This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Freeman, Reams, Burnett, Huston Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EBB.2ACE/2063.2.2.1 Message Board Post: Levi Jackson State Park was formed from land owned by John Freeman, which passed to his daughter Rebacca Freeman, who married Levi Jackson who was a Judge. The following obituary gives some information on the family: THE SENTINEL ECHO DECEMBER 23, 1943 MISS ELLA JACKSON PASSES AWAY. Miss Ella Jackson, who with her brother, the late Col. G. D. Jackson, donated to Kentucky the Levi Jackson Wilderness Road State Park, died at her home near Fariston Monday afternoon about 3:00 o'clock. Miss Jackson had been feeble for several months and had been confined to her bed the past three weeks, but death came unexpectedly at this time. She became worse Sunday, and early Monday morning she apparently suffered a stroke of apoplexy that caused her death that afternoon. Miss Jackson died in the room at the Jackson homestead in which she was born 83 years ago, on Dec. 6, 1860, a daughter of Judge Levi Jackson and Mrs. Rebecca Freeman Jackson. She was a granddaughter of John Freeman, a Revolutionary soldier, and is believed to have been the last surviving Revolutionary soldier granddaughter in Kentucky. She was a member of the Frankfort Chapter, the mother chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Kentucky. She was a member of the Christian Church. Excepting a short time in Texas with her mother, Miss Jackson has always lived in this same house that was erected soon after the first wagon road was built into Kentucky. Even then maintained her home here. She has been active in civic affairs, and she and her brother in 1931 donated to the State of Kentucky more than 300 acres for the establishment of the Levi Jackson Park. Since that time she has had many other valuable contributions, including her interest in the balance of the Jackson Farm, approximately 700 acres. Miss Jackson's family on both sides had been among the most important in Laurel county since its establishment, and before. Her grandfather John Freeman was one of the earliest settlers, and her grandfather Reubin Jackson came to what is now Laurel County not long afterwards. Miss Jackson often told how her mother Rebecca Freeman, had been born and married and all her eleven children had been born in the same room of the old Freeman homestead, now the Jackson home; and how her mother, who died in another room had been buried from that room. It was at Miss Ella's request that her body was not removed from that room until it was taken to the cemetery. Funeral services were held at the home Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock by Rev. D. H. Havens, pastor of the London Christian church, followed by burial in the Jackson family cemetery on the hill above the home by the Cox Funeral Home. Those here from a distance for the funeral were her nephew and two nieces, Robert P. Colyer, of Jacksonville, Fla; Mrs. F. Drayton Thomas, of Waynesboro, Ga; and Mrs. E. S. Austin, of St. Louis, Mo.; and Mrs. Logan Ewell, of Louisville, Ky.