HENRY JACKSON
Henry Jackson, farmer, Shelby township, is the son of John Jackson and Matilda Jackman. His father was born in New Jersey in 1801; moved to Tennessee about 1807, with his father Thomas Jackson, who was in the war with the Indians at the battle of the Horseshoe.
They all came to Indiana in 1822. His mother was the daughter of Robert Jackman, who was from Maryland and also came to Indiana in 1822. She was born in Pennsylvania. They were of Irish descent.
The subject of this sketch was born on a farm in Jefferson county, in 1836; was education in the common schools of the county. He was married, in 1858, to Nancy Griffin, daughter of James Griffin, a native of Jefferson county; his people came from Kentucky. Immediately after marriage he removed to Kansas, where he remained ten months, and then returned to Jefferson county, where he still resides. He has six living children--Robert, James, Matilda, Henrietta, Grace and Harry. He owns forty-six acres of well-improved land.
He succeeded in giving to all his children a better education than he had. One, Elmer, was educated for a teacher, but died at nineteen from a wound in his hand. Four of his children are married, and all live in Shelby township; they are all farmers.
Mr. Jackson never sought office, and is a good, trusty, honorable citizen.
HENRY JINES
Henry Jines, farmer, Monroe township, is the son of Silas Jines; the latter born in Baltimore, Md., Oct. 8, 1812, and came to Ohio, when 19 years of age, with his father's family. They lived there but two years, when they came to Indiana and settled in Jefferson county, Monroe township, in 1835.
His father's name was Jacob Jines; was a brave soldier in the Revolutionary war, and while marching to meet Gen. Ross, was shot by two young Britishers; and he was a celebrated pioneer preacher, as well as an expert fiddler before he began to preach; he organized Big Creek Church, and helped to build up Marble Church, both in Monroe township.
Silas Jines was a soldier in the 6th Reg. Ind. Vols. during the Rebellion, as were his two sons, Henry, the subject of this sketch, and William, who were in the 22d Reg. Ind. Vols., as musicians.
Mr. Silas Jines was a prominent freesoiler abolitionist in the days that it took courage, both moral and physical, to stand for the principles avouched by those parties. He was a conductor, and his house a station, on the Underground Railroad.
Henry Jines, subject of this sketch, was born Feb. 27, 1839, in Hamilton county, Ohio, and came to Indiana in 1842, with his father, Silas Jines.
He was raised in a cooper shop, and received a very limited education. On July 4, 1861, he enlisted as a musician in the 22d Reg. Ind. Vol. Infantry, and served until discharged on Aug. 22, 1864. He was in all the thirty-two battles of his regiment except Pea Ridge, at which time he had small-pox. He enlisted as a private in the 16th Mounted Infantry (Ind. Troops) stationed at New Orleans, La.; he served in this regiment eight months, when he was transferred to the 13th Ind. Cav., under Johnson, on the 19th day of June, 1865. He was honorably discharged from the service of his country on the 13th day of November, 1865.
On the 6th day of December, 1865, he was married to Kesiah Kirk, daughter of Joseph Kirk, a Virginian, who came to Kentucky, and then to Indiana, in an early day. The result of this union was six children, viz: James F., Fanny L. J., Hester A., Levina L., Jacob J. and George W.
Mr. Jines is postmaster at Faulkner; is a charter member of John A. Hendricks Post. G.A.R., and was Adjutant of the Post three years, and Surgeon one, and now this year Junior vice Commander. He owns nineteen acres of land.
It would seem that a vein of martial music ran through the blood of the Jines family, as the two paternal great-grandfathers of Henry Jines and Dean were fifers in the Revolutionary war; then, jumping over two generations, Henry and his brother William served as fifers in the late war, serving four years one month and sixteen days.
HENRY CLAY JONES
Henry Clay Jones, of Madison, Ind., is the son of Joshua E. and Rachel (Coons) Jones, natives of Ross and Hamilton counties, Ohio. He was born September 26, 1837, in Cincinnati. When he was only two years of age his mother moved to Jeffersonville, Ind., his father having died previous to this time; there she remained for about two years, and moved to Madison, Ind., in 1841. Mr. Jones afterward went back to Jeffersonville, to his grandfather Coons, and attended school. In 1858, he engaged in the grain and produce business in Madison, Ind., in which he continued till 1866. At this time he engaged in steam and flatboating to New Orleans and up the Kentucky river, and followed this business up to 1876, since which time he has been engaged in the log and lumber business. He has furnished large lots of lumber for the Government work upon the Ohio and Kentucky rivers. He, with Mr. Wm. Kirk, took the contract and built the Rising Sun dike, and he was one of the contractors to furnish the lumber for Dam No. 1, on the Kentucky river, and for the Portland dike at Louisville, Kentucky. Is now in saw-mill at Madison, Ind. Mr. Jones was married on December 18, 1859, to Miss Margaret Bishop, and has three living children: Elmer G., Richard J. and Ruth P. His Grandmother Jones lived to the very old age of 97 years, died near Chillicothe, Ohio. His mother died in Madison in 1871, at 63 years.
WILLIAM JOHNSON
William Johnson, farmer, Shelby township, was born in the State of Kentucky, March 1, 1802. He was the youngest child of Thomas Johnson, a native of Virginia, who took a trip down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers about the year 1804 and never returned. William Johnson's mother moved near Lexington, and afterward to Shelby county, Ky. Her family consisted of three boys and one girl. At the age of 23, Mr. Johnson came to Indiana; he landed at Madison, which was then a very small town. He settled in Shelby township, on the farm where he now lives with his son, and built himself a stone house, in which he has always resided. Previous to this, however, at the age of twenty-one, he was married to Miss Nancy Spaulding, daughter of Robert Spaulding, a native of Virginia and one of the pioneers of Kentucky.
He and his wife were the parents of ten children: William, Sally A., Jordan, Rhodes, Henry, Elizabeth, Miranda, Mary Jane, Francis and John. Of these all are living but Sally A. and Elizabeth, and all live in Jefferson county but William and Mary Jane, who both live in Kansas.
Mr. Johnson's wife died July 31, 1880. He has never held an office. He was educated in the log school-house days, when the chimney was in the corner of the house, and the education was of a limited and poor character. When he first settled in Indiana, two or three months were spent every spring at log rollings, until the land of his neighbors was cleared and their houses built. In those early days the equipment of a farmer, in the way of tools, was a bull-tongue plow and a chopping axe; some time after the wooden mould board plow was introduced; then came the old Barshear, which were considered in their day as superior in kind as the advanced machinery of the present day is now. Trace chains were a luxury belonging to the richer class of farmers--the poorer were content with hickory wythes.
Mr. Johnson has laid off corn ground without either line or collar. John F. Johnson, the third son of the above, and with whom he makes his home since death of his wife, was born November 4, 1839, on the farm where he now lives, and was raised a farmer. August 14, 1862, he was married to Cynthia Barber, daughter of James Barber, a farmer of Jefferson county. They have but one child--Ettie L.
Mr. John R. Johnson was a soldier in Co. C, Eighty-second Regiment Indiana Volunteers, and was in all the principal engagements of his regiment during the time of service.
He is a member of the A.O. Bachman Post. No. 26, G.A.R. He is a prominent member of the Baptist Church.
He owns 67 acres of good, well-improved land.
