Jeremiah Jackson, A Prospector Who Owned a Farm

JEREMIAH JACKSON was born in Payson, Utah, August 9, 1874 to John William Jackson and Sarah Eleanor Bingham. Perry described his father as a good-looking man with blue eyes, a mustache and a full head of hair.
In 1894 Jeremiah (Jerry) and one of his friends went to Fishlake on horseback and stopped at the place where Chloe Jane Morrell worked on a diary farm. She was a very shy girl, but nevertheless, a romance ensued, and they were married by Bishop Hiatt Maxfield on January 18, 1899 in Fremont at her parent’s home.

Jerry became a carpenter, farmer and the village blacksmith. He also, repaired watches, washers, thrashing machines, wagons and acted as the town dentist. He built cabinets for many homes in the county. He also became a prospector. Earl Jackson referred to his grandfather as a “prospector who owned a farm.” Perry and his father went prospecting many times together. They searched for gold, but didn’t find any that was worth much. Jerry found some over by Meeks Lake, but it had a lot of copper in it.

The young family moved to Caineville, Utah for a short time. While Jerry and Chloe lived in Caineville, he occasionally shawed horses for the infamous Butch Cassidy Gang. Jerry would come out to the blacksmith shop and see two or three horses tied up to the fence. He would shoe them and tie them back up again. The next morning he would go back to the shop, and the horses would be gone, and a twenty-dollar gold piece would be lying on the anvil. After two years in Caineville, the family moved back to Lyman.

When their daughter Eleanor was two years old, Jeremiah moved his family to Fremont to Chloe’s parent’s old farm and lived in a two-story log house. Chloe’s mother had remarried and lived on the next farm over.

Jeremiah was friendly with the Indians, and the Piute Indians camped on his front lawn, pitching their tents for three or four days at a time. Jeremiah often visited the Indian camp near Koosharem. The Indians were doing some prospecting, and had found some copper. He would spend time with them to help them stake out their claims and do the legal work.

In the fall of 1935 while Jeremiah was in the field rounding up his cows to bring them to the corral, he had a very unusual experience. Upon returning to the house, he said, “Chloe, sit down. I wish to tell you something that happened to me while I was in the field.” Then he related the following to his wife saying: I heard my father’s voice just as plain as I have ever heard it when he was living. (Jeremiah’s father died in 1928) He said, “Jerry you have just five more years in which to preach the gospel.” After that experience, Jeremiah explained the gospel of Jesus Christ to as many men as came into the shop to get work done. He kept the Bible in the shop at all times for that purpose.

In October 1940 Jeremiah was helping some other men reshingle the Fremont church house. The next morning he went into the field to milk the cows, after which he came into the house and told Chloe that he had a pain in his chest. He then went into the bedroom to lie down. The pain grew intense and Chloe sent Perry for the doctor. Before the doctor came, Jeremiah had passed away. The five years were up.

Chloe and Jeremiah are both buried in the Fremont, Utah Cemetery.

To see the headstone for Jeremiah Jackson click this link: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=16224444

What to ask? What to ask?

It is best to ask open-ended questions that are not answered by a “yes” or “no.” For example, when I asked Perry Jackson to tell of his life and what was his earliest memory?, he answered with this descriptive statement: “I’d better start out the day I was born. They say the doctor slapped me, and I said, ‘Where’s my gun and my fishing pole?’ Hunting and fishing were the two things I really love to do.”

When I ask him question # 12 from the list below: Describe what the main street of your town was like, he told an interesting story of an event that happened there rather than a description of buildings etc.

Here is a list of questions to help you or someone you know start their personal history. This list is only a beginning to help you make your own list of additional questions or inspire you to get stories from your family you never heard before.

1. What do you believe is your earliest memory?

2. Tell about your brothers or sisters? What makes each of them special?
3. What kind of lessons did you take as a child?
4. What do you remember about your first home?
5. Describe your favorite smell from your childhood.
6. Do you recall any outstanding trips or summer vacations you took as a child?
7. Tell about a favorite vacation as a child. As an adult.
8. Where did you go to grade school? Describe It.
9. What was a typical school day like as a child?
10. Did you have a favorite school teacher? Why?
11. Did you have a bicycle? What was It like? Where did you ride?
12. Describe what the main street of your town was like.
13. Describe your favorite “spot” in the world.
14. What Instrument do you wish you could play?
15. What special things did you do with your mother?
16. What special things did you do with your father?
17. What games did you play as a child, both indoors and outdoors?
18. What did you want to be when you grew up?
19. Do you recall any special event that took place In your neighborhood when you were growing up? (fire, accident, illness etc.)
21. Describe a night at grandma’s house.
22. Describe your grandparents.
23. Describe your parents.
24. What did you look like as a child? What were you like?
25. What were you frightened of as a child?

