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Jackson Brigade Reunion Tour, Page 3
Sunday August 13, 2006
Photos and text by Dan Hyde

Buckhannon Area

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Nancy Jackson, our tour guide, Lynn Warrender and her husband Philip at Heavner Cemetery in Buckhannon
The three are standing in back of Jacob Hyre's tombstone. His daughter, Mary Hyre, first wife of Henry Jackson, is buried beside him. Lynn descends from this Jackson line through Rachel, daughter of Mary and Henry Jackson, that married Lewis Miller. In 1851 Rachel and Lewis traveled by wagon on the Oregon Trail to Oregon and were attacked by Indians. Rachel's brother Edward was killed by the Indians.

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Heavner Cemetery - Notice the old bridge in the center of the picture

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Zooming in on the sign on the bridge. Stating the obvious!

We next hopped back into our vans and truck and drove north on Route 20 until we came to a sign for the Pringle Tree. Nancy told us the story of Samuel and John Pringle who had lived for a time inside the hollow stump of a giant sycamore tree. The current Pringle Tree is a third generation of the original Pringle Tree. In 1769, Samuel Pringle, his wife Charity (Cutright) Pringle and several other families returned to the Buckhannon area. Among these new settlers were John and Elizabeth Jackson and their two sons George and Edward.

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Over-arching branches of the Pringle Tree, a few miles north of Buckhannon

John and Elizabeth Cummins Jackson settled here at the mouth of Turkey Run. Turkey Run empties into the Buckhannon River about 100 feet on the other side of the Pringle Tree. George Jackson's land adjoined John's land. John Jr.'s land adjoined his father's land as well. Henry's land was a little farther away. The Jackson boys were surveyors and as such amassed large amounts of land. Sophia Jackson who married Josiah "Joseph" Davis had land across from the Pringle Tree.

John Jackson left the Pringle Tree land via his will to his granddaughter Elizabeth Reger who married Isaac Dix. On the road to the Pringle Tree we passed the old Dix farmhouse.

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Lynn and her husband investigate the "entrance" of the Pringle Tree

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Shooting upwards inside the Pringle Tree.
I used the camera's flash to illuminate the insides of the trunk.

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Pringle Tree on the other side.

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Shooting upwards into the branches of the Pringle Tree

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The gang who took the tour (minus Dick Wilt who took the picture and Patricia Leonard's husband).
In the background is the hill where the stone for Warren Jackson, Stonewall's brother, was found.

The stone of Warren Jackson, Stonewall's brother, was found on the above hillside. The stone is now housed in the Upshur County Historical Society Museum in Buckhannon. This stone probably was originally in the Brake Jackson Cemetery. There are no stones in the cemetery as William Post took the field stones and used them in the foundation of his barn. Nearby is the road to Isaac Brake's place where Warren stayed.

We returned to Clarksburg via Route 20, a typical West Virginia windy road. Great Tour!

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