Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-07-16
Works. OLDEST PEOPLE.

| Still SWeetneartS unQer the rOOI tney
erected at the commencement Of life's
Journey together sixty-one years ago,
the husband, now eighty-four and the
wife ninety-four, briefly summarizes
the career and present condition Of
Mr.. and Mrs. David ]. Jackson, prob
ably the oldest couple in all this Sec
tion.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jackson live about
mile and a half northeast Of Glover,
and a representative of The Enquirer
having occasion to spend the greater
part Of last Saturday In that town,
availed himself of kind invitation
extended by Rev. r. M. Stevenson to
drive out and spend a pleasant half
hour with this most worthy old cou-
pie.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Jackson were both at
home when the visitors arrived, Mr..
Jackson busy with some chores about
the barn lot, and Mrs. Jackson engaged
in her household duties. They were
not slow to extend the hospitality for
which their home has been noted dur
ing generations past, and both were
quite interesting in their replies to
questions about the long ago.
Mrs. Jackson Is the elder Of the
two. She is a daughter Of the late
Robert Adams, and niece Of Rev.
James S. Adams, who was pastor Of
Bethel church. during twenty-nine
years following 1911. She was Of a
family of fourteen children and Is the
last survivor. Mr.. Jackson's grand
father came from Ireland. His father
was born in the Bethel country in 1895,
and he is the youngest and only sur
vivor of a family Of ten children.
Both Mr.. and Mrs. Jackson continue
in good health, and considering their
advanced ages. are quite active. The
hearing Of both is somewhat defective;
but aside from that they are as
bright and as intelligent and take as
lively an interest in the affairs of the
past and the present as most people
who are twenty or more years young
er. Mr.. Jackson carries a walking
stick on which somebody has carved
the letters tx. M. B. G." Upon inquiry
he explained that the letters stood for
Kings Mountain battle-ground. He
was not sure of the history of the stick
except that it had been cut by one Of
the Adams Of the older generation
something over hundred years ago,
and that 1t had been handed down
from one generation to another, final
ly coming to him through Mrs. Adams.
He thinks that his grandfather and
some of his grand uncles were Wing
soldiers in the Revolution, but has no
very clear record on the subject.
Mrs. Jackson's grandfather was
at Kings Mountain, and three grand
uncles were there also. Her father
was born in 1777, and was Of course,
too young to be in the Revolutionary
war. She remembers how her father
used to tell of hearing his mother talk
of the battle of Kings Mountain. Her
grandmother was close enough to hear
the firing and the shouting, and after
| 1t was all over, went to the scene to
see how her husband, brothers and
lneighbors had Jared. When she was
child, the story Of Kings Mountain
was still being told around the coun-
try firesides.
Mr. Jackson says that when he built
his house sixty-one years ago, the
country round about was mostly In
original forests. There were but few
clearings then. 1t was an easy matter
to go out in the woods and kill as
many wild turkeys as one could use,
and he has seen deer within a short
distance Of his home. 1t has been a
long time though since he has seen a
deer or a turkey, or even squirrel
with which the woods were once fair
| ly alive.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jackson have four chill
dren, Mr.. John Frank Jackson Of Gas
tonia, Mr.. Joe Billy Jackson Of Bethel,
and a son and daughter at home, Mr..
Robert Jackson and Miss Mary Eliza
beth Jackson. All are well-to-do,
prosperous people, worthy children Of
Bethel church in which they were born
and reared and to which they continue
to yield their allegiance.