26. What was your most embarrassing moment?
27. Describe a childhood Christmas?
28. What was your most memorable Christmas?
29. How did you celebrate Christmas as a child?
30. Describe getting a Christmas tree with your family? How did you decorate it?
31. What did your parents do for a living? Your grandparents?
32. Are there any family heirlooms in your family? Tell about them.
33. Tell about how you learned to drive.
34. Tell about a frustrating experience you have had with a car.
35. What was your favorite Saturday activity as a child.
36. Describe Sunday as a child.
37. What things do you enjoy doing today that you did as a child.
38. What do you feel Is the most important world event that has taken place in your lifetime.
39. Describe a serious illness you have had.
40. Tell about your first date.
41. Who was your first boy friend (Girlfriend)?
42. How did you meet your husband (Wife)?
43. Describe how you got engaged.
44. Describe your wedding day.
45. Tell about the birth of your first child. Each child thereafter.
46. Here it comes . . .What were you doing when John F. Kennedy was shot?
47. What are the top 10 most wonderful things that have ever happened to you?
48. What is the most adventuresome thing you have ever done?
49. What is the most trying experience that has ever happened to you?
50. What is comforting to you physically, mentally and spiritually?
51. Describe your first paying job.
52. Tell about the places you have worked.
53. Would you choose different if you could choose your occupation again? What would it be?
54. What is your favorite holiday?
55. Have you had a religious conversion? Describe it?
56. Tell about some of your friends (both as a child and as an adult).
57. Tell about several times when you were trouble.
58. Describe the events of your birth.

Morrel History in the United States

JOHN MORRELL Sr. of Kittering, Maine was born about 1640. The known information concerning the Morrell lineage extends back four generations to an early period in New England colonial history. The first known Morrell ancestor in America was John Morrell Sr., who resided in Kittery, Maine, in 1663, just 42 years after the first permanent English settlement of New England. John Morrell Sr., was a plasterer and a mason by trade. In this connection several accounts refer to him as a stonelayer or bricklayer. In 1665, he married Sarah Hodsdon (Hodgdon) of Kittery, Maine, the daughter of Nicholas Hodgdon and Elizabeth Wincoll Needham. It was after this marriage that John Morrell learned to write his name. At that time, a man who could sign his name was an exception.

In the 1600’s and early 1700’s, the French and Indians combined to fight the English colonists. The area of Maine where John Morrell lived was the scene of periodic Indian attacks. In fact, in 1720 and 1722, John Morrell was ordered to fortify his house as a garrison against Indian attacks. Being Quakers, they fought Indians for defensive purposes only. John Morrell Sr.’s posterity contains a large contingent of noted men including leaders in politics, religion, education, manufacturing, doctors, lawyers, authors, editors, farming, cattlemen etc. Included in this history is a short bio of Cyrus Wilson Morrell and his wife Mary Worley that are shown on Perry's pedigree chart.

Some noted descendants of John Morrell (Morrill) are Edmund Needham Morrell, who became Governor of Kansas in 1895 and a Congressman for 8 years; Daniel J. Morrell Representative from Pennsylvania and industrialist; Lott H. Morrill, Governor of Maine and Secretary of Treasury in 1876, following the Civil War; Anson P. Morrill, first Republican Governor of Maine and Congressman during the Civil War, and of course the honored subject of this Blog, Perry L. Jackson.

Jeremiah Bingham

JEREMIAH BINGHAM was born on June 15, 1806 at Cornwall, Addison County, Vermont. His parents were Jeremiah Bingham who was born April 17, 1760 at Cornwall, Vermont and Mary Ives who was born April 25, 1766 at Wellingford, Connecticut. He was the youngest of their ten children. Jeremiah married Abigail Harrington on February 2, 1829 at Brockville, Leeds, Ontario, Canada. Abigail died leaving Jeremiah alone with a family of seven children to raise. Jeremiah met and married Sarah Keele on February 14, 1846 in Iowa. They had four children. Abigail died when their baby Augustus was born, and Jeremiah was left with an additional young family. In 1846, he had also married Susan Keele, a sister to Sarah.

