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* A woldier ut 1 b«- War of l^lj, and in Old and timer rd Citizen I’n-seJ to His lir-t.DEATH 01’ JOHN J. JACKSON.A 1-zrgr Funeral and Imfrtfoitt Or-John J J»c»- n bIu- for nearly forty fmr« hs* dwelt lithin a few rnite* f ■ BnHfMtf a at -i '1.1 highly —teemed ciiiun, |i.-- d fi..iu earth ■!«• | Saturday night. after a -.trie nine-' lt;f . setvral month*. in th* 84th vrar of 111*■gc. Until within a little m re than a ’, y*«r past, he had t»en a frequent visitor 1 to thi* |.liR, nnd liie f-..-o t»n- familiar to all; and though lain death »i. n I | ui.vifwdrtl, the son*.uricrtnent that it li*H occurred »slt; receie.,1 with unit r-aal expression* of regret. Ilia quiet, affable bearing, and roiiri-tenl and uniform uprightne**. lugeilier with the well-known lari that he had I ren one of ! the Country's defender* in the war of 1812-perhaps the I.i-t one within the border* of our country—were matter*, to inspire in the uiind* of all who knew him. sentiment* of the high, -t rrjrxrd, and render him one of the “highly In.n-j ored in our mi*l*l. On the morning of , hi* funeral nearly every |-er*ot, in town manifested in some way respect to the memory of the d*-ce««ed veteran.| Under command »l Capt. Greiner, a squad of ten aol-lirr* of the War of the Kebellion, acted a* an escort to the hear*e containing tlie remain*, and preceded by the hand playing a dirge, the ' long funeral cortege pn«*ed solemuly ' through our »treel“ to the llolv Trinity ' Church, where the beautiful and itn preeniee ceretooniea of the Catholic , Church were held. At the conclusion of these ceremonies, a brief hut appro-i priatoan.l feeling discourse was delivered | by Iter. Father Durkin. After which tho remain* were convoyed to the tomh, and deposited in their final resting place—the squad of soldier* tiring th* customary rounds over the grave. The ccrctnonica were concluded by the firing of three round* by tho Artillery Hqund, Composed of soldiers of the rebellion John J. Jackson was hum in Oueg county, X. Y-, February 1,171*2, nnd removed thence with his father'd family I to Erie county, Pennsylvania, when about 10 years old. Early in the la-l war with England, lie was one of the volunteers defending the frontier. Afterward* at Pittsburgh, I'a , he enlisted in the 4th C. rt. Kith-s, and served along tho Mississippi a* far north a* Prairie du Cbieu,—then far beyond civilization —until when he wna honorablydischarged. The same Year he was married at Beliefcntuine, Mo., to Sarah Howard I jams, daughter of Wm. Ijains, She died in the year 1825, nnd* by her he had seven children four of* whom still survive. After her death, he married Mary (Irate, daughter ofi Joseph (irate of Franklin county, O , i by whom he had si* children—four of 1 | whom are still living.I ( In 1817, he with hi* wife, and her brothers Joseph, William and Frederick n Ijaius, moved from Bcllefontaine to - 1 BearGeld township in this county, then,J as was nearly the whole route from Mia-| •ouri, almost a complete wilderness.I Some years afterwards, lie removed to• | near West Iiushville. Fairfield county,where he resided until 1839, when lie tnoved upon the farm where he died.Mr. Jackson was a man well up in the adaira of the world and his love of connII I try and patriotic ardor were among his | most conspicuous virtues, and until roils fdered infirm by age and disease, he took y | great interest in all important matter* of 'r | a public or general nature. Among the incident* that impressed themselves upon hi* mind as a child, and which seems to connect him with an age lung since gone, were the funeral celebrations nnd public mourning in the county of his birth at the lime Washington died: These seem to have been conducted even in central New York in 1709 with great expressions of public and private regret.
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The Somerset Press
Somerset, Ohio, US
Fri, Sep 29, 1876
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