Jessie Crawford Jackson

Brief Life History of Jessie Crawford

When Jessie Crawford Jackson was born on 4 November 1813, in Ohio, United States, his father, Jesse Jackson, was 31 and his mother, Mary Polly Swearingen Williams, was 25. He married Phoebe Ward Johnston on 10 September 1834, in Shelby, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Miami Township, Logan, Ohio, United States in 1850 and Pleasant Township, Wabash, Indiana, United States in 1860. He died on 22 February 1863, in Shelby, Ohio, United States, at the age of 49, and was buried in Shelby, Ohio, United States.

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Family Time Line

Jessie Crawford Jackson
1813–1863
Phoebe Ward Johnston
1817–1896
Marriage: 10 September 1834
John Thomas Jackson
1835–1856
Charles Johnston Jackson
1837–1910
Sarah Jane Jackson
1838–1915
Mary Louise Jackson
1840–1919
Jesse Sylvester Jackson
1841–1916
Silas Harvey Jackson
1844–1925
Nancy Elizabeth Jackson
1847–1935
Cyrus William Jackson
1848–1866
James Martin Jackson
1850–1863
Phebe K Jackson
1852–1853
Leander Alonzo Jackson
1852–1930
Teressa Alice Jackson
1854–1896
George F. Jackson
1858–1858

Sources (10)

  • Jesse C Jackson, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Jesse C. Jackson, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
  • Jesse C Jackson, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1819 · Panic! of 1819

With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years. 

1819

Shelby County was created on 7 January 1819 from Miami County.

1830 · The Second Great Awakening

Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.

Name Meaning

English, Scottish, and northern Irish: patronymic from Jack . In North America, this surname has absorbed other patronymics beginning with J- in various European languages, in particular those derived from equivalents or short forms and other derivatives of the personal name Jacob , e.g. Norwegian Jacobsen or Jakobsen and, in some cases, Slovenian Jakše (from a derivative of the personal name Jakob ). This surname is also very common among African Americans (see also 2 below).

African American: from the personal name Jackson (or Andrew Jackson), adopted in honor of Andrew Jackson, the 7th president of the US; or adoption of the surname in 1 above, in many cases probably for the same reason.

History: This extremely common British name was brought over by numerous different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. One forebear was the father and namesake of the seventh US president, Andrew Jackson, who migrated to SC from Carrickfergus in the north of Ireland in 1765. The Confederate General Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson came from VA, where his great-grandfather John, likewise of Scotch–Irish stock, had settled after emigrating to America in 1748.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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