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OLD SETTLERS OF
JACKSON TOWNSHIP
HENRY OWENS FROM
KY
ISAAC REYNOLDS
FROM KY
JOHN COULDER FROM
KY
ROBERT STEVENS
FROM KY
WILLIAM MCCANNE
FORM KY
H J MCCANNE FROM
KY
THOMAS MCCANNE
FROM KY
NATHANIEL SIMS
FROM KY
BENJ POLSON FROM
KY
JAMES W LAMB FROM
KY
MILTON DURHAM
FROM KY
STOKLEY W TOWLES
FROM KY
LEONARD HILL FROM
VA
JOHN HORE FROM VA
GEORGE W HORE
FROM VA
DAVID MCCANNE
FROM NC
L C DAVIS FROM NC
JONATHAN HUNT
FROM VA
JOHN ANCELL FROM
VA
FRANK ANCELL FROM
VA
C F BURCKHARTT
FROM VA
FRANK SIMS FROM
TENN
WM BAILEY FROM
TENN
JOHN H PENNY FROM
VA
THE OLDEST LIVING
SETTLERS (IN 1884)
ARE HENRY OWENS
AND JAMES W LAMB
MR LAMB CAME IN
NOV 1837 FROM
CASEY CO KY AND
HAS FOLLOWED
FARMING UNTIL A
FEW YEARS AGO
SINCE WHICH TIME
HE HAS BEEN
KEEPING A HOTEL IN
THE TOWN OF
JACKSONVILLE.IN
1837 THERE WERE
NO SETTLEMENTS ON
THE PRAIRIE.A ROAD
RAN NORTH AND
SOUTH THROUGH THE
TOWNSHIP CALLED
THE BEE TRACE,SO
CALLED FROM THE
FACT THAT IT WAS THE
ROUTE TRAVELLED
BY THE OLD PIONEERS WHO
HUNTED WILD
HONEY,WHICH WAS WORTH
AT THAT TIME
TWENTY CENTS A GALLON.MR
LAMB OCCUOIED HS
TIME AFTER HIS ARRIVAL
IN THE TOWNSHIP
CUTTING TIMBER AND
SPLITTING RAILS AT
THIRTY SEVEN AND A HALF
CENTS A
HUNDRED,AND SAWING PLANKS
WITH A RIP SAW AT
$1.50 PER HUNDRED FEET.
TABACCO WAS
RAISED AT AN EARLY DATE,AND TAKEN
TO GLASCOW WHERE
IT WAS SOLD TO THE MERCHANTS
AND SHIPPED TO ST
LOUIS AND ELSEWHERE FOR
$1.50 PER HUNDRED
POUNDS.BACON WAS WORTH
$2.25 PER
HUNDRED.aFTER REMAINING HERE
A FEW YEARS MR
LAMB WENT BACK TO KY
AND WHILE THERE
MARRIED.AFTER HIS MARRIAGE HE
DETERMINED TO
RETURN TO RANDOLPH COUNTY,AND IN
1842 HE STARTED
UPON HIS JOURNEY OF NEARLY
600 MILES WITH ONLY
$10 IN MONEY,HIS WIFE,
A HORSE AND
BUGGY,AND AFTER TRAVELING 26
DAYS HE ARRIVED AT
HIS NEW HOME HAVING
SPENT ALL HIS
MONEY EXCEPTING 75 CENTS.DEER
WERE SO NUMEROUS
FROM 1835 TO 1840 THAT
OFTENTIMES 30 AND
40 COULD BE SEEN AT ONE
TIME.NOTHING LIKE
IT CAN BE SEEN ON
THE AMERICAN
CONTINENT
HUMPHREY AND
BROCK ERECTED THE FIRST SAW
MILL IN THE
TOWNSHIP,WHICH WAS SOON
DESTROYED BY FIRE
AND IMMEDIATELY REBUILT,
WHEN IT WAS SOLD
TO GEORGE W JONES WHO
COMBINED IT WITH A
GRIST MILL.JONES SOLD TO
BENJAMIN SIMS ITS
PRESENT OWNER (1884).
THE TOWN SITE OF
JACKSONVILLE WAS OWNED
BY WM MCCANNE
JR,JOHN W MCCANNE SR,
AND HENRY
OWEN,WHO DONATED 50 ACERS TO
THE RR COMPANY
PROVIDED THEY WOULD LOCATE A
DEPOT UPON IT.THIS
WAS ABOUT THE YEAR
1858.THE TOWN WAS
NAMED AFTER HANCOCK JACKSON
WHO WAS AN EARLY
SETTLER IN THE COUNTY AND
WHO FILLED BESIDES
SEVERAL COUNTY OFFICES
THE POSITION OF LT
GOVERNOR OF MISSOURI.
THE FIRST BUSINESS
HOUSE WAS ERECTED BY
J J HUMPHREY AND
WAS OCCUPIED BY HIM
AS A GENERAL
STORE.
SAMUEL RIDGWAY
OPENED THE FIRST HOTEL
AND CONTINUED TO
OCCUPY IT UNTIL HIS
DEATH IN 1880
DR BURCKHARTT
WAS THE FIRST PHYSICIAN
THOMAS DEMSTER
WAS THE PIONEER SHOEMAKER
THE FIRST CHURCH
WAS ERECTED IN 1867
BY THE CHRISTIANS
THOMAS GRIFFEY
AND ROBERT SKINNER WERE
THE FIRST
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