Jeremiah was in Nauvoo when Joseph Smith was martyred. He was well acquainted with the prophet, and at one time was his body guard. There was but six months difference in their age, and they were the same size. At times, they liked to wrestle, a form of sport both enjoyed on the “Common.”

After they were driven from Nauvoo, Jeremiah and family joined the pioneer company of Captain Daniel A. Miller, having eight persons in the family, one wagon, and twelve head of cattle. He joined on April 6, 1852, but had planned on coming with the first company. Ezra Benson ask him for a loan of a horse, which he did, and this kindness caused him to remain behind until he could earn enough money to purchase another horse. He left with the second company on June 8, 1953

After arriving in Utah, a place the Mormons hoped to be a refuge from persecution, on September 9, 1953, the Bingham family settled first in Ogden where Jeremiah did what he could to help build up the community for a year. They then moved to Payson where he assisted in building a fort for the protection of the settlers.

Jeremiah and his son Joseph, who had learned the blacksmith trade from his father, worked together in their shop in Payson. Jeremiah suffered a broken leg from which he never fully recovered. He was an invalid, for two years, and died May 6, 1890 at Payson.

The Bingham genealogy has traced the Bingham name to Augustin Bingham born about 1075 and who lived in Bingham, Melcombe Dorsetshire, England.

I am looking for a photo of Jeremiah Bingham. If anyone can help me, leave a comment on this blog.

To view the headstone of Jeremiah Bingham click this link: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=15202110

Sarah Ellenor Bingham, A True Pioneer Woman

SARAH ELLENOR BINGHAM was a true pioneer woman, born of pioneer parents at Mt. Pisgah, Pattomatomic County, Iowa, April 15, 1850, where her parents Jeremiah Bingham and Sarah Keele had been driven at the time of the Mormon exodus from Nauvoo, Illinois. She spent the first two years of her life there, until her mother died in 1852 as a result of the hardships she had to endure.

That same year, her father resumed his journey to Utah, having in his charge a four-year old and a two-year old daughter.

For a time, her father journeyed with Daniel A. Miller/John W. Cooley Company. After living in Salt Lake City for some time, the family moved to Payson, Utah, where they remained during such hardships as the Walker war between the whites and the Ute Indians.

On October 30, 1871, Sarah Ellenor married John William Jackson, who had emigrated from Manchester, England in 1856. After a difficult life with many challenges the family finally settled in Lyman, Utah.

Lyman is two Miles east of Loa on Highway U-24. The settlement was originally named East Loa and then in 1893 it was changed to Wilmoth. The following year the name was changed to honor Apostle Francis M. Lyman, a Mormon Church official who had suggested they move their settlement to higher ground.

The Jacksons were the last family to abandon the old town site. They had taken in an Indian baby who had been reduced to skin and bones from starvation and disease. The will to live and the fortitude to suffer so inherent in the Indians made her survival possible. Sarah was about fifty-five years old when the little girl became part of their household. They named her Eliza.
Sarah Eleanor Bingham descends from the early royalty of England, Spain, Italy, Turkey, Sweden and Vikings. Some of these ancestors included Reverend John Lothrope, William the Conqueror, John Lackland, King of England, Henry I and Henry II, Kings of England and Charlamagne, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.

Sarah died on April 15, 1936 and was buried next to her husband, John William Jackson in the Lyman cemetery, Wayne County, Utah.

To view her headstone in Lyman, Utah go to this site: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=jackson&GSiman=1&GScid=77315&GRid=18983206&

John William Jackson, A Friend to the Indians

JOHN WILLIAM JACKSON was born on the 14th of June, 1849 in Blackley, Lancaster, England. Blackley is a suburb of Manchester. He is the son of Thomas Jackson and Alice Crompton. The family came to America in 1853 and lived in Springfield, Illinois until 1856, when they came to Utah in the Nicholas Groesbecks’ Independent Company when John was seven years old. As the family entered the Salt Lake Valley in October 1856, John’s brother, Thomas was born at the foot of Emigration Canyon.

