John C. Jackson (c1815-1896)

John C. Jackson was born somewhere in Chester County, PA in about 1815, and was probably a son of Thomas Jackson, 1788-18??, who was in turn a grandson of the Chester County PA Quaker pioneer Isaac Jackson, a native of Ireland and immigrant to America in 1725. Little is known of his first 40 years, but in October, 1855, in Lake County, IL, John C. married the widow Anastacia Redmond Nolan, a native of County Wexford, Ireland, who was living in Chicago, IL with her first husband and two children in 1850. Through this marriage, he became associated with members of the Yore family in Lake County, who represented three of his in-laws. (Among the children of John C. and Anastacia was John Charles Jackson, born on Christmas Day near Lake Forest, IL in 1859.) Anastacia, John C. and their children moved to Benton Harbor, Berrien County, MI (where they joined otherto join other members of the Yore Family), in the mid-1870's, and then became an orchardsman and fruit grower until John C.'s death in 1896. He is buried at Resurrection Cemetery in St. Joseph, MI with his wife. However, the grave marker there misstates his year of birth by some 18 years.