Transcription contributed by Arne H Trelvik 29 May 2003

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WILLIAM IRELAND, farmer; P. O. Morrow; one of the pioneers of the county, being born in Salem Township Aug. 15, 1811. He received the usual education peculiar to the days of long ago, which were rather limited. He was united in marriage Aug. 30, 1831, to Jemima Jackson; these parents had a family of fourteen children; James, born Jan. 14, 1833; Mary J., born Aug. 24, 1834; Francis A., born Feb. 10, 1836, died June, 1880; Nancy H., born Dec. 3, 1837, deceased; Anna, born Nov. 28, 1839; Martha, born March 30, 1842, deceased; Sarah, born June 3, 1844, deceased; Elizabeth, born Nov. 16, 1847, deceased; Thomas T., April 18, 1846, deceased; Emeline, born June 27, 1849; Dekin, born April 23, 1851, deceased; Laurilla, born Feb. 22, 1853; Franklin P., born Feb. 15, 1856; and Eva, born July 1, 1858, deceased. Mr. Ireland is a Democrat of the old school, and has held the office of Land Appraiser for one term. He owns a farm of good land, in a high state of cultivation, with pleasant surrounds. His father was Thomas Ireland, a native of Shenandoah Co, VA., born Nov. 20, 1776. He married Sarah Clevenger, of his own native State, one year his junior. They came to Warren Co., this State, in 1805, settling near Morrow. They were the parents of nine children, three sons and six daughters. He died Dec. 18, 1858, and she November, 1862. William Jackson, the father of Mrs. Ireland, a native of New Jersey, born about 1777. He went to Virginia when quite young; he married Miss Hannah Bennett, a native of Maryland, born Dec. 25, 1779. They came to this State in 1828; they were the parents of eleven children, among whom was the Rev. W. B. Jackson, of the Cincinnati Conference.

William Jackson Biographical
Sketch by
Charlene Frey
18 Jan 2014 email

William Jackson was born on 16 March 1777, in Dover, Morris County, New Jersey. Seven month's earlier on August 13, 1776, his father Edward Jackson had enlisted in Captain John Willis' Company of the Second Virginia Regiment and went to fight in the Revolutionary War (1775-1783). In 1781, his father (age 41) and his oldest brother Capt Stephen Jackson (age 18) were both wounded in the Battle of Yorktown. William Jackson was about 5 years old when his father and brother returned from fighting in the Revolutionary War. They left New Jersey around 1790 and moved to Redstone, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. In 1793, Edward Jackson and his family left Pennsylvania and moved to Harrison County, Virginia, where they settled on Brown's Creek. At that time, William Jackson was 16 years old. At age 21, he married Hannah Bennett on 7 April 1798 in Clarksburg, Harrison County, Virginia (now West Virginia). William Jackson served in the War of 1812 (June 1812 - May 1815). As mentioned in Hardesty's Historical Hand-Atlas,* William Jackson and his wife Hannah (1780-1855), along with their children, migrated to the Virginia Military District in southern Ohio in 1828, settling in Salem (now Harlan) Township, Warren Co, Ohio, about two miles from Blanchester, Ohio, on State Route #28. William and Hannah Bennett Jackson had twelve children who were born in Harrison County, Virginia (now West Virginia): Elias S. Jackson (1799-unkwn), Sarah "Sally" Jackson (1801-1849), Stephen Jackson (1802-1865), Jacob M. Jackson (1804-1870), Lemuel D. Jackson (1807-1872), Rev. William Bennett Jackson (1809-1889), Jemima Jackson (1813-unkwn), Polly Jackson (1815-died in girlhood), John Jackson (1817-died in infancy), Andrew Jackson (1818-1904), Benjamin Basil Jackson (1821-1902), and Mary Jackson (after 1822-unkwn). In the 27 September 1850 enumerated census**, William (age 73) and Hannah (age 70) are living in Warren County with their orphaned granddaughter Sarah Ellen Jackson (age 9). Their dwelling (#1681) is next to the dwelling (#1680) of their son Jacob M. Jackson and his family. In the census, William Jackson was listed as a farmer. He was preceded in death by his wife Hannah, who died on 20 Feb 1855 at 75 years, 1 month, 2 days. William Jackson died on April 4, 1857, at 80 years, 19 days. They are both buried in the Wesley Chapel Cemetery, Warren County, Ohio.

* https://sites.rootsweb.com/~ohpauldi/biographies/bio-j.html - biographical sketch of Benjamin Basil Jackson (1821-1902)
** https://sites.rootsweb.com/~ohwarren/Census/1850/1850salem.htm#231