The family first lived in Moroni, then in Nephi, where their home was in the southwest corner of the old fort. From Moroni the family moved to Payson where they lived for a number of years. While in Payson, he chose Sarah Ellenor Bingham to be his wife. They were married in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City on August 4, 1870.

After their first two children, John Henry Jr. (13 June, 1873) and Jeremiah (09 August, 1874) were born, the couple was called by their church leader, Brigham Young to assist in the development of the settlement of St. John, Arizona, one-thousand miles from their home in Payson. When Brigham Young released the pioneers, he came back to Utah,

As a trade he chose cabinet making, an art he learned from his father. His father had moved to Glenwood, Utah (then known as Glencove) in Sevier Valley. John Joined his father in Glenwood making furniture.

John Jackson and his wife Ellenor moved to Wayne County and lived in a rough stone house in Old East Loa (the town was later moved to higher ground and renamed Lyman.

John William Jackson died April 1, 1928 in Lyman, Wayne County, Utah.

To view his headstone at the Lyman, Utah cemetery click this link: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=jackson&GSiman=1&GScid=77315&GRid=18983206&

Thomas Jackson and Alice Crompton History

THOMAS JACKSON was born September 13, 1823 at Blackley, Lancashire, England. He was the son of John Jackson and Susannah Grundy. His first wife was Alice Crompton. On January 9, 1855, he sailed on the Ship "Neva" from Liverpool, England for America and landed in New Orleans February 22, 1855. After a long and full life, he passed away on September 14, 1883. He was buried in the Glenwood, Utah Cemetery.

To see his headstone in the Glenwood Cemetery go here.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Jackson&GSfn=Thomas&GSby=1823&GSbyrel=in&GSdyrel=in&GSst=47&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=18981728&

Perry Jackson's Intrepid Ancestors

Perry LeRoy Jackson's ancestors have been traced back to 390 B.C. to the Celts. His lineage includes notables such as William the Conqueror and other Scandinavian, European, Spanish, and Roman royalty. However, Perry identified most with the common man.

Ancestors included on this chart are: Perry Leroy Jackson, Jeremiah Jackson, Sarah Eleanor Bingham, Silas Wilson Morrell, Luzerna Allred, Thomas Jackson, Alice Crompton, Jeremiah Bingham, Sarah Keele, William Wilson Morrell, Sarah Jane Richards, Andrew Jackson Allred, Chloe Stevens, John Jackson, Susannah Grundy, William Crompton, Alice Hall, Richard John Keele, Nancy Eleanor McCullough, Cyrus Wilson Morrell, Mary Worley, Silas Richards, Elizabeth Mc Clenahan, James Allred, Elizabeth Warren, Henry Stevens and Mary Ann Howe.

Cowboy's Goodbye - A Trail Long Traveled and a Life Well Lived.

Perry LeRoy Jackson, age 87, passed away on May 12, 2007 in Richfield, Utah, after a valiant battle with debilitating illnesses. Perry was born May 25, 1919 in Fremont, Utah, the youngest of eight children born to Jeremiah and Chloe Jane Morrell Jackson. He married the love of his life, Shirley in the Manti Utah.
Perry loved to play the guitar and sing. He wrote lyrics and music and recorded over 100 songs. Early in his music career he was known as "The Fremont Troubadour" and his music was often played on a local radio station. In addition to singing, he enjoyed fishing, hunting, camping and was happiest when engaged in those activities. He loved his family and was enthused about having them surround him. In the 1950's, he went to Hollywood, where his first album was recorded. He signed a contract with Victor Recording Company; however, not wanting to expose his family to the life-style of the entertainment business, he broke his contract and decided against moving to California, choosing instead the quieter life of Wayne County. Throughout his life, he enjoyed many occupations: farming, maintaining the Wayne County television towers, and driving a school bus from Hanksville to Bicknell, the longest school bus route in Utah. He could repair almost any appliance and owned a repair shop for many years. He was also a tour guide, giving 4-wheel jeep tours into the Utah desert. In 1952 Perry was asked to guide a group from National Geographic Magazine through Cathedral valley. An article entitled "Roaming The West's Fantastic Four Corners" containing photographs of Perry and his jeep was published in the June 1952 issue. Salt Lake City Magazine interviewed Perry and also published photographs and wrote about him in their article "Discovering Goblin Valley" in May/June 1997 issue.

This is his story and his roots.