Ebenezer Cleveland Jackman (1784 - 1843)

Born 1 Nov 1784 in Rowley, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 17 Oct 1843 at age 58 in Bethel, Oxford, Maine, United States

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Biography

Lived in South Byfield Parish, Georgetown, Massachusetts

Eleanor Noyes Johnson wrote in 1972 "About Ebeneezer Jackman, your great great great grandfather, he was a plain man, a cordwainer by trade. He was born in Byfield, and his tombstone is beside Abigail's in South Byfield Cemetery. I'm not sure he is buried there for his stone reads "Died on a visit to Bethel Maine". Does this mean something like "Lost at Sea"? We have the correspondence between him and Abigail. He hadn't been to finishing school and his spelling was original, and his phrasing earthy. There is, however, a liveliness and humor in his letters that hers lack. As I have said before, Abigail was a great one for saving souls (she said of the children she taught they were so many souls to save). She could hardly bear to believe that dear Ebeneezer was destined for hell fire and brimstone. Something else, more down to earth, held up their marriage. She would have to come and live with Ebeneezer's parents, her aunt and uncle. She wanted a home of her own. Ebeneezer felt duty bound to care for his parents. Abigail put him off and put him off. Finally when she was twenty seven and he was thirty odd he wrote her. The haying, he sid, would be over in august, and he could come to Bethel. He suggested that she get brother John to get the preacher. He did not say, but strongly implied, that he had had enough of shilly shallying. Brother John got the preacher. Maybe Ebeneezer, who died long before Abigail, doesn't seem brave to you, but he was, I think a man of integrity. More than this, he just wouldn't pretend that on some given moment the Lord had said, "Ebeneezer, you're one of the Saved." Surely in New England in those days it would have been easier to give in, to pretend for the sake of peace. Ebeneezer, given the odds, preferred going to Hell. Personally, I find him a favorite ancestor."

Name

Ebenezer Cleveland /Jackman/^[1][2][3][4]

Birth

01 NOV 1784

Rowley, Massachusetts^[5]

Death

17 OCT 1843

Bethel, Oxford, Maine, United States^[6]

Burial

Byfield Parish Cemetery, Byfield, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA

Sources

Mary Adams Rolfe, Ancestry chart for Robert Jackman Noyes, listed as maternal great grandfather

• Source: S21 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.; Repository: #R2
• Repository: R2 Name: Ancestry.com Address: http://www.Ancestry.com E-Mail Address: Phone Number:
• Source: S34 Author: Ancestry.com Title: Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011; Repository: #R2
• Source: S64 Author: Ancestry.com Title: Web: Massachusetts, Find A Grave Index, 1620-2011 Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.Original data - Find A Grave. Find A Grave. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13020593/ebenezer-cleveland-jackman : accessed 6 January 2012.Original data: Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com; Repository: #R2
• Source: S65 Author: Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, comp Title: Massachusetts, Marriages, 1633-1850 Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.Original data - With some noted exceptions all marriage records in this collection can be found at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, and may be available through Famil; Repository: #R2

1. ↑ Source: #S64 Data: Text: Death date: 17 Oct 1843 CONT Death place:
2. ↑ Source: #S34 Data: Text: Birth date: 1 Nov 1784 CONT Birth place: Rowley, Massachusetts Object: @M152@
3. ↑ Source: #S65 Data: Text: Marriage date: 23 Sep 1817 CONT Marriage place: Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts
4. ↑ Source: #S21 Page: Ancestry Family Trees
5. ↑ Source: #S34 Data: Text: Birth date: 1 Nov 1784 CONT Birth place: Rowley, Massachusetts Object: @M152@
6. ↑ Source: #S64 Data: Text: Death date: 17 Oct 1843 CONT Death place:

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Bob Fredrickson for creating WikiTree profile Jackman-244 through the import of FredricksonFoutsOrthJohnson Family Tree_2013-03-24_01.ged on Mar 24, 2013.

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