Find a Grave volunteer Linda Berney furnished the following:
From the Centerville Weekly Citizen, January 7, 1871, page 3, transcribed by Linda Berney:
James E. Jackson, son of William Jackson, a lad 9 years of age, started alone with a yoke of oxen and wagon loaded with corn, from a field 2 miles from home. When the team arrived home he was lying on the load of corn with his hat under his head, nearly insensible. His mother took him in and he died in a few minutes, speaking but one or two words. No marks of injury perceptible. Cause of death a mystery, probably never to be known.
Since the above was written, word comes that it is thought the boy fell from the wagon, the wheels passing across his breast.
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James was the third of seven children born to William Jackson and his wife Phebe, nee Myers. His parents were married in Morgan County, Indiana, and had their first two children there, Mary and Florence Emma. They then moved to Coles County, Illinois where their next two children were form, James and Alice. Finally, in 1865, they moved to Appanoose County, Iowa where their last three children, Pendleton, Amanda and Roy, were born. Their last move came the year after James died, to Ringgold County, Iowa.
Find a Grave volunteer Linda Berney furnished the following:
From the Centerville Weekly Citizen, January 7, 1871, page 3, transcribed by Linda Berney:
James E. Jackson, son of William Jackson, a lad 9 years of age, started alone with a yoke of oxen and wagon loaded with corn, from a field 2 miles from home. When the team arrived home he was lying on the load of corn with his hat under his head, nearly insensible. His mother took him in and he died in a few minutes, speaking but one or two words. No marks of injury perceptible. Cause of death a mystery, probably never to be known.
Since the above was written, word comes that it is thought the boy fell from the wagon, the wheels passing across his breast.
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James was the third of seven children born to William Jackson and his wife Phebe, nee Myers. His parents were married in Morgan County, Indiana, and had their first two children there, Mary and Florence Emma. They then moved to Coles County, Illinois where their next two children were form, James and Alice. Finally, in 1865, they moved to Appanoose County, Iowa where their last three children, Pendleton, Amanda and Roy, were born. Their last move came the year after James died, to Ringgold County, Iowa.
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Buried in the same plot as his uncle Noah Jackson
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