To Bill Gelvin : >I am trying to identify the parents of Martha (Jackson) Gelvin, b.1802 probably in E. Fallowfield Twp., >d. 1865 in Venango Co. and married James T. Gelvin of E. Fallowfield. They had at least 7 children. >Suspect she was related to early Crawford Co. settler, Abraham Jackson, maybe a daughter. Any >help and all info on Jackson family much appreciated. Bill Gelvin > I have found some references to the Jackson/Gelvin queary you posted. Not the info you were looking for, but maybe something that will help you out. In the "History of Crawford County, PA, 1885" I found the following: On page 542, in the section on the history of East Fallowfield Township: "The land in the central and eastern portions of the township belonged mostly to Field's claim. Of its earliest settlers Jeremiah GELVIN and Joseph Mattocks were here in 1797. The former was an Irishman and settled on Tract 16, in the east central part of the township. His brother, James GELVIN, was also one of the earliest settlers, locating on Tract 6, in the northeast part. Peter and Richard Mattocks, brothers of Joseph, settled as he did in the southeast part." "Prior to 1804, the following were residents of the township: John and Jacob Cline, John Findley, Daniel Dipple, Jacob Hafer, Patrick Francis, John and William Hanna, Robert and Samuel Henry, James Henderson, John and Abraham JACKSON, Adam Keen, Jacob and Henry Mattocks, James and Joseph McMichan, John Mason, Michael Mushrush, John McQueen, James Roe, Thomas Swan, John and Samuel Sisely, Thomas Smith, John Unger and Robert Brownfield." On page 543 of the same section: "John and Abraham JACKSON, brothers, came in 1798 from Susquehanna County. They were seceders. John settled on Tract 7; Abraham, on Tract 9. The latter was a hunter of note, and helped repel the Indians in western Pennsylvania." On page 544 of the same section: "About 1817 a little daughter of Jerry GELVIN was lost. She made a visit to her uncle James GELVIN, and was there given some peaches, which she wished to present to her mother, who was then ill. If she returned by the usual path, she must pass a neighbor's cabin, and the children there would probably ask her for some of the fruit. So she left the beaten path and never found it again. The alarm was spread in the neighborhood, and hundreds of men from near and afar joined in the search, but no trace was found. A year or two later, Abraham JACKSON discovered her remains, lying at the edge of a large log. They were identified by the garments she had worn. Before her fate was known her mother had perished from the intense cold one winter night while making her way from the cabin of one neighbor to that of another. An infant, which she carried in her arms, was also frozen to death." On page 987, in the Biographical Sketch section for Sadsbury Township: "William W. JACKSON, farmer, PO Tamarac, was born in 1819, in East Fallowfield Township, this county, son of Abraham and Elizabeth (GELVIN) JACKSON; the former a native of Susquehanna County, Penn., died in 1853; the latter a native of Maryland, died in 1876. Our subject remained on the farm till May 16, 1834, when he went to Meadville, and there learned blacksmithing, which he followed for some time. In July, 1840, he opened a shop at Shermansville for custom work, and sharpened tools used in digging the canal then in process of construction. In 1852 he moved to Summit Township, this county, where he carried on farming and blacksmithing till October 13, 1864, when he moved on his present farm. He does his own blacksmithing. April 22, 1841, he married Miss Jane Stewart, and to this union were born ten children, viz.: Lovilla, married in 1866 to Isaac B. Gehr, who was a soldier in Company E., One Hundred and Eleventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, and died in 1882, leaving two children: Aggie, and Ray; Davis S., married to Eugenia Boon, September 8, 1867 (have two children: Flavel S., and Orvie); walker, married to Esther Gehr, in 1871 (have the following children: Ida M., J. Park and Stewart W.); Cyrus A.; Albert C., married to Lucy Burch, in 1877; Emma L., married to William M. Hull, in 1872; Homer E., Alta M., Ella M. and Martin W. Mr. JACKSON was elected in 1881, and is now serving as Justice of the Peace; is a member of the I.O.O.F; in politics he is a Greenbacker." That's all the info with a GELVIN-JACKSON connection in this reference! Hope this helped some! Kathy Brubaker Volunteer Genealogist Linesville Historical Society kbrbkr@toolcity.net