Recollections of the Early Settlement of Carroll County, Indiana;
by Dr. James Hervey Stewart; printed by Hitchcock and Walden, 1872. Page 209-210.
JOSEPH JACKSON
Mr. Jackson was born on the 4th day
of June, 1782, in the state of Pennsylvania. At the age of three of four years, his
father, Isaac Jackson, removed to Franklin County, Virginia. Upon arriving at the age of
Twenty-one years, he apprenticed himself to a stone-mason, and learned the trade. On the
15th of June, 1814, he married Rebecca Burke; he then resided
in Giles County, Virginia. In the Fall of 1823, he emigrated to the West, and settled in
Union County, Indiana. He remained there (except one year in Preble County, Ohio,) until
October, 1827, at which time he came to the Deer Creek settlement, arriving here in
November. He settled in the woods, having secured a lease on the school section above
Delphi, on which land he opened up a small farm. He remained on this farm until, March,
1831, when he again broke up, and settled on his own land in the green woods, two and half
miles south of Delphi.
He died on his farm on the 24th day of January, 1851, leaving a numerous and
respectable family.
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