Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed., Boone Co. L. F. JACKSON, a native of Chester County, Penn., was born January 7, 1826, and is the third in a family of ten children born to Levi and Mary (Pearl) Jackson, the latter a daughter of William Pearl, of Chester County, Penn., who lived to be one hundred and thirteen years old, and was of German descent. When but fourteen years of age our subject went with his parents to Cincinnati, Ohio, where his father died in 1842, and the family then moved to Boone County, Ky. Levi Jackson was reared in the southern part of Chester County, and was a member of an old Quaker family. L. F. Jackson began life, as he says, with $32, but has been very successful as a farmer, and in the steamboat and stock trading business; he own 460 acres of Ohio River bottom land. In December, 1856, he married Mrs. Elizabeth Berkshire, daughter of John Terrill, she was born January 7, 1826, and died September 26, 1883. Six children were born to their union, viz: Nannie (deceased), Nona, Eva, Franklin, Zenith and an infant (deceased). Jackson Pearl Berkshire Terrill = Chester-PA OH http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/boone/jackson.lf.txt