Jackson, Martha J.

JACKSON

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 10/2/2008 at 13:22:50

Martha J. Jackson

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.187, Neola Twp.)
Mrs. Martha J. Jackson, Neola, was born in Logan County, Ohio, November 24, 1825; her father, J. L. Hemphill, was born in Kentucky October 10, 1796; was a carpenter by trade, but turned his attention to farming in Ohio, where he died December 25, 1874. Her mother, Elinor (Rittenhouse) Hemphill, was born in Virginia February 9, 1794, and was the mother of nine children, six of whom are living. Mrs. Jackson was first married, in Ohio, March 19, 1844, to Samuel B. Kirkland, born March 30, 1822; his father, James Kirkland, was born in Licking County, Ohio, August 30, 1791; having lost a limb, he turned his attention to teaching, which he prosecuted during life; he died in Iowa in May, 1870. His wife, Sarah (Smith) Kirkland, was born June 9, 1800, and died October 14, 1843, and was the mother of eleven children, nine of whom are dead, two of them dying in the army. Mr. S. B. Kirkland was an engineer for seven years on the Mad River & Lake Erie Railroad. He then farmed in Iowa till going to the war in July, 1861. He served as Drum Major till taken sick at Vicksburg. He then started for home on the hospital steamer, "R. C. Wood," and died at the landing at Keokuk, Iowa, August 30, 1863, laeving seven children - Sarah E., born February 2, 1845; Eliza H., October 29, 1846; Henrietta A., January 18, 1849; Clara J., September 25, 1851; Mina, December 19, 1855; William F., July 8, 1857; and Olive F., May 15, 1859. Our subject was again married, March 30, 1865, this time to Abraham Jackson, who has since died, leaving two children - Martha E., born February 10, 1866; and Abraham, born April 13, 1867. Mrs. Jackson has one son married and four married daughters, one of whom has since died. Our subject lives on a farm two and a half miles northwest of Neola. She is a Presbyterian.