John Jackson

John Jackson born in Fayette county, O., in the year 1832, is a son of John and Elizabeth (Rouse) Jackson, natives of Pennsylvania, who settled in Ohio, where Mr. Jackson died in 1846. Mrs. Jackson is living at the age of ninety years. Our subject was reared on the farm and in 1854 came to Illinois and settled in Toulon, where he resided till the following spring, when he secured work on a farm near Toulon, as a hand, where he has since resided. In 1861 he purchased 136 acres in West Jersey township. In 1857 he married Miss Paulina Ann, a daughter of William Mahany. They were the parents of five children: Lydia E., Laura B., William A., Ursula and John. This lady died in 1875, aged thirty-eight years. In 1876 he married Miss Susan, daughter of Barnabas Frail, to whom two children were born: James T. and Jennie E. This lady is a member of the Catholic church, while Mr. Jackson is liberal in religious matters. Politically he is a Democrat. ( Vide sketch of Frail family)