John Jackson is a son of John and Polly (Walker) Jackson, and was born in Tennessee in 1821. He assisted in tilling his father’s farm until twenty-four years of age, when he married, in 1845, Susan T. Skillern, and began doing for himself. Mrs. Jackson was born in Tennessee in 1822, daughter of Anderson and Polly (Spring) Skillern, and is the mother of eight children: David S., John A., Mary E., William J., Sarah C., George W., and two infants, deceased. Mr. Jackson has lived in his present neighborhood all his life, and is an honorable and prosperous citizen. His farm consists of about 420 acres of land in good state of cultivation, the principal products being corn, small grain, clover and stock. Mr. Jackson has served as county trustee one term, and as constable and justice of the peace many years. His wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and he is a Mason and Democrat. His father and mother were natives of North Carolina, and Tennessee respectively. The former was a farmer and was with Jackson in the Creek war, and was a Whig in politics. His wife died in 1822, and he took for his second wife Polly Adams. He moved to Wayne County in 1822, and here died in 1855. His second wife died in 1866.