History of Samuel Jackson III

History of Samuel Jackson III

Samuel Jackson III, son of Samuel and Hannah Gibson Jackson, grew up in Stokes Co, and while a young man left his home and moved to the state of Indiana. He is found in the 1830 census of Randolph Co, IN living near his three brothers, Jehu, James, and Isaac. Mr. Wilbur C. Jackson a descendant of Samuel's writes that Samuel owned 360 acres of land and that he had located the land that he had left to his widow Jemima and his sons, John, William, and Jacob on a West River Township Map. His son John still held his original 80 acres and had added 40 acres which was part of the 120 acres Samuel had left to Jemima, and 80 more acres in Section #10. The remaining bequests had passed to non-family persons. His will was recorded May 7, 1849. "The History of Randolph County, Indiana" by E. Tucker gives the birth of Samuel as 1796, and that he died at age 52. But according to the information that his mother, Hannah Jackson gave at the time that she applied for a pension, she stated that her eldest son Jehu was born in 1783 and that the other children were born two years apart. If Samuel was the 4th son, that would give his birth as near 1789, which would make him 60 years of age at his death. Four of his daughters married men by the name of Hutchens, two sets of brothers and cousins, all the descendants of "Strangeman" Hutchens of Surry Co, North Carolina . The names of the children were taken from his will listed in Book 1, page 36, Randolph Co., two of his descendants, Mr. Wilbur Jackson, and Mrs. Annabella Ballinger, and "The History of Randolph County" by E. Tucker.
(Source Lucille Jackson:

Some information on the family of William Jackson, son of Samuel and Hannah, was obtained from Wilbur Charles Jackson of Wheaton, IL. They were his great-great-grandparents. A letter received from him states that he knew very little about the Jackson family, as he was only 12 years old when his father died, and that he had only seen his grandfather John William Jackson once, and that he never saw his grandmother Susan. He stated that he was acquainted with the section of North Carolina where his ancestors Samuel and Hannah Gibson Jackson had lived. When he was working for Sunbeam, he often came through this section on his way to Elkin, North Carolina , where Sunbeam had a factory, never suspecting that this was the place his ancestors were raised, and that he still had cousins living in the area. So be kind to that stranger, he may be a distant cousin.