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From: "Alma Robertson" <>
Subject: [KSFRANKL] John Henry Jackson b 1829 IN & Nancy Snider/Snyder b 1837 IN
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 14:12:06 +0000


John H. Jackson was born 1829 in Randolph Co., IN, son of Joseph Jackson and
Phoebe Cox. He died in 1917 and is buried at Peoria Cemetery, Peoria, KS.

Nancy is usually called Snyder, but older records sometimes use the spelling
Snider. She was b 1837 in Tippecanoe Co., IN, daughter of John
Snider/Snyder and Rachel Ridg(e)way. She died in 1919 and was buried with
John at Peoria Cemetery.

John and Nancy left Indiana and went to Black Hawk Co., IA in the later
1850s. They came to Franklin County between the birth of one child in Jan
1875 in IA and the birth of the next (last) child in 1878 in KS.

The 1900 Census indicates that Nancy bore 13 children, but only 8 have been
identified. Son Luther is buried next to John and Nancy at Peoria Cemetery,
as though he had never married even though he was born ca 1856-7. He was
living at the time of the 1895 Kansas Census, but had died by 1900. There
are no dates on his stone, just the name "Luther" (possibly his full name
was Martin Luther Jackson).

John and Nancy's daughter, Phoebe Jeannette ("Nettie") Jackson, b 1858 IA,
was my great-grandmother. She married Reuben Green Worley, son of David
Worley and Elizabeth Shinkle. Reuben deserted his family around 1890 and
went to ID, where presumably he died. Nettie divorced him in Franklin
County in 1891. In 1892, she married James Thomas and they had 3 more
children. Nettie died in 1933 CA and is buried at Forest Lawn in Los
Angeles County.

Nancy is one of my more interesting ancestors. Her death occurred in
McFall, MO, where she had gone to visit her sister, Mrs. Henry (Sarah)
Meyer. Nettie was already living in the Los Angeles area, but following a
visit to Franklin County had ridden as far as Kansas City on the train with
Nancy. There their paths diverged. Nancy was put off at the McFall
station, around 4 AM, before the station had opened for the day. She was
found dead on the tracks by the crew of a switch engine about 6 AM. The
family thinks that Nancy, who had just turned 82, became confused about her
luggage and went wandering off the platform in search of it. Either the
switch engine. or another train that passed during those two hours, hit and
killed her without realizing there was a person on the tracks. Nancy's body
was accompanied home by her nephew, John Henry Meyer, and she was laid to
rest beside her husband.

John Henry Jackson's obituary states proudly that he viewed Halley's Comet
twice: once in 1835, when a mere lad, and again in 1910. He apparently did
not fight in the Civil War.

Both the Jacksons and the Ridg(e)ways have long pedigrees, though I am still
stuck on John Snider/Snyder. If you have a connection to these families,
please let me know.

Alma

Nettie and Reuben's oldest child, Lou Emma Worley b 1876 Peoria, was my
grandmother.

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