson Journals

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