Turns out that Denise Comstock Kurkowski from New Hope, Minnesota is Stan's Fourth Cousin. She's been sending Stan some geneology material about our Scottish roots -- the John Jackson lineage. Turns out that our great great grandparents were brothers... and we have the very same great great great grandparents: John and Elizabeth (Oliver) Jackson had sixteen kids, one new Scot came along just about every year from 1811 to 1833. Peter (our forefather) was their second child, Simon (Denise's forefather) was the 13th.
Denise has already corresponded with our North Carolina cousins, the Kullbergs. Denise mentions that her branch of the Jackson tree has a lot of twins on it. Not ours.
Anyway, here's the lineage.
Denise:
John Jackson begat Simon Jackson, Edwin Jackson, Her mother -- still living, Denise
Stan (and his five siblings):
John Jackson begat Peter Jackson, Ella Mae Jackson, Jessie Jackson Wendelkin, Jessie Beverly Rolfsrud age 90, Stan and sibs
If you would like access to an on-line document giving great detail to this, email Stan and he'll provide a link. This material is not available to the general public.
You may remember seeing some Jackson grave markers in Belle Plaine that we posted on this blog sometime ago. Sosie visited the graves this past summer. They are our great great grandparents and a couple of their children. We now have obituaries, published in the Belle Plaine Herald, to go with these photos. We'll post soon when we get the typing done.
BTW, if you want to greet a new relative, Stan can get you her address too.
He's at Rolfsrud@gmail.com
