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Surnames: Jackson, Ressler
Classification: Query
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My Abraham Ressler, born 1820 in PA (although my aunt insists he was born in Germany but
the census records say PA), came to Tipton County, IN sometime around 1840-1845. I know
that he was married in Tipton County, IN on Christmas Day, 1845 to Elizabeth Jane
Letsinger and he appears on the 1850 census in Tipton County but I have no proof of him
before 1845. Information passed down says that he traveled with his family from PA in a
covered wagon to Tipton but I’m not sure what family members were with him. Tipton County
was originally part of the Miami Indian reserve and a very swampy area. It did not become
a county until 1844 and on the first election Newton J. Jackson was elected clerk.
In the book “Tipton County Her Land and People” there is some information about Carter T.
Jackson: “In 1835 Newton J. Jackson entered 320 acres of land in Section 19 of Madison
Township. The next year his (older) brother Carter T. Jackson bought 240 acres in Section
20 at $1.25 an acre. In 1838 the Jackson brothers and their families all moved here from
Wayne County. Newton and Carter Jackson’s parents, James and Martha Chambers Jackson,
were natives of North Carolina, but they were so opposed to slavery that they had moved
from Kentucky to Wayne County in 1812 when the Twelve-Mile Purchase came on the market.
There they and the Robert Leavell family were neighbors; children of both families were
among Tipton County’s first land owners.” … and it goes on. They both married Leavell
sisters.
Memoirs of John W. Leavell, 1916 from a Daun Ledford on
Ancestry.com: "Carter and
Malinda, Moved to Tipton Co Indiana where he had previously entered 240 acres of land and
there cleared their farmland and reared a large family. He afterwards added 300 acres to
his first purchase, but they resided upon the original purchase until their deaths.”
I have done a little searching for your Sellers family but can’t find them in Tipton
County. Also I checked the book I spoke of earlier and couldn’t find that name there
either (of course, without reading the entire book I can’t say that it’s not in there).
Sorry and if I find anything on the Sellers family I’ll let you know.
It’s always nice to hear from someone with a connection! Linda