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War activities in Laurel county— 1) Zollicof fur's forms capturing: three. 'Home Guards and how one Laureli (county elderly soldier returned n (home to die after 18 months in a 1-.Confederate prison -reminded me Cl (of a story told me lung ago, prob- u .ably by an uncle, the late J. R. u Hardin, whose favorite aunt. Mrx.b Adeline Pearl Jackson. wax in- tl volved and whose great-grand- ii daughter, Mrs. Daisy Brewer, eon- 1 firms this version of it: a*Humphrey Tunsil Jackson, son il of pioneer Johr and Mary Han-.** cock Jackson, born in 1006, who •had married Adeline Dorcas Pearl, j daughter of pioneer John and,C • Sarah Crosby Pearl, was a member I of the Home Guard as was hls,c .son, Stephen, Mrs. Brewer's grandfather. Father and son were,1' captured by Zollicoffor forced.® near Mcrshons and taken Lo a.s' Confederate prison in the South. I Learning that her husband was tl seriously ill, the wife and mother.G determined to secure Ids relief1^, and do what she could to restore his health; and, if possible, to secure also the release of the son.hAunt Adeline prepared the old v linchpin wagon for the ton# trek, b ;hitched to it their best team, and^ |was on her way. It. is said one or(o jboth of her twin sons, Xewt and it iAb, accompanied her. Getting snfe|h conduct through enemy lines, alie-Ti 1 reached the prison and secured r the release of her husband, who died soon alter reaching home. The son. Stephen Jackson, however, was hold and not released r from prison till the end of the I war. 1sAnother Humphrey T. Jackson. ,t nephew and namesake, was a cor-.? poral in Dr. CnldwcU’s company,; 1 Co. K. of the ?th Kentucky. He r was a son of Stephen Marshall,1 Jackson and brother of \V. H.j\ Jackson. A young man of 23:r years, he was discharged in 1363;! and died later that year, about; the same time his uncle passed m* * way. I1
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London Sentinel Echo
London, Kentucky, US
Thu, Feb 06, 1919
Page 103
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Mary S.
USA 28 Feb 2019
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