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Elijah Jackson

ELIJAH  M. JACKSON  (John2,  Thomas1)  was born on October 09, 1851 in Cambridgeshire, Soham, England. He died  on May 15, 1927 (his home, Sunfield, Sunfield Township, Eaton County, Michigan).  He married Sarah Ann Bennett, daughter of William H. 'Will' Bennett and  Charlotte Smart, on October 10, 1874. She was born on September 14, 1856 in  Roxand Township, Eaton County, Michigan, USA. She died on December 01, 1930  (daughters home, Sunfield, Eaton County, Michigan). 

Elijah M. Jackson and Sarah Ann Bennett had no children of their own and raised the following Foster Child:

        I.  FANNIE  M.  BASCOM  was  born on November 21, 1874 in Iowa, USA. She died on  December  14, 1959 (Charlotte Convalescent Home, Eaton County, Michigan). She married  Frank Bruce DeLand, son of Bruce E. DeLand and Sarah H. Wyman, on April 22,  1891 in Charlotte, Eaton County, Michigan, USA. He was born in February 1866 in  Michigan, USA. He died in 1935. 

THE SUNFIELD SENTINEL
Sunfield, Eaton County, Michigan
Thursday, May 19, 1927 Page 1, Col. 1 
  
ELIJAH  JACKSON TAKEN BY DEATH     
     Elijah  Jackson, youngest son of John and Mary Ann Jackson, was born at Soham,  Cambridgeshire County, England, October 9, 1851, and passed away at his home in  Sunfield, Michigan, Sunday afternoon, May 15, at the age of 75 years, 7 months,  and 6 days. When a little lad of four years he came with his parents to America  on a sailboat named the John Bright, it taking at that time six weeks to  complete the journey where they landed in New York harbor. Soon after they  settled on a farm near Candagnia, Ontario County, where they lived for seven  years. In the year 1863, the family moved to Michigan and settled on a farm  near Sunfield, now known as the north forty of the A. C. Sackett farm. At this  time this place was a dense forest and the timber had to be cut and a spot  cleared before they could build a little log house and a few other buildings,  which many can recall. Here the family endured the hardships of our early  pioneers. At the age of eleven years Elijah attended the first term of school  that was taught in the Dow school district. He was united in marriage to Sarah  Ann Bennett, October 10, 1874, and at once settled on the same farm where his  parents had also settled when on their arrival in Michigan, living here for  seven years. In the year 1881 they moved to a farm near Mason City, Iowa, where  they spent four years. In the year 1885 they returned to Michigan and located  at Needmore, spending 13 years at this place. From there they moved to Sunfield, where they have spent the greater part of the past 28 years.  Mr. and Mrs. Jackson's wedded life has been one of the most devoted in our  history, an example of devoted home life to us all. Many of us having privilege  to attend their golden wedding anniversary nearly three years previous, which  was one of the happy events of their married life. For a period of nearly two  years, Mr. Jackson had been in ill health, yet through all his suffering has  shown the spirit of love and patient submission. And it can be truly said of Mr.  Jackson that, as a man, as a citizen, it is unnecessary to say that he leaves in  this community the legacy of an upright, honest and earnest life, life full of  good deeds and noble efforts and while our memory last the influence of a  friendship such as we have lost, will ever be with us. He leaves to mourn their  loss, his devoted widow, one adopted daughter, Mrs. Fannie Deland of Lansing,  five grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren and many other relatives and a  large circle of friends.
 
Now  all is silent, as snow is still, 
The  voice that we loved is gone.
A  feeling of loss, that nothing can fill,
In our hearts will live on and on.
And  as June and December bring flowers and snow,
On the grass of his grave each year,
There  will live in our hearts the blest long ago,
And  our dear ones fond memory holds dear.
 
The  funeral was conducted from the house and the M. E. church Wednesday by Rev.  Chas. Bragg of Lansing. A very large congregation of relatives and friends were  in attendance. Burial was at Sunfield cemetery. Friends and relatives from away  to attend the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Deland and daughter, Mr. and Mrs.  Ivan Deland and son Billy, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Deland, Mr. and Mrs. Will Parsons,  Mrs. Grace Ranker, Ray Sunderlin and daughter Cline, Mrs. Bessie Phillips, Mrs. Chas. Bragg of Lansing; Mr. and Mrs. Homer Sherby and baby of Holt; Wm. Steadman,  Jim Manning of near Mason; Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Rosier and son Dale; Elmer  Crist, Mrs. Mandy Rawson, Mrs. Mable Reames, Mr. and Mrs. Newton Russel, Mrs. Alta  Deer, Mrs. Nett Bosworth, Lute Bosworth, Mr. and Mrs. Birt Jackson, Mr. Sam Ruff of  Grand Ledge, Mrs. Bert Lowe, Mrs. Ethel Tew, Mrs. Mary Nicol and Mrs. Ida Gilson,  Lake Odessa; John Bennett, Frank Bennett, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Dravenstatt,  Bulah Bennett, Mr. and Mrs. Alta Bennett of Portland; Mr. and Mrs. Albert Sayer and  Henry Bera of Crystal; Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Cooper and Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Knap of  Sebewa; Mr. Jack Appleton of Perry, Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs. Owen  Bennett, Dr. C. S. Sackett and Mrs. Birt Stebbins of Charlotte; Mr. and Mrs. Frank  King and Mrs. Ned Sprague of Vermontville. Mr. and Mrs. Jake Fergerson of  Needmore; Mrs. Lloyd Town and baby of Woodland; Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Kimmel, Mr. and  Mrs. Charley Boyer, Mrs. Lucy Bennett of near Charlotte.
 
THE  SUNFIELD SENTINEL
Sunfield, Eaton County, Michigan
 Thursday,  January 16, 1930

 DEATH  CLAIMS ANOTHER RESIDENT
 Mrs.  Sarah Jackson Passed Away Sunday at Daughter's Home
     Sarah Bennet was born in Roxand Township, Eaton County September 14, 1856; and  departed this life January 12, 1930 at the age of 73 years, 3 months and 28  days. She married to Elijah Jackson October 10, 1874. They began housekeeping in  a log house on the farm now owned by Asher Sackett, residing there for period of  seven years, they then moved to Mason City Iowa. In the year 1885, they returned  to Michigan entering the mercantile business at Needmore, continuing this for 13 years, when they moved to the village of Sunfield, remaining there for 17 years.  In the year 1916 they went to Lansing, living there three years when they  returned to their home in Sunfield, which was her residence at the time of her  death, which occurred at the home of her daughter near Bath. Her husband  preceded her in death about three years ago. Mrs. Jackson was a member of the  Methodist Sunday school and Aid society, and had been a member of the Rebekah  lodge for thirty years. She leaves to mourn their loss an adopted daughter, Mrs.  Fannie Deland, five grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren and many other  relatives and friends. Funeral services were held at Sunfield Methodist church  at 2 p.m. Wednesday with Rev. Jos. Dibley of Lansing officiating and burial at  Sunfield cemetery.
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