On Sunday, March 6, 2022 at the McCree Cemetery the Craig Austin Rowley Chapter, The Society of the War of 1812 in the State of Texas, and the John Cavet Chapter of the United States Daughters of 1812 honored veterans Henry Kyle (1796-1881) and John Jackson (1798-1875) for their service in the War of 1812. Several members of the each family were in attendance.
(Photos courtesy of Paul Ridenour, unless otherwise indicated)
Biographies of the veterans:
Henry Kyle:
Henry Kyle was born in Virginia on the 1st of October 1796 and died on the 4th of September 1881 in Dallas County, Texas.
Henry Kyle’s 1812 pension shows he served at Fort Nelson, Virginia as a Corporal in Captain Henry Welch’s Company of Artillery in the 5th Regiment, Virginia Militia in the War of 1812 from 13 July 1814 to 21 September 1814. In his1855 application for bounty land, Kyle also listed service in the same regiment from August 1812 to February 1813.
Kyle married Elizabeth Pirkey, daughter of Henry and Margaret Pirkey, on the 20th of March 1817 in Rockingham County, Virginia.
The couple migrated to Trimble County, Kentucky around 1830 and there they remained until Elizabeth’s death in 1856.
By 1860, Henry and two of his daughters and their families had moved to Dallas, Texas where in 1873, his sons-in-law Silas Foree and John Dougherty assisted him in applying for a pension based on his service in the War of 1812.
Henry and Elizabeth are said to have had 8 children but only the names of four children are known:
- James W Kyle who moved to Indiana om the 1840s and there he married first Sarah Bantz and second Sarah Louise Peak.
- Sarah Margaret Kyle who married John Doughety.
- George T. Kyle. No records of a family are found.
- Elizabeth A. Kyle who married Silas H. Foree.
The Dougherty and Foree familes became prominent in the Dallas area and many descendants still call Texas home.
John Jackson:
John Jackson was born in Blount County, Tennessee on 17th of April 1798 and died on the 5th of September in 1875 in Dallas County, Texas.
John Jackson had a Blount County Tennessee Land Grant dated 1810. He married Elizabeth Brown, daughter of David Brown and Elizabeth Sloan, in 1822 and while in Blount County, John Jackson often served on juries with Sam Houston.
General Land Office records indicate the Jackson family migrated to Texas prior to 1848 and John Jackson’s Peter’s Colony Land Grant certificate, dated 15 Nov 1850, was for 640 acres. His four oldest sons also had Peter’s Colony Land Grants of their own.
There were two Peter’s Colony Land Grant recipients named John Jackson so to legally distinguish the two, an affidavit signed by Walter Caruth, who knew both men, identified them. John Jackson was described by Caruth as a respectable family man. The affidavit is held at the General Land Office, Austin, TX.
John Jackson served in the War of 1812 in the Tennessee Militia under Captain Craig.
John and Elizabeth had 10 children, 2 of whom died at a young age:
- Andrew Sloan Jackson, married Elizabeth Dye
- William Clark Jackson, died Mexican War at age 23
- James Everets Jackson, married Diana Jane Davis
- Mary Jane Jackson, married William Erwin
- Ruth Ann Jackson, married William Chenault
- Elizabeth Caroline Jackson, died age 4
- Nancy Lucinda Jackson, married Benjamin Prigmore
- John Gordon Jackson, married Mary J Walker
- Jacob A. Jackson, died age 2
- Thomas Jefferson Jackson, married Mary Eliza Nash
- Hanna Lenora Jackson, married Charles Lafayette Nash
The John Jackson Peters Colony Land Grant lies southeast of the intersection of Audelia Road and Forest Lane. Audelia Road, in fact, is named after one of John Jackson’s granddaughters. The original Jackson homesite sat approximately in the 9500 block of Skillman Avenue.
Today, there are hundreds of descendants of John and Elizabeth Brown Jackson still living in the Dallas and north Texas area.
— written by descendant, Kim Jackson Marion.
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