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RELIGIOUS, EDUCATIONAL, SOCIETIES, AND THE BAR OF JACKSON.
CHURCHES.
The First Presbyterian Church
Methodist Episcopal Church
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The Holy Trinity Catholic Church of
Jackson. -
The Welsh Presbyterian Church
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Rev. David J. Jenkins
The Christian Church of Jackson,
Ohio,
FAIRMOUNT CEMETERY.
The first cemetery was located in the
southeastern part of the corporate limits at an early day, about the
year 1818. The earliest date on the tombstone is that of May
16, 1819, and upon the slab is cut the name of Charles O'Neal.
This is the burial place of Jackson, the murderer who was executed
May 11, 1883, although it has been generally abandoned long since.
The family burial ground of John James was
located in what is now Jamestown, also at a very early date.
It was afterward used by others, by permission, and grew to
considerable size.
These old cemeteries were both abandoned after the
purchase of the new one, now Fairmount Cemetery, on the hill
northeast of town. The purchase was made jointly by the
corporation of Jackson and the township of Lick. It consisted
of nineteen adn one-quarter acres belonging to the heirs of Joel
Long, and was purchased for $1,900 - the township paying sixty
per cent and the corporation forty per cent of the purchase.
The corporation, afterward bought the interest of the township, and
it is now exclusively a city cemetery.
The cemetery lies upon the crest and southern and
western slope of one of the highest hills surrounding the city.
It lies nearly one mile distant to the northeast, and has a
commanding view of the city and of the valley of Salt Creek.
There are few more beautiful "Cities of the Dead" found in the State
than Fairmount Cemetery, of Jackson.
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SABBATH-SCHOOLS.
NATIONALITIES.
JACKSON AND JACKSON COUNTY SCHOOLS.
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THE JACKSON COUNTY LITERARY ASSOCIATION.
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THE BAR OF JACKSON COUNTY, OHIO.
BY IRVINE DUNCAN, ESQ.
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MASONIC.
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