Jackson Henderson Oldham Family
Sarah Emma Oldham was my great-grandmother on my father's side. She married Benjamin G. Little. Sarah's father was Jackson Henderson Oldham.
Mother of Counties - Lawrence County, Arkansas
History and Families
- Publisher: Turner Pub Co
- Copyright: 2001
- 2nd Printing: 2003
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Jackson Henderson Oldham Family
Jackson Henderson Oldham, Sr. is the youngest son of Tyree and Nancy Oldham of Pendelton County, Kentucky. Tyree was a son of Jesse Oldham, son of Richard Oldham and Elizabeth Bayse, and Elizabeth Simpson of Madison County, Kentucky.
Jesse and Tyree are listed at Fort Boonsboro with Daniel Boone's original settlers to that area. Jesse and Tyree were with Daniel Boone when Indians attacked Fort Boonesboro in 1775. Jesse is also known as growing the first "recorded" corn crop in the state of Kentucky as found in court records in Madison County, Kentucky.
Jackson was raised on the Oldham plantation at Falmouth, Kentucky which was once a 1000 acre tract purchased by Tyree Oldham in 1816 from Henry Clay. Tyree built a stately Virginia style brick home across the river in Shoemakertown abt 1825. The plantation had 22 slaves as recorded in the Falmouth courthouse records. The family also ran the Oldham Ferry and the Grist Mill on the Licking River at Falmouth. The home was just torn down in the fall of 1996, because of flooding.
Jackson married Elizabeth Watson, daughter of Joseph Watson, in Kentucky and had four children: James M. born 1839; Anna O. born 1841; William born 1844; and George Samuel Oldham, born February 1, 1845, died 1878 in Pendelton County, Kentucky. Elizabeth died in 1845, in Pendelton County, Kentucky. George stayed in Kentucky with his mother's people. It is through George's descendants, in a deposition, we learn who Jackson's father actually was.
Jackson moved to Lawrence County, Arkansas, where his brother, William, had moved (thought by some to be his father, but most likely raised by William after his mother's death.) Then he married Sarah Ann McCarroll, daughter of James McCarroll and Mary Beasley, on June 22 1846 in Lynn, Lawrence County, Arkansas. The had the following children: Mary, 1847-1860; Thomas N., 1849-1870; Jackson Henderson, Jr., May 8 1850-1911; Martha J., 1853-1887; Sarah "Emma", 1855-1922; Henry Clay, 1856-1928 (married Sarah Mahala Ketner); and Ella D. Oldham, born 1858, died 1860-70. Jackson Sr., served as a deputy sheriff for Lawrence County for many years and served in the New Hope Baptist Church. William, his brother, married Ann Wilkerson, in Kentucky, sister of George W. Wilkerson of Lawrence County, Arkansas. William, known as a deacon church starter, and Ann moved to Phillips County, Arkansas.
After Sarah died, Jackson married her sister, Melissa McCarroll on October 13, 1862 in Eaton, Lawrence County, Arkansas, and had the following children: Mary A., born 1864; Henderson V., born 1866; and Harvey Oldham, born 1866. Jackson died of a heart attack under a tree on September 9, 1886, while looking for a man.
The Kentucky Papers of the Draper Manuscripts (on multiple films at many University and Large libraries) indicate that Jesse Oldham was early at Boonesborough, and planted a crop as required to make a claim for land. His depositions later to Kentucky Court of Appeals indicate that he and his brother-in-law Nathaniel Hart (both married to daughters of Richard Simpson of Caswell Co., NC) claimed land near one another, but each claimed separate pieces of property.
Oldham Plantation
Original picture courtesy of Debbie Dennie, Editor of The Falmouth Outlook.
The OLDHAM Plantation was once a 1000 acre tract that was purchased by Tyree OLDHAM and Samuel Hayden in 1816 from Henry Clay and James Hughes for $2000. In 1817, OLDHAM bought Hayden's part of the land. Tyree OLDHAM, an early inhabitant of Fort Boonesboro (Settlers Names A-G H-Z), brought his family to Falmouth, Kentucky about 1812. OLDHAM built the stately brick home across the river in Shoemaker Town about 1825. The construction was superb. The Flemish and common brickwork it contains are reminiscent of Virginia Manor homes.
When the suspension bridge, one of the first in Kentucky, was erected, the OLDHAM Ferry was closed. Tyree OLDHAM's son, Thomas Jefferson, who later owned the plantation, built a number of structures in town and surrounding area. The Falmouth Christian Church and the The Doctor's Building are among them.
The OLDHAM Cemetery is just off to the right in this picture. Jailey, Thomas, Parmela, Simpson, Harvey, Hanie, and other OLDHAMs are buried here. Most likely, Nancy, first wife of Tyree is buried here.
OLDHAM Cemetery, Falmouth, Kentucky Scroll down
